Woman flushes her husband's 'medicine,' says, 'god forbid our kids got into it.'
When this wife is annoyed with her husband, she asks Reddit:
'AITA for flushing my husbands 'medicine'?'
I 33f have been married to my husband35 for 8 years. We have two small children ages 6 and 4. We live in a state that w$$d is legal, and my husband has bad joint pain due to arthritis flare ups.
I’ve asked my husband on multiple occasions to put it up, lock it up, or put it up high out of kids reach. Two days my children were being awfully quiet and i go in the bedroom to find them trying to evenly split this cookie among themselves.
I recognized the packaging immediately and grabbed it, luckily they didn’t consume any. Then I noticed his left over p*t spread out across his tray just on our desk, in childs reach. I was so upset I pushed it all together and took it to the toilet and disposed of it.
When my husband got home he was furious and said I had flushed a lot of money down the toilet.
I told him I didn’t care and he should’ve kept it away from the kids like I said. It was a cold night that night, and he loudly complained of how bad his joints were hurting all night and how it was all my fault.
I offered ibuprofen on different occasions, and reminded him this wouldn’t be an issue if he would’ve kept it put up. He got angry and said that I should’ve put it up then, and not dump it down the toilet.
I don’t think I’m the AH, he neglected to put it up out of our children’s reach. I understand his body hurts, but I offered pain meds. AITA?
Let's find out.
magallslice90 writes:
NTA. If your kids had eaten that cookie, you would have (rightfully) taken them to the ER, right? And they would have run a dru* test. And you'd be talking to child protective services.
And if you were lucky, you'd be jumping through legal hoops while you still had your kids. If you were unlucky, you'd be jumping through hoops while your kids were in foster care. Compare those costs to what you flushed.
I bet he knows to lock up cleaning supplies, other medications and other poisons. This is no different.
zerocoolcoo writes:
NTA. The people calling you the AH seems to be forgetting that you could lose custody of your children if they ingested this & the authorities found out!!
What if you didn’t see them eat the cookie and they became disoriented & sick? You wouldn’t know what was wrong and would likely rush them to the hospital.
As soon as the doctors run blood work to check for toxins they would find out & be legally required to report it to authorities.
carlbandit writes:
NTA. He's been told to put it out of the reach of the children, ignored this multiple times and as a result your children nearly consumed them. His pain is 100% on him.
I live alone so often leave mine on my desk, but if I had children or pets in my property I'd 100% make sure it was kept out of their reach.