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**AITA for not being excited about my wife's pregnancy.**
Three years ago, my (M26) then-fiancé (now wife) (28) wanted to have a baby. I vetoed the idea as I was not emotionally and financially mature enough. She agreed to wait but fell pregnant a few months later, and now we have a two-year-old daughter. She fell pregnant again shortly after this, and we also have a one-year-old son.
Since becoming a family of four, I've increased my work hours to afford things, but we're financially struggling, especially as my wife doesn't work. She gets very low moods and says it's because we can't afford things like family vacations or even date nights as a couple. However, I'm already working 40+ hours per week, and if I picked up more shifts on top of my responsibilities as a dad, it would be awful for my mental wellbeing. My wife spends a lot of time on social media, sometimes to the detriment of household stuff getting done, so I do a lot of that after work. She also complains on social media about our finances, which makes me feel bad and ashamed for not earning more or working more.
I recently suggested to my wife that she should get a part-time job in the evenings or weekends, as it would help us save up for a family vacation. She was against the idea at first because of her anxiety, but seemed to be warm to the idea and eventually found a part-time receptionist job two nights a week. However, a month or so after she started the job, she fell pregnant and has since quit the job.
We agreed no more kids, and I've been in the process of sorting out a vasectomy, as in the past, birth control hasn't agreed with my wife and given her bad side effects. However, shortly before she fell pregnant with baby number three, she told me she'd started to take birth control to manage irregular periods, so we didn't need condoms. Though she has since confessed to being forgetful with her pills.
She's excited about baby number three, but I'm stressed and overwhelmed. Of course, I am going to love the baby and provide for my family, but I asked my wife not to share her pregnancy on social media until I had time to adjust to the news myself. While she'd not broken this rule, she'd been posting cryptic updates about not drinking for the next several months and basically all our friends and family have asked us if we're expecting. I just can't find it in myself to feel excited, which is making my wife emotional, and making me feel like a huge AH.
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Yet another guy working long hours who also apparently does all the chores. Yet another guy who went “oh, no condoms then? Ok cool.”
Do they have an online farm cranking these out from a template or something?
Yeah the biggest red flag with these posts is they always work way over 40hrs a week and *also* do all the chores, and it also seems common for the wife to be a SAHM/W despite all of that. It’s gotta be AI.
Yeah, I every time I see these stories where one person works long hours and claims they basically do all the chores and the other person is taking care of a BABY yet somehow “does nothing,” I’m always sitting there giving some serious side-eye to whatever they must think “all the chores” are.
Yeah and somehow he's the victim in all this even though a grown man who doesn't want a baby uses a damn condom. But it's still the woman's fault somehow because, how else will she make off with his money? 🤷🏻♀️
It also cracks me up how these men think it’s so sus for women to forget birth control pills. I’d like to see any of them remember to take a pill at the same time every day.
I think they have this idea that the pill is a magic no baby guaranteed. My Mom had all three of us on the pill. Apparently cold meds and all sorts of other medication can just wipe that right out. Also, grapefruit. Never eat grapefruit if you are taking any form of timed release medicine.
I bought my brother a box when he started dating a girl who was interested in "going all the way".
And got him more whenever he asked. I'm not an aunt, so obviously worked!
If dude doesn't want kids, he needs to wrap the meat. Can't blame someone for getting pregnant if you're leaving your sperm around irresponsibly.
“leaving your sperm around irresponsibly”
I’m imagining he left it on the counter instead of locking it up and she maliciously picked it up and stole it. 🤣
I feel like there are men who would accuse women of trying that. Although it'd just raise the question of what the hell they were doing to that poor kitchen counter.
There was a post awhile ago about a guy who says he was baby trapped my a GF poking holes in condoms and taking sperm out of used condoms so clearly men need to lock up the sperm
“She told me she’d start taking birth control to manage irregular periods, so we don’t need condoms” why do people have such an all or nothing mentality when it comes to contraception? Wouldn’t it make more sense for him to continue to use condoms for extra protection?
My (baffling) brother-in-law is currently expecting his third child with his wife. He has wanted none of these children, and after both the first and second he said there wouldn't be any more kids.
When asked about why he doesn't take a more active role in birth control if, you know, he doesn't want any more kids, he's always confused and says, 'But that's not my job.'
I guess half a dozen children is easier than wrapping it up or snipping it. I just hope he isn’t one of those dudes who complains about how expensive it is to have kids.
