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Husband Teamed Up With MIL To Lie About Baby’s Milestones To Wife

Relationships July, 12, 2025

An incident came to light where a man had been lying to his wife about their baby’s milestones. He posted his story on Reddit which describes that his wife was studying medical with residency. She took leave for some weeks when she was giving birth to their baby and soon after that, she had to go back to work. In order to look after the baby, this man decided to make a transition in his work. He shifted his work to a part-time job, so that he could stay at home to take care of the child.

During this time, the man’s mother also decided to move in as she wanted to help her son by taking care of his child while he was busy in his work. She did this to ensure that he doesn’t get inundated with the child-care when he was busy working.

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He knew it pretty well that his wife’s work is extremely tiring for her but she would never want to miss her child’s first milestones. The first milestone that his wife missed was to see her kid roll over. But this was the real beginning of the untold truths.

When the man’s wife came back, he hoped that his mother was going to tell her the truth about the first milestone. But she told her that she came on the perfect time as she can now witness her baby rolling over for the first time. His wife was very happy to see her kid roll over for the first time but she had a profound feeling of sadness because it was really difficult to manage several tasks at once.

His wife had a mental image that she was present to see her kid achieving each and every milestone. But all these incidents had already taken place. The husband even put beanbags in his child’s pant pocket to make it look like he is taking his first step because the beanbag was disturbing the child’s balance while walking.

Unfortunately, after some time his wife eventually saw all the videos of their kid attempting these milestones before she witnessed them. This deracinated everything and broke her heart. She locked herself in the bathroom to cry and wasn’t ready to come out.

He asked other users on Reddit for some suggestions and obviously, the opinions got divided into two. Some had a little sympathy and some tips for the man but some people blamed him for his doings. But finally, everything got sorted out. Now, it became a matter of laugh for the couple when the man revealed all his tricks which he had used to hide the truth.

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