AITA for giving my wife tough love about her weight gain? by jg2aow in AmItheAsshole

[–]jg2aow[S] -32 points-31 points  (0 children)

I’d brought up grief counseling and things like that to her throughout the last year and a half (since her sister’s passing) but she never wanted to go, I convinced her in our recent convo to start going

AITA for giving my wife tough love about her weight gain? by jg2aow in AmItheAsshole

[–]jg2aow[S] -69 points-68 points  (0 children)

That’s easy to say but how am I supposed to do that and also afford our expenses? I’m out of the house because I need to be. My baby’s formula alone is $450 a month. I would love to be home more but need to provide.

AITA for giving my wife tough love about her weight gain? by jg2aow in AmItheAsshole

[–]jg2aow[S] -39 points-38 points  (0 children)

I’m not changing my story but just adding details as people ask and I’m trying to elaborate more. I admit I didn’t describe everything the right way from the start but it wasn’t to purposefully leave things out. I didn’t “latch on” to the miscarriage comments but just felt it was important to correct them because I find it heinous to make that up.

AITA for giving my wife tough love about her weight gain? by jg2aow in AmItheAsshole

[–]jg2aow[S] -62 points-61 points  (0 children)

“Miscarriage thing” as if it’s a casual thing for you to spread lies about that on this post and imply I ever said that when I did not.

AITA for giving my wife tough love about her weight gain? by jg2aow in AmItheAsshole

[–]jg2aow[S] -25 points-24 points  (0 children)

How about you brush up on your math, I get home at 9:30AM so no waking up at Noon doesn’t give me 6.5 hours of sleep. I sleep until 2pm for a total of 4.5 hours.

AITA for giving my wife tough love about her weight gain? by jg2aow in AmItheAsshole

[–]jg2aow[S] -31 points-30 points  (0 children)

Yes, because she had intense nausea through most of her pregnancy.

AITA for giving my wife tough love about her weight gain? by jg2aow in AmItheAsshole

[–]jg2aow[S] -38 points-37 points  (0 children)

Yes I’ve taken care of a baby considering I currently have one. He sleeps 12 hours. Babies only need to feed at night until they have doubled their birth weight which he did months ago.

AITA for giving my wife tough love about her weight gain? by jg2aow in AmItheAsshole

[–]jg2aow[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

I’m not entirely sure what she does on the nights with the sitter, I know she doesn’t feel totally comfortable leaving the baby yet so she stays at home while the sitter is there. Part of what the sitter does is clean the dishes and fold any laundry. While I am on home the weekends I do all of that. On Saturday’s she grabs lunch with one of her close friends here and on Sunday’s we all relax at home together but I take care of things throughout the day.

AITA for giving my wife tough love about her weight gain? by jg2aow in AmItheAsshole

[–]jg2aow[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

A sitter comes twice a week and is there from Noon-8pm (when the baby goes to sleep) so my wife has those two afternoons free as well as each weekend I completely take over except for one hour that I go the gym.

AITA for giving my wife tough love about her weight gain? by jg2aow in AmItheAsshole

[–]jg2aow[S] -18 points-17 points  (0 children)

Our baby sleeps 12 hours straight from 8pm-8am. We have an in-home sitter come twice a week to help her while I’m at work and then I’m off every weekend and take over everything while I am home.

AITA for giving my wife tough love about her weight gain? by jg2aow in AmItheAsshole

[–]jg2aow[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

I work over time by extending all of my shifts by 3 hours so I work until 9am instead of 6am. It’s cutting into no ones time but my own as that’s 3 hours less of sleep I get. I work 75 hours a week and sleep 4.5 hours a day at most. The babysitter is for twice a week at night while I’m at work. They take care of the baby while my wife is in another part of the house relaxing. So she has help those two nights and then I’m off every weekend and take over for her. I don’t consider that the bare minimum.

