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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/DrPenwood on 2024-07-31 00:42:26+00:00.

Today I told my wife I would take care of some household tasks I had put off. After a pretty through cleaning of the living room, kitchen, bathrooms and bedroom, I went and picked up groceries and medications. Feeling satisfied with what I had done so far, I decided to relax on my phone for a bit before doing more.

My wife chooses that moment to come in and sees me on my phone, and yells that she has a million things to do and doesn’t need me ignoring my task list. Despite me pointing out I had done everything except make dinner, she tells me that I should clean the office.

I began doing just that. After putting away my laptop, a small box of hobby supplies, and some notes from my D&D sessions (all I had in the office), I began my malicious compliance. See, my wife keeps every paper and piece of mail that could even remotely be considered “needed” in the future, and takes copious notes on everything under the sun. This amounts to about three good sized boxes filled with mail, papers, files, and note cards.

Dropping off each of the boxes off in the living room where she was working, I innocently told her that I would be able to finish cleaning the office once she organized and filed away all the papers since she is very particular about how she organizes things.

So now I’m back on my phone, and she has two million things to do and not a leg to stand on.

Edit: Hot damn, went to surf before bed and saw the commenters saying my marriage is doomed! Yes, we both acted in an immature manner, but you know what we did after? We both talked about what was bothering us and apologized to each other. Sometimes people make mistakes, my wife and I are no exception to that. What is important to both of us is that we try and learn from those mistakes and do better in the future. No relationship is perfect, but as long as we both continue to learn and move forward, I think both of us will continue to be happy, and overcome any challenges together.