This could be a long post so thank you in advance for reading..
I have been with my partner about 16 months, we knew each other for a few years before and had always been really good friends and when we both became single at the same time it just kind of happened naturally and I really thought we were 'meant to be' (🤮 lol)
I fell pregnant 3 months into our relationship and we now have a beautiful 4 month old baby girl.
Not long after I fell pregnant we decided to move in together, we were both back home living with our parents and having a baby on the way it just made sense to get our own place and set up home for our little arrival.
But now we live together, I just can't put up with him, he's just so lazy!
We've had lots of arguments, talks and discussions about house work but it just never sticks - apart from that he agreed to do all washing up, which he does ONCE a day, usually in the morning so everything from the day before is scattered around the sink until he can be bothered to clean up.😷 I used to give in and do it sooner but I'm not doing everything for him anymore!
When we discuss housework he will say he will chip in more, that he'll wash clothes and cook etc. Everytime he will put a load of washing in ONCE and then its forgotten about, I end up rewashing it and emptying the washer then he doesn't even try again.
Another irritating clothing he does, when he comes home at any point he'll go upstairs to get changed into comfy clothes, the clothes he takes off always get laid out on the bed on 'my side' of the bed then when he goes to bed he moves the clothes from the bed to the top of the chest of drawers we have and lays them out on there if they can be reworn or chucked in the corner if dirty. The room is a constant mess! His shoes are always in the middle of the floor, his dressing gown dumped on the floor or on the end of my side of the bed, why is it so hard to put stuff away!? 
When he isn't working, he works 8.30-4.30 and is currently working from home, he sits in bed watching films, very rarely sits downstairs with me and even eats up there too!🤮
I feel like we are housemates and I have pulled the short straw and have to share a bed with him!
I hate living with him and dont see anything changing, I hoped it might once our baby came but nope. If anything it's worse because there is more stuff to do around the house and less time to do it.
He does help with the baby a little, he gets up for her first bottle (between half 5 and half 6 - he always got up at 6 for work so he said it wasn't any different for him getting up). And while I'm cooking our tea he takes her for a while and on a weekend when hes not working he will take her so i can get on top of any housework that i haven't managed to do through the week.
I don't know what I really want from posting this, maybe just to let it all out or some advice? Has anyone been with anyone like this? Did anything ever change?
I don't want to be a single parent but I also dont feel like I'm in a relationship either?
I just feel so alone and lockdown is just highlighting things even more!
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I can't live with him!
Whatdoiwantt · 18/05/2020 13:10
Its lack of private space. Lots of things changed. Your hormones are all over the place. ... and might be that he just don't have experience how to be a dad to a newborn?
Its a bad time to make any decisions: you are still hormonal and its very unusual time (lock down).
I would like to encourage you to rename the situation:
Call it - a one year trial as potential house mates :D ( I get it: you pulled the short straw) but how would you solve this situation with a housemate if you are stuck for a year?
Have constructive meetings: "How we can share our responsibilities around the house and a baby equally?"
Create a possible plan and try it for two months. Then talk again; what did work, what did not - and make a new better plan.
Let him to put his chores in his phone as reminders. Worked miracles with my DD's BF when they lived in our house.
Be more specific: the clothes have to get in the washing machine at midday, 12 and out of washing machine for 2pm. Let him have an alarm set for 2pm.
Put a chair in the bedroom for his clothes. He will be able to put his stuff on that chair and it will be less irritating for you.
He sounds like someone who has been looked after by his mum and never had to keep up with everyday chores by himself. He just doesn't have any experience how. Good thing is that he seems to be open to try and doesn't act rude and doesn't refuse to help. just ....forgets 
My boyfriend does the same thing with his clothes when he goes to bed, leaves them on the floor, but I figure it’s his flat too and he can leave his clothes on the bedroom floor overnight if he wants. However that’s in the context of him being generally near and tidy, doing all the cooking/washing up the pans as he goes and also doing all DIY/bills/watering our 70+ house plants.
Your bf on the other hand is being a twat. Ask him why he thinks he’s entitled to not do any housework? Ask him why he thinks it’s your job to do the washing again when he’s not bothered to do it properly? Is there something about you that means it’s your responsibility and not his? I find when you put it to them like this they literally have no answer other than “I cba” 
It’s disrespectful for him to consistently put his needs above yours. He’s basically saying “I refuse to do something that I don’t want to”, it’s up to you if you want to be with someone like that. There has to be compromise on both sides when two partners have different standards of tidiness etc but leaving it all to you and basically acting like a single 19 year old living with his mum is not the one 🤢
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