During this pandemic which I need not explain to everyone my wife insists on traveling to New York next month to see her long lost brother who disappeared about 12 years ago. He promised to return on his bday 12 years later. We haven’t heard from him since. My problems with this are:
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We have small children and she’s risking our exposure by going and coming back.
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The brother she’s going to see committed a crim of forceful/devious nature on child before his disappearance. (Leaving me confused as to why she’d go out of her way to see him)
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We arent well off and while it’s only only a 500$ trip, it a somewhat painful additional expense.
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If she does get exposed (or require separate quarantine upon her return), I’ll have to take care of the 4 kids and simultaneously work from home (still grocery shop, be mom and dad etc) for two weeks so that she can visit him. This may include having to take time from work if I need to be called in.
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It’s been 12 years, that’s 4,380 days for him to change his mind, assuming it wasn’t a lie in the first place. He’s not trustworthy. Life isn’t a movie.
I feel like she should skip out on his alleged return for many more reasons than she should go. Am I the asshole?
TL;DR Wife wants to travel during crisis to see long lost brother with many reasons not to.
Submitted April 23, 2020 at 03:27PM by anono318 https://ift.tt/2S62rmG
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