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Should he have helped?

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Jelnotjel · 13/09/2024 12:10

I was unwell yesterday (Thursday) - in bed, sleeping on and off all day unwell.
At home with two young children.

Fiancé (who lives about 25 minutes away) helped in the day by choice rather than me asking. Great. Then he had to pick up his car late afternoon from a location about twenty minutes away. No problem.

I asked him to come back to help with the evening stuff for the kids. He refused.

He refused because he wanted to rest up for a new job starting on Monday and declined the offer of a bed and room to himself because he thought he might hear the children at five am, ignoring the fact he has all weekend to rest up. He could also have just left to go home after putting them to bed.

I feel like he should have helped in the evening since he was needed. Yes we made it through, no one died but the children got cold leftovers for dinner and i did fall asleep before them so it wasn't ideal, and he had no good reason not to help.

Aibu for thinking he should've helped out?

He's calling me a parasite now for being upset he didn't help.

OP posts:
Jelnotjel · 13/09/2024 12:48

This has definitely made me rethink things re marriage.
He doesn't need to fifty fifty as I've been unemployed this last month so expect to do most of the parenting.
@GabriellaMontez thank you for explaining.
I am currently 'Benefit scum', yes but @Sparklfairy you're in some delusional land

OP posts:
Sparklfairy · 13/09/2024 12:45

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Overcover · 13/09/2024 12:45

Oh wow. I was thinking they must not be his DC and that he doesn't see supporting you with them as his responsibility, which might be a reason, but IMO you'd still help someone you loved in that situation, regardless of whose DC they are.

If they're his, the man's an arse. Parasite? How dare he?!

NotMyCircusss · 13/09/2024 12:44

Verbally abusive, nice. What a lovely man. Don't marry him op, this is him. What an absolute knob. You do know it will never get better, right?

TheShellBeach · 13/09/2024 12:43

AGirlInACountrySong · 13/09/2024 12:41

You say he pays maintenance

So you aren't together....yet call him a fiancé?

Yes, that's also odd.

Why don't you share finances? You're intending to get married, supposedly.

Brainded · 13/09/2024 12:42

He changed… so this is his better version? This is him doing better…. You just keep saying that out loud. @Jelnotjel and then you might understand what I’m trying to say

MonsteraMama · 13/09/2024 12:42

Will I ever stop being surprised at how low the bar is for male behaviour on this website? No, I don't think I will. Every time I think I've seen the lowest it can go, along comes someone like you OP with a shovel to bury it just a little deeper.

AGirlInACountrySong · 13/09/2024 12:41

You say he pays maintenance

So you aren't together....yet call him a fiancé?

Dishwashersaurous · 13/09/2024 12:41

He should be doing half of parenting anyway on a normal basis.

IT'S NOT HELPING WHEN ITS A PARENT DOING IT.

And he shouldn't be rude to the mother of children, let alone someone he purports to love

MrRobinsonsQuango · 13/09/2024 12:40

Last night is the least of your problems! He doesn’t want to “help” with his own children?! It must be lovely having a skivvy (you), whilst drifting round doing what you want and resting up for his Big Important Man Job (him). Why do you indulge this nonsense?

Fluufer · 13/09/2024 12:39

Don't marry him please. Reading your OP I assumed they weren't his kids. Of course he should be parenting his own children. You being unwell is almost irrelevant. He's awful.

BirthdayRainbow · 13/09/2024 12:39

So what are you doing to do?

  1. Seems to want brownie points for "helping" earlier in the day.
  2. Refuses to parent his children.
  3. Needs down time for three days before an interview.
  4. Calls you a parasite.
PuddlesPityParty · 13/09/2024 12:38

TheShellBeach · 13/09/2024 12:37

And OP it isn't "helping" when they're your own children.

It's called parenting.

Are you sure he didn't want the weekend off so that he could go out with another woman?
Or just get drunk with his friends?

Right I was with you until you jumped straight to affair 🙄

Nanny0gg · 13/09/2024 12:38

Jelnotjel · 13/09/2024 12:19

We were looking to move in together next year when married. As for why we don't live together currently... We did before some years ago and it didn't work out. Going back didn't make sense financially or logistically with work.

Presumably there was a reason it didn't work out...

That doesn't appear to have changed

offyoujollywelltrot · 13/09/2024 12:38

Bloody hell, DO NOT marry this dickhead.

TheShellBeach · 13/09/2024 12:37

And OP it isn't "helping" when they're your own children.

It's called parenting.

Are you sure he didn't want the weekend off so that he could go out with another woman?
Or just get drunk with his friends?

AGirlInACountrySong · 13/09/2024 12:37

Is he living at his mother's?

Spenditlikebeckham · 13/09/2024 12:37

I got back with an ex after living apart for 6 months. He managed the I Have Changed facade for a fortnight after the wedding. We married 10 weeks after I took him back.
Divorce came through as we hit our first anniversary..... Keep away from him op. Ime he is still bad news....

SaffronsMadAboutMe · 13/09/2024 12:36

junebirthdaygirl · 13/09/2024 12:28

By even calling him your fiance and not my children's father you don't even realise he is as much responsible for these dc as you are. He is being so selfish walking off and thinking about next Monday which is days away. He sees you as the one totally in charge of these kids where he will dip in and out when he has the energy.
And calling you a parasite is low down.

By even calling him your fiance and not my children's father you don't even realise he is as much responsible for these dc as you are.

Yep, and especially by starting a thread in the first place to ask if he should've helped with his own children?

GalileoHumpkins · 13/09/2024 12:36

To whoever asked what changed - he changed
Do you mean he was worse than he currently is or has he reverted to type now?
You must know marrying a man who thinks so little of you is a recipe for disaster.

GabriellaMontez · 13/09/2024 12:36

Jelnotjel · 13/09/2024 12:32

To whoever asked what changed - he changed.
Regards housing situation I'm not sure how that's relevant to this particular issue.
Yes he pays maintenance.

The reason I asked about housing, was to say, that if you own your own home and share it with your husband he may have a financial claim on it as well as the right to stay in it.

My point is, if you have assets, protect them by not marrying this man.

Dishwashersaurous · 13/09/2024 12:36

He's the father of the children and you are in relationship planning to be married. Why on earth doesn't he live with you and do half the parenting on a normal day to day basis?

AGirlInACountrySong · 13/09/2024 12:36

I think @TheShellBeach has it!!

TheShellBeach · 13/09/2024 12:36

What's the financial situation?
Are you both working?

Who earns more?

Do you own property?

AGirlInACountrySong · 13/09/2024 12:35

Jelnotjel · 13/09/2024 12:32

To whoever asked what changed - he changed.
Regards housing situation I'm not sure how that's relevant to this particular issue.
Yes he pays maintenance.

So how do you pay for your house?

He's paying maintenance? So are you a sahm or working?