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Was I BU with my partner this morning ?

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thetwocultures · 14/12/2016 08:52

Small issue but I'm questioning myself.
I work PT evenings and DP works FT anything from 7/8 am to 6/7pm. I usually get home late due to public transport (about 11.30pm) x2 a week after his training DP can get me from work and then we get home at 9.30pm.
He picked me up yesterday we came home and stayed up for a bit, pottered about etc and we went to bed there was plenty of time for him to say if he needed something.
(I usually iron him a shirt or 2 for work when he tells me he needs them.)
So this morning he walks into the bedroom after his shower me still asleep, puts the lights on as he's with DS who woke up and starts getting dressed. He realises he doesn't have any ironed shirts and starts his little huffing and puffing, I ask him if he wants me to iron one now and he says there's no time and he thought I did two for him the other day ( I didn't & he never asked for 2). So he just puts on a shirt that was hanging up in the wardrobe and grumbles something about not having cufflinks like WTF he has lots lying around somewhere but I'm no cufflink keeper if he's implying it's my fault.
He finishes getting ready, comes into the bedroom to put his shoes on and complains saying he looks like a 'tramp'. I say that you can't really see creases on the shirt, it just has the normal creases of an ironed shirt that has been worn if that makes sense?
He just shakes his head and says I need to get DS because he needs to leave, I barely stretch in bed and DP just sets off downstairs with a distraught 20mo following after him (DS can get down the stairs fine) so I jump out of bed without being able to put anything on as I'm thinking DPs just going to walk straight out and leave upset DS on his own downstairs I get there and DPs at the door and I tell him he doesn't have to be like that I didn't even have a chance to put my robe on to which DP says exactly this "you just don't get it I'm sorry but you don't" and says bye and leaves.
AIBU to think he should tell me if/when he needs shirts since I've agreed to iron them for him and he knows I hate ironing I'm no mind reader and don't know what he does on set days (he's self employed) and he shouldn't huff and puff about it when it's too late?
He'll probably deny acting funny later but usually when we're all up before he leaves he'd say a proper goodbye and DS a kiss and a big cuddle not just make a bolt for the door.
I know this is a childish issue compared to the ones on here but was IBU? Should I just always make sure DS has ready shirts and clothes for work even if he doesn't need them because he works long hours? Or am I right in waiting for him to tell me if he needs them like he would do before when he'd tell me e.g. "I need 3 shirts for this week" and I'd just have them ready for Monday for him.
I'm just sick of feeling like he's trying to make me feel guilty Blush

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RhodaBorrocks · 14/12/2016 10:09

My XDP was an abusive arsehole, but he always ironed his own shirts.

What jobs does DP do for you OP? Or does he think that working FT absolved him from housework? If he thinks that then you working PT should only be doing half the housework, if you look at it logically.

baconandeggies · 14/12/2016 10:10

He's never had to do his own shirts

Well it's about blood time. Honestly OP - his attitude isn't normal or remotely reasonable.

I admit I'm a bit disorganised even though I'm trying to improve

You haven't done anything wrong whatsoever. Why do you put up with being treated like this?

ChasingAPinkBall · 14/12/2016 10:10

Yeah I wouldn't put up with that!
I work pt and DH works ft so I do the majority of the house work. He looks after the kids 50/50 when home and I cook (cos I like to). I wash and dry his clothes along with everyone else's but he has to put them away and iron anything he wants ironing! He is an adult after all!
If my DH said 'I need 2 shirts this week' and expected me to go and iron them for him he'd have a very long wait!

baconandeggies · 14/12/2016 10:12

He wasn't exactly having a go at me today just muttering under his breath about no shirt and cufflinks.

No - he was entirely having a go at you - just in a passive aggressive arsehole fashion.

Arfarfanarf · 14/12/2016 10:12

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TheLivingAsheth · 14/12/2016 10:13

Ironing is soul destroying. I never iron anything. My stuff and the kids doesn't need to be ironed. If DH wants his shirts ironed, he can iron them himself, and he does.

I fear when the kids go to secondary school we may need to start ironing their shirts though, no more polo shirts.

BathshebaSnowflakeStone · 14/12/2016 10:14

Why do you have to iron his shirts? Xmas Confused

Gazelda · 14/12/2016 10:14

It doesn't sound as though you consider yourself an equal partner to him. Nor does he.
I'm with InSpace

Bluntness100 · 14/12/2016 10:15

I've never ironed my husbands shirts. It takes five mins he could have done it himself and checking he had what he needed in the morning the night before is the way to go.

Three ways to handle it.

He does his own
You always have a couple in the wardrobe for him
You pay someone to iron them for you.

Your call.

