'Enough with the pity olympics': Husband Tells Wife in Third Trimester to Stop Complaining about Her Pregnancy Because It Brings Him Down

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    Font - Posted by u/LycheeBubbly6341 6 hours ago AITA for telling my pregnant wife that other people have it worse than her?
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    Font - I'm just going to be brief. My wife has been pregnant for a while now, and it's put a lot of stress on me. I've been doing more hours at work to get some cash ready in time for the baby, and it's been so exhausting.
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    Font - Throughout this all, my wife has been complaining every single day. She's having a difficult pregnancy so she has my sympathies, but I can't sleep at night, because she wants to have these talks or go on a drive because she's stressed.
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    Font - I'm really starting to lose it, and she's just constantly complaining. I'm a pretty cheerful person normally, and I absolutely hate hearing people complain constantly because it really brings me down. I'm pretty sure I'm going to crack any second, so I wanted to put an end to this complaining since I just need some light in my life.
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    Font - I told her that I'm balancing a job and taking care of you, plus everyone in life has their own challenges and you can't just whine about it and play the pity olympics, it's getting old.
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    Font - She seemed to get it, but it's been a week and she's been noticeably distant. Now I'm frustated because I miss my wife, I just didn't want her to keep complaining, but I never asked her to stop talking to me. All I asked was that she be a little more positive, but she seemed to be taking it the wrong way, and I'm feeling kind of bad.
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    Font - MaybeAWalrus. 6 hr. ago Craptain [193] YTA. Honestly, you should never have made a kid if your moral was so easy to drain. This is only the pregnancy and you are not even the one building the baby. I can't imagine how it's going to be once the baby is there...
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    Font - Your wife is going through one of the hardest thing in her life. She is building a WHOLE BABY. If you can't support her NOW, I feel sorry for her.... 4.2k Reply Share
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    Font - ant-master 3 hr. ago ● Also, the pity olympics? He thinks her discomfort at being pregnant (I'm assuming she's probably in her third trimester since he says she's been pregnant for a while) is some kind of game or competition to her?
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    Font - I can't stand people like OP who lack any sympathy, it's even worse than people who do actually make a competition about complaining (like oh you have this bad thing going on? I've got it even worse). Just offer a kind ear to your wife and rub her feet, OP. If you can't stand hearing people complain, what are you going to do when your kid turns four and goes through a phase where they whine over everything?
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    Font - QuietCelery 21 min. ago ● I can imagine him telling his crying newborn that he should stop crying because other babies have it worse. 4 Vote Reply Share
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    Font - Bugsy7778 1 hr. ago Pregnancy is the worst, I hated it. OP needs to grow the bell up and realise he's a giant AH and he needs to be supporting his wife and making her life as easy as possible for her because it's not going to get any easier for her!
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    Font - Ashamed-Ad-263 - 1 hr. ago edited 22 min. ago Partassipant [2] Don't forget all of your internal organs being kicked and feet getting stuck in the ribs, the baby bouncing around randomly, especially when you're resting, and then when the end of that very long 40ish weeks of pure torture you get to labor for long hours, push a baby out of a small
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    Font - opening and continue to deal with changes to your body while you now have a screaming new born to take care of. Sheesh, I pity his wife.
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    Font - KauriAni 1 hr. ago ● His kid turning into a world class whiner at 4 will not impact him greatly because mum will be carrying 98% of the childcare load. He may babysit every once in a while but only if the kid doesn't "stress him out" /s

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