text: if your mom and wife were drowning in the same pool, who would you save and why? (serious answers no jokes).? please bear in mind that you can only save one person. if it were my mom or my husband, i would choose my husband. my mom has lived her life and she would want me to choose him anyway, i think any parent would want that, how could you as a parent know that you made your child choose you over their spouse, who may also be the father of your grandchildren and so forth.i know if it were me, my child better choose their spouse, as long as they are not abusive.