Many people love their pets as if they were their kids, yet most of those same individuals recognize that there are differences between human babies and pet kids. One lady recently shared that her husband is upset with her because she requested if they could convert their cat’s bedroom into a bedroom for their 10-month-old baby. Read the whole story and what do you think they should do?
Source: Reddit
I am not entirely sure how to process this situation. My husband (27 m) and I (25 f) have been together for 6 years and married for 3. We recently had our son who is 10 months.
We live in a 2 bedroom apartment, and for the past 3-4 years, our cat has had her own bedroom. It was never a big deal to me because we didn’t have kids, our couch pulled out into a bed if there was ever an emergency with family or friend, and I will admit we both treat our cat like our daughter.
Once we had a child, I never talked to him about it, but I assumed once our child got older we would give him the room. Lately we haven’t been intimate or anything because our child is in our room. Recently I showed my husband some toddler beds, and he asked where we would put it? I responded in his room. He looked at me like I grew another head. He asked me what room? Then I looked at him crazy.
I started talking about how we could convert our cat’s room into a nice bedroom for our child. He got upset. He asked how could I even fix my mouth to suggest we take away his daughter’s room. I looked at him confused. Our apartment is big enough for most of her stuff to come out of the room and in the living room/kitchen area. She only has a bed, scratching post, and a few cat toys. The only thing that may be harder to place is the scratching post just because of the height(and it’s not even that big).
I stood up for myself. I told him how I wasn’t kicking our cat out, but our child is getting older and needs room. He suggested we buy a new place, but we can’t afford that. He told me I was an a**hole and stormed into our cat’s room. It feels weird. I thought after months of not doing anything, he would jump on the opportunity to get our child out of our room. He’s been in our cat’s room for a couple of hours and I am starting to feel like an a**hole.
What do you think about this situation? Any advice for the wife… Here are a few comments on the story where it was originally posted:
