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About DH's leisurely weekend morning routine?

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getoutofthebath · 29/04/2018 11:08

Every morning, unless he has to be up particularly early for work, DH has a bath lasting an hour or more. When we had our DC this habit didn't change.

The problem is that now we have a DC this just isn't working for anyone except DH. For example, this morning we planned to take DC swimming. But then DH goes up at about 9.30 for his bath. He's still up there at 11am. Meanwhile I'm stuck downstairs with DC every weekend morning wondering when the hell we're actually going to get out of the house. I'm also the one that has to get DC dressed and field constant requests for snacks/park/bubbles etc. What always happens is that DH emerges eventually at around 11.30 ready to go, while DC and I are bored shitless from waiting around for him and ready to eat lunch. DH doesn't understand that DC needs lunch by midday, so once we've waited for him to have his bath half the day is pretty much gone. DC is also much more active and engaged in morning activities than afternoon ones, so would get a lot more out of a morning swim than an afternoon one.

How the fuck is this current situation sustainable? I can, and do, often just take DC out by myself but I'm heavily pregnant atm so it's not quite as easy as it used to be. And how is this going to work when DC2 arrives? Am I going to spend my Sat/Sun mornings stuck downstairs with two DCs for up to two hours waiting for him while he wallows in the tub?! I'm a SAHM so these weekends are like a busmans holiday for me.

I've tried to discuss this with him, calmly, rationally, so many times. But he's never made any attempt to stop and engage with us all in the mornings. AIBU to lose my shit with him? If DC asks me for a snack one more time today I might explode.

OP posts:
saison4 · 01/05/2018 07:08

Yes but presumably if you get hit by a bus, your husband can pick them up because he knows where his children are??

OP said DH doesn't know the name of the nursery, but not that he doesn't know where it is. my DC are in school now. I doubt DH knew the nursery name - but he still knew where it was...

ineedaholidaynow · 01/05/2018 08:05

I am assuming that the OP mentioned the fact that her DH doesn't know the name of the nursery because he doesn't know anything about DC's nursery not even its name, rather than he knows everything about the nursery including location and contact details but just doesn't know its name.

zippey · 01/05/2018 08:14

Can he compromise and have a bath at an earlier time like 8am - then should be ready around 9.30, plenty of time for the rest of the day.

StaplesCorner · 01/05/2018 10:08

Can he compromise and have a bath at an earlier time like 8am - then should be ready around 9.30, plenty of time for the rest of the day.

250+ messages, and all he needed to do was get up a bit earlier. Doh!!

useruserbored · 01/05/2018 10:53

Op isn't coming back everyone! X

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