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To ask my DH to help...

64 replies

Kerala2712 · 28/11/2016 08:51

I am 20 weeks pregnant, we have a DD of 21 months. I have hyperemesis, and generally don't do pregnancy well. Up until 6 weeks ago DH worked away, and I worked bank shifts when I could get childcare (mostly late nights, usually 10 hours in A+E, so no predictable sitting down/peeing/breaks etc). He has changed his job to be working from home and self employed. This seems to mean making a few phone calls and frequently disappearing to the pub. We have a very bouncy springer spaniel.
As he's home more WE agreed that I would take on as many shifts as possible up til christmas to top up my mat pay (zero hours contract). I have worked 60+ hours almost all at night each week for the last two weeks (only two weeks).
Although he's good with DD, he doesnt do proper bedtime routine (waits til shes past it then slings in grobag with clothes on (last night not even new nappy) and puts her in bed- no story, cant be bothered with teeth etc. He doesn't pick up after himself or her, never 'sees' a job, has walked the dog three times in two weeks. He has begrudgingly allowed me an extra hour or two in bed in the mornings on post work days (constantly interrupted by 'wheres the...etc') and this morning (i finished a 12 hour shift at 2am, got in at two thirty) DD woke up at 5 (hoping thats a phase) - i got up and did getting dressed, teeth, breakfast, playing, cleaned up broken glass he hadnt been bothered to clear up properly last night, sorted out kitchen (total pigsty) changed bedlinen on Dd and spare room as mil coming to stay tonight. I woke him up at 7.30 and asked him to take DD to Nursery (she goes two days a week, so I can work, the last two weeks he's taken her most (not all) days) and he told me to f off, that i was being selfish, unreasonable and unfair and basically not pulling my weight. Prior to this last couple of weeks as he's worked so full on I have done every early morning, all night wakings before she slept through, all housework, admin, i even do his bloody tax return. Am i being unreasonable to ask him since he's home now to do more? Like walk dog, take to nursery when I've had three hours sleep and doing same shift today, clear up, at very least do proper bedtime routine etc? I feel like he's being lazy and childish, but not sure if its just me being pregnant and unreasonable (as he argues)

OP posts:
SantasLittleMonkeyButler · 28/11/2016 09:58

Thanks Liney. Yes, I had missed something Blush.

KayTee87 · 28/11/2016 10:02

God what an arse! He's a terrible father!
He left her in a old nappy for overnight
He didn't bother to put pjs on her
^these two things alone would be bad enough.
Can you sit him down and discuss what you expect from each other in your relationship?

Nanny0gg · 28/11/2016 10:04

Can you sit him down and discuss what you expect from each other in your relationship?

If you have to do that with a grown man who is allegedly a husband and father then there is already no hope.

NeedsAsockamnesty · 28/11/2016 10:06

I would be all sorts of humiliated and ashamed if any son of mine thought this was acceptable.

I would be so ashamed that you would end up with a cleaner and a nanny all paid for by me to cover your share of everything and he would get battered senseless with a toothbrush and a dirty nappy told to grow the fuck up.

When are you resting? HG almost killed me once and the vast majority of sufferers find that rest makes the difference between meds working or not.

Please tell me MIL is coming to look after you and not to be waited on

OohMavis · 28/11/2016 10:07

(waits til shes past it then slings in grobag with clothes on (last night not even new nappy) and puts her in bed- no story, cant be bothered with teeth etc.

I'm sorry, you lost me at this. That's fucking vile. How can you stand to look him in the face? Why are you letting him get away with that?

He sounds like a shit dad and an even shittier partner. Get rid!

SapphireStrange · 28/11/2016 10:07

Although he's good with DD

He isn't.

He' s a cunt.

Kick him into touch.

expatinscotland · 28/11/2016 10:07

So true, Nanny.

OohMavis · 28/11/2016 10:09

I realise my post didn't sound very sympathetic, sorry. You must be utterly exhausted, how you're even functioning is beyond me. But he is not a 'good dad'.

longdiling · 28/11/2016 10:10

If you seriously have to question whether he's being selfish and unreasonable then this man has totally done a number on you and messed with your head.

Think about this. If he is good with his daughter why can't he be bothered to offer he even the most basic level of care? Would you be happy with her nursery workers not bothering to change her nappy or leaving broken glass lying around? What if you didn't bother to change her or brush her teeth either? You would have a very neglected little girl.

