Husband wants to go to Israel to fight, and his partner promises him a baby if he doesn’t.
Before children, we agreed on a three-child minimum, but now that we have our baby, I feel very strongly about being a one-child family. My husband still wants to have more children. We agreed that we’d table the discussion for later and that, if we did have more kids, we would wait for several years.With the war breaking out, he decided he wants to go back to Israel to fight. I’m against it.
In my opinion, your offer to have another baby quickly to keep him home is, yes, manipulative, and not necessarily an answer that will ultimately serve your marriage or family well. You have an infant at home and are so understandably overwhelmed that you decided not to have another. If you do have another baby quickly to keep your husband from military service, this will exert an extreme amount of pressure on all of you.
And … it’s HER money. How do you know that? Because you gave it to her. You don’t say what terms, if any, you attached to this gift, other than your preference for how your daughters should use it.
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