After Man Makes Insensitive Comment About Postpartum Wife’s Body, She Takes Her Baby and Leaves, Causing Family Uproar

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    r/AITAH 17 hr. ago Intelligent_Fox_5588 AITAH. I took my baby and left home after my husband kept making jokes about my body.
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    So, my husband statted making indirect jokes about my body/shape eversince I gave birth to our son. At first, I didn't mind a silly joke here and there but it escalated, and he started doing infront of friends and family.
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    Last week, we were invited by his mom to celebrate at her home. He casually made an offensive joke about my body and that was the last straw for me.
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    We got home and we started arguing. I recorded our conversation and this is how it went. Me: Can we talk about what happened at dinner tonight?" Him: (he was checking his phone, responding nonchalantly) "What's there to talk about? It was just a joke." Me: "A joke? You think making fun of my body in front of
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    your family is funny? I've just had our baby, and I'm still adjusting to everything! Your comments hurt, you know that, right?" Him: "Come on, it was just a little banter. Everyone laughed. Besides, if you had gotten the 'husband's stitch' like I suggested, maybe it wouldn't be such a big deal.” Me: (I was staring at him in
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    disbelief after this comment) "So now it's my fault? I'm the one to blame for your insensitive jokes? Is that really how you feel?" Him: "I'm just saying, things could be different. You chose not to do it. I thought you wanted to feel good again. It's not like I'm trying to hurt you; I just want us to have a good life again". After that we
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    kept going back and forth and ended up taking the baby and moving out. He began complaining about how I took his son away from him, how I was punishing him using our son etc. His family interjected snd told me I can't do this to him. It's been days and he's still complaining about what I did calling it
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    overreaction and saying that I was taking my frustration out on him.
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    Alarming_Paper_... 16h ago How in the did you ever marry this cretin, never mind make a baby with him? Surely this isn't the first time he's showed his true colors as a rude, insensitive boor? Did he honestly joke about your family?!! The in front of his about the
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    "husband stitch" is just gross -- I have a friend who it was done to after her second child, and was actively painful for MONTHS and she didn't understand why until she finally went to a gynecologist, who discovered that the "husband stitch" had been
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    poorly done and had actually made the vaginal opening smaller than before, and the scar was being painfully stressed every time they had
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    And anyway, what does the "husband stitch" have to do with your body recovering from pregnancy? It doesn't automatically make you slim and make your perk up!
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    Lawyer up, girl, it's going to be a bumpy ride. His emotional abuse is cruel and uncalled for.
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    ExcellentAd7790 • 17h ago NOPE. The husband stitch is a huge NOPE. Even if he wasn't awful about your body, that alone is divorce worthy. Don't go back. Block his family. NTA
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    NONEOFURBIZZ . 17h ago Anyone thinking it's funny to even joke about the whole obstetrics violence "husband stitch" deserves a perpetual restraining order from all women. Get a lawyer quickly.
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    Interesting_Chef_... • 14h ago My daughters gynecologist told me a story about the one guy that asked if she was going to give his wife an extra stitch. She told him to drop his pants so she could see just how many stitches it would take to make a
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    difference for him. He shut up and never spoke to her again
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    pumpkin-patch85 • 14h ago Your husband is a discusting pos. He doesn't want you to feel good. He wants you sewed up so he can use your body like a fleshlight.
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    He doesn't see you as human. He doesn't love you at all. He is beyond vile to see the husband stitch as anything other than female mutilation meant to aid the tiny dickmeat of vile husbands who enjoy hurting thier wives sexually post partum.
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    • Kjdking78 15h ago I just looked up 'husband's stitch' and I am disgusted. It is unethical and unnecessary and just...... no. I'm a man and would never think to ask for this.

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