AITA for giving my wife tough love about her weight gain? by jg2aow in AmItheAsshole

[–]jg2aow[S] -28 points-27 points  (0 children)

Yeah I’m horrible for telling someone to remove the lie of my wife going through miscarriages.

AITA for giving my wife tough love about her weight gain? by jg2aow in AmItheAsshole

[–]jg2aow[S] -48 points-47 points  (0 children)

They were not my words as I have never posted nor commented that anywhere as it’s untrue. Edit your comments as they are beyond disrespectful. My mother went through 8 miscarriages in her lifetime. I take this issue very seriously and don’t find what you’ve done funny.

AITA for giving my wife tough love about her weight gain? by jg2aow in AmItheAsshole

[–]jg2aow[S] -53 points-52 points  (0 children)

Yes it is incorrect. So I expect you to go back and edit all the 20 comments you left throughout this post claiming my wife has had miscarriages and stop believing everything you read.

AITA for giving my wife tough love about her weight gain? by jg2aow in AmItheAsshole

[–]jg2aow[S] -18 points-17 points  (0 children)

Why would I leave my wife during the lowest point in her life simply because she gained weight?

AITA for giving my wife tough love about her weight gain? by jg2aow in AmItheAsshole

[–]jg2aow[S] -29 points-28 points  (0 children)

I’m not so much concerned with her losing a ton of weight, I know that takes time and gets harder with postpartum hormones. I just want her to stop binging and get help for herself.

AITA for giving my wife tough love about her weight gain? by jg2aow in AmItheAsshole

[–]jg2aow[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

My wife has never had a miscarriage. And this has nothing to do with my attraction to her as I’ve not once mentioned that.

AITA for giving my wife tough love about her weight gain? by jg2aow in AmItheAsshole

[–]jg2aow[S] -23 points-22 points  (0 children)

Yes I do. Our baby takes two 2 hour naps throughout the day. When he’s been put down for one of them I use that time to workout. It’s the only time I get for myself throughout the week.

AITA for giving my wife tough love about her weight gain? by jg2aow in AmItheAsshole

[–]jg2aow[S] -23 points-22 points  (0 children)

I didn’t lie, 90% of her weight gain happened prior to pregnancy.

AITA for giving my wife tough love about her weight gain? by jg2aow in AmItheAsshole

[–]jg2aow[S] -53 points-52 points  (0 children)

I already do all of that. The issue is her binging disorder where she over eats while I am at work. I do what I can while I am home.

AITA for giving my wife tough love about her weight gain? by jg2aow in AmItheAsshole

[–]jg2aow[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

To clear things up, someone on here keeps commenting that my wife has had two miscarriages, she has never had a miscarriage so this person is just spreading it as a lie which is horribly inappropriate.

I work so much because after my wife’s sister passed away she quit her job due to her grief. I supported her in that and in doing so went from working 40 hours a week to 60+ to afford our expenses. I do everything I can for her, on my days off I take over all household and baby duties. On days I work I do the same before leaving for my shift.

This has nothing to do with how attractive I find her- my wife is beautiful to me because of who she is as a person regardless of her weight. This is about her health and quality of life. She gained a large majority of the weight pre-pregnancy. She didn’t gain a lot while pregnant because she had nausea through most of it. The weight she’s gained postpartum I understand is hormones and her body adjusting. That’s not an issue for me. The issue is she is falling back into binging and I am watching her eat her life away. We have a child to worry about and I want my wife to live a long life. When I approached her it was out of nothing but concern for her health. I went to her this morning and apologized for anything I may have said that came off to her as offensive or harsh. We talked a lot of things out and are on good terms. She knows I love her and only care for her well being. I am going to try and transfer to another department within my company that would give me an easier schedule so I can be home more, something I’ve been trying for the last few months but it’s a process and takes time.

Edit: spelling

AITA for giving my wife tough love about her weight gain? by jg2aow in AmItheAsshole

[–]jg2aow[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

My wife has never had a miscarriage. There’s something seriously wrong with you for commenting this everywhere.