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Husband never getting up with kids!

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idubo · 31/12/2024 08:25

He's off for a couple of weeks and I literally have to beg for him to go down with the kids, otherwise he just won't.

I had to go to work yesterday and he still only got up, 3 minutes before I left the house and also said I was only going to the office to get away from him and the kids and I could have worked from home. It's like he thought I was going on a jolly..

Today is another day and again, I've been up with the kids since 6-6:30 am and he's still not up.

It's been like this almost every single day. It's like this at weekends too. How can I change the pattern ?

I'm sick of doing most things around the house and being responsible for everything child related.

Kids are going to grandparents house today for her night stay and I just know that I will be getting them ready, I'll be cleaning the house before we leave ( from yesterdays absolute tip he left it in ) and all he will do is get himself ready.

The other day we went out with the kids and I got myself ready, the kids ready and cleaned the house in the same time it took him to get himself ready and I was still needing to wait in the car for him.

I am just sick of the dynamic. Then when he does get up, he moaps around in his dressing gown. I hate dressing gowns. The other day he came down, had breakfast, left everything out ( often happens ), never empties the dishwasher either. Then his brother came, he had some breakfast. My husband went upstairs to get ready and they both left, leaving everything out on the table.

They came back 6 hours later. I just don't know how to change it, without constantly fighting.

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idubo · 31/12/2024 08:35

Ting20161987 · 31/12/2024 08:33

Infact, you sound like me. I hate dresssing gowns too. Mine is laid in bed all day everyday until 10/11 while I am working doing the school runs. The dishes above the dishwasher drives me in sane as well. Tried this conversation just 2 days ago, that was apparently going to change. The same night I had to put his plate, bowl, cup and glass in the dishwasher before bed

Yup I've come down this morning. All his shit from last night left all over the kitchen.

I got back from work last night and cleared up after he had made dinner. The house is an absolute tip. Toys everywhere. I've spent all morning and some of last night putting it back together.

Sometimes he clears the kitchen and his own mess. But it's just not consistent.

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Halfemptyhalfling · 31/12/2024 08:35

Some people are more badly effected by getting up early so it could be ok for him to lie in. If you were getting up for work anyway and he has kids all day it sounds quite reasonable. He also might not 'see' the mess. However you do need some downtime. Perhaps when you are really tired tell him and take yourself off to your bed for a nap

Supermonstermaniac · 31/12/2024 08:34

Yeah, I would always be too tired for sex if I had to deal with that.

elfshenanigans · 31/12/2024 08:34

he won't change. you can either accept it or leave. How old are the DC?

idubo · 31/12/2024 08:33

Hadalifeonce · 31/12/2024 08:33

Send the children into him, I am sure they will be happy to climb all over him.

I do! He still doesn't come down for ages. Just lies there.

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Ting20161987 · 31/12/2024 08:33

Infact, you sound like me. I hate dresssing gowns too. Mine is laid in bed all day everyday until 10/11 while I am working doing the school runs. The dishes above the dishwasher drives me in sane as well. Tried this conversation just 2 days ago, that was apparently going to change. The same night I had to put his plate, bowl, cup and glass in the dishwasher before bed

Hadalifeonce · 31/12/2024 08:33

Send the children into him, I am sure they will be happy to climb all over him.

Ting20161987 · 31/12/2024 08:31

You can't change it. I have been trying for 8 years and it still won't change. I am at the point of I either accept it, or walk

JimHalpertsWife · 31/12/2024 08:27

You can't change this, only he can. And it doesn't sound like he cares enough about you to bother improving.

I'd probably have a think about whether you want to stay in this relationship.

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