Taking care of children is a big job that should only be done after giving it a lot of thought. But things don’t always go as planned. This is what happened to a woman on Reddit. After having kids out of the blue, which changed everything, she got a divorce from her husband.
The woman told what took place.
I knew from a young age that I didn’t want to have or raise children. Our shared desire to live a child-free life brought us together when I met my husband in college. We agreed on this when we got married a few years ago.
But things didn’t go as planned. My brother-in-law’s younger sister has three kids: twins aged 2 and 5, whose fathers are not living with them. That was two months ago. She said she would run a quick errand and leave them with us, but she never came back. She was gone. We made a report, and the last time we heard, she was safe and didn’t plan to come back. We now have to take care of the things she left behind.
My husband’s mom is barely making ends meet on minimum wage, and she can’t take on the responsibility of raising her grandchildren since she raised her own children by herself.
On the other hand, I don’t want to raise them. Don’t get me wrong—I feel bad for these kids—but I’m not ready to take on the responsibility of raising kids.
Their living costs have gone up since they’ve been here for two months. Because we only have one bedroom, we had to buy them clothes and other things they needed. They sleep on air mattresses in our living room. Since daycare for three kids is very expensive, I’ve been working from home while taking care of them. It’s been really stressful and hard to handle.
We were asked by CPS if we wanted to take care of the kids. No was my answer. I thought my husband would agree, but he wanted to keep the kids, which surprised me. We had to make a decision quickly because CPS told us we had to make changes, like getting a bigger house, to make room for them.
My husband and I have been fighting about this nonstop. It’s been made clear that I can’t see myself living this way for another 16 years. It’s not fun to raise kids; it’s hard work and costs a lot of money. I understand why my husband wants to take care of his family, though.
I told him yesterday that I wanted to end our marriage. I had to do it quickly before he promised to do something that would force me to follow him. He was hurt that I left him when he needed me and divorced him over the kids.
But I told him that he always knew what my limits were. He can’t make this kind of commitment on his own, without taking into account what we both agreed to at the start.
Both of them are clearly having a hard time with this. The husband had no idea that his sister would disappear, leaving him to take care of her kids. His niece and nephew need him to take care of them, and his wife, who never wanted children, has to raise them too.
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