Father blames child for his recent streak of bad luck, wants his wife to "get rid" him

When a child is born, parents feel nothing but joy and sometimes, exhaustion due to sleepless nights. From that point, nothing else holds more importance than their little munchkin who they want to love and protect at all costs. Unfortunately, that's not the case for one father, who senselessly blamed his newborn son after having a run of bad luck. As things continued going downhill for him, the man went to the extent of asking his wife to get rid of their child by any means possible. Unsure how to handle this situation, the 30-year-old mother took to Reddit and shared her dilemma in a now-deleted post.

She began by revealing that her 32-year-old husband wasn't always this way and that he had been a "good father" to their 3-year-old daughter. "We had a daughter 3 years before we had our son, and my husband really loved her and always took really good care of her and would always be very close to her," she wrote. However, he failed to provide the same fatherly love to their son. "The day my son was born, my husband's mother passed away due to COVID, and after a month of my child's birth, my husband told me that he had lost his job a month prior to my child's birth, and he hid it from me," she shared, noting the reasons why her husband came to the ridiculous conclusion. 

"My husband considers our son as a bad luck for him because apparently, all bad things happened in his life since I was pregnant with the boy," she added. Heartbreakingly, he hasn't even held the child once in his arms and has also instructed his daughter to stay away from her own brother. "He really loves our daughter, but seriously hates our son. He yells and shouts at our son when he cries, he hasn't carried him even once, he literally screams at him and threatens to slap him whenever he makes a sound. He won't even let our daughter play with him, and tells our daughter to stay away from him," she expressed.

Now things seem to be getting out of hand as, "From the past 2-3 months, he always tells me that it's not his son and that he doesn't want him. He says that he has only one child and he doesn't want the other one. He tells me to give my son up for adoption or somehow get rid of him. He always just tells me that he doesn't want our son to be in our house, and says that he doesn't care if he dies." Understandably, the mom is left deeply hurt by her husband's comments and suggestions about their son, who she loves unconditionally. 

But these hurtful comments have now turned into threats and the mother is worried about her son's safety. "He recently told me that I have just a few more days to get rid of my son, or he would do it 'his own way.' It hurts me very much whenever my husband says or behaves that way. I love my son to death, and I can't even think of keeping him away from me for a while, let alone 'getting rid' of him. I asked my husband if I could send our son to my parents' place for a few days till he calms down and feels better, but apparently, he won't be satisfied with that, and he wants me to either give him up for adoption or get rid of him some other way. I'm fed up and don't know what to do anymore. This is literally my worst nightmare come true," concluded the post. 

Concerned Redditors were quick to respond as most of them urged the OP (Original Poster) to get authorities involved immediately and take their children away from him. One user wrote, "Get out of that situation right now. Go to your parent's home and get a lawyer involved immediately. If you can record him saying what he is about your son or if there are text messages keep those. You can do this." Another shared, "Op your husband is very sick but right now he is an immediate danger to your son. You need to get your son away from him. Your husband likely needs inpatient psychiatric treatment. You can't do anything to fix him right now. You're basically on a ticking clock until he hurts your son and probably you and your daughter too." 

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