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AITAH for choosing my wife over my mom?
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The wife has been clear for years she is not ready for a kid maybe not ever she is focusing on her career she has not changed her mind. He supports her he has never pressured her.
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Then a couple of friends come over with their kids and the mom finally says it out loud. She looks at the wife and asks if she cannot even give her a grandchild as if that is the only metric for a woman’s worth. The wife pushes back and the mom doubles down by implying that the wife is letting her biological clock expire and that women who delay are setting themselves up for regret. The husband has been swallowing comments for a year and this time he snaps. He raises his voice at his mom for the first time and tells her to stop forcing them to treat this like a referendum on his wife’s value.
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The house turns into a silent standoff his mom stops talking to him she stops eating well she says she wants to move out. He feels guilty for yelling at the woman who raised him but he also knows he did not invent the conflict. The tension was already there it was just polished into polite remarks and “well meant” guilt trips.
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As I said at the beginning, you don’t need to check yourself, you did the only reasonable thing to do. Making the decision between being your wife’s man and a manbaby, mama’s boy shouldn’t be so hard.
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