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AIBU?

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64 replies

Tryingtostayyoung · 23/11/2016 16:39

Not sure if IABU and insensitive or if DH is being a massive cock.
Background- I've been a SAHM since DD was born, 4years ago, since then I have done everything around the house apart from a few things that DH did and genuinely didn't mind this. We were both happy with this arrangement. He's a very hands on dad and she is very much both of our responsibility when we are both here AND he's amazing with diy, if everything needs repairing he will do it without any nagging and will give up his entire weekend to do things for us round the house.
DD starts school next September and is now in nursery quite abit in preparation and because she loves it, I have been working part time around her hours while she is there and we came to an arrangement with DH where he was going to do more around the house because I was also working abit, this has been fine so far, no problems.
The place where I work has asked me if I would like to do more hours which I talked over with DH and we decided that I should do it but it came with agreement that he would do a few more things to help than we originally agreed. Everyone was happy.
This weekend we had a huuuuuge leak in our house, the living room was ruined. Flooring has had to come up, furniture and wallpaper ruined and just aggravation since we've literally only just finished the work in there, DH was understandably upset and devastated after all his hard work renovating it. He took yesterday and Monday off work to start sorting it out and Tuesday was my log day at work (finished at 4). I called him on the way home and he admitted he had done hardly anything to repair the damage as he was exhausted from Sunday night (he was up until 4:00 trying to stop the water coming in etc) fair enough, he deserves a day to himself with DD. I come home and the house was a bomb site, clothes everywhere, washing up from breakfast, DD not bathed, washing dry but not put away, wrappers and food boxes all over the kitchen, he obviously had walked in the house after the rain and hadn't bothered to give the carpet a hoover. I was upset, he never ever comes home to our house like that, how often is it ever going to happen that he's home and I'm at work, I felt he could have made an effort to just do something. So I come in, clear up abit, wash up and tell him I'm hurt, he's uncharacteristically not bothered. He then didn't even offer to make me dinner, bath DD or anything. Later on I confronted him and told him I was so upset that the first week I did these longer hours he was actually at home and could have contributed at home a lot more and that he hadn't even offered to put some dinner on for me or DD (he didn't have dinner). He said he was tired, stressed and upset about everything and had just wanted to relax for the day which would have been fine for me if he had then apologised and said sorry I was a dick actually BUT he didn't, he thinks that he's 100% right to have literally not helped out at all.

OP posts:
BuggerLumpsAnnoyed · 23/11/2016 19:00

Sounds like fairly exceptional circumstances

coffeetasteslikeshit · 23/11/2016 21:08

He's probably coming down off an adrenalin high after Sunday and Monday and is exhausted.

Cucumber5 · 23/11/2016 22:54

Personally I'd expect it to take a few days to get on top of things and past exhaustion. In mean time it's better to pull together.

Allthewaves · 23/11/2016 23:08

It's a one off crap day. Be nice to each other. Really crap things happened - guess your both stressing about the cost ect of the damage.

Sybys · 23/11/2016 23:11

Agree it sounds like exceptional circumstances and I'd give him a pass on it. In some respects I think it's unreasonable that you seem to have come on here to complain about him after he slightly dropped the ball, on one occasion, in exceptional circumstances - but that probably goes to show how stressed you (and he) are.

Shellym13 · 23/11/2016 23:21

Poor bloke! My hubbie works all hours I wouldn't grudge him a chill day esp after being up till 4am.

baconandeggies · 23/11/2016 23:57

Sounds like he just, for once, needed to let it all sliiiiiiide. It doesn't make him a cock but I can see why you were annoyed.

Scooby20 · 24/11/2016 07:29

I think yabu. It was one day after doing shit loads and having a stressful time.

Some days I just can't be arsed. As long as it's not all the time what's the issue?

TheNaze73 · 24/11/2016 07:49

YABVU

GinIsIn · 24/11/2016 07:57

YABU, sorry - he was up most of the night and got about 3 hours sleep on Monday morning, spent all day Monday doing repairs, and was worn out by Tuesday, had the childcare to do and let house stuff slide as a one-off. That's really not that terrible or unreasonable.

HarleyQuinzel · 24/11/2016 08:15

I had lots of days on ML where I did absolutely FA. I don't think I ever apologised for not cleaning up or putting dinner on etc. I see where your coming from, but I can also see his POV, he's thinking he deserves a day off so shouldn't have to justify it.

HummusForBreakfast · 24/11/2016 09:34

So you cleared up the mess on Monday, just like he did, and probably stayed up late on Sunday, maybe not as much as him but still up, and then you went to work for a full day on Tuesday.
But somehow, it was too much for him so had to have some rest on Tuesday (but you went to work for the whole day tired or not).

Did I get that right?

I find it interesting that you are clearly upset by it but at the same time, you have spent a lot of time in your OP saying how great he is, how he always helps etc... in effect telling us how there was really n reason at all for you to be resentful. So why do you think you are?

One possibility is that the issue here is more than what he did on Tuesday. Something isn't going well (whatever the reason for the argument on Saturday and probably other issues too).
Atm, he is sulking and is just making it hard for you by not helping (as he still doesn't help around the house NOW even though he had a day off to rest) so is making you pay for whatever you have done wrong (incl being unhappy of him not pulling his weight up).
On the other side, you are still resentful of his attitude. You were expecting him to be on the ball and support you whilst he was at home the same way than you have for years. I assume that even when you have been feeling under the weather, or your dd has been hard work because she was under the weather, you still did some HW and still prepare the evening meal.

Have a think. Dont feel pressured to say YABU and let it go. There is something underneath much bigger than this one day. You need to find out what it is (even if its just the pressure of Christmas - it can become as very stressful time on its own)

Ohdearducks · 24/11/2016 09:42

The mess wouldn't bother me too much it's the the expectation that you'll clear up after him because he couldn't be arsed.
He should have cleaned up when you got home, if if happens again say you'll take DD out for dinner while he gets started, just get her coat on and go, don't lift a finger.

TataEs · 24/11/2016 09:55

i think not cleaning up any more of the mess from leak is ok, and not the bigger jobs like laundry or vacuuming is ok too if you're physically and emotionally drained. but to not clean up the breakfast/lunch plates and to have actively created more mess isn't really on.

you say he had a lazy day but he looked after his child all afternoon, which isn't exactly super relaxing ime, and if he was really lazy he'd have let ur mum have her whilst he did absolutely nothing.

if you are like me mess is stressful, a leak would be beyond stressful and it sounds like he's worked hard on diy around the house and probably feels really defeated by the whole ordeal and is incorrectly taking it out on you. whether you are happy to look passed it until such time you can talk it through without such strong emotion attached is up to u. i suspect he knows he was wrong but can't really bare to accept that just yet.

hope you get your house sorted asap.

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