29-year-old wife is tired of her same-age husband’s people-pleasing tendencies. ‘No one sees the other side of the coin, where he’s completely bitter and resentful because he feels that he gives more than he gets.’ – FAIL Blog

Considering that both characters in this story are relatively young, I think there is still a chance for either of them to evolve, but that would require a lot of self-awareness, analysis, and an active effort to become better, possibly resulting in a (still far from perfect) improved individual.

Maybe the discussion to be had here is whether or not we’re able to accept our partners’ petty flaws because we love our person as a whole, or the flaw we’re dealing with is so big that we would have to reconsider the entire relationship. The wife states later in the comments that her husband is in therapy for this, and that she and his therapist have pointed out the score-keeping, amongst other related attitudes, but ‘he just doesn’t get it’.