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AIBU or shall I just excuse DP behaviour because he is "not a morning person"?

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B4Beatrice · 14/06/2011 15:11

Honest opinions would be great.

DD is nearly two and has severe eczema, sometimes this means she wakes up in the night and CANNOT get back to sleep because of itching.

I work free lance and mainly evenings and weekends although sometimes week days, as DP works full time I arrange any child care that we need whilst I am work, if it falls during DP working hours (is is normally out of the house from 8.30-6.30/7pm).

I LOVE my job, and as it is working with a sport that I used to compete in, DP sometimes prefers to call it my "hobby" rather than work. It is work. I get bad very good money in comparasion to most part-time, easy to fit around the kids, type jobs. I can earn anywhere between £30-£50 ph, and £150+ per day. Howerver we are not rolling in it because the work is not regular and can be infrequent during the winter.

I dont HAVE to work and could SAHM full time but I love my job, and we are certainly not rich enough to turn extra money down! My money means we can afford extras, days out etc.

Anyway, back to the story, last night I was at working, and had asked DP to be home sharp (but not early). Alls fine I had, cooked them both dinner, all he had to do was eat with DD, bath and put to bed.

3am this morning DD wakes up, obviously I go to her, and notice she doesnt have her tights and vest on under her pyjamas. The tights and vest are prescribed, and are made to hold the creams into the skin to keep in moisture. They also stop the itching, as she cant get to most of her skin.

I probably did snap a little at DP "why haven't you put tights/vest on? There is no way she is going back to sleep now!" He replied "You didnt leave them out". Just for reference, they were in the pyjama draw. He was basically too lazy to do it.

DD is then up all night, does not go back to sleep at all. I am exhausted and TBH have had enough of DD (mean parent). I wake DP at 7 and asked him to take her, give her some breakfast so I can shower. Normally he does not help with DD in AM as I am at home all day. He then snaps-

"I have been at work all day yesterday, will be at work all day today, you were "out" for hours last night, didnt leave tights and vest out, and now you are waking me up early because you are pissed off and have had no sleep.

Big row, me in tears, he storms out etc etc.

Couple of hours later he rings and says he is sorry for the way he spoke to me (not for what he said) but that he is rubbish in the mornings and is grumpy and I know that but is sorry anyway.

Since then me and DD have slept this morning so feel much better and are ready to face AIBU.

Sorry for big message. This type of thing happens about once every 6 weeks so although it sounds petty, it is causing a problem..........

OP posts:
Hullygully · 15/06/2011 09:42

And personally I wouldn't be that bothered by the all the morning stuff, tough shit to him of course he has to just get on with it, but Competitive Tirdeness is an olympic sport with small kids.

SheCutOffTheirTails · 15/06/2011 09:43

He is your husband, not your master.

How fucking dare he have an opinion on whether you work.

It's not up to him to decide you have to make yourself completely financially dependent on him, and to treat your work as an indulgence if you don't live your life entirely to suit him.

This is a big, HUGE problem.

And it needs addressing even if he does deign to do his share of household work for a while.

Sort this out. Immediately.

Hullygully · 15/06/2011 09:47

SheCutOffTheirTails

Goodness, you are very angry. Do you think it will help?

TotallyLovely · 15/06/2011 09:51

I would imagine you get a lot out of your working life, I would if I were able to work and I miss it that I can't. You DH should respect that it is something that you want to do and need to do, be grateful of the extra money and stop expecting you to be some little wifey waiting at home for him all the time!

TruthSweet · 15/06/2011 09:56

All three of my girls take different medications/creams and while I am a SAHM and go to the Drs appointments (unless it's a biggie) and stay with them in hospital I do the medication routines on a day to day basis.

However, if I am unavailable (I had an all day conference to go to in London on Saturday and I had a seizure yesterday) DH does all of it in my stead, with out complaint.

We chose this set up to avoid double dosing (DD1 really liked one of her meds and would pretend she hadn't had it to get it again) and it works. It's a lot to remember if you aren't used to it but DH manages even though he has a full time job and I just doss about on MN SAHM Hmm

Your dh really needs to 'step up' for parent equally with you not act like you are the parent and he is the hard put upon baby sitter. My DH doesn't even call my voluntary role a hobby (even though it plainly is Grin) and that doesn't bring us a penny, it even cost us money!

SheCutOffTheirTails · 15/06/2011 10:15

It might help, who knows?

But yes, the idea that one adult gets to choose how another adult must live her life (and let's face it, this is a gender thing) does make me angry.

Better than accepting that it is fine for a woman to be treated like this because she's of less value.

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