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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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

239 replies

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:
BrutusMcDogface · 05/08/2018 10:55

I know you don't want larenting advice but I agree that the main issue (besides you being a precious princess ) is the fact that your toddler (Crumpy- she's technically nearly 2. This makes a difference!) can't sit in a highchair and needs mummy to feed her. Yes, she will have a shock when the baby comes.

iLiKESOUP · 05/08/2018 10:55

Ffs I'm not CantankerousCamel. He's not a 'man servant', just someone who I expect to take care of me. And yes, if the genders were reversed, say if he was stuck in the sofa stroking our cat and she refused to move, I would have brought him food or drink.

(opens can of soup and waits for comments about how the cat needs to stop running the show to flood in)

OP posts:
Clutterbugsmum · 05/08/2018 10:57

YANBU he was just being an arse.

OP made a point when they were shopping dinner she wanted some soup with hers. He was just being awkward for the sake of it. It would be different if OP wanted a whole different meal to the stirfry but she didn't.

I would have a conversation with him this morning and explain to him that not only are you eating for yourself, you are also pregnant and are breastfeeding so you need more calories to make sure everyone of you are healthy.

BrutusMcDogface · 05/08/2018 10:57

😂😂😂

Ruby09 · 05/08/2018 11:04

YABU! Soup takes a few mins in the microwave very easy to do it yourself. if he’d made the soup it would be cold by the time you could eat it. Who wants to try to eat hot soup while breastfeeding/calming down a tantruming child? Makes more sense to just warm it yourself once child is settled again. It’s not like you had no food available there was some stir fry 😫

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 05/08/2018 11:04

There's some precious moppets on this thread.

CantankerousCamel · 05/08/2018 11:07

If it’s so easy for the OP to ‘do herself’ it’s just as easy for the man to do it. Especially as he has so much less to do than the OP in this scenario.

I think the people making a rod for their own back, are those who don’t explain to the males what is expected of them on a day to day basis. Honestly they respond so well to it.

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 05/08/2018 11:12

Where was SIL in all of this? Sorry if I've missed it.

Timeisslippingaway · 05/08/2018 11:16

CantankerousCamel

This isn't the first time I've witnessed you being a bit ott and goady. I just find you quite funny now 😂

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 05/08/2018 11:21

How was he being an arse? He cooked the dinner while his wife sat in the loo for 20 mins, while watching his dc. He made her a meal fgs.

If a man had been sat on the loo while his wife made dinner and watched their dc then came down and had a face because she hadn't made him something else that he wanted the place would erupt.

CantankerousCamel · 05/08/2018 11:21

Time

Completely unintentional of course Grin

How the hell else are you supposed to respond to a bunch of handmaidens who believe men can’t warm soup.

mostdays · 05/08/2018 11:23

I think yabu and a bit precious tbh.

eggncress · 05/08/2018 11:26

It takes a few min in the microwave. Not too difficult for you to do yourself , surely ?

longwayoff · 05/08/2018 11:26

Please. Please please stop.

Runrunrudolf · 05/08/2018 11:33

When I gave birth to DS years ago I was a single mother I lived on soup or anything tinned you can think of while breastfeeding I whacked it on the stove and let it stick to the pan while I breastfed.

I do agree that DC only allowing you to feed her is a bit of an issue that should be nipped in the bud but I understand you only want advice in regards to the soup and my honest opinion is you are being a tang unreasonable.

I definitely wouldn't of wanted DH to make my soup while gone because soup that's been reheated twice doesn't taste as good.

Fair enough you were downstairs for 10 minutes and he could of but was everyone eating at that time? In our house if you're eating you don't make anyone's tea until you're done(that applies for the meal and the cuppa Grin)
Of course it's mainly in play for DD and DSS because they never pick what they want but me and DH use it too.

from what I can see your OH did a pretty good job cooking and babysitting and probably just wanted to enjoy his tea, as you wanted something different I don't think its unfair to do it yourself especially as its soup

Timeisslippingaway · 05/08/2018 11:35

CantankerousCamel

I do agree that OP DH did nothing spectacular he made dinner for 3 adults and a very young child and his dc was there while he did it. Big deal. I make dinner on my own with 5 kids around some nights. It's the fact that OP has started a thread about soup that takes minutes to heat up and then they had a "talk". OP I get it though, pregnancy hormones and a screaming toddler can make little problems or annoyances seem a lot worse.
I am going to shout through to my DP now and tell him I'm hungry and see what he does Wink

spamm · 05/08/2018 11:36

Can I just ask again, as I believe it has been asked 3-4 times on the thread, what on earth was your SIL doing that whole time? If she was not tending to the meal, or to the tantrum inn toddler, why the fuck did you not ask her (nicely, of course) to microwave soup? Or is she only 6 years old or something?

CantankerousCamel · 05/08/2018 11:36

DH did a good job babysitting

Biscuit

This is exactly the hand maiden-y nonsense I am talking about. He wasn’t Babysitting, he was looking after his own child and not overly well by the sounds of it as after the toilet, the OP had to spend 10 mins calming said child down.

Timeisslippingaway · 05/08/2018 11:38

😂 you don't babysit your own child! Ffs

CantankerousCamel · 05/08/2018 11:41

Time

I wouldn’t have started a thread. I would, however, have told DH explictly what I expect of him and why.

That’s what these little moments are for, so you don’t end up being totally disregarded while dealing with children because he’s never had a bloody clue thaf he has an obligation to you as well as the children.

howabout · 05/08/2018 11:45

YABU. Heating soup yourself takes no effort and he had done everything else.

You need to get your toddler better in order before baby arrives. I was still BF DD1 while pregnant with DD2. It is perfectly possible but not if PFB expects to take priority over everything else. Mine could tantrum better than any other toddler I have ever met well before she was 2 - if I had given into her to pacify her with BF I suspect she would now be a right entitled brat and her wee sister would have been a completely neglected reprobate.

Not read all 7 pages but this struck a chord. If I have missed extenuating circs then apologies. All the best for the new baby. Life is much more fun with 2 than 1 but that is when you truly learn the art of compromise. Flowers

scrabbled01 · 05/08/2018 12:03

Why didn't you just ask him if he would mind hearing up your soup whilst you were sat around for ten minutes?

If he had said no then perhaps you would have grounds to complain.

Maybe he just forgot you wanted a different meal to everyone else. Maybe as you didn't mention it he just thought you wanted stir fry instead. Maybe he's not a mind reader.

iLiKESOUP · 05/08/2018 12:10

Runrunrudolf You are right, I will eternally be grateful to DH for 'babysitting' his own child for the whole 20 minutes that I had to spend in the toilet while in terrible pregnancy-related pain. Shock

Single mums out there are heroes and I've been saying this every day since I gave birth to DC. But the fact that there are people out there suggesting that a mother in an equal relationship with a man should not expect anything more than what she would have to face if she was a single mum is utterly depressing.

OP posts:
yaria · 05/08/2018 12:15

I may have missed a point here ... but DH forgot to heat some soup up , OP was unwell and cranky... whole thing been blown out of proportion and there's nearly 200 posts about it ???
WackoConfusedGrin

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 05/08/2018 12:20

Did he even know you wanted the soup with your dinner? I mean did you specifically say " DH don't forget to make my soup when you're sorting dinner "?

This is a big old fuss about nothing. Can't believe you actually had a "talk" about it.

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