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To expect help around the house

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user1480348569 · 28/11/2016 17:21

I'm at my wits end with DP and have gotten to the point where i'd rather be on my own. I'm a SAHM with our 1 year old DS and no2 due in Feb. Before this i was a full time student.

On one hand, DP works 40+ hours a week, pays all the bills and cooks our evening meal every night.

On the other hand, he does nothing around the house and complains about having to do certain things with DS. For example, he'll complain about having to do nappy changes when he gets home or having to play with him so i can go do something else, "I've just got in i want to relax", even though theres only about 3 hours between him getting home and DS going to bed, so you'd think he'd want to spend time with him right??

Around the house he doesn't do much at all. He'll take off his trousers in the middle of the living room floor and if i dont pick them up, they will stay there for literally weeks. DP will just step over them. He does this with everything around the house, never really having the consideration to just do things without being asked, and when asked he complains.

I no longer feel like i want to be intimate with him, our sex life has dwindled to nothing and frankly with the inconsideration and unappreciation i feel like i get from him, thats fine by me. Of course he complains about the lack of sex but what does he expect??

He blames the pressure of being the sole breadwinner and being the only one who goes to work for his lack of help. Some days i find this reasonable, on most others i think, he's a grown man who should be more than capable of picking up after himself and sharing the responsibility for our child, soon to be children.

I'm the one always made to feel like i'm just constantly nagging and being unreasonable. Am i????

OP posts:
JenLindleyShitMom · 28/11/2016 19:16

If the nappy needs changing as he walks in the door then no reason for him not to do it just because it's unpleasant. Plenty of working parents have to change a nappy as soon as they walk through the door. It's called parenting. There are some yucky bits, having a full time job doesn't exempt you from them.

If OP is keeping the nappy specifically for him to change then that is very wrong.

formerbabe · 28/11/2016 19:18

He could do click and collect order in his lunch break at work

Not sure why it is OP wasting his days off. hmm surely he is wasting his own

Personally, I think the sahp should do the weekly shop.

JenLindleyShitMom · 28/11/2016 19:24

Sahp does do the weekly shop. Another poster suggested OP was wasting her partner's time off employed job with weekly shop so I suggest if he finds it a waste of his time he could do it in his lunch break and collect on the way home from work leaving his weekends free. Alternatively he can look after the baby while OP does it and gets some peace from her job.

formerbabe · 28/11/2016 19:28

Oh I got the impression that they do the weekly shop together? I don't understand couples who do the food shopping together. It's a waste of family time.

JenLindleyShitMom · 28/11/2016 19:30

Yes they do it together. This means the SAHP is doing it.

ToffeeForEveryone · 28/11/2016 19:31

Is everyone else missing the part where OP is home with a 1 year old and is 7 months pregnant?

When I was 7 months gone I felt really really sick, and it got worse over the next 2.5 months. Bending down, smelly cleaning products, anything heavy... Nope. Nope nope nope. And that's without the toddler!

YANBU AT ALL OP. This is a time where he should step up massively and if he doesn't when you are asking for his support then he's a complete arsewipe and a piss poor husband. Paying bills is not half of everything that needs doing and he should be doing more than half whilst you are heavily pregnant.

Buy in some decent ready meals or batch cook and tell him to spend his evenings doing what's actually needed rather than faffing about playing chef.

Also, 3 HOURS before DC go to bed and he's wanting to do as he likes with his evening whilst you deal on your own?! Jog on.

Got some serious rage on your behalf OP.

formerbabe · 28/11/2016 19:32

With the working parent too!

It doesn't take 2 people to go food shopping.

I always do the weekly shop on a Friday, so we can enjoy the weekend with as few chores as possible. The shops are also quieter during the week.

ToffeeForEveryone · 28/11/2016 19:33

I'm so angry I can't count. 6 months?

All still stands.

JenLindleyShitMom · 28/11/2016 19:38

With the working parent too!

It doesn't take 2 people to go food shopping.

Indeed, I would assume that's because he chooses to go. If he feels it is a waste of his time he could stay at home with the baby while OP does it or he could do click and collect on his lunch hour and collect on the way home like I suggested.

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