Woman stands up for herself after husband refuses to use her correct job title while introducing her

Job titles mean a lot to people because they know how much they have worked for it. That's exactly what this woman was trying to make her husband understand. u/tropicaloctopuss shared in a Reddit post how her partner kept making fun of her new job title while introducing her. People in the comments supported the 36-year-old woman for standing up for herself. 

The woman wrote that she has been married to her husband for the last 10 years and recently had a major career change. "My first degree at university was nursing, but I have been really struggling over the past few years with everything that happened, so I have gone back and done a degree in marine biology," she explained. She added that she has always been interested in marine biology and was pleased to start enjoying her job again. The woman went on to say that she works for a turtle rehabilitation center and that she couldn't be "more fulfilled." She then spoke about the actual issue that she has been having with her husband. 

"The challenge comes in that my husband continuously introduces me as a tour guide in an aquarium. He thinks it is very funny and says that it is easier to explain to people. No disrespect to those who work in aquariums, but I worked so hard to go back to school and have a job that I love," she expressed. She added that she did the degree part-time while still working as a nurse and her partner knew how much she struggled. The woman also said that when she was a nurse, her husband would never do this. "People always look at me with such pity when he says, 'She was a nurse, but now she works at [local aquarium],'" she shared.

So, the marine biologist decided to start correcting her husband whenever he introduced her, which he didn't like. He told her that it undermined him and made him look "like a fool in front of others." The woman continued, "I have said he wouldn't look like a fool if he told people what I actually do, but he says he can't remember all the details and the fake job title is funny." The wife shared that she recently refused to go with him to an event until he promised to introduce her correctly. "And he said that I was massively overreacting. I didn't end up going, and my husband was really frustrated, especially when people who knew me at the event asked him why I hadn't gone," she wrote.

The 36-year-old concluded her post by sharing that her husband told her she was "making a mountain out of a molehill." She asked people if she was wrong in doing so. u/rach989d commented, "Introduce him as your roommate until he learns to respect you." u/pumpernickelbrot wrote, "He doesn't need to describe your job or anything. He can just say (job title?) Or marine biologist, for example." u/voyagerVII expressed, "He's deliberately belittling you in order to make you seem less than him. And yet he says that you're undermining him? Please, go right on 'undermining' him as clearly as you can until he stops, and tell him flat out that you're going to do that. Bet it stops." u/chocolatechouxcream said, "He's clearly the one undermining you. My guess is he doesn't want to seem more stupid than you now that you have a more academic-sounding job."