AITAH for being resentful toward my husband after he pressured me into having a baby I didn’t want?
She entered marriage with a clear heart and a firm decision: no children.
But love and compromise slowly unraveled that certainty, leaving her caught between the life she envisioned and the life she now lives—one filled with exhaustion, sacrifice, and a quiet, aching loss of self.
While he flourishes in his joy as a father, she wrestles with a heavy truth—her dreams deferred, her ident*ty fading beneath the weight of a role she never chose.
It’s a poignant story of love’s complexities and the silent struggles hidden behind smiles and lullabies.
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The original poster is experiencing deep conflict, feeling trapped and resentful because the major life decision to have a child, which was previously agreed upon as a 'no,' was eventually reversed under pressure from her husband.
While she loves her baby, the current imbalance of labor and the realization that she is living a life she did not choose have caused significant emotional distress and guilt.
Is the core issue one of a broken foundational agreement demanding marital renegotiation, or is the poster's current unhappiness simply a difficult adjustment phase that she must accept because she ultimately consented to the pregnancy?
Where does the responsibility lie when a pre-marriage boundary regarding children is eventually broken?
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