Woman Asks Husband to Miss His Best Friend’s Wedding to Help Her with Foot Injury: ‘Ended in a Fight’

• A recently injured woman explained in a post on Reddit that she wants her husband to stay home and miss his friend's wedding so that he can continue caring for her

• She specified in the comments section that she injured her foot just over a week ago by stepping on a sea urchin during a trip with her friends, and required surgery to remove the spines

• Both Redditors and the husband thought that the woman was in the wrong for rejecting alternative care and expecting her husband to break his promise to attend the wedding

A woman wants her husband to miss his best friend's wedding.

The woman, who injured her foot just over a week ago when she stepped on a sea urchin, wrote in a post on Reddit's "Am I the A------?" forum that she expected her husband to stay home and miss his friend's wedding so that he can continue taking care of her.

"[He] came into our room to check his passport and asked me very casually if I thought we should get a home nurse or a temporary helper," wrote the woman, whose husband would need to fly out in three days in order to attend his friend's wedding.

She continued: "I was blindsided by this, as I had assumed that he would be staying, which sounds entitled, but I would do it for him. I was caught off guard and voiced out loud that I thought he was staying."

The woman, 32, assumed her husband, 26, would be staying home because he "has been a great help" since she got hurt. Her foot injury was "pretty bad" and required surgery to remove the spines.

"This makes it difficult for me to walk around and do normal everyday stuff, which is pretty frustrating for both me and everyone around me," she added.

But the husband wasn't on the same page as his wife. He suggested they get different help for her because he promised his friend he would be attending his wedding, and had no intention of missing it.

"He basically laughed at the idea, which upset me, and said that this was a lifelong promise, and he was a man of his word," the poster recalled. "He seemed surprised that I would even ask, and this started to grate at me."

Their conversation "ended in a fight."

"I said some stuff I regret and he said that my injury wasn't even that bad, dismissing my pain and saying that he wasn't missing this, and I shouldn't guilt him about it," the woman concluded.

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Reddit users were united in the comments section. Many questioned the severity of her injury and felt it was "selfish" for her to reject alternative care in favor of having her husband skip an important event he promised to attend.

"He's thinking ahead about YOU with the suggestion of getting some help while he's away," one Redditor commented. "You're a grown adult, with an injury (not a terminal illness). Are you seriously unable to care for your basic needs (food, clothing, washing/toilet) by yourself with crutches or a knee scooter? I know help is NICE, but think of all the people who are alone and take care of themselves all the time, and this is (a) just a few days and (b) a promise he made to his best friend."

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"For crying out loud, you walked on a freaking sea urchin, you are not on your death bed!" another Reddit user wrote in part. "Him going to the wedding or staying won't change anything to your pain. So why make him miss on something important?"

They also pointed out that the woman never had a conversation with her husband about the wedding until the last minute, so it wasn't fair to assume he wouldn't be going.

"Yes, you're injured but you aren't in any serious danger and don't require round-the-clock care," someone commented. "I'm not sure why you assumed your husband would miss his friend's wedding, a (hopefully) once-in-a-lifetime event, to stay and take care of you, especially when you never even brought it up."

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