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Now today's first story comes from a throwaway account who says, thinking if I, 36 male,

should leave my wife 36 female because she openly resents our son, seven male. Neither of us

were sure about having kids.

We were married five years before finding out she was pregnant.

Both nervous as hell, but in the end, she wanted to try having the baby and I agreed.

It was hard at first.

Parenthood is in general, but I love my son.

He's wonderful, smart, energetic and warms my heart. My wife for the most

part was great with him. Occasionally we both would get burned out and find some time to have

date nights or individual free time. Over a year ago before lockdown, my wife started becoming

very irritated over anything he'd do, accidentally spill a little

apple juice on the counter and she had yell at him like if he'd destroyed a family heirloom.

It was something that had happened every now and then, but we'd talk about it and she would

apologize to him. Pandemic was really rough. We both had our jobs, just were working from home and our son wasn't

in school. At first I thought the frustration came from being cooped up at home and not being

able to go out. My son's been going to school again for months and we're all back to going out.

Things haven't improved. Finally had a sit down with my wife because no matter

what mood she's in, she could be happy and smiling, but when my son comes in, her mood shifts.

And I notices it more now. My wife has told me that for the longest time, she's resented

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