For a while now i've been getting fed up of having to think up and make the evening meals 7 days a week. My partner never has any suggestions of what to cook(which i would be glad to recieve) and we both get bored of eating the same things week in week out. It's even harder when his 10year old ds comes to stay has he's fussy and wants what he wants. I refuse to cook different meals but always try to cook something he will like.
So, at the new year i asked if he would take over cooking dinner at the weekends (he works all week so i thought this would be reasonable) to give me a break. He agreed but it's kind of backfired on me. He doesn't organise himself to think about what we're going to eat that evening and take the necessary ingredients out of the freezer so we end up with take out which we can't really afford. I'm secretly getting angry at him because he's not putting the effort in So i gave in and started planning things for him. What he does then is doesn't start to make it until like 8pm in the evening when i'm complaining that i'm hungry or doesn't bother at all and it's take out again.
Now i'm 6months into mat leave and our little one is starting to eat solids (BLW) so i have told him i'm trying to get a routine where we eat at 5pm every day once he's home from work so lo can eat with us before his bath and bed. Any later is too late for baby.
I've kept my routine up but at the weekends it just goes out of the window. For instance, Saturday evening i asked what we were having for t. 'I dunno' was the reply. The fridge was stocked with plenty of things. I said 'well you're going to have to hurry because lo needs t and it's getting late and i'm hungry too'
I don't think he heard any of this as i ended up making lo something at 6pm and after lots of huffing, puffing and complaints of hunger from me he made me an omlette at 8.30pm!!!! He had nothing himself until 10.30pm - 3 slices of toast and that was the 1st thing he'd eaten that day!!!
I just feel that he's being very lazy and unfair.
Also i want to ask that we make a rule that whoever cooks - the other washes up, and in the same evening (another reason to eat earlier too) because as it is, I'm doing everything ontop of all the other household chores. Just because i'm on mat leave doesn't mean i should do EVERYTHING does it??
Just read through it all and realised how long it is...Apologies for that, i guess i just need to let off some steam.
Your advice is much appreciated :)x