Husband cooks wife her first postpartum meal. Then she sees the kitchen—and realizes the gesture wasn’t that thoughtful after all: ‘Leave him’
You don’t have to be a woman to know that the last thing a postpartum mom wants to do is wash a pile of dishes.
Heck, not even a fit and healthy person wants to do it most of the time. Yet, one woman’s TikTok has people raising eyebrows after she showed the aftermath of her husband “cooking” for her.
It was sweet in theory… until the camera panned to a mountain of dirty dishes waiting for her to deal with. Her caption calls it a “blessing.” The internet? Not so convinced. Viewers are split between outrage and suspicion, debating whether this is a tone-deaf gesture… or perfectly engineered ragebait.
What Did This Husband Do?
Fatima’s (@mrscrispbacon) clip is kicking up quite a storm in the relationship-tok. In the natural course of TikTok, a couple’s relationship is always up for scrutiny, and it seems almost 430,000 viewers make Fatima’s contribution the video of the week.
Considering it’s not even 10 seconds long, her clip opens up a frequently reheated can of worms: red flags in male partners. The Mary Sue has covered this topic plenty of times, such as the instance where a boyfriend booked his first-class flight and let his girlfriend stay in coach. Or, the guy who keeps fake-proposing as a prank. In all these stories–including Fatima’s–viewers are riled up discussing red flags and claiming, “Leave him or leave us out of this.”
Fatima is a three-time mom and had just given birth when her husband decided to cook her a meal. To many, this might be expected. However, some see it as an unexpected reward.
Fatima’s response? Glee over washing the dishes afterwards… or is she? Her text overlay reads: “What a blessing it is to be able to clean the dishes that your husband made dirty while cooking your first postpartum meal.” In the clip, Fatima smiles into the camera before showing a significant amount of dirty dishes in her kitchen sink. The kitchen counters also seem to be in a disarray. The commenters are far from pleased.
‘He would be my ex-husband’
An angry faction of Fatima’s viewers immediately brings out the pitchforks. Especially considering Fatima defends him in the comments. A top comment with over 23,000 likes says, “Leave him or leave us out of this.” Similarly, another says, “Girl. No. Thats disrespectful from him to you. Also, if you start defending him in the comments, leave us out of this.”
“Haha omg guys so quirky and funny how incompetent my husband is but don’t be mean!” taunts another.
Others choose to see it in a different light. “For my mental health this is satire,” says one viewer. While a second claims, “This has to be rage bait.”
@mrscrispbacon ♬ original sound – SPAM LIKE = BLOCK
Is it Ragebait?
Rage-bait is another popular internet lingo that has been graced with a place in the English Dictionary. In fact, it even got named as Oxford’s word of the year in 2025. Cambridge Dictionary describes it as “information, images, videos, etc. that are put on the internet to deliberately make people angry and to encourage them to reply online.”
If one were to look through Fatima’s TikTok page, they’d find countless videos seemingly using this approach. She posts anything from trad-wife and anti-feminism content to home-schooling and homesteading. A few of her previous videos have gone viral and experienced the same effect: anger and suspicion. It’s hard to fully tell because she rarely replies to comments. However, some viewers say it can’t be anything else but ragebait when she says things like the Earth isn’t round, the sun isn’t hot, and all women should have children over having jobs. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
The Mary Sue has reached out to Fatima via TikTok DM.
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