She Told Her Husband That He Failed Her And Their Baby After He Randomly Quit His Job And Put Their Finances In Jeopardy

Arsenii - stock.adobe.com - illustrative purposes only, not the actual people
Arsenii - stock.adobe.com - illustrative purposes only, not the actual people

Can you imagine reaching a huge milestone like having a baby and then suddenly being expected to deal with your partner’s mid-life crisis?

One woman is very stressed after her husband decided he wanted a career change right after she had their baby, and he now makes significantly less than he did before.

She and her husband have been married for eight years. For the last seven, they planned very meticulously for when they’d be ready to have a baby. She had the best income as a pediatric nurse, and her husband also worked full-time.

“We planned heavily because we both wanted a child, but we needed to make sure we had everything ‘just right’ because I was very firm about the fact that I would never be okay with sending our child to daycare,” she explained.

“I was going to be a stay-at-home mom. He 100% agreed.”

Finally, by the end of 2022, they had a nice chunk of money in their savings, which she contributed the most, and felt confident enough to start having children. She gave birth to their baby in September of 2023, stopped working, and unfortunately, things have gone downhill since then.

Two months after giving birth, her husband decided he wanted to change careers. She asked him to reconsider, and he was extremely insistent, assuring her that his new job would give him more time with the baby.

However, he went from working five days a week to six days and went from receiving $21 an hour to $16 an hour.

Things really came to a head when her husband told her he didn’t earn enough money from work to pay their upcoming bills.

Arsenii – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual people

“Come the first, all of the bill money will be coming out of our savings [and] He told me, ‘Maybe you need to start looking for a job,'” she recalled.

“I [didn’t] say anything because I knew I was going to explode. His mom came here [the next] morning, and he ran it by her without even getting my approval.”

His mom said she couldn’t watch their baby, but she suddenly said she could enroll their baby in a daycare she knew of. That’s when she snapped and said no, she would not be putting her baby in daycare, nor would she allow her mother-in-law to watch the baby while she went back to work.

She said her husband would have to figure things out himself since he’s the one who wanted to suddenly switch things up when they had a set plan.

“My mother-in-law then tells me that it’s ‘not fair’ that I won’t come up with solutions to help her son, who is ‘clearly’ struggling [and] I snapped,” she said.

“I tell her that it is not my job to come up with solutions for a man who failed me and our child.”

She then packed up a bag and has been staying at her mom’s house with their baby ever since.

What would you do if you were in her position in order to keep peace within your household?

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