Personally what I found interesting that when wife asks her husband to get bread, he agrees and confirms that he’ll buy the kind of bread wife wants. She then says she won’t eat it anyways. So he ends up not going to the store. Wife is upset he didn’t buy bread, essentially for himself? Now perhaps bread was supposed to be for their child, but that was never mentioned in the post

I agree with a previous poster that this particular example doesn’t portray this husband as a terrible partner/person. It’s possible that he’s an awful human being, it’s just the example isn’t a good one. Are there other examples that maybe illustrate the situation better?