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Am I wrong for shouting? Or is DH being U? Please tell me.

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AibuOrIsHe · 15/10/2013 12:20

I'm 37wks pregnant. My husband was away all summer so I was doing everything around the house and looking after our 2 children under 6 years old. His dad was ill and then died when he went to be with him and the funeral for 6 weeks.

When he came back (mid September) I thought he would help me get the house in shape for the baby. A bit of painting, sorting out drawers and taking old baby clothes from the attic. He hasn't done anything. He'll get the grocery shopping sometimes and has dropped dd to school in the morning about 5 times since he's been back. Hell also cook once or twice a week but even then I'm the one finishing up and washing the dishes.

Last week he emptied the bins (his only job in the house I really do expect him to do) and left a black bin bag filled with rubbish in the kitchen. It stunk. I have pgp and can't lift up heavy things. I've been asking him for 6 days to throw that bin in the green bin outside and he keeps making excuses like its raining or let it fill up a bit.

This morning was our bin collection day. I text him from bed when he was downstairs to throw the bins out and he said ok. I went to sleep thinking he'd done them.

This morning I woke up and the fuckinh bins and the recycling is still in the fucking kitchen. So I shout up at him he hasn't thrown the bins out. I admittedly when ballistic but didnt shout or anything I just started crying and packed up the heavy bin and dragged it outside myself at 7.30am whilst trying to control my crying. He heard me and got pissed off and started saying I was a barking like a dog and he said he'd do them and then snatched the second bag from my hand and went and got the recycling stuff and put it out.

I couldn't stop crying and dd wasn't getting ready for school. I waited until 8.30 and she was still upstairs playing. He was in the shower and didnt even attempt to get her ready. So I screamed at her from downstairs to get ready. 5 mins later she came down and ate breakfast. He came down at 8.45 and said some horrible things to me about controlling my mouth and I'm a bitch to our children and I have bad way of talking. Really horrible stuff. Then he swore at my dead mum for raising me like a bitch and took my dd and dropped her off to school. I admit, when he swore at my mum I said the same thing back to him as he was leaving.

Then he came back home and told me to pack his bags and hell take them this evening.

Since then we've exchanged messages and he's called me a bitch and hates me. I haven't sworn at him once but I have kept reminding him how he told our dd last Sunday that I had died when I was in Boots buying stuff for my hospital bag. My dd had run inside and said it loudly that daddy had told her I had died and she looked upset. I was so embarrassed and everyone was looking At us. I am so upset.

What kind of man tells his 5 year old her mum is dead? Then he's telling me I need to control my mouth when talking to my children? I have started shouting at them I know that but I'm so stressed out. The house is a mess. How can I bring a baby home in mess?

I haven't said anything to him apart from shout that he hadnt put the bins out. Sorry it's so long. I'm so angry and crying right now.

I have a midwife appointment to get to now so ill reply when I'm back. Thanks for reading I know it's stupidly long.

OP posts:
TarkaTheOtter · 15/10/2013 18:11

Any chance he's having a breakdown?

dadinthehat · 15/10/2013 18:17

He's being an arse. Kick him out.

AibuOrIsHe · 15/10/2013 18:27

I want to say it to his face. I know what his response will be though. He'll say they're only words and that he doesn't mean it. This is always how our arguments go. I just can't forgive him for swearing at my mum. He didnt even know her. revels I will discuss it and he'll say we all say things in spur of the moment.

It's funny how he's called me bad mouthed because he swears at every given chance. The fact he swore at my mum is proof. I've never sworn at him or his family. I just got labelled as a mad bitch because I screamed at my dd to get the hell downstairs for breakfast when she wasn't dressed and playing with her toys. I'm not proud but I've apologised to her and told her I shouldn't have shouted. Is that normal in a mother/child relationship?

Someone above (sprry i cant remember your name) said that he'll end up with the same messed up relationship with his children as he had with his dad. I've said this to him in the past and he knows it deep down. I've always taught my children to love and respect him because I feel he's lacked love somewhere in his upbringing. I just don't know what his problem is.

I don't know if he's having a breakdown. How would I know? He's eating and sleeping well. He tells me all about work and stories and stresses when we have dinner most days.

OP posts:
Calloh · 15/10/2013 19:12

It is words - and he should massively apologise for them and promise he'll never say them again and then stick to it.

He needs to support you as a co-parent and as his wife and co- habitee. So he takes the rubbish out straight away, he looks after you and you look after him, you both look after your daughter which means working together to get her out to school on time and being understanding if someone loses patience (totally freaking normal in a mother/child relationship in my experience). He apologises profusely about your mother and never ever says it again. You are kind to each other and instead of giving you a verbal kicking he talks to you if there is something up. I would say that is the bare minimum he should agree to and sweeping it under the carpet is totally not ok.

Personally I'd still pack his bags and let him figure it out himself but that's easier said then done but he needs to grow the fuck up, massively

Mia4 · 15/10/2013 20:06

Isn't this a cycle OP? Because it sure sounds like it.

I really think you need to think carefully about breaking it because he won't- depressingly this will just be your life, until he decides you've passed through enough of it together.

I'm sorry if I seem blunt but I've seen one of my sister's in the same toxic pattern (she luckily broke it and got out) and a good friend (sadly stuck in the 6th year of it with nothing to show but more regrets then happiness). I wish you could see you're worth more then this, I hope you tell him what for and make him stay a way for a whuile so yu can think. I'd advise you to write down just how you feel and make him read it if you let him back tonight- no excuses, no fucking manipulations from him.

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