Or so the unreliable narrator tells us...

My sister, in our household while growing up, was very adamant that if one of her younger brothers got something, she needed to get something too.

If I got something? She she needed to get something. If my younger brother got something? She needed to get something.

This didn't work in reverse, however. To suggest that she share something with us was an outrage. And she could tell you at length about how her brothers got everything and she got nothing.

That's not demanding half, that's demanding double.

To some extent, that's human nature because people are very aware of the work and money they are expending on others' behalf, not so much the other way around. If you interview people in a volunteer organization and ask "what percent of the work are you doing?" they all think they're doing 70-80% of the work, which is mathematically impossible.

It doesn't support her argument to say that the thoughtless and stingy ape served her breakfast in bed on her birthdays, for instance.

30% doesn't sound like 50/50 to me. Sounds more like 30/70 (and we all know she wasn't contributing 100% of her paycheck), which would have dropped to 0/100 once they got married and she quit her job to be a stay-at-home mom. Then she'd be bitching about having to cook, clean, and take care of the children.

Remote work is privilege these days, being isolated in a remote job is a choice, but found out she couldn't have her cake and eat it too. Oh, the sacrifice of having to live with privileged choices. She wanted the man with the bucks, but didn't want to have the responsibility that comes with the territory.

Of course he's not a bad person being able to put up with a raging bitch for four years, but hey, good luck to her muck diving through the shit puddle she decided to hop into. It won't get better, she's used goods now, and a failure of partner who cuts and runs when the going gets tough.

But hey, at least she has a therapist to feed her ego now.