Boyfriend wants to put baby for adoption.

My one month old has always been on the fussier side since birth, lots of crying and just wants to be held. Recently, he was “diagnosed” with colic so the crying at night has been intense for long periods. I try my best to console him but there’s not much I can do other than to hold him and give him gas drops to help. My boyfriend (his dad) doesn’t have as much as patience as I do and he made a comment while our baby was intensely crying and said “this is what makes me want to put him up for adoption”. I immediately started crying because instead of him trying to help me to console our baby he makes comments like that. What would y’all have responded or done about that
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i’d tell him pack his things and go .. even if it’s just for a short amount of time.

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This is absolutely not okay I don’t care how stressed out he was colic is temporary and will eventually go away and a few nights of a baby being a baby and he wants to quit that’s a major red flag!! I would’ve cried too I’m not sure what you want to do but that would make me really take a good look into the relationship and think long and hard about if this is something you can put up with you shouldn’t be doing this by yourself you should have help aswell colic isn’t easy especially alone and on top of that a father who says oh we should just quit on the baby that’s insane I cannot stress to you how major this red flag is

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my baby has clubbed foot, he has had a series of casts and had to transition into his boots and bars. it was terrible at first constant crying, only sleeping for two hours, it was exhausting i was so tired i texted my fiance “please help me when you get home from work, i can’t do this, i don’t want to think this way but the baby is so hard to deal with i am begging for your help i am getting thoughts of putting him up for adoption” and he didn’t judge me, he took it serious and helped me when he got home. that wasn’t me talking… it was my exhausted mother self who was postpartum depressed and already going thru so much. God knows how much i love my son… we say things we don’t mean sometimes. i have never said it since and honestly i feel so bad for my son i have cried constantly asking God why he gave him this and why couldn’t he do something to hurt me instead. don’t be so quick to leave him if he is helpful and supportive in many ways. we all get burned out.

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Surprised you didn’t throw him out there and then. My relation would be over. There’s no taking that back, he’s said it now

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