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To be woken up to clean?

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tammym07 · 14/04/2024 01:40

I bring you this post after getting woken up at 1:15 am to go and clean up the dogs sick!

My OH is up, awake sitting in the living room, having a beer and watching TV. Just half an hour ago he comes upstairs and wakes me up to tell me the dog has been sick on the living room floor, it stinks and there is no way he will clean it up.

I gets out of bed, goes down, cleans up the sick. I don't speak, as the dogs already too excited to see me, I'm not impressed with getting woken up and I haven't got the energy for a conversation.

OH then proceeds to say 'I don't know how you can clean that up' I grunt something about having no choice, he then complains that there's no need for me to be an a*se about it. (I will note there wasn't much sick, the dog wasn't feeling ill in anyway and didn't need my attention.)

AIBU to feel it's rude to wake someone up just because you don't want to clean it up yourself? I don't enjoy cleaning it up any more than he would. He also knows I've not been well and really in need of some rest.

Now here I am unable to sleep cause I'm too annoyed. He Never hesitates to wake me up over absolutely anything. He however, goes in a bad mood if he gets woken up when having a nap in the middle of the day on the sofa and one of the children make a noise! Angry

OP posts:
TheLurpackYears · 14/04/2024 11:45

I hope you got some sleep OP.
It@s a funny business when it come to the last straw in a marriage. Maybe this is yours. Play it cool, get all you financial info together, see a mortgage broker if you own, get a solicitor and see where the land lies.
Personally I've found cleaning up after the dog a lot less infuriating now I'm single. I'm getting much better sleep too.

Nanny0gg · 14/04/2024 11:39

Apolloneuro · 14/04/2024 06:13

Well then you have no understanding of genuine phobias. Your bad.

In answer to your question, my husband once came home in his lunch hour to deal with children’s sick, and I’ve got other family or friends who’d have helped if he was away. Fortunately I have people in my life who are kind.

My husband is terrified of rats. I dealt with that once. People helping people.

To be fair, I hate vomit

So I clear it up, wearing gloves and using lots of paper towels and try very hard, whilst heaving, not to vomit myself

Catsmere · 14/04/2024 11:38

ShadesofPoachedSmoke · 14/04/2024 11:21

Another dog hater on MN Hmm

The dog is a completely innocent loving being, who loves their family. They don't deserve to be "got rid of".

People who think like this about pets are alien to me. Heartless and uncaring.

Especially the idea of getting rid of a dog (or any pet) for the sake of this filthy abusive man, not least since OP has already informed us that it's not her dog, imposed on the man, but their dog.

If anyone should be got rid of, it's him.

oakleaffy · 14/04/2024 11:37

Apolloneuro · 14/04/2024 06:13

Well then you have no understanding of genuine phobias. Your bad.

In answer to your question, my husband once came home in his lunch hour to deal with children’s sick, and I’ve got other family or friends who’d have helped if he was away. Fortunately I have people in my life who are kind.

My husband is terrified of rats. I dealt with that once. People helping people.

If you didn't have people to step in and do these nasty jobs, you'd have to face it.

I have serious emetophobia, but have to face child clean ups and pet clean ups, even if it makes me physically panicky to do it.

You'll find you CAN clear up if there is no one else around to do it.

Vomit has to be cleared up and the child or pet looked after, one can't just leave the mess there.

OP's husband hasn't got emetophobia, otherwise she'd have said.

Nanny0gg · 14/04/2024 11:37

PinkiOcelot · 14/04/2024 11:19

if DH had done that to me, I would have told him to fuck off. No way would I have gotten up.

But you'd still be awake, angry...😡(Or I would)

Rightsraptor · 14/04/2024 11:37

I'd rather clear up dog sick than be married to OP's husband.

Nanny0gg · 14/04/2024 11:36

tammym07 · 14/04/2024 09:30

Wow thank you for the responses. This has given me so much clarity, that everyone has felt so strongly about how wrong it is.

He'd have to clean up the sick from dog or dc if he was on his own...

Point that out

NeedToChangeName · 14/04/2024 11:36

Outrageous

He thinks it's your job to clean when he doesn't want to do it

Think about that

And think about what kind of role models you want to be

Soubriquet · 14/04/2024 11:32

Let me guess? He’s still fast asleep now knowing that his live in maid is there to do all the work.

LTB

RainStreakedWindows · 14/04/2024 11:28

Your husband sounds like a complete arsehole.

ShadesofPoachedSmoke · 14/04/2024 11:27

Anon9898 · 14/04/2024 08:20

It happens to me to. If we have people coming I'm am frequently woken up at 6am even earlier to make sure the house is tidy enough.

