My husband is doing his NQT year at the moment. We have a one year old and a three year old. And it surely can't be right. He's having nightmares, sleepless nights, barely talks to me, has no patience for anything or anyone.
We thought his PGCE was hard, what with me being pregnant and a newborn and then him having two pretty rough schools as his placement (one of them kids were chucking chairs and it took three teachers to stop it). We thought that his NQT school would be better, hard work but better. It is in some ways, he's not up until midnight preparing lesson plans etc, the school actually has things he can use. But I can tell he's not happy. He's said he's not happy.
I don't know if I should be telling him to cut his losses or encourage him to stick with it. But if he keeps on like this and it keeps heading in this direction I don't know if there will be an us.
Oh, and we've just bought a new house with a massive mortgage so he'll need a well paid job to change to if he does cut and run...
Ugh. I came from a family of teachers, I knew it would be hard, but I wasn't expecting it to be this hard and have such an impact on our family and relationship.
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PopTheRainbowdrops · 30/12/2019 19:47
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