FinallyHere · 14/12/2016 10:16

Hang on, he was happy to keep the cleaner who ironed his shirts but you didn't like her standards and got rid of her? Is that right? Is there any chance that your answer to his objection 'you can't fire her, who will do my shirts?' was that you would do the shirts, and that you decided to do them 'on demand' rather than all in one go, as the cleaner did? Okaaaayyyyy...

Would mornings go more smoothly if you (both of you) worked out a way to make sure he always has an ironed shirt?

I believe strongly in fairness. If he can afford to get his shirts ironed without impacting your household income, I see no moral imperative to make him do it, or have to ask you to iron them as he needs them.

DonaldStott · 14/12/2016 10:17

I see from your last post you are trying to minimise how much of an arsehole he was. He needs to iron his own shirts or pay someone to do it. I see he has 'his' money. And your wages are paying for your things. He sounds like an utter arse.

thetwocultures · 14/12/2016 10:19

Finally that's hardly what happened!
I didn't care until one day I caught her trying to pocket some money she found that fell out of a jean pocket. I told DP about it and it was up to him what he wanted to do as I wasn't living there at the time.
I admit the only thing I didn't gear up for properly is keeping the house clean, when I was moving in I said I could do it and didn't see it as an issue but since then I've struggled to do it all and fall behind on it Confused

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golfbuggy · 14/12/2016 10:22

Agree he can iron his own shirts.

But ... I suspect it's one of those situations that's not actually about the shirts (and - as an aside- why do you have shirts that aren't ready to wear hanging in the wardrobe?).

The thing that jumps out is that he was trying to get ready for work, and he was also looking after DS. You were just lying in bed. If I'd been in that situation I'd have expected the "lying in bed" partner to look after the child leaving the going to work partner to get ready in peace!

AverageJosephine · 14/12/2016 10:22

Get a new cleaner OP. It is not your job to keep the house clean and shirts ironed if you don't want it to be.

Him speaking to you like that is a separate issue that does need addressing.

Whatthefuckis1tnow · 14/12/2016 10:23

The issue is not you doing the ironing. It's ok for you both to have set jobs within the house if this is agreed. What is not ok is him moaning about something that you do as a favour to him.
Unless there is a reasonable apology this evening then I would immediately stop all his washing and ironing etc and leave him to it.
I don't care if he has a stressful job or works long hours. Basic manners and a bit of respect wouldn't go a miss.

123bananas · 14/12/2016 10:23

In my house I work and DH is SAHP. We have an agreement that he irons my work clothes (I fold all clean clothing in the house and put it away as he doesn't like that job). I still take responsibility for making sure that they are clean and to give them to DH for ironing before I need them. He is BU.

InSpaceNooneCanHearYouScream · 14/12/2016 10:25

Why are you now defending him?

thetwocultures · 14/12/2016 10:30

golfbuggy he wasn't exactly looking after DS he got out of the shower and heard DS was up so got him from his bedroom and brought him into our bedroom no more to it. DS happily runs around after the dog or entertains himself. I wasn't exactly sleeping either I was just in bed ...

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Booshbeesh · 14/12/2016 10:31

Uh oh. I think im a minority here but il risk it.. he got up for the baby whilst u was asleep he works fulltime. Surely ironing his shirts ona sunday evening ready for.the week ahead incase he needs them is a minor thing to do for ur husband?

thetwocultures · 14/12/2016 10:31

I'm afraid in the position we're in now we can't afford a cleaner...will have to look into it.

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Parker231 · 14/12/2016 10:33

Can he physically not iron? If not why are you doing his ironing? It's 2016 - I'm amazed at how many women let themselves be treated as a second class citizen in their own marriages!

SAHDthatsall · 14/12/2016 10:34

Best way is to buy non-iron shirts! When I worked full time I had 6 of them and when washed and not spun too hard, hung up to dry and job done.

Nowadays as I do everything in the house my cheeky method is 5-8 mins in the tumble dryer for items that would need ironing - shirts, t-shirts etc... the creases drop out, hang them on hangers to dry and job done.

thetwocultures · 14/12/2016 10:35

Boosh please read my last post. He was already up and in the shower and when he got out he heard DS was up so he brought him into our room... That's all.

And like I mentioned , I don't mind doing them when he lets me know he needs them. But he asked me to do him a shirt on Monday "A SHIRT" no mention of 'oh I need 2 or 3 this week' otherwise i would have had them done.

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Parker231 · 14/12/2016 10:37

Do you do the food shopping, cleaning, cooking and laundry as well?

PeteSwotatoes · 14/12/2016 10:39

Yanbu! My mum snapped over that years ago and my dad pays the launderette to sort his shirts out now.

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