AITAH for telling my son I’d love a divorce if it meant taking my wife with me
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My son and my wife have been butting heads recently. I don’t think she needs the burden.
The situation: my son is 19 and a freshman in college. We told him to apply to colleges where he could get merit scholarships. We don’t make enough to pay $80K a year for college and we make too much for financial aid at most colleges.
He decided to go to an expensive private college to study art history. My wife and I were very upset.
He took an intro to psychology course and thinks he knows everything now. He’s home for break and he’s been snapping at his mom too much.
He came to me later and said that I needed a divorce. Boomers like me are miserable because they refuse to divorce when they’re unhappy. I’m not even forty. I don’t know how he connected my anger at him with my unsatisfaction in my marriage.
He said that both my wife and I were miserable in our marriage and we’d be better off apart.
I told my son that I’d love a divorce if it meant I’m taking my wife with me. I’d cut ties with everyone else.
I didn’t tell my son this but she is the only thing keeping me together. My wife wasn’t making my life miserable, everything else was.
My son was upset. He said he was only trying to help me. AITAH?