I’m having a few problems with DH at the moment. I think he means well, but he starts doing these endless jobs in the garden and they take hours, are apparently essential tasks that cannot possibly wait even a moment, and require hours of time.
I’ve gone along with it and even though he’s away during the week I’ve taken the children (age 4 and 21 months) out to parks and walks and so on to give him some space.
So going through the last four weekends, I’ve taken them to a farm alone for about six hours (that incorporated a nap for the little one) then to a little party in the afternoon alone. I’ve taken them to a park and then shoe shopping alone (about four hours) and to a forest walk and play on a park (four hours)
The rest of the time I often have one child and he has the other which seems fair except I always get the little one who is harder just because of her age.
I arrived back just now and DH started moaning and saying he needed to finish this job. I got a bit annoyed and pointed out he’d had four hours to do his work and the rest.
I don’t think I’m being u reasonable here but I’m wondering if anyone else with similarly aged children does this amount of alone time? I’m starting to feel like DH is just taking the piss!