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Originally Posted by FireFly
If you're comfortable going against the wishes of your spouse in anything and for any reason, good for you. Things like this could end in divorce if you let it. I'm not going to let it. I will wait until he is comfortable. Telling people their excuses are stupid and boneheaded definitely won't help matters and doesn't add to the discourse. Me telling my husband that over 3 million children 5-11 in the US have already been vaccinated with one dose and there are 0 cases of myocarditis so far might help. My guess is he'd like to wait until there are that many with two doses and still no myocarditis (as chances go up on second dose,) before he's willing to pull the trigger.
Like I said, I would get her vaccinated, but my husband isn't willing YET. I'm not going to go against him to do it because it would make YOU more comfortable.
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I was speaking broadly given the 50% expected uptake for 5-11 vaccination mentioned, but since you decided to stand in front of my statement, I have had difficult conversations with my spouse where I have had to explain to her that she is being unreasonable and/or irrational about something (she and her mother both got their first ever flu shots this year because of me), and I've done so without ending up divorced or even sleeping on the couch. Difficult conversations are part of what being married is.
To be clear, it doesn't make
me more comfortable, I have my shots. But it is tiresome and annoying that we continue to have restrictions in our daily lives and there continue to be unhelpful people who let bad reasons get in the way of positive steps toward a conclusion. Vaccination will be the way out of this.