This weekend, I left my husband alone with our daughter while I attended a medical conference out of state. The conference was amazing, but when I returned home, my husband began acting weird. Today, when our daughter was napping, I pressed him to tell me what was wrong.
He absolutely broke down and said he doesn’t think he can do this. He expressed how trapped, alone, and overwhelmed he felt all weekend. He now wants me to extend my maternity leave and is talking about trying to get his job back.
This made me freak out, and I asked, “Well, what will we do with our daughter now?!” He responded by suggesting I leave my practice and work from home. I said absolutely not, and he suggested daycare. At this point, I just lost it and screamed, “If I knew you were going to back out of your promise to take care of our daughter, I would have NEVER had your child.”
I know I completely overreacted, and I would never trade our daughter for anything, I love her so much.
But I am so upset with my husband, and I’m not sure how to move forward at this point. People gave her pieces of advice. A child isn’t something one can be so flippant over, and ‘I changed my mind’ is unacceptable if he is the one who pushed for it in the first place.
Also, economically, it makes no sense.” AngusHalfpenny / Reddit
Source: Bright Side