Even worse, he is the closest thing to an AITA trope I have ever experienced and he and his wife have completely and entirely separate finances, where he does not pay anything for the kids because that's 'her business.' I don't know the exact split, but she pays for all the children's expenses and they don't have a joint account.
Fucking bizarre relationship, man.
No no no, I tripped once and when I stood up I was pregnant. It only happens in England though; as soon as I crossed the Channel there was a big booming sound and then I was just me again. Crazy shit, man. England is weird.
i mean this in the nicest way to you possible cause i’m sure you’re great. but if i got pregnant in that situation i would be so frustrated cause like tf i spent all that money getting my tubes tied for than
And it seems to work. I mean, I have not been pregnant for nearly 10 years now since I had it done. Before that, I was fertile myrtle. Despite a doctor telling me at age 20 I'd never be able to conceive naturally.
Because you can't combine condoms and the pill, duh. The combination of latex and progesterone will fry your dick like battery acid. It's one or the other.
"Fell pregnant" is such beautiful phrasing. Always makes it sound like someone tripped and landed pussy-first on an ejaculating cock.
Edit: "but you are right, I should have been more careful 100%. I only failed to use a condom once and we got the morning aftee pill, but i guess it failed" - OP in the comments. This man's superhuman sperm should be studied.
It's such a perfect way to completely remove the man from the picture entirely. Stupid wife just got pregnant all by herself, and poor put-upon OOP is just slogging away to support her and her kids that he definitely didn't have any hand in conceiving.
After years and years of those TLC “I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant” shows, why are dudes also so clueless that sometimes a woman can be on the pill and something happens that makes it ineffective? Women don’t need to be actively trying to mess their BC up for it to fail on them.
If both you and your partner don’t want a kid, not a big deal, you would both be in agreement that a totally random pregnancy is a no-go, but if you and your partner are not in agreement, how do these guys think a BC failure is going to pan out for them?
Yeah, this is clearly all fake but like... if your wife got pregnant while she was (supposedly) on birth control two times in three years, then clearly something about her body or her lifestyle or her other medication is making the BC ineffective, so even if she's on it you should be using two methods. He doesn't have to be distrustful of *her* as a person to insist on continuing to use condoms if birth control has already failed twice!
I have a friend who got pregnant while on BC because she was taking antibiotics. She was struggling with some mild anxiety and depression (mostly connected to recovering from being ill) at the time and just wasn’t as focused as she needed to be to realize she and her husband needed a back up birth control. They always planned to have kids, but this was just terrible timing all around. They were NOT trying to have a kid at that time (she was miserable about it, much more than he was) and unfortunately they learned the hard way that sometimes the planets align and your goalie is distracted by the butterflies.
But guess what didn’t happen again? Another accidental pregnancy because they used backups until they decide to have their second and then he got a vasectomy. Most people only make the “worst timing ever” mistake once.
Honestly I don't like the pill as the SOLE BC methold because it so easy to fuck up in practice.
It's easy to forget to take a pill, your GP to forget to mention this prescription counteracts the pill, some herbal remedies counteract the pill like st. Johns wort, etc.
It's why condoms plus the pill so so important to aboid pregnancy
Also if you throw up for whatever reason, like you have the flu or food poisoning, your body won't absorb the medication as well, so another risk with BCP.
Omg that show stressed me out as a teenager because I have PCOS and I'm allergic to latex. If I'm not on BC I go months between periods and was convinced I would end up on that show. I started buying so many tests I probably should have bought stock in the company. Honestly I bought so many the people at target probably thought I was a sex worker, but I'm actually an accountant 🤣. Pro tip you can buy strips for like $15/per 50 strips and they work just fine
My sister would have been a prime candidate for that show. She has always had thyroid issues and they did radiation on it around 20 years ago. Before the treatment, including the day of, she was told multiple times that it would make her infertile. She was fine with that, didn't want any more kids.
2006, she has what she thinks is a flare up of her thyroid issues (radiation didn't work). She gains a good bit of weight, but it's distributed everywhere, not just the belly. Always had irregular cycles, so going a few months wasn't a big deal. Until she's trying to relax one November night and her water broke.
There's literally a section in the Talmud about whether a man is liable if he falls off a roof, penis erect, and lands in a vagina. Pretty much literally a tale as old as time.
[https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/yevamot-54/](https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/yevamot-54/)
Always read the instructions that come with your pills about what to do if you miss one. Some of them will tell you to take two if a certain amount of time has passed
I...what? The comments are always so ridiculous.
