Mom In Tears After Husband Nicknames Her 'Miss Piggy' To Incentivize Weight Loss

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    Rectangle - Posted by u/throwaway1368989 16 days ago 63 S7 E 33 AITA for making my (32F) children (4 and 6 M) cry after they called me Ms. Piggy? Not the A-hole I (32F) gave birth back in October. Since then, it's been extremely difficult for me to lose the baby weight... mainly due to my postpartum depression. I get next to no sleep attending to my children and most mornings, I can barely get out of bed, much less drive to the gym. It's been a dark few months for me. I've told
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    Mammal - drive to the gym. It's been a dark few months for me. I've told these things to my partner "Dave" (43 M) and though he said he understood, I don't think he really does. Though never explicitly stating it, he makes jokes and comments that imply I'm lazy and that he's no longer attracted to me.
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    Font - Last week, I broke down to him about not being able to lose the weight, and he said that he would push me to do so because he loves me. Since then, he's taken a "Biggest Loser" approach and started calling me "Ms. Piggy" and has instructed all of my friends and family,
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    Font - and has instructed all of my friends and family, even my kids, to do so. I hate this nickname, but he says it's supposed to motivate me to lose weight. I think he really believes it's going to help me, but I feel really undermined while parenting because this nickname.
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    Font - The other night, my family was eating and my children started oinking at me, and out of frustration, I started yelling at my husband. We have a rule not to yell in front of the kids, but
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    Font - have a rule not to yell in front of the kids, but we're almost always in front of the kids during quarantine and I feel so dismissed. The kids started crying and Dave says I'm to blame. Reddit, AITA?
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    Font - BoredAgain0410 Certified Proctologist [22] 16 days ago NTA - teaching your children to humiliate you into losing weight is so beyond fi cked up.
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    Plant - BoredAgain0410 Certified Proctologist [22] 16 days ago Insulting someone's appearance is never positive punishment and there's never a place for it.
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    Facial expression - darthvadercake 15 days ago Also 'I will help you lose weight because I love you' is f. cked up. A good husband would tell her he loves her regardless of her weight.
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    Font - omenoracle 15 days ago I'd call it divorce seeking behavior
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    Font - Kayliee73 15 days ago Recruiting the children to do it was wrong. Children should never be placed in a position to "correct" parent behavior. This would be very confusing; if they are supposed to belittle Mom why should they listen to her? They don't have the ability to understand "ok, we are doing positive punishment about Mom's weight but when Mom says it is time to go to bed; we are no longer coaches, we are children and should listen".
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    Font - Here_for_tea_ Partassipant [1] 16 days ago NTA He's being horrible and teaching your children to be horrible too. Are you working with a doctor and a therapist?
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    Rectangle - Tapioca44 16 days ago THIS It's clear now why you're depressed. It's because you're married to a huge AH. How dare he. Please stand up to him and let him know this abuse stops now. What an AH. You're NTA
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    Font - Mera1506 Professor Emeritass [80] 16 days ago NTA. No one ever thought of addressing the elephant in the room and get OP help for post partum depression? Wtf? This isn't helping, it's making it worse. Sit your parents down and talk to them about how it makes you feel or write everyone who calls you Miss. Piggy an email how it only hurts and makes it worse, not help. Get therapy to deal with this and let a therapist tell this ahole of a husband how he's being an ahole.
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    Smile - erin_bex 15 days ago What do the friends and family he's talked to about this think? If a friend's spouse told me to exclusively berate them about their weight I would be HORRIFIED.

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