A pregnant woman is taking issue with her husband’s desire to go on a solo trip just weeks before she is set to give birth.
In a post on Reddit’s “Am I the A——” forum, the 42-year-old woman wrote that she is expecting her second baby, years after she and her spouse of 12 years experienced a setback following the birth of their first baby.
“I had my first daughter during [the COVID-19] pandemic and lockdowns. [My] husband was working overseas and planned to come before delivery but due to [the] Australian border being shut, he was unable to come,” she wrote. “After a painful 1.5 years apart, we finally reunited and he got to hold our firstborn.”
Now, the woman — who has kept her “pregnancy a secret from family and friends” and has only told her parents and in-laws — said her mom and dad “will be coming from overseas when I am 30 weeks to stay and support me in my delivery.”
During this time, however, the Redditor said her husband “wants to go overseas to see his parents for 10 days but I don’t want him to go.”
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According to the pregnant woman, her husband told her that he wants to visit his parents soon, because he said “he won’t be able to go this year once [the] baby comes.”
Still, the woman detailed that her in-laws plan to visit her and their son “once the baby is a couple of months old so he shall get to see them this year anyway.”
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“I will be 31 weeks pregnant but I feel after last time of missing [my] pregnancy and delivery of our firstborn, it should be him not wanting to go instead of me having to ask,” she continued.
The woman added that her husband’s mother is even “telling him not to come but he wishes to go.”
In the comments section of the post, many sided with the pregnant woman and expressed she was not in the wrong.
“His parents are coming to visit. He could have gone earlier in the pregnancy if he thinks he can’t travel after the baby is born. He is just being inconsiderate,” one user wrote.
Another said, “If his parents are coming after the baby is born, he doesn’t need to go now. If even his mother is saying, ‘don’t come,’ it makes me wonder what his real motivation is for going so close to your due date.”
One other commenter said that the Redditor should question her husband and his desire to travel so close to the end of her second pregnancy.
“Ask him what it is about this trip that it has become a higher priority for him than being a respectful & caring husband, father and son and listen carefully to his answer,” they wrote.
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