For me it got to the point where I was working so little to keep up with my significant other's demands that I literally was barely able to pay my mortgage for a month. It was ridiculous. Once she realized how poor we were she finally understood how dire it is that I spend all this time downstairs. She actually asks me when I will get my ass downstairs to make more money for us even though we are once again comfortable LOL. It was to the point where talking to a sales rep who happens to be female was me "chatting with internet sluts all day". I still get flack on that end of things though. She periodically scours my MSN and ICQ lists when I'm not around then comes upstairs and asks me who all these girls are talks in regards to them as internet sluts. Man it's aggravating to say the least.
Right now it's a problem with her friend. You see, we have a new baby and my girlfriend's job is looking after the baby for the most part. The government pays her to do so LOL. I am paid to build shit for a fellow sexy webmaster here and a handful of small clients. Now, this friend of hers was on the phone with her one day and my gf was complain about how tired she is. Then came "well, Chris needs to help out more, he's not doing enough, he should be doing 'this' and 'that'" etc etc. My GF tried explaining to her that I work 16 hour days on most days and that I need to do this to pay for everything. She still said "he could help out a lot more, he's at home, he should help more with everything and give you a break during the day" To which my GF said "if he doesn't work, we lose the house" She still proceeded to give her shit about me. Now, I help out as often as I can. I get up with the baby, bathe him, feed him once a day. Do laundry periodically. I am the ONLY one who cleans the washroom, the floors, dusting everything and do 70% of everything else. I keep the fire going. I shovel after every storm. I fix everything that breaks and I am there to support her when she's down. How is that not doing enough when I manage to do this all within a 16 hour work day?
I felt so much disrespect from it that I barred her from our home. There is NO way I am putting up with a man-hater dissing me when I work insane hours to provide a better life for my little one. Yes, she hates men, so much so that when she got pregnant she cut off all communication with the father blamed him pretty much for her predicament and proceeded to slut around after the baby was born and dumped the guys who didn't kiss the ground she walked on. Guess what? She's alone, jobless, living in the slums, has a shitty Cavalier that's falling to pieces and she's so depressed now that we refer to her as Eyore
Then there was my GF's sister who suggested to my GF one night "Why doesn't Chris just get a real job?" because my GF was complaining that she was low on cash. Man, we both got really fucking pissed. Meanwhile she had a career in corrections that she lost because she slept with an inmate, she then got thrown in jail for robbing her uncle's safe then her now boyfriend which she just had a baby with was too lazy to find a job.
Real job? WTF.