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AIBU?

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To expect DH to heat up some soup for me for dinner?

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iLiKESOUP · 04/08/2018 21:57

DC1 is 19 months old and I'm currently 5 months pregnant with DC2. SIL was visiting for the day and we all went for a picnic at the park (DH, DC and SIL) and had a lovely day. As we didn't have time to do our weekly big groceries shop, we popped into the supermarket on our way back to pick up stuff for dinner. We got ingredients for veggie and tofu stir fry (preprepared/precooked ingredients). As I wasn't sure whether that would be enough I insisted on buying some ready-made soup as well for myself as I was really craving it.

I had to visit the loo when we got back (I've been spending a lot of time there lately due to the pregnancy!). I admittedly had to spend a long time in, maybe 20 minutes (but it wasn't like I was on my phone or anything!) while DH was preparing dinner and looking after DC.

By the time we all sat at the table, DH served the stir fry plus some extra fresh veg but no soup. When I asked him why, he said that he had to prioritise preparing dinner for everyone else instead of something that only I was to eat and that it had already been tough for him preparing the stir fry and the other foods while also looking after DC, who was being very difficult.

I am pregnant while also breastfeeding our toddler, AIBU to expect him to be a little more considerate? It's not the first time I tell him I'm hungry and need food and he ignores it. I would totally get it if I asked him to cook a complex recipe from scratch but all I asked him was to heat some soup for me in the microwave for 3 minutes!

SIL has just left so we talked about it. He is insisting that I was being selfish to expect my needs to be met first and that DC was being really difficult while he was cooking, leaving him no time to do anything else.

OP posts:
Frogsareawesome · 05/08/2018 17:53

So um... what kind of soup was it??

NotAsGreenAsCabbageLooking · 05/08/2018 22:04

@GinUnicorn

If my DP asked me in those circumstances, I would too. However... if he had the attitude of the OP and stamped his feet if his demands weren’t met... all he’d get would be a ‘fuck you’.

Timeisslippingaway · 05/08/2018 23:22

CantankerousCamel

Does he eat it in the servants quarters 😂

CantankerousCamel · 05/08/2018 23:24

Time

I let him eat it at the table but only once he’s finished the washing up and handed me my pipe and smoking jacket.

HerRoyalFattyness · 05/08/2018 23:50

CantankerousCamel
I hope you get a foot rub too befoee he eats, after all, youve been very busy all day. Hes just been playing with the kids.

BuntyII · 05/08/2018 23:59

I didn't know that all this time DH was supposed to take care of all my soup needs! FFS. I'm taking him to couples counselling for this.

Timeisslippingaway · 06/08/2018 07:51

I had a feeling that was the way it was supposed to be, but my dp is never home, I would be starve if I waited for him 😂

Timeisslippingaway · 06/08/2018 07:52

*starving

CantankerousCamel · 06/08/2018 08:06

Mine knows better than to go off for hours at a time. His place is in the kitchen

BitOutOfPractice · 06/08/2018 08:14

Is this really a 300+ post thread, liberally sprinkled with Sad faces by the op about warming up soup?

rainbowsandsmiles · 06/08/2018 08:40

Read the thread. The word soup has now lost all meaning. Grin
Complete, total, utter non issue.

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 06/08/2018 08:42

Mine knows better than to go off for hours at a time. His place is in the kitchen

Ok I've been had. You little wind up.

Timeisslippingaway · 06/08/2018 08:46

rainbowsandsmiles

I thought that about 5 pages ago!

BrutusMcDogface · 06/08/2018 09:12

Soup soup soup soup soupy soup

Agreed! Grin

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