Man Calls Wife ‘Useless’ Just 1 Hour After She Gives Him $800 Shoes. So She ‘Revokes’ the Gift

A woman turned to Reddit for advice after an argument with her husband erupted just an hour after she gave him a pricey gift.

In her post, she explained that her mom recently gave her a pair of black Gucci shoes “worth about $800” because they were “too small” for her. Since she and her husband wear the same shoe size, the shoes seemed like they could work for either of them — and she described them as “pretty unisex.”

The moment her husband saw them, she said, he became “obsessed.”

“He begged me to give them to him. Not borrow. Not share. Give,” she wrote. She said he told her that because he grew up in a third world country, he never imagined he’d ever own something like that — and that it meant a lot to him.

Still, the woman said she felt conflicted and suggested they share the shoes. According to her, he shut that idea down immediately, insisting they had to be his alone.

“I told him he was being selfish, but I felt guilty and caved,” she wrote.

But she said the situation took a sharp turn about an hour later when she asked him — calmly, she noted — to take out the trash.

“He explodes. He tells me I’m useless. He says how dare I ask him to do that. All over taking out the trash,” she recalled.

That’s when she said something in her snapped.

“At that point something in me snapped. I told him, ‘Actually, no. Those shoes are mine,’” she wrote.

Her husband, she said, was crushed. He told her she’d taken away something that meant everything to him, something he never thought he’d have — and accused her of being cruel for taking it back after agreeing to give it to him.

The woman said she was stunned that she’d handed over designer shoes out of guilt, only to be disrespected so soon after. Unsure whether she’d handled it wrong, she turned to Reddit for outside perspectives.

One commenter didn’t hold back: “I would look for a divorce lawyer. My husband would never talk to me like this. If he did I would have enough self-respect to kick him out, and keep the shoes.”

Another wrote: “You married a petulant child. His childhood trauma is no excuse for his behavior. Keep the shoes and. Give him the boot. This is just a glimpse at your future should you stay with him.”

Despite the flood of replies urging her to rethink the relationship, the woman said her husband’s behavior felt out of character.

“He’s usually very kind, and loving. But I wasn’t going to reward that behavior,” she concluded.