I love and respect my husband very much, but how difficult it is sometimes with men. When they are sure of something, when they have learned something wrong and have their beliefs set up, it is extremely difficult to change their point of view.
It just so happened that I found out that I was pregnant while my husband was on a business trip. Only four days, by the way. I wanted to tell him at home, but I was so happy and excited that I could not help but tell him on the phone. The news of the pregnancy did not make him happy.
When he came home a day later, he was frowning. I didn’t understand what was wrong. We had lived together long enough in a marriage, and we sometimes talked about having a baby ourselves.
I needed him to speak out and erase the line of misunderstanding between us. While I encouraged him to tell me, he got angry and blurted it out to the whole apartment:
– Why should I be happy about someone else’s baby?
I didn’t understand his statements, and he clarified:
– I was on a business trip when you found out! This baby is not from me.
How silly! It’s not a day or two, and up to the result of the week can pass. I tried to explain to him, but he didn’t listen well to anatomy at school, and he didn’t believe me. We went together to the antenatal clinic and even the doctor could not change his mind. My suspicious husband said that the “quack” was covering for me in a feminine way.
My mother-in-law and other doctors tried to explain him, but to no avail. He only believed me when the delivery date came, and then we did a paternity test, which was not necessary – my son just looked like his father: the same ears sticking out, the same birthmarks on the arms and neck.
I’m going to make sure that my son listens well to his biology teachers, and then I’m not going to get on my beloved’s nerves when she shouldn’t get on her nerves.
