The Curious Intersection Of “I Dislike My Husband” And “I Want Another Kid”

Tale as old as time.

You can call this the “fix-it baby” concept, or go deeper. It’s up to you.

A story to commence

When I first moved into our current house, my wife had a few “girls nights” hosted here with one group. She’s half as close with that group nowadays — this was five years ago — but at the time, some of them were beginning to have kids and/or be pregnant. Usually I would go out myself on these nights, but one time I watched a NBA game in the back bedroom and heard some of their dialogue. There were probably seven women there, all-in. Four of them were completely dragging their husbands, up to and including the word “useless” being thrown around a dozen or more times. It seemed like bashing their husbands was an Olympic sport to about half of these people. Most of them have three kids now, often from 1 on this evening. One of them, when asked years later, simply told us: “Well, I wanted a girl.” Ha. HA!

This isn’t new

Women have been dragging their husbands for not doing enough domestically for generations, and often having more children with them in the process, because (a) it’s fun or (b) why not? or (3) YOLO or whatever else. I think maybe what’s changed is now we…