Whilst I have to pick up the slack?
He always seems to get absorbed in something; DIY, watching sport, watching a film, playing games on his phone, and when he's absorbed in it he goes totally uncommunicative and disengages with the DC and I, not listening to a word we say and basically opting out of family life. Yesterday it was the grand prix qualifier, today it's the bloody grand prix. There's always something. He'll only pull his weight if he feels like doing so, and if he doesn't he'll just go off and do his own thing.
I get cross as I don't get that luxury; I have to juggle everything and always pick up the slack, whilst he can opt in and out at leisure. Tonight he'd clearly decided he was watching the grand prix, so he just ate dinner, left his plate and the rest of the tidying up and went and sat in the living room. There is always an assumption that I will sort the DCs out and do anything that needs doing in the house. Also it's annoyed me that he has just assumed that there's nothing I want to watch and that he can just hog the tv all evening!
It's no good me just leaving things, as he just wouldn't do them if he doesn't want to! He's currently sat in the sitting room, totally absorbed in the tv, and I have just had to repeat something to him three times before he'd reply. He's like a child!