She Forced Her Husband To Sleep On The Floor For A Week After He Failed To Book A Hotel In Time For Their Trip
This woman gave birth to a daughter a month and a half ago, and she has been struggling with postpartum depression.
Not long ago, her husband talked her into traveling to another state, Maine, to visit his parents for a week.
She wasn’t thrilled about making this trip so soon after having a baby, especially when she’s still coping with mental health issues, which have caused her to have no interest in being around people.
Unfortunately, she isn’t a fan of her mother-in-law, so being around her for a week would be tiring and overwhelming.
Plus, her husband’s parents own a pretty rowdy and disobedient Rottweiler that they can’t keep in line.
While the dog doesn’t display any aggression, he does have a bad habit of jumping on people, barking incessantly, and destroying things.
She didn’t want to go on this trip, but her husband told her that they would stay in a hotel during the week, so this made her feel a little bit more at ease about it.
“There are only two hotels within a one-and-a-half-hour radius (deep-wooded area in Maine), and I reminded him/asked him several times if he booked the hotel. He said he was handling everything and to stop worrying so much,” she said.
Yesterday, she and her husband arrived in Maine and hung out at his parents’ house for a while. At 10 p.m., they got to the bed and breakfast they’d planned to stay at, only to find that the office doors were closed as of 8 p.m.
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The owners of the bed and breakfast live there, and on their website, it’s clearly stated that the doors are locked at 8 p.m. She hadn’t known this ahead of time.
They decided to go back to her in-laws’ house, and her husband’s parents let them stay in their guest room. She packed the baby’s bassinet, so before going to sleep, she set it up, and they went to sleep.
“The next morning, their unruly dog came in and peed ALL over the bassinet. Luckily, my baby was not on it,” she explained.
Understandably, she was furious and demanded that her husband drive her to the bed and breakfast they’d tried to stay at the night before.
She expressed to him that she was on the verge of freaking out. It didn’t help that she’d reminded her husband to keep the guest room door closed, but he didn’t listen, so he was the one to blame for the dog getting in the room in the first place.
Her husband drove her to the hotel, and it turned out that because he didn’t plan ahead and make a reservation, there weren’t any rooms available.
The reason her husband gave for not booking a room ahead of time was he incorrectly believed that because the bed and breakfast was in such a secluded area, there would be vacancies.
She tried calling the only other hotel in the area, which was an hour and a half away, but they didn’t have any vacancies, either.
When she found this out, she said that she wanted to just go home. Her husband argued against this and told her that they would be fine spending the rest of the week at his parents’ house.
“I told him, ‘Fine, but you’re sleeping on the floor the entire time.’ I told him I wouldn’t be putting our baby in that bassinet, considering we can’t clean it without a rug cleaner of sorts, which his parents don’t have,” she shared.
“And I told him he’s not sleeping in the bed with me and the baby because the bed is a double, and I don’t trust that one of us won’t roll over on the baby.”
Since there wouldn’t be enough room on the bed for her, her husband, and their daughter, her husband would have to sleep on the floor so that she could allow their daughter to have one half of the double bed.
In her view, it’s her husband’s fault that they aren’t able to stay in a hotel, so he should be the person taking one for the team.
Before going to bed at his parents’ house that night, her husband claimed that he could sleep in the bed if she slept with their daughter in her arms, which they’d done before when they took naps during the daytime with their daughter.
She rejected this idea, explaining that holding their daughter in her arms for an hour is massively different than holding her for a full night.
Plus, she wasn’t confident that she would be able to do that for so many hours. It would feel even more risky since she was insanely tired.
Later, when they were getting settled into bed, her husband called her a jerk and claimed she was “‘punishing him'” for wanting to make this trip to visit his family, adding that he thought she was doing everything she could to ruin the trip.
In the end, she decided not to sleep at all so that she could keep watch over her daughter during the night.
What advice would you give him?
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