What to Do When Your Wife Doesn’t Trust You With the Baby
What to Do When Your Wife Doesn’t Trust You With the Baby
by Steve Calechman | July 23, 2019
Then you have to understand that beneath all this is a need to protect and bond with your child, helped along by the release of the neurotransmitter oxytocin also known as the feel-good hormone. It creates the primary maternal preoccupation, says Dana Dorfman, psychotherapist in New York City and co-host of the “2 Moms on the Couch“ podcast. Your wife might know intrinsically that letting others help will make her life easier, but a cocoon has formed around her and the baby, and anything or anyone who disrupts it, however well-meaning, is not well-received. It’s real and primitive, and, “it’s not entirely logical,” Dorfman says.
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