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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Ariane Sohrabi-Shiraz

'I should get paid for babysitting my daughter – but my wife is against it'

A man has been left at home with his and his neighbour's daughters so many times he thinks he deserves to be paid for it – but his wife totally disagrees, rejecting his requests to be 'paid' for 'babysitting' his own children.

The 39-year-old man took to Reddit's Am I The A**hole forum to explain the situation, and asked whether he was being unreasonable about the whole situation.

In the post, the unnamed man wrote: "My wife (34) and I live at a suburban house with our daughter (10). Our neighbour next door (48, Walther) is a single father with two daughters (12 and 14). We have been living here for a little more than two years.

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