This is difficult for me to post and I am sure we will be judged negatively.
I have two boys aged 3.9 and 1.2. My husband has been long term unemployed and I work part time two days a week. I feel completely overwhelmed - this is not how I imagined my life. I always thought I would be a stay at home mother and my husband would have a good job to support us.
There are two main problems we are facing: money and confidence in looking after two kids. I am angry that my husband can't find a job and although he tries I think he should try harder. He says that I should work more than two days a week until he finds a job (I am an engineer and can work 5 if I choose) but I want to be at home looking after the kids, especially when they are so little.
But the paradox is that I find looking after the kids on my home if my husband is not around very difficult - it is a two person job. I definitely would prefer my kids to be in daycare when I work instead of being looked after my husband - he makes mistakes, the other day he put the younger child in a synthetic onesie that caused an allergic reaction (even though the doctor said he should be in cottons for awhile). The other day my youngest put a roll of toilet paper in the toilet when my husband was not looking.
I am angry at my husband, I am starting to get really resentful as to how useless he is and how much direction he needs. I am angry that I have to work. I don't understand how a person cannot find a job. I am resentful of people who question why either of us is unable to look after the kids on their own. My upbringing was in a country where we had maids and family to help in raising children and here we have no such support.
I know something is really wrong here. I don't know where to start to fix it. Where do you think we should start?
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An38 · 09/07/2016 05:38
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