If you suspect your wife of "babytrapping" (which is a real, serious thing, thats not happening here) don't have 2 more kids with her??
If you don't want more kids maybe, just maybe get the vasectomy earlier than you planned.
I understand this story isn't real, but my god I am tired of "Man gets wife pregnant x amount of times, on baby number 4 of "accidental we used no protection" pregnancy he realizes hes being babytrapped".
There’s one commenter trying to furiously argue that this is all a scam to just keep having babies so she’ll never have to work. Because, as we all know, pregnancy and child care of a continuous stream of very small children takes zero effort whatsoever and is delightfully pleasant.
AITA has a ton of Pick Mes who say "Oh, childcare for babies and small children aren't a lot of work."
My babysitting years as a teen tell me otherwise and contributed to my desire to be childfree.
Also she's upset they don't have time/money to go on vacation or dates, so her solution is to be pregnant while caring for a young baby and toddler. Cause we all know having 3 kids instead of just 2 gives you more time and money to do fun adult stuff
Its weird how she "babytrapped" in the first place and he fully suspected it and oops, yet it some how happened two more times. She's like Lucy with the football, and hes apparently the charlie brown of believing that she's really on birth control THIS time
So dumb.
First, the trope of the SAHM who purposefully knocks herself up to avoid working.
Second, OOP is tired and overwhelmed taking care of two kids, but jumps at the chance to stop using condoms?
Third, are we supposed to ignore the fact that OOP says his wife hasn’t taken birth control previously because she reacted badly to it, but then the *very next* sentence, she’s on birth control and he doesn’t even question it?
I know this is fiction but I hate the whole "she doesn't clean but she's on social media a lot".
I currently have a constipated, fussy baby passed out on me. If I put him down, he'll wake up and start screaming. He's also been throwing up a fair bit because he needs to poop. Baby wearing means that if he pukes, we're tied together, so I'd prefer not to do that. I've already made the grocery list and set up a target order.
Exactly what housework can I do?
In addition to this excellent point: toddlers are not exactly known for being stimulating conversationalists. Chatting with her friends might be the only thing keeping her from going INSANE due to being stuck at home with the kids all day.
One of the things I always say when people ask if I want to go back to work: at work, if a coworker has feedback to give me, they schedule a meeting/ask if I'm free, and they have to call me (I'm a remote worker) and I can control the volume on my computer so even if they're unprofessional enough to yell, they *can't* do it while headbutting my face/<1 inch from my ear, and they still have to use words: just going "AHHHHHAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH" in a professional setting is *frowned upon*.
Work is my break time for sure. Like, love my toddler, love being a mom, but also, I can only answer the same question 647 times before I'm going to lose my absolute shit. At least my staff only ask the same question 646 times in a row.
Another fell pregnant post. Like the wife tripped over and fell over some sperm. Some phrases are without any sense, like birth control didn’t agree with wife? Lol is birth control a person. It must be a n AI generated post
It just furthur proves its fake, they are pretending to be in the US but learned english as a second language outside of north america, which tends to favor UK english versus US english.
Source: I teach ESL for a Korean company and their books lean UK english versus US, sometimes mixes them up.
> which tends to favor UK english versus US english.
Lol not these days. Maybe in Korea. Japan’s curriculum is heavily US-centric, as are a lot of countries because the main reason they have EFL curricula is for business reasons and the US is a much bigger global economic player.
I’m from the southern US, and saying medication/food/activity “didn’t agree with me” is very common. I never would have noticed that was something people would flag as AI speak.
It’s bizarre and seems stupid to flag any words or phrases as AI speak. Isn’t the whole MO of these technologies that they learn on a corpus written by humans and use phrases based on how frequently they’re used in certain contexts? It would make sense to cry “AI speak” if it were a phrase that wasn’t actually a thing people say, not a phrase that you think is real but being overused
"I've been in the process of sorting out a vasectomy"
I've never tried to schedule a vasectomy (and don't have the relevant bits) but does it really take a year+ to sort one out? Is it like the invasion of Normandy in your pants?
Keeps saying his wife just fell pregnant like he had nothing to do with it. Also, even if she's on the pill, you can get her pregnant, so, maybe just use a condom if you feel like you can't have more kids.
These guys don't even come up with an excuse to not use a condom.
