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AIBU?

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to be furious with DH

65 replies

Seriouslyknackered · 15/02/2014 08:11

Have NC'd.

We have 2DDs, one age 4, one age 8 weeks. I am BFing so doing all night feeds while DH snores away in the spare room. In 8 weeks, I have only disturbed him and asked for help once at night, at around 4am after DD2 had been crying for most of the night.

Last night he had a night out with the lads. Prearranged and not a problem but it was likely to be a late one so I asked him to sleep at his mate's house so that he didn't disturb me or DDs. Both of us were happy with the arrangement.

Of course, DD2 chose last night to be awake for most of the night. I got 3 hours sleep, divided into 2 chunks. She has refused to settle since 4am and DD1 has been awake since 5am. At 5.30am I gave up and we all got up.

DH came in at 7am as agreed. He was still extremely drunk from the night before. I told him about the horrible night we had just had and he told me to go to bed. Obviously I can't leave 2 small children in the care of someone who is so drunk so I said no. He then told me to stop being such a drama queen and to get up to bed. I probably shouldn't have reacted but I was so tired that I did and ended up shouting that he should be offering sympathy, not calling me names. He then said that I was a horrible, horrible person when I was tired. The only reason I am so fucking tired is because I do all of the night care of our DCs and 90% of the daytime care while he swans around like nothing has changed in his life. So yes, maybe I am grumpy when I am tired but it is only because I am at breaking point and instead of giving me a cuddle, 'D'H calls me names. He will say that he offered me help and I turned it down but the offer of childcare from someone who is so drunk they can't walk in a straight line is hardly helpful. AIBU? I am furious but so fogged by sleep deprivation that it is hard to tell if I am BU or not.

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MrsOakenshield · 15/02/2014 09:07

sorry, this is all a bit silly. He was out on his best friend's stag night (a perfectly reasonable reason to be out on the lash), and stayed at a friend's - very sensible. Why you thought he'd be a functioning person at 7 a.m. I can't think, YABU on that point. It's just bad luck that last night was the night DD decided to wake a lot.

A stag do, an unexpected bad night and a birthday party are not a good mix. Get through the day and then put it behind you. Maybe think about how you do the nights and get him more involved.

Nicknacky · 15/02/2014 09:08

Quietly, I don't think many people have the type of job where they can just tell the boss they are coming in late every morning to let their wife sleep! My h has his own business and even h couldn't do that.

pianodoodle · 15/02/2014 09:10

What did you think might happen?

Yes OP, according to quite a few your husband's actions are your fault.

God forbid he should have to think for himself about how to be sensible...

BeCool · 15/02/2014 09:15

YABU - stag do on Valentines Day?? It's not right Grin

yellowsnownoteatwillyou · 15/02/2014 09:17

Drip feed indeed. He went out got in that state the day before his daughters birthday party! Are you kidding me Shock
Dh is horrified at this, and before our baby was born he was out every Friday or Saturday, and has been out....once I think maybe twice since baby was born, 7 months. That's his choice. His reply was you can go to a stag night with out getting in that state if you have responsibilitys the next day.
I think a serious chat when he sobers up, and I would do the party without him.

yellowsnownoteatwillyou · 15/02/2014 09:17

Drip feed indeed. He went out got in that state the day before his daughters birthday party! Are you kidding me Shock
Dh is horrified at this, and before our baby was born he was out every Friday or Saturday, and has been out....once I think maybe twice since baby was born, 7 months. That's his choice. His reply was you can go to a stag night with out getting in that state if you have responsibilitys the next day.
I think a serious chat when he sobers up, and I would do the party without him.

Lifeisaboxofchocs · 15/02/2014 09:22

Op, this is going to be a tough day. Just grit your teeth and get through it best you can.

You dh does need to raise his game in terms of help, no doubt about it.

Bit vicious though to make him return at 7am the morning after his best friend's stag do. My dh goes out very rarely, but when he does, I give him a free pass the next morning. And vice versa if I go out. It works.

Seriouslyknackered · 15/02/2014 09:23

*What did you think might happen?

Yes OP, according to quite a few your husband's actions are your fault.

God forbid he should have to think for himself about how to be sensible...*

Thank you, I was beginning to wonder if i was being completely unreasonable to expect him to moderate himself. If the roles were reversed and I had gone out the night before DDs party, I would have made my excuses and left early so that I was fresh for the next day. And although he was out til 7am, the deal was that he would go back to his friend's house to sleep, not stay out drinking all night. He had a key so didn't have to wait for his friend to leave the do. And it was local so no problems about getting a taxi home early.

