What kind of country do you live in where that's okay? Or even if not okay, common...
Granted I'm no father yet but my girlfriend means too much to me to be able to abandon her if she needs me by her side normally, let alone during childbirth
Yeah… I know a labor a delivery nurse who says this is actually common…. That or bringing a whole ass video game console or both. I took a week off from work to help my wife after our kids birth and got asked if my vagina healed when I returned to work. Come to find out most of them never changed a diaper. Eye opening.
Toxic masculinity at its finest but thankfully not prevalent everywhere. My coworkers are super happy for me, shocked I'm only taking 6 consecutive weeks off (not the full 12 at once, I'm spreading the other 6 out over the year), and have done nothing but regal me with their tails of fatherhood and their children's births. I know full well though, my ex before my current wife and soon to be mother of my child, her family would've been making the same comments you heard. They were fucking awful. I was once told by my ex, "Why are you crying? Men don't cry.". Knew that shit was doomed from that moment.
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u/Okita_Souji03 Apr 24 '26
What kind of country do you live in where that's okay? Or even if not okay, common...
Granted I'm no father yet but my girlfriend means too much to me to be able to abandon her if she needs me by her side normally, let alone during childbirth