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AIO for being annoyed my wife gave away my tools to her nephew without asking?

me (44M). there's a certain irony to me posting this given i sold her father's tools in july and got told off for it here, which is fair. last month she gave my spare socket set and a decent breaker bar to her nephew (19M) who's just started an apprenticeship. she didn't ask. she said i've got two of everything and i'd have said yes. i would have said yes. that's true and it's the thing that makes this hard to be annoyed about out loud. when i said something she said now i know how it feels, which she meant as a joke and which is also obviously the reason she did it. so we're square, apparently. i'm not sure being made even is the same as being married but i also genuinely can't argue the point.

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asked by @whiggins_carsguy · Aug 16, 2026 · 307 votes · 6 comments

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@moniqued_nola+281

Baby that line is the whole marriage counselling session right there. Go say that to her, exactly like that.

@whiggins_carsguy+274

yeah. i think i've been given a receipt rather than forgiveness.

@darlenek62+268

Overreacting on the tools, not overreacting on "now you know how it feels." She's still angry about July and she's expressing it sideways.

@lindam_reads+253

OR on the substance and she'd every right to be angry. Evening a score isn't the same as resolving one and you've both now done a version of the same thing.

@gmetz_fixit+241

the self-awareness in the first line is worth something. she made a point and she made it with a socket set instead of a conversation, which is its own problem.

@rusty_ridesfree+229

The nephew's got a good set of tools and two people are angry. Somebody should tell him where they came from, honestly.

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