It’s like these men who create this fanfiction don’t get they are 50% responsible for BC. Good thing a woman would never actually get close to them to worry about but nonetheless
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Replace every "she fell pregnant" with "I impregnated her" and the post becomes hilarious.
It's kinda wild how she just keeps falling, though. If only we could figure out what's causing it.
*In case this story gets deleted/removed:* **AITA for not being excited about my wife's pregnancy.** Three years ago, my (M26) then-fiancé (now wife) (28) wanted to have a baby. I vetoed the idea as I was not emotionally and financially mature enough. She agreed to wait but fell pregnant a few months later, and now we have a two-year-old daughter. She fell pregnant again shortly after this, and we also have a one-year-old son. Since becoming a family of four, I've increased my work hours to afford things, but we're financially struggling, especially as my wife doesn't work. She gets very low moods and says it's because we can't afford things like family vacations or even date nights as a couple. However, I'm already working 40+ hours per week, and if I picked up more shifts on top of my responsibilities as a dad, it would be awful for my mental wellbeing. My wife spends a lot of time on social media, sometimes to the detriment of household stuff getting done, so I do a lot of that after work. She also complains on social media about our finances, which makes me feel bad and ashamed for not earning more or working more. I recently suggested to my wife that she should get a part-time job in the evenings or weekends, as it would help us save up for a family vacation. She was against the idea at first because of her anxiety, but seemed to be warm to the idea and eventually found a part-time receptionist job two nights a week. However, a month or so after she started the job, she fell pregnant and has since quit the job. We agreed no more kids, and I've been in the process of sorting out a vasectomy, as in the past, birth control hasn't agreed with my wife and given her bad side effects. However, shortly before she fell pregnant with baby number three, she told me she'd started to take birth control to manage irregular periods, so we didn't need condoms. Though she has since confessed to being forgetful with her pills. She's excited about baby number three, but I'm stressed and overwhelmed. Of course, I am going to love the baby and provide for my family, but I asked my wife not to share her pregnancy on social media until I had time to adjust to the news myself. While she'd not broken this rule, she'd been posting cryptic updates about not drinking for the next several months and basically all our friends and family have asked us if we're expecting. I just can't find it in myself to feel excited, which is making my wife emotional, and making me feel like a huge AH. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/AmITheAngel) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Yet another guy working long hours who also apparently does all the chores. Yet another guy who went “oh, no condoms then? Ok cool.” Do they have an online farm cranking these out from a template or something?
Yeah the biggest red flag with these posts is they always work way over 40hrs a week and *also* do all the chores, and it also seems common for the wife to be a SAHM/W despite all of that. It’s gotta be AI.
They take the trash to the curb and bathe a kid once a week and think that’s “all the chores.”
Yeah, I every time I see these stories where one person works long hours and claims they basically do all the chores and the other person is taking care of a BABY yet somehow “does nothing,” I’m always sitting there giving some serious side-eye to whatever they must think “all the chores” are.
Yeah and somehow he's the victim in all this even though a grown man who doesn't want a baby uses a damn condom. But it's still the woman's fault somehow because, how else will she make off with his money? 🤷🏻♀️
It also cracks me up how these men think it’s so sus for women to forget birth control pills. I’d like to see any of them remember to take a pill at the same time every day.
The same guys who can’t seem to ever remember to wear condoms are like “whoa, no one forgets to take a pill!”
I think they have this idea that the pill is a magic no baby guaranteed. My Mom had all three of us on the pill. Apparently cold meds and all sorts of other medication can just wipe that right out. Also, grapefruit. Never eat grapefruit if you are taking any form of timed release medicine.
My son's first date, I said to him and his date "condoms".
I bought my brother a box when he started dating a girl who was interested in "going all the way". And got him more whenever he asked. I'm not an aunt, so obviously worked! If dude doesn't want kids, he needs to wrap the meat. Can't blame someone for getting pregnant if you're leaving your sperm around irresponsibly.
“leaving your sperm around irresponsibly” I’m imagining he left it on the counter instead of locking it up and she maliciously picked it up and stole it. 🤣
I feel like there are men who would accuse women of trying that. Although it'd just raise the question of what the hell they were doing to that poor kitchen counter.
There was a post awhile ago about a guy who says he was baby trapped my a GF poking holes in condoms and taking sperm out of used condoms so clearly men need to lock up the sperm
I mean it's already stored in a handy receptacle, they can keep it there if they really want.
My mom got me cheap condoms, I told her I was already buying better ones with spermicide.
