Woman Threatens to Divorce Husband When He Fails to Support Her During Daughter’s Emergency Surgery

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    r/AITAH ⚫ 17 hr. ago Aggressive_Yak5112 AITA for threatening to divorce my husband?
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    Saturday morning my 17 year old daughter got into a bad car wreck an hour and a half away from our home. Her and her cousin were on the way to a charity event when a car cut them off.
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    I get to the hospital she's at still in my work uniform to find out she needs emergency surgery. I should mention despite being an emotional person I shut down. when super stressed. My family. calls it "Vulcan mode" because | get so logical/practical it's stupid.
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    My husband and I are discussing what to expect with the medical team when he says he's going to take a short nap in the car. I look. at him and flatly say "If you walk out that door I will divorce you Monday." He sits in the chair and waits for us to finish.
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    Sunday morning rolls around after a successful surgery we decide to have breakfast in the cafeteria. He tells me that I made him look bad and the only reason he wanted to nap was to stretch out his back. I understand he has a bad back from being 6'8 but I REALLY needed him beside me. So AITA?
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    Before you ask my daughter is going to be fine, just a ruptured spleen and broken arm. My niece has a collapsed lung and had surgery as well. Both are expected to make a full recovery.
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    aspermyprevious • 16h ago • INFO: Why exactly couldn't he wait to finish speaking to the medical team and then doze in the waiting area?
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    Fickle-Secretar... • 14h ago • Yikes. Is he that unattached all the time? That's a very weird thing to say in the middle of a discussion about your child
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    • Ok-Try-857 16h ago NTA. If he was so worried about looking bad he shouldn't have said he was going to do something that would make him look bad. That's on him.
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    Leaving you there alone to handle the doctors, make the decisions and handle your fear is selfish af. I would have probably said something similar to my husband if he was acting that self centered. He could have found a place to lay down and stretch out in the
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    hospital. Also, stretching out because you're tall and your back hurts does not require a nap.
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    dncrmom 16h ago • NTA the medical team was discussing life saving surgery & expectations & your husband interrupted them to say he is going to the car to take a nap? ?? He
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    didn't want to listen or take any parenting responsibility because he has a sore back?? He wanted to leave you with zero emotional support? That would be divorce worthy and not an empty threat for me.
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    Unlikely_Ad2116 • Unlikely Ad2116 16h ago NTA. Walking out at that moment would have been a d**k move for a new boyfriend. A father or stepfather? Inexcusable.
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    Whenever you hear an long- term couple talking about how "You were always there when I needed you" THIS is what they're talking about.
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    And BTW the "Vulcan mode" you go into when the bovine excrement impacts the air circulation device is an awesome quality in a person. It lets you prioritize things and do what needs doing quickly. Plenty of time to be emotional after the situation is stabilized. I
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    may or may not, after a crazy dangerous situation was resolved, said "Excuse me, I need to go curl up in the corner in the fetal position and twitch for awhile." And then done it.
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    . BonusMomSays • 16h ago • NTA. In a moment of extreme stress you told your hubs that his response to news of your daughter's significant injuries and need for emergency surgery was to go take a nap (i.e., focus on
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    himself first, leaving you to deal with the emergency situation alone) was not acceptable and the only acceptable response was to stay in the hospital with you.
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    You told him this is not- negotiable. You know him best - better than any of us and you know better what would get his attention.
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    You told him how serious you consider this issue and his efforts to abandon you and your daughter would end direly for him.

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