'How will we be able to support the baby?': Pregnant wife considers leaving husband when he gives his job an ultimatum, his family turns on her for her decision

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Nov 1, 2025 12:00 PM EDT

Life isn't what it used to be. These days it can take an arm and a leg to raise and support a child. When the cost of an egg is akin to a high-end caviar, you know we're in trouble. Take the couple in the story below. The protagonist is a woman who's pregnant with her first child. She and her husband couldn't be happier, but there are some financial and logistic caveats at play. She was recently fired from her job, so not only is she in the process of trying to find a new one, but she wouldn't even be able to start working for a little bit, certainly not until many months or a year after the baby is born. Her husband is supposed to be the breadwinner, and he's been at his company for a while but hates his job. 

Push comes to shove in their relationship when he tells her that he's going to demand different things from his company or else he's quitting. She takes it hard, because if neither of them have a job, then they won't be able to support their baby. 

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    AITAH for telling my fiance if he quits his job I'll leave with the baby?

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    My fiance (32m) and I (30f) are expecting our first early Feb. I got laid off from my job but I'm doing some freelance. It's not bringing in
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    what I used to but it is what it is for now. I am looking for new wfh positions since it will hopefully be
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    easier when baby does get here. Fiance has a decent paying job but he's miserable there.
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    We had a big falling out about this last night. He told me he's going to demand certain things in January
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    and I know those things won't be feasible especially for his company and if he doesn't get that he'll quit.
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    He claims he's indispensable for this company and if they cared about what he's bringing in they'll keep him.
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    I asked him what is his plans then after leaving.? How will we be able to support baby? What if I don't
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    get a decent paying job, because let's face it the job market is horrible right now. He said well
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    we'd have to move in with my parents. And I'd have to foot the bills with my very minimal income
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    until his website design business takes off.
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    I said there's no way in hell that's happening. And if he does quit and expects me to work days after
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    giving birth I will absolutely leave him, move in with my parents myself and try and figure it out
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    alone once the baby comes but there's now way I'll be able to make his brand new car payments and my and babys necessities on my own.
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    HE, his mother, his sister and some of his friends are calling me an asshole. He took care of me during
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    Cd when I didn't make an income when I was non essential and now I don't want to take care
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    income when I was non essential and now I don't want to take care of him. The thing is during id
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    we weren't expecting a new baby. We lived in a very cheap city and he didn't have a brand new car he had to pay off.
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    ItsAllAboutLogic • 22h ago Anyone who thinks a mother should return to work days after giving birth is a huge A NTA
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    Emotional-Wishbon... • 19h ago I lost my job a week before my 2nd child was born. I did everything I could to make
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    sure I had another job and started 3 weeks after the birth. This still put a load of pressure on me and my wife.
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    Leaving a job voluntarily without something lined up. with a pregnant partner is crazy. He could have been just
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    venting and not meaning he would quit but this is still hugely unfair to he burdening a pregnant woman with, who
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    will already have enough stresses without an asshole partner adding to them.
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