She Took A Two-Day Trip To Attend Her Cousin’s Wedding, But Her Husband Is Furious That He Had To Stay Home Alone With Their Kids
Most of the time, this 34-year-old woman’s husband, 35, is a wonderful husband who treats her equally and with compassion.
He’s recently been repeatedly bringing up an ongoing situation as if she is trying to take advantage of him, even though neither of them would ever do that to the other.
She is a stay-at-home mother to a 4-year-old and 1-year-old, and one of her cousins had an upcoming wedding in Pittsburgh that she was going to attend.
Understandably, she wants to go to this wedding because this is one of only three cousins that she has a close relationship with.
The night before the wedding, there’s a dinner that she’ll be attending. Once she arrives at the airport, she’ll only have an hour before the dinner starts. She’ll go to the wedding the next day and fly home the day afterward as soon as she can.
So that she could save money on the trip, she purchased the least expensive flight she could find, which was $99, and no baggage. She also is going to stay in a hotel with her uncle and her mother, who she believes to be a narcissist. Her mother will be sharing a bed with her.
“Our preference would have been to go as a family, but the wedding venue doesn’t allow children (run by some young lady who probably has never felt the exclusion of being a stay-at-home mom in America), and I am currently the only person in my family with children, so not a significant enough issue to taken been taken into account by the bride,” she said.
In her husband’s view, he would have wanted to all travel to Pittsburgh together regardless of whether or not the wedding venue allowed children so that she could attend the wedding while her husband stayed behind and watched their children.
However, it would have been too expensive for them all to go together just for her to go to the wedding alone, and it didn’t really make sense, anyway.
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Her husband also needs to budget carefully because he’s going on a week-long trip to Washington D.C. soon so that he can see his brother and his brother’s family.
His niece requested that he come to visit so that he could go to the Renaissance festival with her. Apparently, his niece also asked for her grandparents to go, too, and she asked them all to go because she went to the festival the previous year and had a blast.
None of her husband’s family members live in the area who would be able to babysit while she’s gone for the weekend.
While their younger child is pretty relaxed, their older child is very emotional and doesn’t cope well when she or her husband is away.
She and her husband planned for her to go to the wedding alone, and her husband would watch their children.
“My husband says I underestimate how emotionally difficult it is for him to be away from the kids 45 or more hours a week now that he is no longer working from home,” she explained.
She believes that her husband would be a more suitable stay-at-home parent, and they have even joked around about how they should have him stay home with their children instead if she could find a well-paying job.
“I have ADHD and have been struggling as a parent and housekeeper for the past four years and only recently recovered from a 9-month postpartum depression after an emotionally (not medically) difficult pregnancy, all of which has given him a heavy load to carry for a long time,” she shared.
Sadly, she hasn’t had any luck finding a job that would be enough for her and her husband to afford daycare.
Plus, they would need to buy another car for her to get to work. They recently moved and are financially struggling.
Over the last four years, she has been bearing all the emotional and physical burdens of parenting. She is the one taking care of the children all the time and checking on them when they wake up in the middle of the night. Their oldest child hasn’t slept soundly for almost four years.
In five years, she has only hung out with her girlfriends three times. However, her husband often hangs out with his friends. He usually invites them over to drink whiskey after she and their children are asleep.
What would you do if you were in her shoes?
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