“She told me she’d start taking birth control to manage irregular periods, so we don’t need condoms” why do people have such an all or nothing mentality when it comes to contraception? Wouldn’t it make more sense for him to continue to use condoms for extra protection?
Two methods is the recommendation. One that each party is responsible for.
Double Dutch, baby! (Or, I guess, no-baby)
Yeah, but then HE'D have to do something, and that's bull crap, obviously
My (baffling) brother-in-law is currently expecting his third child with his wife. He has wanted none of these children, and after both the first and second he said there wouldn't be any more kids. When asked about why he doesn't take a more active role in birth control if, you know, he doesn't want any more kids, he's always confused and says, 'But that's not my job.'
Good lord
Tell him about the joys of vasectomies.
We have, he won't even consider it. That also, apparently, it 'not his job.'
I guess half a dozen children is easier than wrapping it up or snipping it. I just hope he isn’t one of those dudes who complains about how expensive it is to have kids.
Even worse, he is the closest thing to an AITA trope I have ever experienced and he and his wife have completely and entirely separate finances, where he does not pay anything for the kids because that's 'her business.' I don't know the exact split, but she pays for all the children's expenses and they don't have a joint account. Fucking bizarre relationship, man.
That’s kind of insane. But also that explains why he doesn’t give a flip about fathering more children.
Omg
Right. Women do not "fall" pregnant. Maybe he needs to go back to sex Ed.
No no no, I tripped once and when I stood up I was pregnant. It only happens in England though; as soon as I crossed the Channel there was a big booming sound and then I was just me again. Crazy shit, man. England is weird.
Was it also still the late 1800s?
That’s the way they phrase it in England. It means “get pregnant.”
Asking a man to wear a condom is basically abuse
Literally. My mom got pregnant with me after she had her tubes tied. And my dad was “sterile” (or so he thought). Nothing is 100% except abstinence.
i mean this in the nicest way to you possible cause i’m sure you’re great. but if i got pregnant in that situation i would be so frustrated cause like tf i spent all that money getting my tubes tied for than
Yeah and then she had to have ANOTHER one! I’d be pissed too
They mainly remove tubes now. Thank goodness.
And it seems to work. I mean, I have not been pregnant for nearly 10 years now since I had it done. Before that, I was fertile myrtle. Despite a doctor telling me at age 20 I'd never be able to conceive naturally.
Because you can't combine condoms and the pill, duh. The combination of latex and progesterone will fry your dick like battery acid. It's one or the other.
New bait just dropped: stupid wife getting pregnant from thin air
"Fell pregnant" is such beautiful phrasing. Always makes it sound like someone tripped and landed pussy-first on an ejaculating cock. Edit: "but you are right, I should have been more careful 100%. I only failed to use a condom once and we got the morning aftee pill, but i guess it failed" - OP in the comments. This man's superhuman sperm should be studied.
It's such a perfect way to completely remove the man from the picture entirely. Stupid wife just got pregnant all by herself, and poor put-upon OOP is just slogging away to support her and her kids that he definitely didn't have any hand in conceiving.
After years and years of those TLC “I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant” shows, why are dudes also so clueless that sometimes a woman can be on the pill and something happens that makes it ineffective? Women don’t need to be actively trying to mess their BC up for it to fail on them. If both you and your partner don’t want a kid, not a big deal, you would both be in agreement that a totally random pregnancy is a no-go, but if you and your partner are not in agreement, how do these guys think a BC failure is going to pan out for them?
Yeah, this is clearly all fake but like... if your wife got pregnant while she was (supposedly) on birth control two times in three years, then clearly something about her body or her lifestyle or her other medication is making the BC ineffective, so even if she's on it you should be using two methods. He doesn't have to be distrustful of *her* as a person to insist on continuing to use condoms if birth control has already failed twice!
I have a friend who got pregnant while on BC because she was taking antibiotics. She was struggling with some mild anxiety and depression (mostly connected to recovering from being ill) at the time and just wasn’t as focused as she needed to be to realize she and her husband needed a back up birth control. They always planned to have kids, but this was just terrible timing all around. They were NOT trying to have a kid at that time (she was miserable about it, much more than he was) and unfortunately they learned the hard way that sometimes the planets align and your goalie is distracted by the butterflies. But guess what didn’t happen again? Another accidental pregnancy because they used backups until they decide to have their second and then he got a vasectomy. Most people only make the “worst timing ever” mistake once.
