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- A 32-year-old woman left her family vacation after her husband said their new baby would replace him and his kids
- The woman confronted him about the incessant comments, but he passed it off as “light teasing”
- The woman decided to leave the trip after the man said she would forget they “exist” once she gave birth
A pregnant woman abruptly left a family vacation after her husband kept making “jokes” about how their lives would change once the baby arrived.
In a since-deleted Reddit post, the 32-year-old woman shared that her husband has a 10-year-old son and a 13-year-old daughter from his previous marriage, and they are expecting their first baby together.
“We recently went on a beach trip, and for some reason, my husband kept making jokes like, ‘Oh soon you won’t care about us, just the new baby!’ or ‘I’ll miss when you used to have time for my kids,'” she writes.
The 37-year-old man would make these remarks in front of the kids, and the poster “noticed they started pulling away from me during the trip.” When she asked him to stop, he brushed it off as “light teasing.”
“The last straw was when we were taking family photos, and he said, ‘Better take the pic now before she forgets we exist after giving birth,’” the woman recalls.
She then packed her bags that night and flew home. Her husband told her that she had embarrassed him and ruined the trip, and his children asked if she was mad at them.
While she is not mad at her stepchildren, she is mad at her husband for “planting that seed in their heads.”
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Most commenters sided with the woman, noting that the husband was projecting his insecurities onto her.
“It sounds like he’s dealing with his own issues and trying to make them your responsibility, which is unfair. You’re not obligated to carry the weight of someone else’s insecurities,” one commenter wrote.
“Sounds like he’s undermining you with his children and also trying to send you a warning that you must not be too absorbed with your baby when it arrives,” another commenter wrote. “Clearly this manbaby felt left out by his partner when his previous children were born. He’s trying to get some kind of promise out of you to give him attention or be anxious to please him when baby is born.”
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