DS has, seemingly overnight, morphed from a sunny, chilled, delightful creature into a wailing banshee and refuses, point blank, to bath, nap, have his nappy changed, come inside, go outside, get in his car seat... The list is endless. I don't know if he's ill, if its developmental, or what, but it's so so draining and upsetting. I'm feeling crap anyway due to PMT and exhaustion so, basically what I'm saying is, it's been a tough week.
DH has had nights out: Monday (football, home 10pm), Weds (his evening class - he goes to brush up on his 2nd language which he knows pretty well already - he has been going for 5 years now, home 10pm) and tonight (colleague's birthday drinks). A few months ago (before he started doing football) we had a conversation about him having too many nights away from home and decided that if he needed to go out on a given week (eg work drinks, seeing friends etc) then he would skip his Weds evening class. Since then he's taken up the football too and denies the above conversation ever took place.
When I express frustration at having to do all the tea time/bedtime stuff/loneliness at never seeing him/annoyance that I can't have any nights out myself/the desperate need to talk to another adult (& ideally my co-parent!) after a day if ds-wrangling, he gets angry and says I'm sending him mixed messages because I encouraged the football and works socialising. Well, DH is worried he's put on weight since DS was born and of course me being constantly worried for his health I've said yes of course you must do sport (going for a run/to the gym in the morning or at weekends is seemingly out of the question, Monday night football is the ONLY WAY to prevent fatal diabetes/obesity, apparently). Then he's also said he's worried that he's isolated at work and his career is going down the pan, so he's got me to agree that of course work drinks are essential too. And his evening class is non-negotiable.
Last week was exactly the same pattern (very boozy barbecue at a colleague's house on the Thursday, home at midnight) and I can't see things changing any time soon, other than a short break from the Weds night thing when his evening class takes a four week break then back again afterwards and indefinitely.
So aibu (and terribly controlling/pathetic/horrible) to want to see my dh occasionally? Before Ds was born we both did loads of separate socialising, work stuff, hobbies etc. But things have to be different now we have DS - though only for me so far. And I really feel the need to see him, talk to him about everything that's going on with ds and feel like we're a team. To be honest a bit of a flaming might do me some good right now because I'm feeling sorry for myself to the max which is obviously ridiculous!