To expect my wife to return to work?

[Christhebear]

My wife and I have been married for 8 years. Our son was born in January this year. We waited a while before conceiving as we wanted to travel and basically have a good time before we had children.

My wife is an accountant and I am a senior partner in a large company. We both have extremely stressful and demanding jobs. My wife announced to me that she wants to resign as she finds her job extremely stressful and wants to stay at home to look after our son.

This is causing massive arguments because to continue the lifestyle we have we need two incomes. My wife is basically not the person I thought she was. She spends most of the day either shouting at me or crying, never does any cleaning, rarely cooks and basically devotes all her attention to our son. I have found a very good nursery for him but every time I bring it up she melts down and starts crying. She says that she doesn't need things anymore and is quite happy to just be a mother. I am not happy with this as I enjoy the finer things in life which I work bloody hard for and I am entitled to.

I don't know what to do anymore and I am contemplating an affair as our sex life is non existent. She is also breastfeeding which I think is impacting on her mental health as our son seems to be always on the breast.

Any advice from the female aspect would be appreciated.

Thank you.

if you want to help your wife accept that she wants to look after her son and that he will always come bofore you and rightly so. If you are on good money why cant you just support her? she might want t o go back to work when he starts school. see your house and move somewhere smaller and cheaper.

Oh by the way you are a knob.

Should have known better to come here as a man looking for advice! No it's not me btw lol. You should have asked me 1st and i'd tell you these lot are a pack of hormonal man-hating wolves!

U chose to have kids, kids change your life, your kid is the finer thing in your life now.
U r being completely unreasonable to your wife as I think the above comments show. U should be supporting her, cooking, cleaning, getting advice about pnd. She looks after your son all day every day - as u say hes always on the breast- so u should be doing the house work. Its not the 1920s now, men can actually step in to the kitchen, lets hope your wife doesnt find this out soon and wonders why the hell she married u.
In face scrap the pnd, I'd cry all the time if i was married to u.

If you didnt want a kid why bother to have one. IMHO your wife would be better off without you.