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AIBU?

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to not want to be responsible for sharing photos of DD with PIL.. or is this my wifely duty now?

186 replies

Zooples · 30/11/2018 12:35

I take most of the photos in our family (on my phone, happy snaps so we have something to remember, I am NOT a photographer in any sense of the word) so I hold the main album of pictures of our daughter. DH doesn't think to take them, so it's basicaly an album of him and dd (oh and some me/dd selfies), which I have raised with him but he 'forgets' to reciprocate.. urgh.

Anyway that's not my aibu. I regularly send photos of dd to my family (parents and db) who live close by. His family live abroad (where we used to live, and we moved to my home town recenty). I get on fine with his side, but I see it as his responsibility to keep up communication with them rather than it becoming my 'wifely' duty.

He asked me again today to send a bunch that I'd sent to him and my family (on a group whatsapp with my parents, brother and dh), and while I did do it, I later said to him that I don't think it's my role to do that and he should just send them on. He used the excuse that he doesn't have as many photos to send, to which I said he has all of the ones I share with my side. He's gotten in a huff and seems to think it's not a big deal, but I think it's just another thing I will have to do forever more and I fundamentally just don't think its my job.

He NEVER sent pictures to my side of the family when we lived in his country, even when he's looked after her as primary parent for a while. So it clearly doesn't go both ways. Why should this now be my responsibility?

AIBU to dig my heels in here, or should I just get over it and become the household comms director?

OP posts:
Sewrainbow · 30/11/2018 22:51

Yanbu, he can just forward them on from the WhatsApp you have sent them to! Confused

Jaxhog · 30/11/2018 22:53

I'm with you op. If he can't be bothered to do it, why should you?

Sewrainbow · 30/11/2018 23:08

Its not wifework because the OP is already sending (and happy to send) the photos.

It becomes wifework when the husband assumes wife will do it even though he has the opportunity AND he gets angry with her about it

givemesteel · 30/11/2018 23:25

Isn't this so easily solved?

I have a WhatsApp group for any family member who want to be bored by photos of my kids. If I send too many they can remove themselves or mute it, I'm not offended. But seems to work well for everyone and everyone gets the same ones, no complaints of favouritism etc.

You send them round anyway, just make your life easier. It's a little thing you can do to buy yourselves both some time. So long as he does some things like this to buy you some time then that's how a partnership works.

justilou1 · 01/12/2018 11:41

Take a photo of DH using his phone. Send it to his parents. Tell them that he has copies of all the photos that you have and that you are having "issues about lifework" with someone who has time to dick around on facebook and perving at instaboobs. I bet he quickly makes time to forward photos to his parents.

justilou1 · 01/12/2018 11:41

*wifework

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 01/12/2018 12:05

Tell them that he has copies of all the photos that you have and that you are having "issues about lifework" with someone who has time to dick around on facebook and perving at instaboobs

I can't see where the OP says that. Where is it?

TheBigBangRocks · 01/12/2018 12:47

How petty. How long does it take to send some pictures to others when you send to your family anyway? I wouldn't want a relationship with someone who thought doing things for a partner was too much effort.

timeisnotaline · 01/12/2018 13:00

I wouldn't want a relationship with someone who thought doing things for a partner was too much effort.

True but I wouldn’t want a relationship with someone who thought sending his mother photos of his child is my job. He was an at home dad for a while and it wasn’t his job then which completely decides me. If he’s too precious and special to do it then so am I. If we’d both happily do it if we were the one at home all good.

ghostsandghoulies · 01/12/2018 13:41

Someone's probably suggested this already but have you considered uploading all pics to an online photo sharing site so that family can login and look when they wasn't? You'd have a permanent copy of all pics just in case too.

Cherries101 · 01/12/2018 13:44

Leave his family’s whatsapp group. Problem solved

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