My stepson is 23 and he sleeps with a body pillow that he has one pillowcase for. It has a cartoon on it of a girl in a cat costume.

I was doing the laundry yesterday and I noticed it was pretty threadbare when it came out of the dryer. So I threw it in the rag bag.

When he came home from work he asked where it was and I told him. He acted shocked and almost looked like he was going to cry. He went and took it out of the bag and washed and dried it again. When his mom got home he talked to her right in front of me and said I wasn’t allowed to wash it any more. She sat with him in his room after and calmed him down.

It isn’t one of his collectibles. He doesn’t keep it sealed away or anything. But they are both mad at me. I don’t know what I did wrong.

Why am I the asshole?

Sorry I guess I’m supposed to put that this is an edit.

I’m retired and my wife works. That’s why I do the housework. We have lots of pillowcases that would fit. I don’t want to look up what a waifu is. I made that mistake with futunari. And when one of my t shirts or my wife’s jeans or a towel gets worn out it goes in the rag bag for the garage. That is why I threw it away. I didn’t rip it or put it in the trash with food waste. It went into a plastic bag with other clean worn out stuff.

EDIT
I did apologize. And if what you guys are saying is true I’m never going to touch it again. He can do his own laundry.