A woman says she is livid with her husband after he convinced her to bring their six-month-old baby on a 10-hour flight.
In a post on Mumsnet, the woman explained that her husband “insisted” that it would be “great” for them to bring their infant with them as they visited both sides of their family during a recent vacation.
“He was excited. I was the negative nelly, obviously, but gave in,” the woman wrote, then detailing that the flight was “brutal” as it made her and her husband jet-lagged, as well as their child.
“It’s made baby clingy, even though he never was clingy with me before,” the mom further explained. “He won’t settle for Dad now, [and] my back feels like it will snap in two from spending the last 24 hours holding baby to sleep in the airport and plane. It’s just parenting a million times worse.”
And, despite recognizing that “the right thing to do is snap out of it and enjoy [the trip], as there’s no quick way to go home,” the woman said, however, “I hate my husband right now. Hate his f—— guts. [I] could 100% divorce him over this.”
“And I hate myself for giving in to his stupid idea. Hate, hate, hate myself,” the new mom added.
Fellow parents flooded the comments section of the post to offer their solidarity and support to the woman.
“Holidays, for me, were parenting, but in a different place without all the things we needed and out of routine. I loathed them,” one person said.
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Others, meanwhile, said the woman should relax and look at her situation from a different perspective.
“You’ve only just arrived, and you’re all exhausted and jet-lagged. Don’t write off the whole holiday just yet. Traveling with little ones can be HARD, but you will make so many memories — not necessarily all amazingly happy moments, but memories you’ll look back on and laugh and smile about in years to come,” a user wrote.
And while one person in the comments section suggested that the woman’s negative reaction to the 10-hour-fight was “extreme,” many others backed her up, stating that traveling with a baby for that long a stretch of time was indeed “horrific” and “hardcore.”
“Remembering our first six months, we were insane, sleep deprived lunatics deprived of all reason and judgement,” one person wrote in support.
In an update from the second day of the getaway, the woman said, “Thanks everyone. I feel better today. Husband and I did end up having a fight last night, but it’s all fine now. He is a very involved, loving and hands on dad but he is a forever optimist (which is often a wonderful trait).”
She added, “Anyways, I do feel better and like a rational human again, thank you for all your replies. I will make the best of it, and I’m sure we will make some lovely memories.”
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