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Hubs won't get the snip!!

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241719robs · 13/01/2025 09:20

Am I being unreasonable that my hubby wont even consider getting the snip? He just replies with 'maybe one day'.

We have children already and I am 99% DONE. My body has been through enough and mentally Im burnt out. After contraception for years, pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding I dont want to go back on contraception or risk condoms etc. I know vasectomies are not 100% but better than me having to go through invasive procedures again. Im also late for my period and after 2 negative pregnancy tests Ive explained how unfair it is for me to be worrying about this every month. He basically ignored me as he knew what I was getting at.

Am I being a b*tch? Hes not had to go through anything physically and its not like I’m asking him to chop his bits off 🥲

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MrPepInHisStep90 · 13/01/2025 20:48

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Jesus.

I am sure she would prefer him to be a eunuch.

AmusedGoose · 13/01/2025 20:52

No one likes to be dictated to and emotionally blackmailed. Mirenas are simple and brilliant at controlling periods. Otherwise if you feel so strongly maybe arrange to be sterilised yourself.

PureGypsyGold · 13/01/2025 20:54

Onlyvisiting · 13/01/2025 20:41

Or if you 100% don't want to have a baby or an abortion then it could be seen as the most certain method of birth control. Not wanting or being able to take hormonal birth control for the rest of your reproductive life isn't unreasonable and relying on condoms alone seems risky.
I suspect a lot of the men who don't seem worried about the risk are assuming that a termination is available as a back up.
And I would be livid if I was with someone who considered that a viable birth control choice.
(And I'm very pro choice, but as a last resort, not as ab alternative to contraception)

Having a termination because a condom failed is a last resort and not an alternative to contraception.

Lostcat · 13/01/2025 20:55

PureGypsyGold · 13/01/2025 20:17

Except it's not remotely the same because women want their children. This man doesn't want a vasectomy. This argument only works if women are having children they don't want out of duty to their husband.

But they don’t want any more children!!! Hence asking their husbands to help with the contraception before they have to endure any more of it. If they wanted more children then there wouldn’t be an issue would there?

PureGypsyGold · 13/01/2025 20:56

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What a disgusting post.

MrPepInHisStep90 · 13/01/2025 20:57

PureGypsyGold · 13/01/2025 20:56

What a disgusting post.

I agree. It's hideously tasteless.

Mandatory sterilisation? WTH

Lostcat · 13/01/2025 21:01

PureGypsyGold · 13/01/2025 20:12

Good grief 🤦

At 98% effective there is a 2% risk of pregnancy each time they have sex. This does not stack to be one in 50 over a period of time. The odds reset every single time, it's only ever 2% every time. And for a good portion of the month she's not fertile anyway so some of the time it will be 0%. Flipping a coin and getting heads doesn't make it more likely you will get tails next time, it's 59/50 regardless of what happened last time. Probability doesn't stack, if you had a working knowledge of statistics you would know that.

Some people never have contraceptive failure and some people have multiple contraceptive failures, that doesn't make the risk 100% or 0% for these people, you roll the dice every time and the result is always independent of previous results. So it remains at 2% risk for the whole year, it definitely doesn't go up to 50% because OP used up her safe shag quota 🙄

you roll the dice every time and the result is always independent of previous results.

yes of course. I never said otherwise. The fact remains however- if the probability of rolling an “ x” on the dice is 2%, for every 50 “roll the dice” events/ attempts, on average you can expect to roll one “x”.

In actual fact I looked up the statistics on condoms on the nhs website and the 98% is over the course of a year- so it would be 1 in every 50 women, on average, are expected to get pregnant within a year if using condoms exactly correctly.
This drops to 82% in “real world” data.
I know people are saying that includes people who don’t use a condom every time , but it also includes cases where condoms rip / tear etc, which is very possible even if you do your very best to do everything correctly.
So according to the NHS that’s almost 1 in 5 women who will get pregnant within a year using condoms based on real world data. .

QuaintSloth · 13/01/2025 21:04

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changecandles · 13/01/2025 21:05

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You sound unhinged

changecandles · 13/01/2025 21:05

AmusedGoose · 13/01/2025 20:52

No one likes to be dictated to and emotionally blackmailed. Mirenas are simple and brilliant at controlling periods. Otherwise if you feel so strongly maybe arrange to be sterilised yourself.

