{"id":45054,"date":"2025-02-11T11:43:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T11:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=45054"},"modified":"2025-02-11T11:43:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T11:43:47","slug":"my-husband-demanded-a-third-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=45054","title":{"rendered":"My Husband Demanded a Third Child>>>>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-418-1024x512.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45055\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-418-1024x512.png 1024w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-418-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-418-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-418.png 1050w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When my husband, Eric, suggested a third child, I knew something had to change. Raising two kids while managing the household and working part-time was exhausting\u2014especially since he did little beyond his paycheck. I wasn\u2019t about to take on more while he lounged like a king.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At 32, after 12 years of marriage, I was already overwhelmed caring for Lily, 10, and Brandon, 5, almost entirely alone. Eric believed providing financially meant he was exempt from parenting. Diapers, school runs, bedtime? All mine. His idea of unwinding? Hours of TV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One day, I asked him to watch the kids for an hour. His response? \u201cTake them with you. Moms don\u2019t get breaks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Days later, over dinner, he casually suggested, \u201cWe should have another baby.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I snapped. \u201cI\u2019m drowning, and you\u2019re talking about adding more?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His mother and sister, visiting at the time, defended him. \u201cYou should be grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I\u2019d had enough. When I refused, he said, \u201cPack your things and leave.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I did\u2014without the kids. He couldn\u2019t handle the responsibility. Now, I\u2019m divorced, raising them alone. No regrets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=45000\">ALSO READ&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my husband, Eric, suggested a third child, I knew something had to change. Raising two kids while managing the household and working part-time was exhausting\u2014especially since&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45056,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45054\/revisions\/45056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}