Husband is furious with his pregnant wife: "You make me do all the housework while you just lay around in bed"
When a woman gets pregnant, she knows that she will have to face one of the most delicate moments of her life. This is the nine months of pregnancy that precede the birth of the long-awaited baby. It's a period for exercising great caution and the pregnant woman should live prudently, take care of and love herself, recognise and accept that her body is temporarily changing, and that her focus needs to be on the life that is growing in her womb. For this reason, and at some point in pregnancy, many experts advise pregnant women to rest and not to make great efforts physically.
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Wise and prudent advice is to rest as much as possible when expecting, but there are pregnant women who perhaps take advantage of this a little and let their partner do the bulk of the housework - if not all of it. In the meantime, they are dozing on the bed or comfortably lying on the sofa with a book or watching the TV. And this happened to this user who told on Reddit how frustrated he feels that his wife is pregnant and always resting, while he is the only one who takes care of all the household chores, as well as housekeeping.
The man - to prove himself an excellent caring husband - initially took charge of all these matters, but, after a while, began to become exhausted by all that he had to do and so he asked his wife if she could help him at least in some of smaller things - but his wife was offended by his request. "My wife is 24 weeks pregnant, and so far it has been a pretty easy pregnancy. I try my best to be a good husband. I work full time, I started doing all the housework. (cooking / cleaning / pet care) and of course, I do my best to satisfy her cravings. Now she spends most of her day relaxing, she says she has "never felt better." To be honest, I'm starting to feel a little exhausted. I love my wife and want her to feel comfortable during her pregnancy, but working full time and doing 100% of the housework is very tiring. I recently had two conversations with her asking her if she would be willing to share the work (me 80%, she 20%), but both times she was offended. She says she it would stress her out and maybe harm the baby - which obviously scared me."
For the overworked husband, the worst was yet to come though: "Early yesterday morning my wife woke me up and asked if I could go to the store to buy her a snack. I did a lot of night runs in the past, but this week was particularly stressful for me at work. I told her I was sorry but I really needed to rest, I was exhausted. "
"Obviously, she didn't like this answer. The argument went on for half an hour. Then she started crying and telling me I was an inadequate husband. She even said she's" afraid to see me as a father if I'm so selfish. "
I responded harshly and without mercy. I told her that I had taken care of 100% of the responsibilities in the home for the past 6 months. She, however, just sat on her cell phone every single day and she didn't lift a finger to help at all. All of this obviously offended her, made her cry even more and she threw me out of bed. This caused a huge rift between us and she now locks me out of the bedroom. Now even my in-laws consider me a horrible person. What should I do?"
This is a truly delicate, complex and difficult issue to address and resolve. Notwithstanding this, though, the husband has garnered a huge amount of support for his position from Reddit users.
And what about you? Whose side do you take in this story?
