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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To be really annoyed with my partner.

27 replies

Rockmaiden · 15/03/2011 23:11

Background - Our daughter (8) has been really ill for a while with a bad chest and both myself and partner were becoming quite worried about it.

Sunday night she was really bad and I had no sleep all night as was dealing with her and checking on her as she was having breathing difficulties.

Monday morning - I get up after 1 hours sleep to take the children to school (partner has college 9-12)

At 3 pm I leave to pick children up from school (partner still not home despite finishing college 3 hours earlier) As this point I am exhausted.

I go straight to a doctor's appointment with our daughter where she is diagnosed with suspected asthma and given inhalers to use. Both myself and my daughter are at this point upset and worried as you imagine.

Get home at 5pm to be told by partner (who is now home) that they have agreed to babysit for a friend and at 5.30pm they leave. I do quickly explain about the diagnosis in this time.

Partner comes home at 11.30pm.

Am I wrong to be really annoyed?

I think that considering how little sleep I had, plus the fact I am not well myself (which partner is aware of) they should have realised that I would need their help.

Also considering the circumstances of daughter's diagnosis they should not have gone to babysit (brother was also available to babysit and in fact they both went in the end) and instead realised that me and our daughter needed some support and re-assurance.

I basically feel like the friend and her children were put before me and our children and that they should have been here for us.

Partner thinks they did nothing wrong and I am over-reacting.

Opinions please.

OP posts:
Laquitar · 15/03/2011 23:58

YANBU to be upset because you 've been tired physically and emotionally and you haven't slept.

But i hope that you don't turn your dd's diagnosis into drama and cause for arguing with dp. I'm saying this because i have a friend who is 36 and falls in pieces everytime she has to go to the GP.

Your dd's diagnosis and the trust issues are two separate things.

Laquitar · 16/03/2011 00:01

Sorry i haven't read your last post when i posted. It seems you 've got lots on your plate.

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