AIBU?
DH wants to go to a conference 2 weeks before my due date..
KindMum · 26/09/2007 19:19
It would be for 2 days (1 night) and is around 5 hours drive away. We live abroad and I am reluctant to depend solely on the one friend who could help out with DD1 if need be. There is noone else. And I would have to give birth with no other support, a particular concern as my first delivery was very fast. Am I being unreasonable to tell my DH that I don´t want him to go? The conference is not an important one; someone else will go in his place.
ellehcim · 26/09/2007 19:24
No way are you being unreasonable. DH was banned from going further than a half hours drive in the run up to my due dates. I also banned him from drinking for the whole month before just in case! Put your foot down girl and make the most of the fact that you have a bit of emotional blackmail power whilst you're pregnant.
3andnomore · 26/09/2007 19:29
agree with teh others...if it isn't an important conference..you come first...would have been different if it was somehting that would have a series impact on hisc areer or something he would have been unable to get out off...but in this case, it doesn't seem to be the case...
talk to him...I don't men always quite get it, unless it is spelled out to them!
KindMum · 26/09/2007 19:32
Pleased you think I´m not being unreasonable. I´ve spelled out the reasons why I don´t want him to go but he doesn´t really see there is a problem. And it doesn´t help that he mentioned he would enjoy the "break" (from us/paretal responsibilities...)
Smithagain · 26/09/2007 21:11
YANBU. My DH missed out on a business trip/jolly that he REALLY wanted to go on, because it was three weeks before my due date. And of course nothing happened, but I felt so much more comfortable knowing he wasn't miles away. We have talked about it since and he still agrees it was the right decision.
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