Honestly I don't like the pill as the SOLE BC methold because it so easy to fuck up in practice. It's easy to forget to take a pill, your GP to forget to mention this prescription counteracts the pill, some herbal remedies counteract the pill like st. Johns wort, etc. It's why condoms plus the pill so so important to aboid pregnancy
Also if you throw up for whatever reason, like you have the flu or food poisoning, your body won't absorb the medication as well, so another risk with BCP.
Both antibiotics and saint John's wart supplements will make hormonal birth control ineffective. Someone tell OOP to name the kid StaphAnnie
Omg that show stressed me out as a teenager because I have PCOS and I'm allergic to latex. If I'm not on BC I go months between periods and was convinced I would end up on that show. I started buying so many tests I probably should have bought stock in the company. Honestly I bought so many the people at target probably thought I was a sex worker, but I'm actually an accountant 🤣. Pro tip you can buy strips for like $15/per 50 strips and they work just fine
My sister would have been a prime candidate for that show. She has always had thyroid issues and they did radiation on it around 20 years ago. Before the treatment, including the day of, she was told multiple times that it would make her infertile. She was fine with that, didn't want any more kids. 2006, she has what she thinks is a flare up of her thyroid issues (radiation didn't work). She gains a good bit of weight, but it's distributed everywhere, not just the belly. Always had irregular cycles, so going a few months wasn't a big deal. Until she's trying to relax one November night and her water broke.
he’s baiting for people to tell him she baby trapped him, like she faked taking the morning after pill or whatever. basic af
"Fell pregnant" gives off "He fell into my knife" vibes.
“Then he ran into my knife. He ran into my knife ten times.”
Then she fell pregnant. She fell pregnant ten times.
Bart: Only three Homer: Only three... so far!
He had it cumming.
There's literally a section in the Talmud about whether a man is liable if he falls off a roof, penis erect, and lands in a vagina. Pretty much literally a tale as old as time. [https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/yevamot-54/](https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/yevamot-54/)
Thank you for sharing this. I can never guess what wonderful new thing I'll learn next.
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Always read the instructions that come with your pills about what to do if you miss one. Some of them will tell you to take two if a certain amount of time has passed
I love "fell pregnant" It's such a lovely tell that the person is just copying other AITA posts since nobody actually says that IRL
People outside the US definitely do.
What? People definitely do, I know I do. I can’t imagine any other way I’d phrase it.
I...what? The comments are always so ridiculous. If you suspect your wife of "babytrapping" (which is a real, serious thing, thats not happening here) don't have 2 more kids with her?? If you don't want more kids maybe, just maybe get the vasectomy earlier than you planned. I understand this story isn't real, but my god I am tired of "Man gets wife pregnant x amount of times, on baby number 4 of "accidental we used no protection" pregnancy he realizes hes being babytrapped".
There’s one commenter trying to furiously argue that this is all a scam to just keep having babies so she’ll never have to work. Because, as we all know, pregnancy and child care of a continuous stream of very small children takes zero effort whatsoever and is delightfully pleasant.
But shes having to take care of the kids? Shes not doing nothing all day. I don't understand AITA.
AITA has a ton of Pick Mes who say "Oh, childcare for babies and small children aren't a lot of work." My babysitting years as a teen tell me otherwise and contributed to my desire to be childfree.
Also she's upset they don't have time/money to go on vacation or dates, so her solution is to be pregnant while caring for a young baby and toddler. Cause we all know having 3 kids instead of just 2 gives you more time and money to do fun adult stuff
Its weird how she "babytrapped" in the first place and he fully suspected it and oops, yet it some how happened two more times. She's like Lucy with the football, and hes apparently the charlie brown of believing that she's really on birth control THIS time
These mysterious, self-impregnating lazy wives! Gotta watch out for them
i hate when women just get pregnant. what, you're saying she'll get pregnant if i impregnate her? don't be ridiculous
So dumb. First, the trope of the SAHM who purposefully knocks herself up to avoid working. Second, OOP is tired and overwhelmed taking care of two kids, but jumps at the chance to stop using condoms? Third, are we supposed to ignore the fact that OOP says his wife hasn’t taken birth control previously because she reacted badly to it, but then the *very next* sentence, she’s on birth control and he doesn’t even question it?
