Husband Requests Wife To Remain Home With The Children So He Can Attend Her Brother's Wedding, Citing His Anxiety About Leaving Their Kids With A Babysitter

Not wanting to leave your kids with someone else is one thing, but this situation is just ridiculous.

Daphnie

• Published in Interesting
• June 28, 2023

Welcome to yet another awesome Reddit post that we'll be looking at from the AITA thread. This thread is often used to get unbiased opinions and advice on the situation that they are posting about.

We enjoy looking into these posts because they usually have a lot of traction on them and a lot of different comments on them, giving their perspectives. Ultimately, there are always a lot of different opinions on these posts, which is the reason that the people make them in the first place.

So with this all being said, let's dive into this post that was submitted by a woman who wants to know if she is wrong for being mad at her husband for asking her to stay home with the kids so that he can attend to her brother's wedding. His reasoning for this is that she watches the kids all the time, and so he said she should just "do what she always does" and watch the kids so he can go.

You probably already have an opinion formed on this, and we definitely understand why because, obviously, this sounds a little bit ridiculous on his part. if you're interested in hearing more about what she said in her post and what people had to say in the comments below then keep on reading as we dive in.

OP starts off her post with explaining the dynamic and situation between her and her husband and the kids.

This is when she goes into the details of what his response was about the babysitter and her going to her brother's wedding.

People quickly came to the comments and let OP know that she was indeed not in the wrong here and he should let her go to her brother's wedding.

This is absolutely true too and we just hope that OP says something to him about the way that he's acting.

This would be the definition of gaslighting and we absolutely are just not okay with how he's acting about this.

This is exactly the response that most of us probably would have had because that is her brother and so she basically has a one up on him for that.

People were really not okay with how the hubby was acting about this and we just have to agree with them because it absolutely was not okay.

I think that OP should talk to her husband and tell him about the situation and the options that they have that include her going to the wedding. It should be a nonnegotiable.

People did come up with other ideas that she can suggest to him so they can find a more common ground to be on.

Yes it is quite controlling and he probably needs to be called out on it to see the extremities that he's following.

This situation is definitely something that we don't like to read, but we hope that OP took some of the advice given to her and talked to her husband about it all. Ultimately, it sounds like her husband is pretty controlling, and she needs to probably call him out on this so he can take a minute to look at himself in the mirror.

Daphnie