His Family Took His Wife’s Side When She Said She Wanted To Be A Stay-At-Home Mom, So He Suggested His Family Pay Their Bills
This twenty-eight-year-old man has a wife who is thirty-one years old. They do not yet have kids, but before getting married, they discussed everything from having kids to their future work and home arrangements.
“We agreed we would take turns with the ‘stay at home’ portion for the first year or two after potential kids were born. Then, we’d both go back to work,” he recalled.
However, his wife has recently expressed an interest in being a stay-at-home wife in order to “prep” for being a stay-at-home mom. And he is totally opposed to it.
First of all, he never wanted her to solely be a stay-at-home mom from the start– and he apparently made that very clear during their pre-marital discussions.
Plus, even though he enjoys his job, his salary is nowhere near enough to possibly sustain a family alone.
And at this point in his life, he does not want to go back to school to change careers like his wife wants him to.
But, this disagreement really came to a head when his wife decided to air out their private discussions during a family dinner.
Apparently, at his mother’s house last week, his wife all of a sudden said, “Your son’s being mean. He won’t let me be a stay-at-home mom.”
Yikes!
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At first, his family took the snide comment as an implication that his wife was pregnant– and everyone freaked out with excitement.
But then, after he told everyone they were not expecting a child and his wife just wanted to stay at home, it turned into a huge argument.
And his mom and sister even sided with his wife– saying that if she wanted to stay at home, he should be the one caring for her and finding a way to make it happen.
After a while, though, he had enough and asked his family if they would be there to support his wife whenever she needed it.
His family responded with the expected, “Of course!” and said that’s what families are for.
But then, he threw in a real kicker response.
“Cool. Keep that same energy and help me pay all our bills and every other expense to upkeep our current quality of life if you feel so strongly she should get to stay home,” he said.
And if you could not have guessed it, this did not go over well with his mom and sister.
Instead, they claimed his outburst was completely overdramatic and stubborn.
His mom also suggested he figure out where they can cut corners in their budget– such as canceling streaming services, downgrading from two cars to one, and dropping some hobbies– to make his wife’s dreams happen.
But then, after he and his wife left the dinner, his wife was totally furious with him and believed that he was totally out of line for telling his mom and sister to cover their bills.
So now, he is not sure if he was right to stand up for his opinion on the stay-at-home debate or if his comment went way too far.
Who do you think is in the wrong, him or his wife? How would you have responded in this situation?
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