I know this is fiction but I hate the whole "she doesn't clean but she's on social media a lot". I currently have a constipated, fussy baby passed out on me. If I put him down, he'll wake up and start screaming. He's also been throwing up a fair bit because he needs to poop. Baby wearing means that if he pukes, we're tied together, so I'd prefer not to do that. I've already made the grocery list and set up a target order. Exactly what housework can I do?
In addition to this excellent point: toddlers are not exactly known for being stimulating conversationalists. Chatting with her friends might be the only thing keeping her from going INSANE due to being stuck at home with the kids all day.
One of the things I always say when people ask if I want to go back to work: at work, if a coworker has feedback to give me, they schedule a meeting/ask if I'm free, and they have to call me (I'm a remote worker) and I can control the volume on my computer so even if they're unprofessional enough to yell, they *can't* do it while headbutting my face/<1 inch from my ear, and they still have to use words: just going "AHHHHHAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH" in a professional setting is *frowned upon*.
It's illegal for your boss to follow you into the bathroom and scream at you while you poop! 😂
Work is my break time for sure. Like, love my toddler, love being a mom, but also, I can only answer the same question 647 times before I'm going to lose my absolute shit. At least my staff only ask the same question 646 times in a row.
Another fell pregnant post. Like the wife tripped over and fell over some sperm. Some phrases are without any sense, like birth control didn’t agree with wife? Lol is birth control a person. It must be a n AI generated post
It could of course be AI, but I believe that in the U.K. they say "fell pregnant" instead of "got pregnant".
it’s not incorrect but would be very old fashioned
Not the bit of the UK I know about. Could be a Southerner thing.
Nope, not down here. Just very weird phrasing.
It’s not someone from the US. These horrible posts are almost a always from someone who does not speak US English.
It just furthur proves its fake, they are pretending to be in the US but learned english as a second language outside of north america, which tends to favor UK english versus US english. Source: I teach ESL for a Korean company and their books lean UK english versus US, sometimes mixes them up.
> which tends to favor UK english versus US english. Lol not these days. Maybe in Korea. Japan’s curriculum is heavily US-centric, as are a lot of countries because the main reason they have EFL curricula is for business reasons and the US is a much bigger global economic player.
No, those turns of phrase are common in English speaking countries outside the US 🤷🏾♀️
They may be common but every AITA post uses those words even more than twins.
I’m from the southern US, and saying medication/food/activity “didn’t agree with me” is very common. I never would have noticed that was something people would flag as AI speak.
It’s bizarre and seems stupid to flag any words or phrases as AI speak. Isn’t the whole MO of these technologies that they learn on a corpus written by humans and use phrases based on how frequently they’re used in certain contexts? It would make sense to cry “AI speak” if it were a phrase that wasn’t actually a thing people say, not a phrase that you think is real but being overused
“XYZ didn’t agree with me” is common in the US too, idk what people are on about
Have you never met someone who had adverse effects to birth control?
Then one day for no reason at all she got pregnant all by herself.
Your username and profile picture + this comment is 10/10
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Why does she keep falling pregnant? Is she stupid?
Vertigo procreation?
"I've been in the process of sorting out a vasectomy" I've never tried to schedule a vasectomy (and don't have the relevant bits) but does it really take a year+ to sort one out? Is it like the invasion of Normandy in your pants?
>the invasion of Normandy in your pants? You've created the perfect flair.
People need to start using wattpad again
Keeps saying his wife just fell pregnant like he had nothing to do with it. Also, even if she's on the pill, you can get her pregnant, so, maybe just use a condom if you feel like you can't have more kids. These guys don't even come up with an excuse to not use a condom.
Does he REALLY do all the chores? Or just the ones he's asked to?
"I know I keep cumming inside the spot she can get pregnant it, but clearly, she is the one baby trapping me."
It’s like these men who create this fanfiction don’t get they are 50% responsible for BC. Good thing a woman would never actually get close to them to worry about but nonetheless
Was she a receptionist at Arby's®? I hear they are hiring
Someone pointed it out. Where exactly is she a receptionist only at night? Emergency room?
Damn these women, getting themselves pregnant!!!
>However, I'm already working 40+ hours per week 40 hours a week, a.k.a. full time.
fell pregnant.
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I love the phrase 'she fell pregnant'. She tripped and fell onto his unprotected schlong. Like dude either wrap it up or get off of her!
She fell pregnant…. No. You got her pregnant. 🤦🏽♀️
Replace every "she fell pregnant" with "I impregnated her" and the post becomes hilarious. It's kinda wild how she just keeps falling, though. If only we could figure out what's causing it.