would u feel forced to go to a wedding...?

The wedding is five hours long? Wow! I would not be able to sit through a five hour ceremony either. Your choices are: 1) get a babysitter and go alone with your husband 2) stay home with your child and tell your husband to go alone.

And how does your husband think your 3 year old can survive this type of day. Is he that out of touch with your child? This is strange. I think there are other problems if husband thinks you all should go and your child will be cool with the whole thing. You know the primary reason for child abuse is having inappropriate expectations of a child, not knowing or understanding appropriate behavior for their age, expecting a child to behave as an adult.

Your husband needs help, and you do too if you are with him.

Go to the wedding with him and your baby. Then politely and without drama go back to the hotel and get room service and hang out by the pool with your son. No need to be dramatic, no need to be a martyr. Just go for the wedding, beg off on the reception because of the child. Everyone is happy. You won't miss a thing.

If you do not want to go, let your husband go by himself.

You could go and get a baby sitter for your child. Would your parents or a sibling, baby sit for you. All parents need a night off ever once in a while, a wedding is a good reason.

I think a 3/4 hour gap between the ceremony and the reception is a ridiculous amount of time to ask guests to wait around. If you do not want to go, tell your husband that there is no way you can expect your 3 year old to be on his best behaviour for this long - he is bound to get tired, hungry and cranky - so he is welcome to take his parents but you will be skipping it.

Personally if I was in your shoes I rather stay home with my baby instead of going to a wedding of people I hardly even know. You and the baby should be his first priority not his parents. Let him go sounds like he's still mommy and daddy's little boy and have to go wherever they go lol.

If he's not being reasonable why not talk to his mum. Maybe you all could get a room nearby to rest and hang out in between events. Or the uncle may be able to arrange something.

If you don't want to go to the wedding then don't go. If your husband doesn't understand then that is his problem. You have a young child to take care of and sometimes men won't help when it comes to taking care of a small child.

Get a sitter/family/friend for the child. A three year old does not need to go to a wedding anyway, he would be miserable. Go because for whatever reason your husband wants you to. So, he wants to please his Mom and Dad because they want to go, let him. I wish my Mom and Dad were still here or my husbands, I would be happy to take them anywhere they wanted to go. Give in, one day they won't be here and it's not worth it to argue over a one day outing. Go and have fun, enjoy the day with your husband.

Let him go with his parents. You stay home. Nobody wants your crying whiny baby there anyway.