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notmyproblem · 15/02/2014 09:32

As someone who grew up in another country and moved here in my 30s, I don't understand how so many adults in the UK consider a "night out" to be getting completely shitfaced so that they are still staggering drunk at 7am. I know it seems the norm here for most of you so you brush it off, but from my forriner's perspective it's shocking how much heavy drinking by adults goes in on this country, and how it's accepted. The OP is being blamed here for her DH's inability to have a night out without drinking to excess.

Do people honestly believe that a night out isn't a proper one unless you're still falling down drunk at 7am the next day? This is the stuff I did when I was a uni student, not as a fully-grown adult with job, spouse and kids.

Sorry for the thread hijack OP, YANBU.

Casmama · 15/02/2014 09:42

I don't think it is your fault OP but can't understand why you and your dh didn't think that perhaps Sunday would be a better day for DDs party.
It wasn't just a night out it was his best friends stag do. I understand you are shattered and I would probably be raging in your position too but think the party issue was avoidable by you both.

MrsOakenshield · 15/02/2014 09:57

that is a very good point, Casama, it works both ways - why have a big night out before a party, why have a party the day after a pre-arranged night out. Could easily have worked out fine.

Seriouslyknackered · 15/02/2014 10:06

It's not bollocks unfortunately. It wasn't a proper stag do in the normal sense, that was a couple of weeks ago. This was the groom and a few mates having a drink. But as DH couldn't go on the actual stag weekend, I agreed to this. dDs party has been arranged for months and couldn't be changed. And the get together for the lads was only recently arranged but several of them could only do this particular night. So no chance to rearrange either, just the supposed compromise of him taking it easy.

He is up and showered and looking slightly more human. We are just about to set off to the party. We will be having a serious discussion when we get back.

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QueenQueenie · 15/02/2014 10:15

I am more shocked by the seeming general acceptance that a grown man drinking all night to the point where he's pissed at 7am is anywhere within the realms of acceptable. Yuk.

BobPatSamandIgglePiggle · 15/02/2014 17:18

Queen - parents are still allowed to have fun.

Seems like just bad timing with stag and birthday coinciding with kids being up all night. Hope you all survived the party and that he's done more than his fair share.

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KeatsiePie · 15/02/2014 17:47

But the point of the 7 am return was that DP needed to wait till 7 am to come home so as not to wake the babies.

Honestly, "darling, don't come home till 7 am so they don't wake up" does not equal "you can drink till 6:45 am darling, woohoo!!"

I mean come the fuck on. Your wife's alone with the babies overnight and then there's the birthday party. Coming home at 7 am a bit tired would have been fine -- low-key tv morning with the older one, then, while your wife sleeps. Coming home at 7 am drunk and useless is just fucking ridiculous behavior.

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MollyHooper · 15/02/2014 18:06

How did we get from someone being drunk at 7 am to the down trodden, controlled husband? The OP doesn't sound remotely like that.

He's has an 8 week old baby and needs to wise up.

MollyHooper · 15/02/2014 18:07

He has

I can't even blame auto correct for that.

ItitwrongtofancyHarryStyles · 15/02/2014 18:25

Look clearly some posters think it's ok to pull an all nighter every now and then and drink to excess, some don't.

So that's colouring people's opinions on whether he's been a twat.

The truth is OP is clearly ok with a big shesh in theory so that's what we should judge it on. She said 'fine come home at 7am' and now is in an arse about it.

I'd never said 'fine come home at 7am' ON THE DAY OF OUR DD'S BIRTHDAY PARTY! (I'd be ok at other times).

MollyHooper · 15/02/2014 18:41

You wouldn't?.

The OP's DH is presumably an adult and should be quite capable of thinking for himself.

Wouldn't he have known about his daughters birthday? Surely it's up to him to not still be drunk at 7am?

And why has "Stay at your friends but be home fore 7" translated into "Drink all night" for some people?

LiberalLibertine · 15/02/2014 18:55

I feel for you on the sleep deprivation, it's really tough.

But you're breast feeding so he can't really help in the night can he?

And He didn't go on the weekend away for his best mate stag, presumably because of your new baby, so this was a compromise?

We are another couple who have rare nights out without each other, but when we do is in the knowledge that the whole night and next morning are included. I think when it's rare that's fair enough.

The problem here is that you had a particular w bad night with the kids and are knackered, but he's come home on time and has made the party, do have a few hours to yourself and move on.