Not a day has gone by this week without dh having a go at me in the limited time we spend together.
Today it was because I didn't make an effort with dinner apparently. I could have done more veg or gravy. Yesterday it was because I didn't cook dinner at all (dh had half cleaned the oven so it couldn't be used). The day before it was because I didn't eat the dinner he had cooked, because I didn't like it.
He is stressed, I understand that, he is studying, working evenings, looking after ds during the day and managing the house. He hates the job he is doing, but we need the money.
He says I am not making an effort with anything anymore, that I am becoming lazier and he is having to do more work himself.
It seems to prove this point he has spent this week performing random cleaning tasks throughout the house of the sort that I never do anyway, unless we are moving out. Like cleaning the oven for example.
I sort the dishwasher, wash the clothes, hoover, wipe surfaces, ensure ds and the cat are fed and happy, ensure ds is washed and put to bed on time with a story. I do these things day in day out as they are required and always have done. Ideally, I would do more but at this moment in time that is not my priority, I do what has to be done in order for the houshold to function.
I can't do any more because I am struggling to keep afloat. I am also studying, working full time, doing a training course for work and looking after ds in the evenings (we have no childcare so dh hands ds over to me literally as I walk out the door at work).
I am on antidepressants and have just finished a course of counselling which was emotionally exhausting and am not sleeping well and having nightmares following my mum's sudden death in November. I had to return to work last week even though I don't think I am ready because we need the money as I am the main wage earner.
I am trying to manage my anger and stress through reading a couple of books (or trying to find time to) on Mindfulness and Buddhism. I am finding this useful as I am able to stay calm with ds, even though there have been times recently when I have felt like I wanted to smack him (I haven't btw). It also is helping me realise that a lot of things I worry about don't matter in the long term, like doing more housework which is helping to alleviate the anxiety and stress of the smaller things.
So why won't he leave me alone? It doesn't bloody well matter that the oven was dirty or if the dinner I cooked was crap. The fact that I cooked at all is an achievement. Every day I want to stay curled up in bed and be alone but I am getting up and trying to make it through each day. But apparently I'm just getting worse.
Sorry this is so long.
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To want him to just fucking back off
StickEmWithThePointyEnd · 28/02/2013 22:05
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