I'm gonna guess that she's happily startled because, for example, mine hit his weed pen outside every 15 minutes and fell asleep on the couch and never once came near me. I think that my experience (or smth similar) is pretty common.
Edit: Hi, I'm an actually human person and was the first to comment on this. I'm not trying to start a damn war of the roses, and apparently this is NOT the correct answer (see the next comment below mine). Just popped in with my stupid, obviously incorrect thought about what this could mean. So chill with calling me a stupid whore.
So I’m sorry if this is annoying but I find this really interesting and I feel the need to infodump.
So back in ye olden days in many cultures, men were straight up not allowed to be involved in childbirth, that was the dominion of women. So when a woman gave birth she was surrounded by women; midwives, their mother, their sisters, aunts, etc. so women most of whom the mother knew. The father was not allowed to be there.
Then childbirth became the domain of doctors who were all men. Midwives and relatives replaced by a man and some nurses, whom you may or may not know. Fathers were still not allowed to be involved the room, which is why old cartoons always show the father pacing outside, they’re anxious and not allowed to know what’s happening until after.
In the mid 20th century there was a fight to allow fathers (and other relatives) to be there with the mother, in a push to make childbirth a less clinical and stressful experience, and they were so successful that by the 90s, “being there for the birth of your child” became the norm, and not being there was seen as the mark of a shitty, uninvolved father. Which in turn made it the expectation. Which means a non-negligible number of shitty fathers-to-be will be in the room playing on their phones and such because they “have to be there” but don’t really want to be.
I suspect most fathers are anxious wrecks in the delivery room which is understandable, childbirth is a huge thing, but then you get the shitty ones, and then you get the ones who lock the fuck in.
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u/BeatnikBun Apr 24 '26 edited Apr 24 '26
I'm gonna guess that she's happily startled because, for example, mine hit his weed pen outside every 15 minutes and fell asleep on the couch and never once came near me. I think that my experience (or smth similar) is pretty common.
Edit: Hi, I'm an actually human person and was the first to comment on this. I'm not trying to start a damn war of the roses, and apparently this is NOT the correct answer (see the next comment below mine). Just popped in with my stupid, obviously incorrect thought about what this could mean. So chill with calling me a stupid whore.