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I don't want to work full time either!

Six years!!!!!!!

Without mumsnet!!!!!

I am owed.

When I work 5 shifts in a row it effing kills me. And even though I work 18 hrs a week ( but sometimes much more then 2weeks off IYSWIM) I cannot get up in the mornings. DP gives the kids their breakfast and I stagger in at around 8am and literally cannot speak in a civil fashion until I have had 3 large mugs of coffee. Only then can I string a sentence together.

In my defence I do frequent night shifts and I did spend six years bf and getting up for small children in the night.

But still - poor DP.

Taggie You are fab.

And over the years have done a massive amount more than he has with the childrearing and breastfeeding and getting up at night. DD2 was 6 before she slept through the blasted night. Who got up? Me.
And I do other stuff. Like choosing curtains.

Taggie

Oh I castigate myself for being rubbish.

Makes no difference though. I'm still undomesticated and crap.

I think this is rather interesting, given the threads where husbands and partners work long hours and are castigated for not pulling their weight on the housework front.

YANBU. I work (well, I did until I went off on maternity leave last week) part-time - every day but short shifts - and if I ever have to work a full day, like for training or if my weekend place of work is closed and I have to make the hours up in the week, I am KNACKERED. I really don't know how people do it.

And I also have to be forced at gunpoint in a very very good mood to do any cooking or cleaning, even though I only work half days.

Not really no.

I make cakes. And hoover. And fo the dishwasher. And most exhausting and difficult I get DD2 to school.

Oh, I see - I forgot about the 2 days at the weekend. I expect you did the other things round the house, like the DIY and gardening then.

It's very overrated, in fact one of the reasons I went back full time.

I worked 4 days a week. As did DH. Now up to 5.

But no. No housework or cooking. I'm not cut out for domesticity.

YANBU.

Seriously - you didn't do any housework or cooking when you worked for 2 days a week?

I've always worked f/t, but I still say YANBU. It's tough, and it will take you months to adjust. Be kind to yourself and give yourself time.

And the thing with the wine is Not On.

It will take time to adjust need to train him better to have the wine in the fridge

I did have a particularly lovely morning today. So don't know why i'm whinging so much.

V tired though.

I had to do that when DP was made redundant.

Fecking hard when you're not used to it.

Here:

If I LTBd who would cook for me?

Ltb

Ooh thanks AgentZigZag

I haven't got a ticket but I don't want to work ft either

And what is the flaming point of having a househusband if he doesn't put the blasted in the fridge until half past 5?

Cabbage - that sounds like a plan.

And I shall have

you fuckers.

I didn't do housework or cooking before.

<<see - lazy and feeble>>

No lottery ticket today. Didn't win last week.