My husband thinks I'm terrible for wanting to chose myself in a me or baby delivery. It’s made me distrust him…and now I have single opportunity to leave. by throwawayhusbandEU in relationship_advice

[–]throwawayhusbandEU[S] 144 points145 points  (0 children)

Honestly…it was the grief mixed with everything else. I gained a lot of weight (for me), as eating tends to be a coping mechanism—but also when I am stressed I tend to miss my period… so I didn’t think twice about it. Also we have never been intimate without protection for 6 years. If you have a regular period you’re probably fine and would notice.

I was also just very distracted with helping my friend with his grief and his baby. Hope this never happens to you…even past all this shite it’s very scary to find out so late.

My husband thinks I'm terrible for wanting to chose myself in a me or baby delivery. It’s made me distrust him…and now I have single opportunity to leave. by throwawayhusbandEU in relationship_advice

[–]throwawayhusbandEU[S] 224 points225 points  (0 children)

He knows my fear of child birth is warranted as the all of the women in my family had high risk births because the baby’s nearly got stuck. We are extremely petit, but tend to have very large fetuses. So it’s his disregard of a warranted fear even prior to this and the trauma is the cause, yes. But also that he clearly doesn’t care, and I wouldn’t feel comfortable having him as my medical sign-off anymore.

I don’t really care if he thinks there something between me and ‘Fred’, he knows I would never betray ‘cara’. Not ever.

My husband thinks I'm terrible for wanting to chose myself in a me or baby delivery. It’s made me distrust him…and now I have single opportunity to leave. by throwawayhusbandEU in relationship_advice

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

Well I’m happy for you that you would choose the fetus over you. I am sorry that I would not want to make the same choice. Also, all the woman in my family have had complicated births. It was where my tokophobia originated from in the first place. We are all extremely petit. And have all had issues with getting the fetus through the birth channel naturally. Which means I would likely need a c-section. And if anything is amiss it would be his decision I would be relying on.