She Screamed At Her Husband To Get Assessed For ADHD After He Accidentally Allowed Their Cat Shred The Custom Wedding Dress She Was Making For Her Friend’s Big Day
This 29-year-old woman and her husband, 30, have been dating for 9 years and have been married for five years.
Throughout their time together, she’s always noticed that he’s had signs of ADHD. His parents have also spoken about how they’ve seen these signs as her husband’s gotten older.
Her husband hasn’t been diagnosed, but she really wants him to receive an official diagnosis so that he can get some guidance on handling it.
“His main sign, though, is he is the most forgetful person I’ve ever known. Daily, he’s forgetting things, forgetting to do things, forgetting to close things (doors, drawers, cupboards, the wardrobe), and I love him, but it drives me insane,” she said.
Over the past several years, she’s taken up sewing and tailoring. Next March, her friend is getting married, and she was asked to make the wedding dress.
She agreed and has been working on the dress for months now. While she acknowledged that it’s most often a good idea to do this closer to the wedding date so that it’s fitted correctly, her friend is consistently the same weight no matter what her diet looks like, so she doesn’t have to worry about her friend’s measurements changing.
“The room of the house I use to sew and store things I’m working on also happens to be a half-storage room. My husband keeps spare paints in there, too, as he’s a painter,” she explained.
A couple of days ago, she was busy running errands, and her husband spent the whole day painting.
Before she left the house, she reminded her husband to make sure that the storage room door was always shut so that their cat didn’t sneak into the room.
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She is nearly done making the wedding dress and has it on a mannequin. While warning her husband to keep the door closed, she told him that even if he left the room for only a couple of seconds, it was crucial that he close the door.
“Our cat scratches absolutely everything (our couches and curtains are shredded), so I didn’t want any chance of her getting in that room,” she shared.
“He said I didn’t need to worry, so I left, thinking it would be fine. And yet I still came home to the door wide open, and I just cried. The bottom of the dress was shredded. I had worked so hard on this dress. I got so angry.”
She started screaming at her husband, and she doesn’t recall half of what she said, but she does remember telling him to get diagnosed because she’s “‘had enough.'”
Her husband apologized repeatedly but sorry wasn’t enough at this point. His apology couldn’t undo the damage.
She spent months working on this dress, and she felt like it was the most gorgeous thing she’s ever made.
Understandably, she was so proud of all of her hard work, and her friend adored how the dress was turning out.
Now, her choices are to either start making the dress from scratch all over again or tell her friend that she could no longer make the dress and she’d have to find someone else to do it.
Her husband is furious with her for yelling at him, claiming that his forgetfulness can’t be helped, and she feels a bit guilty. However, she was so overcome with emotion that she snapped, and seeing that the dress she worked so hard on was destroyed was the last straw for her.
What advice would you give her?
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