“How long have you been gone???”
It is said that the foundation of a strong marriage is trust. Well, depending on the culture, it may depend on whether one partner can consistently pay off their credit card balances or whether the other partner can maintain a trophy aesthetic on social media and gatherings with friends and family. may be important.
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But for others, trust is a big factor — and trusting that your significant other won't destroy your entire kitchen while you're away is probably a given, even if it's not explicitly stated in anyone's wedding vows.
But that's exactly what TikTok user Robyn, who posts under the couples-themed account @tapestryofmotherhood, might have wanted to include in her wedding vows to Michael after he “impulsively” decided to redecorate his entire kitchen, and… well… things went wrong.
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The video begins with Robin covering her mouth with her hand, looking shocked. Her eyes widen as she enters her kitchen and she finally decides to turn on the camera and reveal what she sees. She presents a fully gutted kitchen with plastic sheeting to separate the work being done in the kitchen area. From the rest of the house.
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The flooring remains, but all the fixtures appear to have been removed. A few more seconds of viewing reveals that the kitchen is “open” to the rest of the house, and that her husband Michael did a pretty neat job installing a plastic barrier.
“Well, Michael,” she is heard saying as she looks at his handiwork, “Yes, welcome home!” his voice echoes throughout the house from off-camera.
“Hello,” he added cheerfully, coming out of what appeared to be the living room, opening a plastic partition and entering the kitchen.
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“How long have you been going???” someone else asked in the comments.
“So have you ever done something impulsively that ended up with a bad outcome?” he asked, walking towards the camera.
She flips it around and reveals the fear she feels in this situation.
“Or maybe he knew it was going to be bad,” he continued, as her gaze darted back and forth between him and the camera lens.
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“I knew it was going to be awful, but you've already done it,” he says, laughing as he looks into the camera, then walks around and tells her as she tries to take it all in. “My kitchen's gone,” she says, looking back into the camera.
“It's just too crazy,” he said, then laughed again.
“Oh, why?” she said, before he could tell her that the refrigerator was in the study at home. “I said I'd do it…don't get mad.”
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After the final moments, she turns to face the camera. “I said if I ever wonder what's on the other side of these walls, I'm going to do something,” he explains to his wife. “right?”
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After that, the woman tries to understand what her husband is saying. “So your solution to not knowing what's behind the pantry wall was to take out the entire kitchen! You…still…why…?” he asked. she asked out loud as she continued to laugh.
“I'll replace it,” he promised her.
“Really?” she said in a hushed voice, holding up her hand.
“I was dissuaded. I hired a man. He's coming tomorrow.”
She points the camera at his face. “Don’t get mad,” he says.
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“They build you a bookshelf,” he suggests.
“What?” she asks.
“Oh, didn't I tell you?” he said, laughing again.
“Why?” she said as she walked through the house.
“Well, I started here and ended up there,” he exclaimed as he walked towards the area where she first entered the kitchen.
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“Okay, let's have a chat,” he said, zipping up the plastic sheet as he headed into the living room. They walk to the burrow, and it appears that some construction is going on there as well.
After hearing her reaction, he says he should have expected this, since she left him to his own devices. “But it looks great, doesn't it?” he says of the room containing the refrigerator.
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“It's going to be really nice. I'll come tomorrow.”
“Did you do anything to the study where the guest bed is?” she asks him.
“No,” he answered.
“Good, that's where you're going to sleep,” she told him.
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“Why did the CPAP machine come?” he asks her.
“No,” she says.
He laughed before realizing he was in the proverbial doghouse. “What's wrong with me? Are you mad? Are we mad? We thought we wanted this,” he tells her.
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He could tell by the look on her face that this was far from the case. He realized, “We didn't want this.” But he added: “Now it's about to come true…surprise!”
She brings the camera back to her face. She doesn't seem interesting.
“You know, the dog is scared too. Oh yeah, the carpet guy is coming next week. He's going to do the hallway.”
“Okay,” she said quietly. “Okay,” she repeated as she walked away from him, covering her mouth. He said something about the bedroom, and she begged him loudly, “No more talking.”
“I love you,” he says at the end of the video.
People who watched her video commented that her husband had “the energy of a golden retriever” and that they could not stay mad at him.
How would you react if you came home to find that your loved one had changed the entire interior of their home?