I think you need to start squirreling away some of that money from the extra shifts you're doing. I have a feeling you may be planning an exit some time in the future. Well I hope you do anyway.

WellErrr · 28/11/2016 10:13

waits til shes past it then slings in grobag with clothes on (last night not even new nappy) and puts her in bed- no story, cant be bothered with teeth etc

What a nasty horrible man.

I'm so, so sorry you're in this situation whilst pregnant OP. But your husband is awful. There's no excuse for his behaviour.

Memoires · 28/11/2016 10:13

Honestly, he's not doing well as a partner, father,dog owner, or householder. So talk to him, spell it out, make lists if necessary. Then if he doesn't shape up think about what he actually adds to your life and whether it's worth it (and remember, you don't want your children growing up like that so he's really a bad role model atm).

ElspethFlashman · 28/11/2016 10:13

He's not even as good with her as an Uncle would be.

His level of care for her is about the same as if you'd asked one of the regulars in the pub to care for her.

Inthenick · 28/11/2016 10:16

My honest advice is to leave this man and have no more children with him.

I couldn't love someone who treated me and our kids like this.

KatharinaRosalie · 28/11/2016 10:21

What kind of husband would allow his hyperemesis suffering wife to get up after 3 hours of sleep??

If you (as a family) need extra money during your maternity leave, why isn't he doing all those extra shifts, instead of spending his time at the pub? Let me guess, because you have separate finances and you're expected to keep paying for half of everything?

Inertia · 28/11/2016 10:36

You must be absolutely exhausted.

Your husband is a shit.

He is categorically not a good dad- he is a neglectful parent. Failing to put a clean nappy on a baby/toddler and not cleaning the child's teeth are signs of neglect.

He is also a verbally abusive husband.

KatharinaRosalie · 28/11/2016 12:20

OP, you know what I did when I was pregnant with DC2 and suffering from mild to moderate morning sickness? I did fuck all. I was laying on the sofa while DH was doing everything. Neither of us thought this was unreasonable.

ThatStewie · 28/11/2016 12:33

This isn't a good man, husband or father. He's a lazy, selfish abusive asshole.

Your life would be a billion times less stressful without him ruining it for you. Your children will be happier and healthier without a useless wankstain treating them like shit (because his treatment of your child is neglect and that is a form of child abuse). You all deserve better than him.

As others have said above, that you would have to explain this to an adult means there is no relationship to save. Get rid before the baby comes and you wind up trapped with 3 children

Kerala2712 · 28/11/2016 13:05

Thank you all for your support. I should probably add this is not usual behaviour for him with DD, only the last couple of weeks.

You are quite right about sickness- its better if i'm not tired.
I went back to bed after posting and he woke me up at 11 to see if I wanted to go to lunch with him as if nothing wrong. Grr.
Just woken up again so feel better. I was just so shocked this morning, as this whole behaviour is out of character.
Might show him your answers and see what he says.

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YelloDraw · 28/11/2016 13:14

NoCapes got it in one on the second post.

He is a scum bag. Why are you having another child with him???????

ohfourfoxache · 28/11/2016 13:14

I wouldn't bother showing him tbh.

But I would be taking the essence of what you have written to a solicitor.

He honestly does sound like an abusive arsehole - he woke you AGAIN? Doesn't matter what his "reasoning" for waking you is, it just shows that once again his wants come above your needs.

LineyReborn · 28/11/2016 13:14

Oh God, is he expecting his mum to come in and do all the work and caring that he should be doing? Maybe that's what he's been building up to.

SantasLittleMonkey you actually inadvertently raise a bloody good point about what the MiL's role is in all this.

ohfourfoxache · 28/11/2016 13:15

Yello, NoCapes takes no shit Grin

LineyReborn · 28/11/2016 13:16

My ExH used to wake me when I was sleeping with toddler and new born. He turned out to be an abusive arsehole just in general.

Donatellalymanmoss · 28/11/2016 13:21

Why are you having another child with him? It never ceases to amaze me how many women who voluntarily have children with arse holes who refuse to take proper care of their children.

There is absolutely no excuse for him putting a child to bed in their clothes with a dirty nappy. Or for him treating his pregnant wife like the hired help. Or for not letting someone sleep when they've been out at work.

LineyReborn · 28/11/2016 13:27

My ExH didn't turn into a complete arsehole until I was pregnant with #2. It happens.