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AIBU?

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can you help me get perspective please? Or tell me DH is U...

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TwoTearsInABucket · 09/08/2013 09:53

I am feeling guilty, but not feeling like I am being completely U in this situation - perhaps you can tell me.

DH works in an office, he hates it, and I mean hates it. We have 2 DC, 5 and 4 and I am 25 weeks pregnant with DC3. I do freelance work at home. I am tired most of the time. Things like going to the park with the kids absolutely drains me.
In the holidays, my plan was to get up and work in the mornings before the kids wake up and then do about an hour while they are awake. And then do work in the evenings and at weekends. The only time I seem to be in a fit state to work is at the weekends. I go hell for leather at the weekends and then I am wiped out in the week.
DH is really worried about paying the mortgage off before it runs out, he doesn't want to work in the office with a passion and he had yet another strop today about how I don't to do a stroke of work in the week, and then he has to give up his weekends so I can work. He thinks I don't work in the week because I know I have the weekends to do it.

I have tried to explain how tired I get, I have tried to explain that looking after the children isn't exactly doing nothing and sometimes he is very sympathetic and other times, like this morning, he gets up in an absolute strop, goes on about giving up his weekends and me making promises i can't keep (i.e. working in the week).

Sometimes he says I shouldn't work too hard doing my freelance work because of my pregnancy, and other times its all about how we need to pay the mortgage and I am not supporting him. Its never quite right, all based on his absolute hatred of going to work in an office, which I am sure he sees as my fault. He doesn't want me to get stressed because he wants me to have a healthy pregnancy and then every week at the very least has a go at me about the working. It would all be fine if I did my work in the mornings and evenings and at the weekends but not for too long so he doesn't have to "give up" too much time (ie look after the kids).

Tell me if AIBU, even a bit please. Thanks.

OP posts:
omaoma · 09/08/2013 21:53

why does your DH get to decide everything about the money? Hmm
sounds like there's some weird gender shit going on in your house where suddenly everything about children and pregnancy is 'your' problem/responsibility, and everything to do with money is his. this is a load of nonsense and as somebody just said, you really need to sort this out or it'll be the root of a whole load of continuing problems.
i also don't see what's wrong with investing in childcare to enable you to work more freelance days, even if all you do is break even, if it means your career and status progresses.
you're not just breeding stock in this relationship.

SuckAtRelationships · 09/08/2013 22:04

I think you both need to RELAX!! You're both stressed for different reasons. Working a job he hates must be soul destroying. Looking after kids at hone whilst pregnant and trying to work is hard (though doable after pg/tiny baby exhaustion imo).

HansieMom · 09/08/2013 23:02

How about having him read this?

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