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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To think parenting isn't a joke?

70 replies

Dontgiveaflyingfuck · 03/06/2017 22:10

Last week a friend sent me a link to an article about the mental load and it made me think. I'd never really sat and thought about how much parenting DH does and decided that as we were away on holiday for a week and parenting should be 50/50 it would be a good chance to tally up the actual split. DH barely lifted a finger all fucking week even refusing to shower dd3 (aged 2) in the mens showers which meant i had three children to shower and dress (camping on a beach) every night in a tiny cubicle. He didn't change one nappy in the whole week or dress a child or pack a day bag. He did cook one meal - a barbecue - but even then made his food first so the children were starving.

On the way home today i asked dh to change dd3s nappy. Poor mite has a bug and i'd dealt with four lots of vomit by this point and just had enough of bodly fluids. He asked why he had to do which made my blood boil but i calmly pointed out he hadn"t changed a nappy all week. He replyed "oh damn you noticed, i thought i'd got away with it". I got cross, he said it was a joke and is now cross i am cross. AIBU to think this isn't funny?

OP posts:
RebornSlippy · 03/06/2017 22:12

Well, I wouldn't be laughing if I were you. Useless prick.

00100001 · 03/06/2017 22:13

Twat

WhimsicalWinnifred · 03/06/2017 22:14

Urgh

Think he's just made a joke to get out of trouble as he knew he was wrong.

Depending on household roles and if you want him to help more, talk to him.

TheSparrowhawk · 03/06/2017 22:15

He sounds like a waste of space.

finnthepink · 03/06/2017 22:15

Hardly a funny joke.

He sounds like a dickhead, sorry OP.

Pollydonia · 03/06/2017 22:15

I'd be telling him to step up or fuck off. Hope your DD is better soon Flowers

CrispyBathTowel · 03/06/2017 22:16

That sounds awful OP. He really needs to up his game and be a proper parent. Has he always been selfish? To sort your own food out before feeding your hungry children is just Shock

TestingTestingWonTooFree · 03/06/2017 22:16

OP shouldn't want him "to help", she should want him to do his part. On holidays that's 50%. He sounds like a selfish prick.

SaltySalt · 03/06/2017 22:17

The food thing would have really pissed me off how selfish!

Oysterbabe · 03/06/2017 22:17

Yes he's a dick but you're a mug for letting it happen.

MarcelineTheVampire · 03/06/2017 22:18

Urgh, men like this annoy the hell out of me- my DP would never behave like this and it certainly isn't funny, OP you need to be having serious words.

QuiteLikely5 · 03/06/2017 22:18

If he didn't lift a finger that's because you allow him to get away with this sort of thing. Honestly why not discuss what he needs to do to contribute and tell him if he doesn't start you may as well be a single parent as you do everything anyway.

You'd probably be better off financially too so tell him your motivation to remain as you are is shrinking by the day.

I couldn't get past when you said he prepared his own food first - absolute selfish waste of space tosser!

crazycatgal · 03/06/2017 22:18

He sounds like a complete waste of space. Don't let him get away with doing fuck all.

bunnylove99 · 03/06/2017 22:19

Yanbu. He does sound like a particularly lazy specimen. Sounds like he has the 'I am on my holiday so i will do nothing' mentality. I feel for you OP!

TiredMumToTwo · 03/06/2017 22:19

Yes step up or fuck off!

ZoeyPs · 03/06/2017 22:20

Not funny

museumum · 03/06/2017 22:22

That's not the mental load, that's the whole load he's avoiding.
Did her seriously skier alone while you showered 3 children?!?!?
That's genuinely shocking! How did you get into this state? Put your foot down now!

cheesydoesit · 03/06/2017 22:22

How does he get away with it? To feed yourself before your hungry child is abnormal. Reading your OP makes ME want to LTB and I don't even know him!

SweetLuck · 03/06/2017 22:25

He sounds like a cunt.

PolarBearGoingSomewhere · 03/06/2017 22:26

Yeah, definitely not funny. I read the comic about mental load too and felt a lot of it applied to me as a SAHM. That said, DH does every nappy when we're away and at weekends - he does have different standards than I do with housework but fuck me what is the point of a partner who isn't in partnership?

PickAChew · 03/06/2017 22:27

Definitely not funny. Dickhead.

I hope that in amongst running around like a blue arsed fly after the kids you are doing absolutely nothing to make his life any easier.

Pigface1 · 03/06/2017 22:33

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

He wasn't joking.

NeedsAsockamnesty · 03/06/2017 22:41

Why do you bother keeping him?

PoorYorick · 03/06/2017 22:41

What does he actually contribute to your life? Or your kids'?

YesMilk · 03/06/2017 22:45

I honestly couldn't be with a man who had such little interest in our children.

What is the point of him?