Wife reveals the brutal reason behind her decision to divorce her husband and the internet agrees

Many couples face separation for various reasons, such as lack of communication, infidelity, or differing personal values. However, divorce is a significant decision that most married couples don't take lightly. One woman found herself at a crossroads, torn over whether to divorce her husband of two years. Feeling conflicted, she turned to Reddit under the username u/Charming_Passage3440 to share her story and ask if she was justified in her decision.

The wife revealed how her husband has a peculiar habit of sitting in the car for 5 to 10 minutes before he enters the house. She doesn't have any idea why he does it, but she slightly links up his behavior with a traumatic event he had experienced in the past. Her husband had come home at one point to find his ex cheating on him. "Because of that, he'd just spend a few minutes in his car before he entered his home as a response to his trauma. Now, I won't say he's wrong in coping with what happened, but this has made me feel uneasy. Like when we have guests, he'd sit outside before coming in or when dinner is waiting on him and he'd take 10 minutes silently sitting in the car," she wrote.

She worried that one day, his delay might prevent him from responding in an emergency—and her fears were realized. When her 8-year-old son tripped and fell from the stairs, he broke his ankle. The woman promptly informed her husband and he rushed home from work. But despite calling him repeatedly, she was stunned when she looked out her window. Her husband was sitting in his car outside and didn't hurry inside the house to help them. "I was both shocked and angry. I ran outside and asked how long he was sitting in the car. He told me around 8 minutes," the post continued.

She was deeply hurt by her husband's refusal to come inside until his 10 minutes were up. He even told her to take their son to the hospital herself. In frustration, she yelled at him, reminding him that this was a family emergency. A neighbor eventually helped, and she took her son to the hospital alone. Her husband showed up later, but she refused to speak to him. After this incident, she moved to her mom's place and texted her husband, saying she wanted a divorce.

"He tried to rationalize and justify what he's done, saying he could not help it and that he was nervous and wanted to help my son but felt stuck. I refused to reply to his messages and days later, his family harrassed me, saying I was making my husband's trauma more severe and that I disrespected his boundaries by pushing him off his limits. My husband is still trying to talk me out of divorce, saying I'm making a huge deal out of it. I feel like I no longer have trust in him, especially when it comes to serious stuff like how cold he acted in a family emergency," the woman concluded, clarifying that the kid isn't his biological son. The Reddit community offered their best advice and explanations regarding her husband's behavior. 

u/mamaMoonlight21 quipped, "It sounds like some form of OCD to me. Are there other ways in which your husband is oddly inflexible?" u/purple_sun_ mentioned, "It sounds like he is stuck in compulsive behavior. He needs to find a professional to help him address it. It's going to be tough, especially as he let you down when you needed him. I bet he feels really bad about the situation." u/Kip_Schtum added, "I'm just picturing him collapsed on the floor having a heart attack and she calmly looks at her watch and says she needs to wait 10 minutes because she was traumatized by him not helping their son in an emergency. He needs professional help and if it was me, I'd make it a condition of continuing the relationship."