Hi,
My husband and I are a couple of months off ttc our first child. He has always wanted children, as have I, but it is only in the last six months or so that we have both felt now is the right time.
Anyway, after much discussion with DH, yesterday I made an appointment for us to see our GP in a couple of week's time. It can be tricky getting appointments at our surgery, especially as he is a teacher and works half an hour away so has to have appointments last thing in the day.
When I told him I had booked it, he said 'well, I hope I haven't got an after-school meeting that day. I'm sure I haven't, but if I have, I won't be able to go'. I said that unless he had a parent's evening, which obviously he can't get out of, I would expect him to be there. He said that staff meetings are compulsory and that he wouldn't miss it, even for this appointment, especially as it is hardly necessary that we even have an appointment or because we could change the date.
I know he's got a point - I could just get another appointment - but this is supposed to be our first step to creating a family and to me it is a big deal. I want to feel like he is as excited as me, otherwise what's the point? And people always get out of stupid staff meetings if they have doctor's appointments or kids to pick up or a hundred other things. It's no big deal.
The stupid thing is, he doesn't even have a meeting, so it's a pointless argument anyway. I just can't believe that he would raise it as an issue.
AIBU?