You should also leave. Fuck that.

Whowhatwherewhenwhy1 · 14/04/2024 11:26

Sod that. What a prick. I would tell him exactly what I thought. I would also be up hoovering the bedroom and landing and clearing out my wardrobe at 7am if he was hoping for a lie in. My oh tried this if any of the kids were sick in the night. I promptly told him we are both parents and need to team up so one bathes and changes sick child and one strips and remakes bed and cleans the vomit . Set the ground rules and expectations early and do not be a door mat. He needs to man up. Nobody lines clearing up human or animal pule of poo but it has to be done!

oakleaffy · 14/04/2024 11:24

''I will absolutely not lick up dog poop or clean up dog sick.''

I hope that was a typo!

ShadesofPoachedSmoke · 14/04/2024 11:21

Gingernaut · 14/04/2024 01:54

I would get rid of the dog

He has abdicated all responsibility for it to you and was happy to leave you to do something he wouldn't

Secondly, I would seriously consider separation/divorce

This selfish arse just woke you up in the middle of the night to do something

WTAF????

Start preparing to leave

Another dog hater on MN Hmm

The dog is a completely innocent loving being, who loves their family. They don't deserve to be "got rid of".

People who think like this about pets are alien to me. Heartless and uncaring.

oakleaffy · 14/04/2024 11:19

He's a sod.
The only excuse he could possibly have had is if it is your own personal dog, and that he agreed with you before getting the dog that you alone were responsible for clearing up of any messes.

An old neighbour had a greedy breed of dog {lived to late teens!} who used to shit indoors, eat it, and then vomit it up then eat it again. {Neighbour told me of this}

The most revolting habit that started because they didn't house train the dog initially so as a puppy the dog developed coprophagia when left alone with poo.

PinkiOcelot · 14/04/2024 11:19

if DH had done that to me, I would have told him to fuck off. No way would I have gotten up.

FoodAnxiety · 14/04/2024 11:15

He's an abusive arse. He should have cleaned up.

RobertaFirmino · 14/04/2024 11:11

DH goes to bed late and gets up late so I'm always first down. I don't mind opening the dog flap for them in the morning but I will absolutely not lick up dog poop or clean up dog sick.

@Timeturnerplease That's understandable, I wouldn't lick it up either.

Strawberrycheesecake7 · 14/04/2024 11:01

I would only expect a child of mine to wake me up for this, even then only if they were under the age of about 12. If my husband did it I would simply refuse to get up. What a baby.

MzHz · 14/04/2024 11:00

My abusive ex woke me up a couple of times in our relationship - not to clean up, but to make a point to me about something he disapproved of and something he wanted to challenge .

i didn’t stand up to him much, but the both times he did it I showed him ice cold fury. The 1st instance was right at the beginning of our relationship and the last was right at the end.

so I hope that you can wake up today and TELL him that if he EVER does that again, there will be repercussions.

oh and NEVER tip toe in your home again. Make sure that every sleep/nap is disturbed. Go totally PA on his arse.

MsLuxLisbon · 14/04/2024 10:58

Gingernaut · 14/04/2024 01:54

I would get rid of the dog

He has abdicated all responsibility for it to you and was happy to leave you to do something he wouldn't

Secondly, I would seriously consider separation/divorce

This selfish arse just woke you up in the middle of the night to do something

WTAF????

Start preparing to leave

I would get rid of the dog

Which one, canine or human?

DownWithThisKindOfThing · 14/04/2024 10:56

Apolloneuro · 14/04/2024 06:13

Well then you have no understanding of genuine phobias. Your bad.

In answer to your question, my husband once came home in his lunch hour to deal with children’s sick, and I’ve got other family or friends who’d have helped if he was away. Fortunately I have people in my life who are kind.

My husband is terrified of rats. I dealt with that once. People helping people.

It sounds like you have emetophobia though, that’s different to just being a prick like Op’s husband

DownWithThisKindOfThing · 14/04/2024 10:53

What an absolute wanker. If this is what he is like with puke I bet he doesn’t clear up its shit either.

RainingOnMyFace · 14/04/2024 10:49

This sounds like a plot from an unfunny sitcom. I'd be asking his mother if he was raised to be so entitled.

Is it specifically your dog? That he didn't really want?

I would be having serious words about respect, and asking him what the teamwork of a marriage means to him.

Therealjudgejudy · 14/04/2024 10:40

What a prick. Wake him up from every nap. If he complains, say exactly what he said to you.

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