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AIBU to expect help when I'm this ill

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MissesBloom · 22/11/2017 17:10

Ok first time on Aibu so go easy on me.

Have had over the last few days some sort of virus, which has left me unable to get my head off the pillow. Am feeling a little better but yesterday and night before was horrendous. Have had a raging fever, aches and limbs feeling heavy, sore throat, severe headache and stomach upset.

Anyway dh has a pretty demanding job, I am a sahm. He is a director of a company so works very long hours and doesn't have an assistant or anyone helping him so pretty full on.

The AIBU bit is that he just refuses to take a day off to help. I was up most of Monday night was in too much pain to sleep, and warned him I wouldn't be able to take care of kids. I managed to grab an hour or two on the sofa in the end and I woke up to him telling me hed taken my ds to school and that id need to take care of dd (2) and the puppy as he had a busy day ahead.

As the day went on I got worse and worse and was worried about dd. I couldn't get up without feeling dizzy and very very sick. In the end I called dh in tears telling him to come home and he basically just said sorry not possible as he was interviewing people. He refused to cancel and carried on with his day. He did agree however to pick up ds from school and drop him home.

AIBU to ask what do people do when they don't have any help with childcare from family (ours don't live nearby and work full time). How does it work for everyone else when you get something like flu and you just can't function?

I was fuming tbh that dh wouldn't just take a day off to help with his own kids knowing how sick I am. I basically said that If he went to work today and left me again that would be it. He's taken today off (but has worked from home). Hes not lifted a finger in the house just been sat on laptop all day. I ventured downstairs to find every counter covered in stuff and not a single spoon or plate clean. Now he's parading around saying he's so stressed out he thinks he's having a stroke Hmm and how he can't 'keep this up'. Its one f*cking day!!

I've never had a job where I couldn't get an emergency day off so maybe I'm not seeing it through his eyes. But when he's sick (with even the tiniest sniffle) I take care if him...and of course he'll take a day off. Its infuriating!

OP posts:
Sashkin · 24/11/2017 15:09

It does sound like he just doesn’t like having children. The fact that you admit he finds them “trying”, the fact that he will spend ages planning your parents’ extension st the expense of spending time with the kids, the hours talking about what you’ll do together once they've left home... I’m not surprised your 5yo has picked up on it.

My DDad was similar to your husband. Left the house at 6am, back at 10pm, never came to school plays or other events, spent weekends in bed “recovering” with the newspaper, not to be disturbed.

He died suddenly when I was 20, and I made absolutely no difference to my life. I missed him intellectually, but my life continued exactly the same without him in it. If anything, my life improved because we had more money, and Mum could do things with us without having to persuade him to join in reluctantly.

I would never allow DH to parent like that.

Sashkin · 24/11/2017 15:10

Died when I was 10, sorry!

Trinity66 · 24/11/2017 15:13

YANBU that's awful OP

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