This Mom Refused To Work From Home And Now Her Husband Is Accusing Her Of 'Abandoning' Their Baby, So I Wanna Know What You Think

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This Mom Refused To Work From Home And Now Her Husband Is Accusing Her Of 'Abandoning' Their Baby, So I Wanna Know What You Think
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'He said that I should choose to work from home so I could help more with the baby. I chose to return to the office.'

"I work for a tech company. My husband is an aspiring author. He has had some success, and we hope for more in the future.""When I got pregnant, I negotiated a full year of maternity leave with my employer. I would not lose seniority or miss out on certain aspects of profit sharing."

"In return for the accommodation I made with my employer, I got a month of completely uninterrupted time with my new baby. Then, I started taking on tasks from home on my own schedule. On average, it was 15 hours or so a week.""My husband writes at home, so we decided that he would be the stay-at-home parent, and when I was working, he would care for our baby. It was a pretty good arrangement I thought.""And it was for about a month.

"My husband is saying that I'm being cruel and that my baby needs me. I said I would WFH if he got a job to pay for the nanny so it didn't affect our budget. He said it didn't make sense. I almost said, 'No shit, Sherlock.'""He wants me to be the main breadwinner while he tries to get published, he wants to enjoy life in an expensive city, and he wants to stay home to write.

"We just saw his family for Thanksgiving, and he was complaining to his mom about me choosing to leave him at home with the baby and returning to work. She started in on me for my choice. I was embarrassed until his dad spoke up and reminded her that when my husband was born, she was a stay-at-home mom and housewife. He said that was what my husband signed up for if he didn't want a job. It just became a big argument.

After the post went up, the woman then added this context about her husband:"When I say he has had success, I mean it. He wrote a novel that he self-published.""It was optioned for a movie," she explained."It was a lot of money to us at the time, but after the agent and lawyers took their share, there was a lot less. And the movie never got made, so there was no more money or publicity for his writing there.

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