When a birthing mother was taken into the delivery room, she asked that only her mother and sister be allowed to enter. This took her husband by surprise as they had never discussed anything of the sort. In a dejected confusion, he decided that he was going to go home if he wasn't needed.
u/aitathawayiwenthome shared this story about his experience to Reddit's r/AmItheAsshole subreddit, where it earned 15.6k upvotes and 6.7k comments.
It's hard to place just precisely what went wrong during what should have been the happiest day of this couple's lives. But, now, u/aitathawayiwenthome has missed the birth of his son, and his in-laws are furious at him for not staying.
As commenters have already suggested, it is bewildering that they wouldn't have discussed this ahead of time. However, I can see from his perspective that he would have assumed he would have been allowed in the delivery room to support his wife and witness the birth of his son. That would be the default expectation, wouldn't it?
I'd have to agree with the verdict here that everyone involved "sucks" and is in the wrong.
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