Imagine being heavily pregnant in the summer heat.

If you’ve been there before, it’s likely not a situation you’ll care to repeat unless you really have to.

If you’ve never been there, you can be glad that’s not the case.

But then imagine being like the woman in this story – heavily pregnant in the summer heat, with three young children to entertain.

All while their father does very little at all.

Read on to find out how all this came to pass, with the mother still being made out to be the bad guy.

AITA for not letting my neighbor take my children swimming?

I have three children between the ages of three and eight.

Today my husband was supposed to take them to the park but he procrastinated, and now it’s too late because he has to leave for an event.

Our sweet next door neighbor ended up messaging us to see if the kids could join her child at the pool (our children enjoy playing together).

Let’s see how the family reacted to the woman’s offer.

My husband thinks this is a great idea, since they were excited to go to the park but are no longer going.

He told the children about this exiting new option to go swimming instead before bringing it to me.

But I said no.

I am 40 weeks pregnant, exhausted and it’s much too hot for ME to go and sit at the pool with my children right now (which is why their dad was supposed to do the park with them).

Read on to find out why she denied the offer.

I am sure my neighbor would not mind me sending them out by themselves, because again she is so kind and sweet, and I don’t think for one second that they will be unsafe with her.

But sending THREE children with this lady to the pool all by herself, on top of her own child is selfish in my opinion.

I would also be the parent dealing with the aftermath of swimming like hair and baths etc.

But her husband had other ideas.

My husband thinks it’s not fair to the kids because they now have to “be stuck in the house all day with nothing to do.”

They have plenty of toys, board games and a whole backyard to play in, as well as each other.

They will be fine and again, had he moved faster then they would have been able to stick to the original plan and been back from the park by now.

In his opinion there is no difference in sending them to the pool without me since I wasn’t going to be joining them at the park.

Now the children are upset and I look like the bad guy because I won’t let them go to the pool.

AITA?

It was kind of the neighbor to offer to take the children to the pool, but it’s understandable that this mother of three wouldn’t want to overburden someone else, as well as risk the safety of all the kids.

When he’s got three kids and a heavily pregnant wife, this dad needs to be more understanding, as well as more motivated to keep the kids entertained.

Lets see what people on Reddit thought about this.

This person agreed that the kids’ father needed to show more enthusiasm.

While others pointed out how much responsibility that would put on the neighbor.

And this person was very suspicious about his parenting altogether.

It’s true, this woman’s husband seems to be happy with anything that means he doesn’t have to entertain his kids.

Newsflash dad: they’re 50% your responsibility too. Stop putting this all on your wife!

It shouldn’t be all on her – or a kindly neighbor.

If you liked that post, check out this story about a guy who was forced to sleep on the couch at his wife’s family’s house, so he went to a hotel instead.