's-to-be said that her boyfriend's mother gave him two weeks of "paternity leave" just one week after 's due date. I expressed my dissatisfaction after booking. gave birth to her first child at. The woman claimed her partner had agreed to takethree weeks of parental leave after the baby was born to"adjust to parenthood". , before leaving her and the small child alone for two weeks, who are now only supposed to be with her for a week.
A first-time mother tells her boyfriend that she doesn't want him to go, but he agrees that he wants to be there for her and the baby.} , he also doesn't want his mother to think he wasted money after calling him "ungrateful" for not being happy with his vacation.
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In a Reddit post, a mother-to-be said: Take time off from work to stay with me so I can adjust as a new parent. 50} "My boyfriend's mother took it upon herself to schedule my boyfriend's 'paternity leave' for the last two weeks of his vacation. She came over for dinner and surprised him with it. A full paid vacation to Italy as a present for her boyfriend's father.
"When a mother and child enter a family, it is part of their culture to give the family stone to the mother and child, so she gave me a jade stone bracelet and a matching newborn. gave me a bracelet for my baby.It was very kind of her..
"But I told her that his leave was to take care of the baby. She was surprised and told me that he would only be with me for a week and that was enough." My husband didn't even go to the hospital with her when our son was born.
"I told her and my boyfriend that I didn't want him to go. And before buying such an extraordinary gift, she should have asked first. Commenters on the Reddit post were baffled by the soon-to-be-grandmother's behavior, and many said they wanted to be with their new baby rather than appease the mother. The father's reaction was equally bizarre.
One said: ``What a ridiculous idea! What was he literally thinking?”
On the other hand, another added: And the fact that your boyfriend didn't turn it down right away is disturbing. Guilt about what he never asked for outweighs his responsibility to you as a partner and your newborn as a father. should not take precedence either. Your reaction was reasonable and not ungrateful. ''
and her third respondent wrote: The whole point of him taking time off his job was to be there for you. It is inconceivable to me that his mother should have thought that he should just let him go to Europe. Are there people in the world who buy long-term tickets?”
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