AIO for feeling abandoned after my husband went to the cinema during my C-section recovery?
I genuinely don’t know if I’m overreacting or if my feelings are justified here.
I had a C-section and when I was only 4 days postpartum, my husband left to go watch a movie at the cinema. My mum was with me at the time helping, but I was visibly upset, crying, emotional, in pain, hormonal, exhausted — all of it. He still went anyway and promised it would be “the last time for a while.”
A few days later after my mum had gone home, he then told me he wanted to go AGAIN to watch the exact same movie because he felt bad he hadn’t taken his dad, who also wanted to see it.
At that point I honestly just felt defeated and angry. What hurt me more is that he booked it for 4pm knowing full well my anxiety attacks usually start around 6pm, meaning I’d likely be alone struggling with the baby and my anxiety while recovering from surgery. It made me feel like he either doesn’t listen to me or doesn’t take my needs seriously.
I’m not saying he can never leave the house or see family/friends, but this is literally the first couple of weeks after major surgery and having a newborn. I feel abandoned and unsupported, especially because this was for a movie, not something urgent.
Am I overreacting here?