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DH wants to be a teenager, no time for me… aibu?

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Turtleneckhead · 26/08/2026 19:01

DH is off work for the 6 week holiday. I’ve had 2 weeks off where we went on holiday for a week and another pottering around. we are ttc and he has 2 kids from a previous relationship that live with us week on/week off.

DH has hobbies in the evenings on Mondays, Tuesday, Thursdays and Fridays. Obviously on those days on the weeks his kids are here I have to stay in and make sure there’s an adult in the house.

Dhs other hobby is video games. On Saturday and Sunday he played on it all day, and I mean all day. This week his kids are on holiday with their mum so he’s had no responsibilities. Monday was our anniversary, he video gamed all day whilst I was at work, gave me my gift and card, and then went to do his hobby until 9:30pm.

Today when I arrived home from work, he said “let’s spend tonight in my office” (his office being where his computer games are). I feel so sad that he doesn’t want to spend time with me.

And then on our anniversary night he said “turtleneckhead, I want one day where I am a total teenager. I want to game all day until the early hours of the morning. No responsibilities, no having to come down for dinner. I’ll pay for you to go to a spa that day”

Aibu to think this is very incompatible behaviour with marriage? Or am I controlling?

OP posts:
Holdinguphalfthesky · 26/08/2026 19:10

YABU to say that “DH has hobbies in the evenings on Mondays, Tuesday, Thursdays and Fridays. Obviously on those days on the weeks his kids are here I have to stay in and make sure there’s an adult in the house.” When does he do any parenting of his kids?

He will expect you to do all the adulting for him in his life. Do you want that?

I’m guessing he’s a teacher, but he doesn’t sound like a good partner and father. I’d seriously be thinking about his behaviour- and his words. Seems to me he’s telling you who he is.

harderthanIexpected · 26/08/2026 19:10

Surely you cannot be serious? He is taking the absolute and utter piss.

SmugglersHaunt · 26/08/2026 19:10

I’m sorry you’ve got this - he’s treating you like a babysitter, so you have two kids already, plus another one in him. Please think really carefully before having a child with him - he sounds useless and pathetic. You could definitely do better

OhNoooooooooooooooo · 26/08/2026 19:09

As if he's going to magically stop these "hobbies" if he already can dump his kids on you so he doesn't have to spend time with them...
Why would he change if your kid turns up.... you're looking after all the kids then.

Run awaaaaaaaaay

Didyousaynutella · 26/08/2026 19:09

Sorry why are you looking after his kids when he is at his hobbies?1

LauritaEvita · 26/08/2026 19:09

Agree with PP. Would be useful to have a proper chat with his ex about why that relationship didn’t work out, before you embark on parenthood with this man. Was it because he’s too busy being a kid himself to be a father? I would not be parenting for him at all when it’s his time to have his children- the poor kids!

BananaWhip · 26/08/2026 19:09

Well you can either put up with it or leave and go and find a real adult man to have children with….i suggest the later and leave this bell rnd to his gaming and stop ttc as he doesn’t parent the kids he’s already got

Softcream · 26/08/2026 19:09

Wtf? He goes out FOUR nights a week and leaves you to babysit his kids?? Sorry OP but you're being a doormat here. Put your foot down!

BreakingBroken · 26/08/2026 19:08

Okay let’s get this straight; he has 2 kids and hobbies that you knew about and facilitated NOW that you feel broody you expect this to change.
Sorry you’ve made a massive mistake.
His fun free lifestyle is unlikely to change you will be forced by default to do more and more until you ultimately divorce.

OhNoooooooooooooooo · 26/08/2026 19:08

Why are you looking after his kids??

Shloopie · 26/08/2026 19:07

Do notttttttttttt have a baby with this man. Do not. Do not. Do not.

DO NOT.

Ohwhatfuckeryitistoride · 26/08/2026 19:07

Well, I'll be the first-he wants a NWAF. Throw him back.

nutbrownhare15 · 26/08/2026 19:05

This will be your life, effectively a single parent unless you end things now. I think I can guess why he split up with his kids mum.

SpottyDeckchair · 26/08/2026 19:05

Well it's definitely incompatible with having child. I would be rethinking TTC in your shoes.

Also, his children are spending time at your home to bond with him, their father. why is he buggering off out & leaving them with you?

PoohneedsaPimms · 26/08/2026 19:05

Babygirlie · 26/08/2026 19:03

Ew, what an absolute loser. Do not have a baby with this idiot.

Agree with Babygirlie…this is so disrespectful to you.

Babygirlie · 26/08/2026 19:03

Ew, what an absolute loser. Do not have a baby with this idiot.