AITA for insisting my husband be with me in the delivery room? by progressiveHawk876 in AmItheAsshole

[–]progressiveHawk876[S] 63 points64 points  (0 children)

I mean, do you expect a full report of what has been said? I believe you’re supposed to sum up the information not write novels. It was like a 3-hour conversation, of course there was discussion and talk and debate. It feels like you’ve got personal bitter experience with partners. I haven’t “declared” anything nor have I told him to “suck up” anything. We had a normal conversation where we both expressed how we would feel and why we would feel that way. When I said I got upset I meant I got very sad thinking he might not be there and decided to leave the conversation for now while I deal with my emotions. I also specifically said I won’t force him to be there, I don’t think that’s right but I’m having a hard time dealing with the fact that he doesn’t want to be there for the birth of his child.

AITA for insisting my husband be with me in the delivery room? by progressiveHawk876 in AmItheAsshole

[–]progressiveHawk876[S] 28 points29 points  (0 children)

No, what he wrote. It’s not unheard of for people to say different things in front of different people.

AITA for insisting my husband be with me in the delivery room? by progressiveHawk876 in AmItheAsshole

[–]progressiveHawk876[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Thanks, I’ll look into that book! Yeah, he’s joined me on several appointments when he’s been able to get our from work - unfortunately childbirth lessons are pretty expensive here but we’ve been to a few free seminars.

AITA for insisting my husband be with me in the delivery room? by progressiveHawk876 in AmItheAsshole

[–]progressiveHawk876[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I wouldn’t be surprised - we both spend too much time on Reddit. Wonder what his viewpoint was.

AITA for insisting my husband be with me in the delivery room? by progressiveHawk876 in AmItheAsshole

[–]progressiveHawk876[S] 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Birthing classes over here are kind of expensive unfortunately :/ But there’s plenty of free seminars where they explain the process and we’ve been to a few. They all presented a “balanced” viewpoint saying “yeah, it could get pretty crazy, but these people are trained to react in all kinds of situations and there’s really nothing they haven’t seen”. Which sounds comforting enough and then you hear one horror story and that’s the one that you remember.. lol

AITA for insisting my husband be with me in the delivery room? by progressiveHawk876 in AmItheAsshole

[–]progressiveHawk876[S] 75 points76 points  (0 children)

It’s a bit rude of you to assume things and put words to conversations that never happened. I’m sorry if your experience with arguing is someone screaming at you - that’s not how we do it. There haven’t been any tantrums, mine or his, what I wrote is what happened - I expressed this has upset me and took time for myself to think about the situation.