Or just don't have sex

MrPepInHisStep90 · 13/01/2025 21:07

changecandles · 13/01/2025 21:05

You sound unhinged

I don't think unhinged in the word 😂

changecandles · 13/01/2025 21:07

randomusernam · 13/01/2025 20:43

Tell him you're not having sex again until you can be sure you won't get pregnant. You have done all the heavy lifting and now it's his turn

It really is as simple as this.

She's done her fair share. Now it's his turn to figure out how to have sex with no chance of pregnancy.

SquirrelHash · 13/01/2025 21:39

YABU. You don't own his body.

SquirrelHash · 13/01/2025 21:44

Nor do you need to find a solution to this. If he won't. Or at all!

AwfullyWeeBillyBigchin · 13/01/2025 21:46

Jumpingthruhoops · 13/01/2025 14:51

Of course a split condom is user error!

Same with medical interactions. I was on the pill for 27 years all in. On the few occasions I had to take medication, I would ALWAYS check with the doctor/pharmacist if the meds would negatively interact with The Pill before taking them. As a rule, I wouldn't even drink orange juice at the same time as taking my pill (because of how it balances oestrogen in the body).

I stopped taking The Pill so we switched to condoms, which my DH knows how to use correctly. Because he's not an idiot.

A split condom is always user error? Good job your husband is not an idiot because you clearly are 🤦‍♂️

MrPepInHisStep90 · 13/01/2025 22:06

SquirrelHash · 13/01/2025 21:39

YABU. You don't own his body.

Reading these comments, you'd think the OP did.

QuaintSloth · 13/01/2025 22:55

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Daisybuttercup12345 · 13/01/2025 22:58

Hubs. Makes my toes curl. YUK.

Pudmyboy · 13/01/2025 23:07

YankSplaining · 13/01/2025 19:58

Does the number of weeks matter? We were told to not expect sterility until my husband had ejaculated 30 times post-procedure.

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A quick Google search seems to indicate 3-6 months post procedure, or 20+ ejaculations, but the key seems to be no unprotected sex until ejaculate has been tested and shows no sperm present

Jumpingthruhoops · 13/01/2025 23:08

AwfullyWeeBillyBigchin · 13/01/2025 21:46

A split condom is always user error? Good job your husband is not an idiot because you clearly are 🤦‍♂️

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I must be because I genuinely can't think of any other reason. For everything that can go wrong with a condom, there is a 'user' at the end of it... quite literally.

But, please, do share your wisdom since you know so much...

Jumpingthruhoops · 13/01/2025 23:12

Deadringer · 13/01/2025 12:39

Minimally painful

So what!? It's still painful.

MrPepInHisStep90 · 13/01/2025 23:14

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Nah. You're just delusional.

Jumpingthruhoops · 13/01/2025 23:15

WearyAuldWumman · 13/01/2025 12:42

I know someone who can't use contraception because she had an oestrogen driven cancer.

At the appointment for a vasectomy, the husband tried to chicken out. The nurse turned on him.

"Your wife has given birth to your children. She has had a double mastectomy so that she can live to bring up the children. The very least that you can do is to have a wee snip so that your wife's body doesn't have to endure any more."

He went through with it...but it took an outsider to make him see how selfish he was being.

"Your wife has given birth to your children. She has had a double mastectomy so that she can live to bring up the children. The very least that you can do is to have a wee snip so that your wife's body doesn't have to endure any more."

Wow, that's one very unprofessional nurse!

StaceyNC · 13/01/2025 23:16

Whoever is the one being 100% DONE having kids gets the procedure. Simple.

MrPepInHisStep90 · 13/01/2025 23:17

Jumpingthruhoops · 13/01/2025 23:15

"Your wife has given birth to your children. She has had a double mastectomy so that she can live to bring up the children. The very least that you can do is to have a wee snip so that your wife's body doesn't have to endure any more."

Wow, that's one very unprofessional nurse!

Is this for real? Ha. I would have told that nurse where to go and complained if she spoke to me like that.

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