I should tell you at we have been married for 9 years, have a 7yr old dd, and a 2 yr old ds. We rarely argue. I do most things around the home, and am even tempered. I also control the issues in our family, be they children's tantrums, knowing when ds needs to use the potty, sorting out dinner etc. DH is a lovely husband and father.
Today we were coming back from an afternoon out, and on the way back through town we needed to stop off whilst DH first posted a parcel, and then at a chemist for me to pick up a prescription for my gran who is staying with us for a few weeks.
We stopped in the carpark of the chemist, I nipped in to pick up the prescription, and when I came out DH and the car (and children) were gone. I had no coat, it was raining, and it's about 15 minutes walk to home. No one had indicated that they were going anywhere.
I walked around the carpark and looked behind buildings in case they were playing a joke on me, then started my walk home. About 300m from home dh pulled up. I told him I was upset and didn't want to get in the car with him.
The children were shouting to me out of the window and I skied and waved at them. DH kerb crawled beside me until we got home saying things to the children like "mummy's REALLY angry this time you can tell by her walk, and the way she swings her arms" dd was shouting at me to "stop being silly and just get in"
Dd then got out of the car and shouted at me, telling me I was silly to care about being left, that I was an adult and could get home so what was the problem. When I told her I was upset she told me that we didn't want me to be her mummy any more. I admit to losing my cool at this point and telling her to leave me alone. I didn't shout this, but I did say it loudly and firmly. DH then tried to get me to engage in what we were sorting everyone outfor tea. I got it all out of the freezer and said I was going upstairs.
Dd was upset with me being angry at DH, and still cannot understand why I am upset, she cannot stop crying and DH did nothing to comfort her.
I have calmed her down, and brought her down for dinner as DH felt it was my issue to resolve. I was annoyed at this too, as at 7 dd should really understand that her words have an effect, and she cannot say upsetting things to people when they are already upset, and then expect that person to be there for them when they need them.
DH still feels I am being unreasonable. He has apologised reluctantly. I am surprisingly tearful over this.
I feel as though I give all of myself to others, make agoodjob of communicating my thoughts, intentions and feelings and am completely abandoned by my family because they fancied doing something better.
Aibu? I am able to take criticism, like I say I am rarely upset or emotional about things.
AIBU?
For the first time in forever I am angry. And DH thinks iabu
Homemadewhine · 03/01/2015 18:03
Sometimes it does both partners and children a bit of good to realise that you are human, that you have feelings and sometimes you run out of the ability to be calm and patient.
I'm the reasonable Mrs Fixit in my family, the oil in the machine, But once in a while I feel taken for granted and then I tell them so, sometimes quite angrily. But briefly.
Your DD obviously isn't used to you being cross or upset, and that triggered a response from her that upset you. Which means almost all of the time you are a lovely mum who is calm and tolerant, and when you slipped out of role for a moment, she got cross. She'll recover. 
It wasn't helpful, he should have given you a ring or a test to let you know and he didn't think. He thought he was saving time. Now he knows that next time, tell you and you can go for a coffee in the interval.
To be fair to the op, by the time her husband pulled up she must have had all sorts going through her mind, from confusion about where they had gone to, to worry about would they know she had gone home. Remember she didn't have her phone on her so also had no way of telling them she would be walking home. Then to have her husband curb crawl along side of her while he and her daughter shouted from the window, without explanation at that point, must have been quite belittling. The first thing he should have done was wind down the window and say "sorry I thought I would have had enough time to wash the car," not all the other stuff. It is about respect.I would have reacted much the same way I imagine, and I'm perfect 
LadyLuck, ODFOD 
OP? Yanbu. I'd have been incandescent over this. What a thoughtless arse who then compounded thoughtless behaviour by stirring up your daughter! And why did you sort our their dinner?!??
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