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WIBU to be furious about the way my DH spoke to me?

111 replies

TheLuckyMrsPine · 24/01/2017 14:02

So I work part time. I have my own account and my very small wages go in to it. I pay for the family car, fuel, insurance, my pension, kids pocket money, kids phones, kids clothes, dog insurance and food etc etc.

My DH has a very big important job Hmm but my job is important to me.

Eldest DD 12 has high temperature. I have my annual appraisal this morning which needs to be submitted to meet targets. Line manager not in after today so last chance to do it. My dad kindly offered to sit with my DD (who was asleep) so that I could do my appraisal and then would come home and have to make up time.

My DH got really annoyed and said one of us should stay with her and as his "job was important and earns the main wage" and that "it didn't matter" if my HR record was affected as my job is "not important!" I was furious by this as I feel like, although my DD is poorly, she is 12, asleep, there is someone here with her, and she is not throwing up or crying in pain.

Although my job is annoyingly low paid it is very technical and there is no one that can pick it up. I only work 2 days a week, and do not get paid for time off with children.

He then said he could work from home and but that it wouldn't go down well at work.

I was really upset by his wording and the way in which he spoke to me.
He made me feel exceptionally guilty about considering going in for 3 hours. He doesn't understand why I am being so "dramatic" or upset about what he said.

AIBU to be disappointed and angry at him?

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Bluntness100 · 24/01/2017 15:36

I've mixed views on this.

In this instance as the grandparent was there and this was your appraisal, then he was being a total knob end.

However in general when there is a huge disparity in earnings there does often come times where sometimes someone has to take the hit, and although it should not all be one person, the truth is, if you can survive on one persons earnings but not the others, then sometimes you have to give, as although uour job is important to you, his job is more important to the over all family, so he will have to take priority at times as you can't afford him to lose his job.

This is not one of those instances though and he was being a twat.

Hullygully · 24/01/2017 15:36

Tell him to fuck off

or kill him

Both save time

SapphireStrange · 24/01/2017 15:52

he says he doesn't know what I'm talking about. That I'm mad. Isn't that gaslighting?

Or that I'm emotionally abusive to him by making a thing of this type of thing.

What a drama queen.

Do you ever feel like taking on more hours at work?

BestZebbie · 24/01/2017 15:54

Your job is important not only to you, and to the things you pay for as a family, but to that sick DD! You working and not having your contribution dissed and undermined is a huge object lesson to her which will shape her own expectations of the value o her own work in the future. So no, he doesn't get to trash your appraisal by refusing to parent, and he really really really doesn't get to be stroppy because he didn't even get affected but you arranged your own childcare cover to sort it out!.

chocolateworshipper · 24/01/2017 15:59

YANBU. I get this sort of shit from DH who earns waaaaaay more than me. He conveniently forgets that I earned more than him for years before the DCs arrived and that it was a joint decision that I move into a lower paid job so I was less stressed and could be around more for the DCs.

I wonder if by putting us down it strokes their fragile little egos

Angry
crunched · 24/01/2017 16:11

Playing devils advocate a bit, but maybe he feels a little resentful that you were able to have ten and a half years as a SAHP and he has not had a similar career opportunity?
It could seem to him that you have had the better work/life balance and he now wishes he had been the one to spend that time with the DC.
Probably he is a sexist arse as others are saying,but I notice some of the men I mix with -over 40- are looking at men a bit younger and wishing they had made the choice to be more hands-on as fathers when DC were tiny...

RogueStar01 · 24/01/2017 16:16

presumably crunched her DH could've stepped up with the DC when op went back FT rather than letting her fail with all the wifework and a FT job?

rainbowstardrops · 24/01/2017 16:19

He sounds like a right twat to be honest. He clearly sees you as a lesser being to him.
Maybe buy him a calendar showing him that it's 2017 and not 1957.
I'd have to have it out with him once and for all personally.

SapphireStrange · 24/01/2017 16:20

maybe he feels a little resentful that you were able to have ten and a half years as a SAHP and he has not had a similar career opportunity?

Diddums.

welovepancakes · 24/01/2017 16:30

I find it difficult to tell tbh as invariably it's easier to put up with the behaviour than the resulting fall out if I mention any issues

OP - I find this very sad. This is what he's relying on. If you raise your concerns, he gets angry, so you decide to let it go. Would he speak to his boss like that? Or his mother? Or his sister? Read one of Lundy Bancroft's books

kittybiscuits · 24/01/2017 16:38

Playing devils advocate a bit, but maybe he feels a little resentful that you were able to have ten and a half years as a SAHP and he has not had a similar career opportunity?

^ comedy gold

Naicehamshop · 24/01/2017 16:38

Agree withpancakes. This will only get worse op - you really need to stand your ground and not put up with this sexist shit.

PickAChew · 24/01/2017 16:53

If you decided enough was enough and left him, he'd have to cook and clean for himself! Arrogant knobend.

madcatwoman61 · 24/01/2017 17:06

Since you were SAHM for 10 yeRs, he got used to being the only breadwinner - I think he feels threatened that you now have a job and a life outside the home, are no longer totally dependent on him and have upset the status quo

savtara · 24/01/2017 17:16

Awful! Say something!

savtara · 24/01/2017 17:19

Being grumpy and mean over money is so unappealing.

Anyone who claims you are 'mad' when you say you're unhappy wants to carry on with things suiting him... total denial...

Hope you don't take this cr*p anymore! Let your girls see you doing it too.

Please stand up for yourself more. Or LTB 😀

hesterton · 24/01/2017 17:26

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honeylulu · 24/01/2017 17:37

If you decided enough was enough and left him, he'd have to cook and clean for himself! Arrogant knobend.

This. And he'd have to hand over far more of his precious cash if you got divorced!

TheLuckyMrsPine · 24/01/2017 17:37

^ he is well insured so this idea has lots of benefits Grin

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kittybiscuits · 24/01/2017 17:39

It's sounding better and better Wink

TheLuckyMrsPine · 24/01/2017 17:41

I have in a particularly dark period suggested we would both be happier separately - at the time he said that this was emotional blackmail.

I guess he doesn't want to change, and is really refusing to.

Sometimes it seems ok to carry on, other times I feel like I just can't anymore. I am dreading him coming home tonight as I know he will be expecting me to be my normal self. If I seem put out or off then he will get angry.

I guess it's because the good moments just about outweigh the bad that we carry on. I don't want to destroy our family but don't want to stay like this either

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Klaphat · 24/01/2017 17:44

I am dreading him coming home tonight as I know he will be expecting me to be my normal self. If I seem put out or off then he will get angry.

So he treats you like shit and then enjoys making you pretend you're happy about it. What a prize. Let him get angry.

AGirlCalledJohnny · 24/01/2017 17:48

Agree with Klaphat, time to out-arse him. The cheek of it.

kittybiscuits · 24/01/2017 17:59

I agree. Let him get angry.

expatinscotland · 24/01/2017 18:07

'he says he doesn't know what I'm talking about. That I'm mad. Isn't that gaslighting?'

Yes.

Go back FT. Use joint money to outsource all that shitwork. He protests, just shrug. 'I'm not a skivvy.' He stops putting wages into joint account, you do, too.

He doesn't even pay to clothe his own kids.

What a fucking wanker.

I'd let him get angry. FUCK HIM.

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