Ok, I know that in the grand scheme of things my gripe is extremely trivial but I an sitting here gritting my teeth and need a whinge.
DH, while a generally great guy/good dad/all around nice one, has a very irritating tendency to become a grumpy old man about the weekends, and this has really escalated since we had DS (now 1). I get where he's coming from - I miss having weekends to ourselves, I miss the lie ins and the opportunity to lounge around doing nothing for two whole days, but jeez, every time we have to do something, be it the supermarket shop, visits to family, seeing friends etc, I get this toddler style whinge about how he never gets a weekend and is fed up with seeing people etc etc etc...
I guess one of the main issues is that both sets of grandparents live relatively near so we tend to see them both once a fortnight. That takes most of the day as it's an hours drive there and back, and it's generally us that goes there (that's a whole other thread...) but FFS, it's not that big a deal is it??? Surely it's more important for DS to have a relationship with his extended family. Even when we have a weekend like this one (only one thing pre-arranged) he's been sighing all day about how it's Sunday already and 'where's his weekend gone?' etc etc...
It's getting to the point where I dread having to remind him that we've got something booked in at the weekend as I know he's going to trot out the whole 'woe is me' line. Any advice, or should I just tell him he's being a nobber and be done with it?
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WorrisomeHeart · 09/10/2011 19:19
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