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All right, so kudos to Abby for finding this week's bad take of the week. I don't feel proud of this. Like, I feel bad that I had to bring this to you. Oh, my God. And so, anytime I love you guys whenever you want to send me, like you come across something and you want to nominate it for bad take of the week, please send it to me. I will suss it out, see if it's satire or not. So this comes from

George Dot Camel on TikTok. He is not the bad take. I want to clarify. He's on there with a friend

and they're discussing this story that they have, which is the bad take. And this is a husband

who wants his wife to cover the hospital bill for the birth of their child.

So this woman recently gives birth and her husband demands that she pay the entire hospital

bill herself. They've been married seven years. She just had her, their first baby three months

ago. They split everything in their marriage 50-50 when it comes to finances and generally keep their money separate. And everything seemed to be going pretty

well until they received a hospital bill for this birth. So here's the deal. She planned to give

birth without any medication, but after 24 hours of labor decided to do the epidural. And when the bill

came, her husband expected her to pay the entire eight grand bill herself.

She asked why.

He said, you're the one who couldn't hold out for a few more hours.

And you jacked up the bill.

And I shouldn't have to pay for all of these extra requests.

And then finally, if she wanted luxury, she should expect to pay for it.

Oh, my God. Now, if you're wondering all the extra, you know, what jacked up this bill? Well, of course, the epidural, very expensive. Lactation consultant, nursery fee, extra night stay, postpartum supplies, any food she ate. So all of that made the bill go up. And so he goes, Well, that was your decision, so you should pay for that.

That's not coming out of my pile of the pot. So she ended up paying the entire bill on her own. And she's now wondering and questioning, are her feelings valid, John? It's an insane relationship. But here's the thing. I do want to call out. There's, I don't know, 10 million people

listening right now, half of you, and I know it's half of you because that's how much negative, negative press we get. I'm not going to share a checking account. I'm not going to share bills. We split this thing 50-50. This is the end result of that. And if it's not, if you're like, No, no, no. I mean, I would help with the baby.

Where's your line, dude?

When you set up a my life and we're married under the same roof, this is the root of that crap that happened. Cassie, I'm going to let you take the floor because your face says you want it. I'm just like, like, if they had agreed before the birth that they were going to split the cost, that's one thing.

But that's the mother of your child.

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