Reddit’s well-known AITA (Am I The A**hole) forum is a place where people can ask strangers on the internet to weigh in on difficult situations in their lives and give their unbiased opinions on who they think was right or wrong. Unsurprisingly, family feuds often appear, as do tricky situations that arise around the big moments in life, such as weddings and birthdays.
But one user came to the forum in April 2019 with a particularly challenging situation. It concerned not only the birth of his child but also the death of his father. The original poster (OP) began his post by explaining he “had to make the hardest decision of (his) life.” He went on:
“My wife went into labor a few weeks earlier then (sic) expected and she ended up giving birth at the hospital. The day it happened she told me that she was in the hospital and needed me however I had just left the house an half hour prior to go see my father who was likely about to die (he did a few hours after i arrived). I decided to see my father one last time and i felt like it was more important than seeing my child’s birth because i will raise him and see him everyday for the next 18+ years and i really need to say some things to my father before he dies.”
Talk about a rock and a hard place! OP added that despite his incredibly tricky predicament, and his seemingly logical way of deciding how to handle it, his choice wasn’t appreciated by everyone he knew.
OP continued:
“My wife and the rest of her family are … p***ed at me and said that birth is one of the most important parts of our lives and i needed to be there to support my wife and see the child.”
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