Good morning all!
First post so please bare with me.. desperate times.
Just a quick back story - met partner 11 months ago. She has two children one aged 7 and one (now 11 months, met when he was just two weeks old). I’ve done everything I can, or so it seems to me, for all of them which includes waking eveyother day to give partner a lie in, feeding, bathing and bed time routines etc. I’d say shared responsibility when we are both at home.
Now to the point(s).. should I just take a back seat in the decision making regarding the children? For example, on times that I am up with the children, I may need to go to the toilet. I leave the youngest with he 7 year old for a few minutes whilst I relieve myself. I only ever do this in desperate times and have the door open so that I can clearly hear what is going on. Before I leave I sit the 7 year old down and explain that I needn’t him to keep a close eye and that I’m only just a few meters away.
This morning my partner came down whilst I was in the toilet and hen called me a ‘joke’ for leaving the children for a few minutes.
Would you say I was in the wrong? Each time something like this happens, or anything really, I get met with ‘they’re my children’.
Am I in the wrong here?
Thanks in anticipation.
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