A lot of people love their pets like they are their children, but most of those same people are still able to understand that there are differences between human children and pet children.
One woman recently shared on Reddit that her husband is angry with her after she made what seems like a reasonable request: She asked if they can turn their cat's bedroom into a bedroom for their 10-month-old son.
They share a two-bedroom apartment.
She wrote, "I am not entirely sure how to process this situation. My husband (27 m) and I (25 f) have been together for 6 years and married for 3. We recently had our son who is 10 months.
"We live in a 2 bedroom apartment, and for the past 3-4 years, our cat has had her own bedroom. It was never a big deal to me because we didn’t have kids, our couch pulled out into a bed if there was ever an emergency with family or friend, and I will admit we both treat our cat like our daughter."
She assumed that their son would get the second bedroom eventually.
"Once we had a child, I never talked to him about it, but I assumed once our child got older we would give him the room," the woman continued. "Lately we haven’t been intimate or anything because our child is in our room. Recently I showed my husband some toddler beds, and he asked where would we put it? I respond in his room. He looked at me like I grew another head. He asked me what room? Then I looked at him crazy."
Her husband is mad she wants to take their (cat) daughter's room away.
"I started talking about how we could covert our cat’s room into a nice bedroom for our child," she explained. "He got upset. He asked how could I even fix my mouth to suggest we take away his daughter’s room. I looked at him confused. Our apartment is big enough for most of her stuff to come out of the room and in the living room/kitchen area. She only has a bed, scratching post, and a few cat toys. The only thing that may be harder to place is the scratching post just because of the height(and it’s not even that big)."
She doesn't understand what he means.
"I stood up for myself. I told him how I wasn’t kicking our cat out, but our child is getting older and needs room. He suggested we buy a new place, but we can’t afford that. He told me I was an asshole and stormed into our cat’s room. It feels weird. I thought after months of not doing anything, he would jump on the opportunity to get our child out of our room. He’s been in our cat’s room for a couple of hours and I am starting to feel like an [expletive]."
'Cats don't need rooms.'
One commenter completely gets where she is coming from. They wrote, "Let your husband throw his weird little tantrum, and then start setting up your kid’s room with or without his help. Look, I’m a huge cat person, owned cats all my life and always will and love them to death. And even I think your husband is weird about this. Cats don’t need rooms, humans do. Simple as that."
But some people are sending death wishes to her son.
Not everyone gets it. The mom updated the post with horrifying news: "I got busy today, and when I looked at my phone again I had 3 individual messages me about how they hope my baby dies, I’m a horrible mom, and how I just want the room to punish my husband. After reading all of that, I am heartbroken and I will be distancing myself from this post until I can talk to him. My post will be the update. I didn’t think me telling this story on here would lead to people wishing death on a 10 month old."
She is still a little lost.
The mom also added, "I know now that I ignored many red flags in this situation. I was blinded by love. I thought that he was supporting my new mom jitters. He wanted kids. I never brought up converting the room earlier cause I didn’t think I needed to. I wasn’t ready for my baby to leave the bed, but I didn’t think he wanted us to have a teenage still in our room or something. I’m just confused by all of this, and idk what to do."
