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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Or could my husband be doing more?

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Crapmummy2016 · 24/04/2016 22:32

We have a young baby who refuses to sleep unless in bed with me, and who wakes frequently at night. Often he will be awake for a couple of hours at a time. I'm beyond exhausted and very impatient and irritable as a result!

Since the baby came I've been leaving DH to get our elder child up in the mornings. DH just gets him up and takes him into his bed ( he is in the spare room) and sticks YouTube videos in so he can go back to sleep. He doesn't give him breakfast or anything so I do it around 8 am when DH leaves for work. At weekends DH will stay in bed until 10 or later if I let him. Eldest son will be with him playing on his (DHs) phone and won't have even had a drink. I could get up and sort it out myself but if the baby is sleeping I want to try and sleep myself so feel annoyed at getting up while DH stays in bed.

If I complain to DH he will say how tired he is. BUT he hadn't done one single night with the baby in 5 months. He chooses to stay up late to watch TV. He can go to bed whenever he wants and get an uninterrupted night. Eldest son wakes around 7 am usually which isn't that bad.

I'm really, really tired at the moment and my mood is deteriorating rapidly. I've been a bitch the past few days and bad tempered. I think DH should be getting up in the morning and taking both kids so I can sleep - is this unreasonable of me?? He says he has to work so is tired too. He has a short commute and an office job that allows for lots of socialising in the form
Of " meetings".

AIBU to be slightly annoyed at him?

OP posts:
HelenaDove · 27/04/2016 20:17

Hes a lazy bastard OP

mytimewillcome · 27/04/2016 21:23

I have come to the conclusion that if they don't help then they don't love you enough. If they can't feel any compassion for their wife when she is as tired as she is ever going to be then they just don't care anymore.

QueenArseClangers · 27/04/2016 22:03

Agree entirely mytime

HelenaDove · 27/04/2016 23:31

They have now put the "Chore Wars" article up on their site

lifestyle.one/grazia/news-real-life/opinion/chore-wars-still-expected-charge-housework-2016/

mytimewillcome · 28/04/2016 07:15

Queen, if I had had a husband like yours I'd still be married.

HelenaDove · 28/04/2016 14:53

mytime i agree. Not only can they not love you enough......it also shows that they dont respect you either and see you as "lesser"

TooGood2BeFalse · 28/04/2016 15:25

Hi OP, I was just wondering how you were today and if your husband had said anything else/the conversation had come up again? Hope things are a bit better

Crapmummy2016 · 29/04/2016 09:54

We haven't had a chance for a proper discussion about it yet.

Thanks for asking!

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Crapmummy2016 · 03/05/2016 08:13

Just a quick update. DH got up and gave breakfast every day this weekend! Even emptied the dishwasher one morning which is beyond amazing as I was beginning to think he thought it had a self emptying program!

He spoils it by moaning before going to work this morning that he is exhausted after a busy weekend and that at least I get to lie in....after another night up with the baby several times.aarrghhhh!!

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caffeine99 · 05/05/2016 20:57

Do you mind if I asked what changed to make him be more proactive in the mornings? Was it a result of you explaining that you needed more help?

I'm curious as I want to know you're secret Grin

Crapmummy2016 · 06/05/2016 06:38

I've no idea! We didn't have any further talks so I presume he thought about what I'd said and realised I was right.
We shall see if he keeps it up this weekend.

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