AITAH for dropping our baby off on my ex husband and demanding he take the baby every other week even though he wants to be an every other weekend dad
The narrator, a 28-year-old woman, and her now ex-husband, 29, had initially agreed before marriage that they would not have children, partly due to their location in Texas and the narrator's personal feelings about motherhood.
When the narrator unexpectedly became pr****nt due to IUD failure, her husband refused to support her desire to travel out of state for an abortion or to get a vasectomy himself to prevent future pregnancies, citing fears of criminal charges for her and not wanting to be 'mutilated.' Following the baby's birth, the narrator divorced him, and now that her maternity leave is ending, she is struggling with bonding with the child and feeling overwhelmed, leading her to demand 50/50 custody.
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The narrator is struggling with the reality of motherhood, a role she never desired, and is attempting to enforce an equal division of parental responsibility with her ex-husband who has been avoiding the topic.
The core conflict lies between the narrator's need for time to focus on her career and mental well-being, which she believes 50/50 custody provides, and the ex-husband's immediate resistance to a*suming full care, raising the question of whether unilaterally imposing a custody schedule by showing up at his workplace was a justified act of self-advocacy or an inappropriate escalation.
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