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A new mum says her marriage is in trouble after her husband’s heartless reaction over their huge hospital bill following the birth of their baby.

The 32-year-old mum says she and her 35-year-old husband welcomed their first baby three months ago, after seven years of marriage.

“Everything was going well and we were in our little newborn bubble of bliss until the hospital bills came,” she explained.

“Both my husband and I have jobs and everything financially is split 50/50 but we’ve always kept our money separate with the exception of a joint account for bills.”

The new mum says she planned to have an unmedicated birth, as ‘natural’ as possible without intervention.

“That was up until I hit the 24 hour mark of labour, I caved and got the epidural (which I was open to having if needed). My husband had no problem with it, even encouraged it.

“When the bill came he brought it to me to pay all $8000+ (after insurance) from my personal savings, I asked why. He said, ‘You’re the one that couldn’t hold out for a few more hours and jacked up the bill with all your meds and an extra night’s stay and I shouldn’t have to pay for all of your extra requests. If you wanted luxury, you should expect to pay for it’.

“I was stunned, and I flipped out. He refuses to budge, calling me a princess for expecting him to pay for all the ‘extra add ons’ I requested in the hospital.”

“This is by far the biggest issue in our 14 year long relationship so far and I’m lost on where to go from here. I gave in and paid the bill, but since then we haven’t been talking much and honestly I just feel so disrespected. Do I have the right to feel this way or is it just hormones?

“Am I the a**hole for expecting him to contribute towards the cost of childbirth? Would I be the a**hole for considering leaving him?”

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  • what a selfish piece of crap. i would get rid of him. what is he going to be like for years on end. you could never rely on him in a crisis.

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  • I think he is such a pr**k for being so heartless. After 24 hours i would have wanted to finish my labour too. If the agreement was half each he should have coughed up the money as it was his sperm that got you pregnant so he is half responsible. What a sad start to motherhood and what a horrible journey you are on, dealing with a new baby, all the associated bits that come with that and dealing with a very selfish person as well.

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  • You just made me cry. To be so fragile and have just been through such an incredible, traumatic, memorable precious gift together giving birth to new life between you and have him do that….if your money is split 50/50 then atleast saying half each….but to put your body through so many changes for that response….even having seperate funds is not in my relationship. 5 children shared accounts and full time mum now. I pray you work through your struggletogether for the sake of what marriage and children stand for but it is a tough one

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  • I am assuming that he and you decided to have a child together, if however it was a one way street, and he just agreed to it to keep you happy, then considering your odd way of money keeping then just pay up. Must admit I don’t really see a satisfying future for the two of you, though.

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  • So you say you split 50/50 I am stuck trying to work out who is the 50% fool and who is the 50% idiot

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  • How bad is this No respect or care for you my darling

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  • yikes – i read so many stories like that….how sad

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  • WTF!!! You have absolutely every right to to the way you feel. I cannot believe his attitude. OMG, until a male can experience the pain of childbirth, they will never understand. How dare he? Sorry, this has triggered me. I had to have an epidural and it caused so much trauma and complications for me during childbirth that I cannot believe that your husband would treat you this way.


    • Having experienced long and complicated and extremely painful births and needing epidurals; this stuns me.

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  • I personally don’t understand the their money/my money in a committed relationship especially once kids are involved. For us everything is “ours” and that’s what works for us, so this would never be an issue but yes if I was in her situation and we had separate money I would expect to go halves as the child belongs to both of us… and until the husband has been through giving both he has no right to judge some ones decisions on pain relief.

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  • Disrespectful in every possible way, I would be furious.

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  • Ma’am, please divorce this waste of oxygen of human species, and take half of whatever he got.

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  • Wow I honestly can’t believe that any man who had seen what his wife had to endure during labor and birth could be so selfish. He is the AS*H*LE 1000%. You birthed his child! He should have way more respect and understanding. Honestly something like that would have been reconsidering my whole relationship. That is not ok.

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  • What an absolute piece of shit!!! No this is not acceptable and yes I think you should leave his arse!!!

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  • OMG what a d**k he is. If you had to pay for everything then he’s saying the child isn’t his responsibility. I could never trust him after that to be there when you need him.

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  • Wow that a jerk. He obviously has no idea how hard child birth is. So very selfish. This does not sit well with me at all.

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  • This is so cruel honestly! But men dont honestly understand what our bodies go through. They always think we are complaining or exagerrating. Irrespective, what happened here isnt fair

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  • I would like to see him experience the pain of child birth and see if he wants pain relief! That’s absolutely heartless! She needed that in helping her to bear his first child!!

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  • That is very sad, as if he didn’t acknowledged is was needed

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  • oh wow – that is riduclous – you went into this together. imagine the tables turned he would be livid

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  • Wow, I’m sorry to hear he’s so disrespectful and not understanding.


    • Very disrespectful indeed, not promising for their relationship

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