would this be unreasonable

[freaaak233]

if there was a couple who had a 10 month old ds, dad works and mum is a stahm. the mum sits on laptop all day or xbox, stays up too all hours.
the dad starts work at diff times each day but gets up with baby every morning and then will have baby until his leaving the door whether that be 9.. 10 .. 11 and then wake the mum up.
on his days off he gets up and she lays in until she wakes up.
he does the food shopping and 80 percent of the housework which sometimes then is slacking which caused them to get in to trouble with ss which was sorted.
the baby during the day spends a lot of time in the walker etc and then when dad gets in he puts him down too bed, cooks dinner. on his days offs he takes the boy , out this is the only time baby leaves the house.

now he wont leave her because .... he doesn't want to leave his son was I wrong to tell him to kick her out and stay in the flat with his son.

[freaaak233]

worral the thing is I am not saying she isn't but I am saying something needs to happen for us to convince her she needs help. when ss were involved me and others expressed that to them. she went to the gp. just to clarify she does love her boy and she really does and I am not saying don't let her be a mum.

she can leave the house when she pleases or needs something or to go cinema etc but cant take him to the park or do the food shopping.
if she is depressed then we will get her help.

[AChristmassyJerseySpud]

Hmmmm

and if roles were reversed how many would be saying LTB?

[freaaak233]

name if that was meant to be sarcastic , you have no idea how much I have done for that baby.

[timidviper]

freaaak Some years ago I could have written your post about a relative of mine.

In our case I can say categorically she was not depressed, she was just lazy before, during and after her pregnancy. The house was filthy and anything that needed doing, he had to do on top of supporting them financially. Eventually the marriage did break down, at her instigation rather than his, and he is much better out of it but she is apparently just the same, the house she and the children live in is a shit-tip. Their child has a speech problem which she says is a diagnosed condition but I still wonder if more attention and speech when younger might have helped

I'm sorry I don't have any wisdom to solve your problem but I hope, in time, it resolves for you.

[freaaak233]

timi this is what I mean , we have gone down all avenues. when she fell pregnant she was also one of these women who couldn't get of the sofa as she was pregnant. also by the way I love her to bits and would do anything for her but she isn't my priority the lil boy is.

[EricNorthmansFangbanger]

I don't know what to suggest really. I get that you're saying she can't be helped, but when DH had depression I tried and tried to get help for him. I couldn't force him to get help and had to wait until he wanted to go and get help. It's difficult and I can appreciate that your friend may have had enough. I wouldn't have suggested that he just leaves her or kicks her out. They really need to try and come to a solution for this as, ultimately, it's their little boy that could suffer.

They do sound like they could both do with a little more support.

[EricNorthmansFangbanger]

AChristmassy, I for one wouldn't be saying LTB. My advice would still be the same regarding possible depression.

[ILetHimKeep20Quid]

How come the house is in a bad enough state for ss to get involved yet he's supposedly doing 80% of the house work?

[WorraLiberty]

if she is depressed then we will get her help.

By advising the other parent to kick her out of the home?

Perhaps she thinks you're a lil too over involved and have overstepped the mark a lil too much with your lil piece of advice to her DP?

[freaaak233]

I have said that I we spoke about the house work I should state it was a few months ago that happened and since then he has kept on top of the house work.
worral if they hadn't involved me or if I didn't love their ds I wouldn't be involved trust me !
if i didn't have my mum freaking out every 2 minutes about the whole thing either.

[freaaak233]

if i thought she was depressed and i know her well enough as a person to know hats out of the ordinary for her , then i wouldn't be saying it.

[namechangesforthehardstuff]

I just think it's really odd that the house is bad enough to have SS involved (which must actually make it shit heap of the year) when everyone is so supportive and cares so much about the baby.

[freaaak233]

namechangefor hard stuff , at the time it was pretty bad i will admit it ! and that was both there faults although he did do more than her back then aswell. my mum and i both used t go around to help but within days it was a mess again. when social services left that day , they came back the next day too and that night too me, my mum and the dad gutted the place

[freaaak233]

sorry don't know what the extra too was for ;/

[gordyslovesheep]

are you a qualified health care professional? Can you diagnose depression? even a lil bit?

She probably feels very badgered by you and probably paranoid bout your objectives - back off - talk to social services if you are THAT concerned about the lil boy and ask her husband to stop running to you every 10 mins and actually do something about the issues

[freaaak233]

she isn't badgered by me at all, she rings me when it kicks of between them 2. there has been more than 1 time when i have had to remove lil man from the house when she is having a go at the dad. so obviously them living in the same house is ot working but what should i do no sorry im not going to pick him up and leave the boy crying

[gordyslovesheep]

don't answer the phone then

[timidviper]

I have to say, again from just my own experience, there does not have to be depression involved. The woman I am talking about was not depressed, she just chose to do the things she wanted to do and seemed to have no care for anything else. If something appealed to her she would give it all her time and great enthusiasm but that would wear off and it would then be abandoned amidst the mess of everything else. She has visited my house and laid on the couch asking for magazines while I ran around looking after her children and making sure they were safe in my non-babyproof house where most of us would be on our best behaviour when visiting others.

I agree that the mess is his responsibility too but, as we all know, it is hard to keep on top of things when working as well. I suspect if the roles were reversed people on here might be less understanding and supportive of her.

I really don't know what the solution is, I wish I did.

[Justforlaughs]

I have no idea what the answer is but I do know that I originally thought it was a reverse thread, and if it was then I think the answers would be a lot different in general.

[JinglingRexManningDay]

Sorry I still don't understand how the house could be in such a state,yet he does all this housework,family members helping out etc. I've been a single parent,working and caring for a child alone and there were plenty of weeks where housework was left til Saturday. My house was never at the stage where SS would need to come in. So I daresay that the father is not as fantastic as you paint and if he were to kick her out the house would still be in a state.