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To think giving me one day a week actually isn’t ok?? Or AIBU?

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wpur · 29/01/2024 11:16

DH works away in the week and on Saturdays he has to do ‘admin.’ He is high up in the NHS and prior to having dd he did always work Saturdays in his office room in our house. I wouldn’t see him pretty much all day.

Since having dd he had to relocate for work, this was not his fault and he has taken the best job he can. It is not possible for him to come home in the week, it’s too far and would be pointless anyway as dd is long in bed before he gets back. No point me relocating with him as I have all my family nearby and his contact is only fixed for 9 months… then the search will begin again for another job.

He has started coming home late Saturday night (after dd is in bed) and then staying all day Sunday until she has gone to bed. He relocated for work when she was 6 months and she’s now 17 months. I am sick of doing everything alone. He has said I can take the entire day on a Sunday to myself, either go out alone or we all go out as a family, or he will do entertain her all day while I am in the house doing my own thing etc.

I feel like this is unacceptable and he should be back late Friday night to help on Saturdays too. He says it is pointless as he can’t avoid the Saturday admin work and he would just have to do it when back at home and it would take him longer to get through it. He thinks giving me a day to myself a week is sufficient in the circumstances. AIBU? I am so fed up and angry that I genuinely don’t know if I’m being unreasonable.

OP posts:
Sirzy · 29/01/2024 11:20

It’s not ideal but it sounds like the best way around things at the moment. It’s not as if he is staying to go out on the piss.

SoSoNuts · 29/01/2024 11:19

For a 9 month contact that you knew he done Sat admin before you were pregnant then yeah I think YABU. When is he supposed to do his admin?

Bluenotgreen · 29/01/2024 11:18

I wouldn’t accept this and I might even find it suspicious.

RJnomore1 · 29/01/2024 11:18

Tbh it’s more time than he’s getting to himself isn’t it?