My Wife Prioritises Her PHONE Over Her Family And I'm At My Breaking Point | r/Relationships
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Mark B
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🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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In today's r/Relationships story, OP is fed up of his wife who seems to prioritise her phone over her own family and OP has had enough!!
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0:20 Story 1
4:15 Story 1 Comments
7:11 Story 1 Update
11:32 Story 1 Comments
14:12 Story 2
16:47 Story 2 Comments
19:12 Story 2 Update
21:38 Story 2 Comments 2
22:13 Story 2 Update 2
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Waffle Gang, I do hope you're well. |
| 0:06.1 | My name is Mark, and today we're checking out some more Reddit stories. |
| 0:09.8 | And if you do love a Reddit story, why not consider? |
| 0:12.5 | Do not like, subscribe, maybe that notification bell too. |
| 0:15.6 | And let's crack on with today's first story. |
| 0:19.2 | Much love, guys. |
| 0:20.4 | Now, today's first story comes from |
| 0:21.6 | Frustrated with Phone from the Relationship Advice subreddit. And it says, |
| 0:27.0 | I 42 male am getting frustrated with my wife's 37 female phone habits. My wife has always |
| 0:34.8 | been a very chatty woman. She's pretty much on the phone all day with |
| 0:39.0 | her sister-in-law, her friends, family members, etc. She hangs up with one and she either calls |
| 0:44.4 | another one or another one calls her. This hasn't bothered me, as I'm not home all day, but recently |
| 0:51.7 | has started to interfere with the time we spend together. I come down |
| 0:55.4 | to breakfast and she's on the phone. Literally the entire time I'm sitting there. She's gossiping |
| 1:01.1 | on the phone with someone. That used to be our time to talk in the morning, but now she sits there |
| 1:07.0 | and talks to other people. I brought this up to her and she simply said, |
| 1:11.0 | she works, that's the only time I have to speak to her. This has also extended to dinner time. |
| 1:17.3 | I arrive home, she'll have this big dinner cooked and just as we're sitting down to eat, |
| 1:21.9 | a phone will ring. She'd tell me and the kids do go ahead and eat, pick it up, walk away |
| 1:26.9 | from the dinner table and start talking. In the past, if I got a work call during dinner, she would chastise me for it. You can call them back. This is dinner time. They need to understand. You're with your family. You're not taking that call now. This weekend, we were supposed to go for dinner on Sunday night. She got a call from |
| 1:45.5 | one of her friends as we were getting ready to leave, which she just kept prolonging. I kept |
| 1:50.4 | pointing to my watch and making the wrap-it-up sign with my hands, and she kept swatting |
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