Am I sensitive when it comes to my baby?

My husband and I tried to do a quickie while our toddler was watching tv in the living room, but he started crying so we ended it there. My husband made a comment saying “ugh why did we have kids” it hurt me and told him he shouldn’t say that , because it sounds like he’s regretting having a son and he said he didn’t mean it that way. I told him that to me it sounded bad, and made him apologize to our boy and he just said “sorry boo-boo” (nickname he put to our son since he was a baby). I then told him it hurt my heart when he said that and he didn’t say anything and left to work. Am I overreacting?
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Took him out of a heated moment, I wouldn't sweat it. It wasn't probably something intentionally said

This feels like a bit of an overreaction tbh. If this were my husband it wouldn't have been a serious comment, just a joke as the moment was obviously killed by the kiddo. Is there something else he's done that makes you think he actually meant it?

When me & my partner were house hunting we viewed a house. It was the home owner who showed us around it was the time when agents didn’t show us around 2021. Anyway he was saying stuff like “use to be able to go out drinking until we had kids” “this use to be my man cave until we had kids” “use to be able to watch the big tv before we had kids” it was a complete joke & we all found it funny. Because in a sense there is a lot of things you could have done freely when you didn’t have kids. I don’t think your partner meant it maliciously at all

Obviously I'm not sure and everyone is different, but when my little one has been having a meltdown or something me and partner have laughingly joked and said "god who's idea was this?" But we love our son all the world it's almost one of those "if I don't laugh I'll cry" comments but i know neither of us mean it and we love him more than life 😂

I think if there hasn’t been anything else that’s said otherwise, he was probably just thinking out loud. I think we have all thought something along these lines more than we care to admit🥲I’ve for sure had these moments and so has my husband. We know we don’t mean it and I think we just have to acknowledge that things aren’t as easy or spontaneous with kids, but we wouldn’t trade it for anything!

It was a joke am sure. However you're allowed and right to feel hurt. Just tell him not to make any more comments like that and try to relax more owise he will feel attacked if you keep up with such.

It was a a joke .. and perhaps he’s reminiscing the ‘good old times’ pre kids.. we all do that about something. I don’t think it means he regrets having kids. We all mourn our past lives before kids

I’d say he was just joking. When our second was a newborn he said all newborns are somehow ugly and our baby is part. I was so hurt and mad lol becusss to me my baby was born beautiful but Unno men didn’t carry the pregnancy so they don’t think the way we think. But thinking bout what he said then we always laugh about it lol cos I overreacted 🤣🤣. It’s normal to get mad and upset because we carried them for 9-10 months

It sounds like a joke unless there’s any indication outside of this moment that makes you worry he’s being serious? I’m not sure if having him apologize to your son was the right action here. Was your son in earshot of this comment? Was it directed *at* him? This was an issue between you two, without your son being involved. I don’t know that the right apology or behavior was being modeled here, and it was inappropriate to get your son involved in this way too.

I’m assuming your child was downstairs and you were upstairs when he made this comment? If so, your child wouldn’t have heard it so I don’t agree with making him apologise to your child. I’m sure almost every parent she’s made a comment along those lines at least once. I think it’s an overreaction to be so upset and to make him apologise to your child.

If that happened to us I would just tease him and say something to make him know he’ll be getting it later, that we can finish up later. Like “I’m going to attend to her but it’s okay baby I’ll finish you up tonight, don’t worry” etc. Maybe he was upset that not only that it was disrupted the by kids (which is totally normal, happens all the time) but he’s also walking away not knowing when the next time will be. Which is why he made the comment. Maybe next time it happens again say something reassuring to him so he doesn’t have the chance to make comments like that. So he’s also got something to look forward to.

I would totally be upset too

Seems like you overreacted a bit and then brought your kid into that situation wasn't smart either. It's not like he looked in the child's face and said 'I wish you were never born'. Sometimes I miss my carefree life before kids but I still love my kids more than anything. There was one night my husband and I were having sex and our daughter woke up crying. I groaned and got off him and put my robe on and said 'have kids they said. It'll be fun they said' and rolled my eyes. I think he was just frustrated he didn't get to finish. But honestly you NEVER bring your child into an argument between you and your husband.

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