A father-to-be ranted to friends about his wife using twin pregnancy as an excuse to run away from the couple – and of course, she found out.
It’s not surprising he’s a little upset, but he’s posted online questioning whether he was really wrong to share his thoughts with his friends and to have completely cheated on his wife.
“She wants to be pampered all the time.”
“The truth is, ever since she got pregnant she’s become difficult to be around, very demanding and wants to be pampered all the time,” the man wrote in the post.
“It doesn’t really bother me because it’s the job I signed up for, but I work full time and have a lot to do.
“In addition to taking care of her, I’m also helping take care of my sick grandmother, which makes it hard to do not only everything I used to do, but most of the things I used to do before she was pregnant.”
The man says she is “only” 4 months pregnant… but she is carrying twins.
“Things like heavy lifting and working with chemicals make sense, but simple things like running to the post office, doing the laundry and going grocery shopping are things I feel I should be able to do because I’m not that far along in the pregnancy yet.
“I know having twins changes things, but still, from what I’ve read it seems like she’s doing less than normal and I feel like she’s not helping as much as she could.”
He told all of this to friends, one of whom told his wife, and naturally he got defensive and blamed the source.
He asked himself if it was wrong to complain about his wife to his friends, or if he should have held back for her feelings.
“There’s absolutely no empathy.”
Commenters on the post were most annoyed by the man’s behaviour.
“If you really think she’s lying then just tell her that you have to talk to her about it or do it yourself. Don’t complain behind her back,” one person said.
“But unless you actually witness her doing the things she claims she cannot do, I think you need to discard any assumption that you or your self-proclaimed advisors know more than she does about what it’s like to go about day-to-day life in her current body.”
Another woman added, “She’s pregnant with twins and is in the second trimester, which means a lot of things are changing in ways you can’t see, but that can be painful. And now you’ve shown her that A. you can’t trust the person she’s going to have babies with to not talk bad about her, and B. you don’t think her feelings matter.”
Awkwardly (awkward for the guy, great for the reader), we later find out that the woman actually works, a plot twist that no one saw coming.
“Oh my goodness she’s still working!” wrote one shocked person. “Oh my goodness the poor son has to do what his wife has managed to do without a word.”
