“Shopping List” (drama) 1 minute

Character: SHARON
Description:  Sharon talks to her best friend about her problems with her husband.
Gender: Female
Age:  41  

My husband is a a real dick.  Been married to his sorry ass for ten years.  I have two children with that moron.  Am I bitter?  Absolutely bitter.  Let me tell you why.  My husband, a.k.a. asshole, wants me to handle all the household stuff.   You know, raise the kids, take care of the house, go grocery shopping, ect.  After I’d say about eight years of this, he decides one day to tell me I’m not doing a great job.  The reason being because we are about $72, 000 in debt and that’s not including our mortgage.

I told him that he needs to make more money and that I am only able to work with what we have.  He tells me I am full of shit and that I am going on shopping sprees behind his back and blah blah blah.  Not true!  I told him that I’ve had the same boring ass wardrode for the past decade.  I told him that I am forty-one years old and look like I’m sixty-one.  I never go to the beauty parlor, never get my nails done, never go for tans, never go shopping unless it’s for the family.  I literally feel like I have become a ghost.  I have seized to exist and the last time I remember buying anything for myself was about five years ago when I needed a pair of slippers that happened to be on sale at Macy’s for FIVE MISERABLE DOLLARS!

We argued for weeks over this.  Finally, he told me that he wants me to have a sit down with him once a week and go over all our expenses.  If I spend a nickle, he wants to know about it.  I told him to kiss my ass and that this is grounds for separation.

Now, we are at the point of a possible divorce.  I have done nothing but been an excellent wife and mother and this is the respect I get back.  Incredible.