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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Kate Ng

TikTok’s ‘marriage humour’ trend makes matrimony look hellish

TikTok

A woman walks into her kitchen, perfectly content. Until she looks around. Something doesn’t feel right. Once again, her husband, the bane of her life, has left all the cupboard doors open. It’s chaos.

So common is this quarrel that, last year, Bruno Mars’s “Leave the Door Open” went viral on TikTok thanks to frustrated wives. Under the viral hashtag #marriedlifehumour, women posted videos in their droves, in which they dramatically open every cupboard door and drawer in the house while singing: “I’ma leave the door open; I’ma leave the door open, girl.”

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