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Think I’ve had enough.

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Boobiliboobiliboo · 09/02/2019 18:41

DH works from home most of the time for his own business. Sometimes needs to work away. I work full time out of the home in a mentally and emotionally demanding job. We have one 8 year old DD.

I tend to do school drop offs, DH does pick up and after school activities, unless he is away, in which case I manage my diary around pick ups as well. DH will usually get DD ready in the morning, but goes back to bed between stages (eg while DD is eating breakfast, getting dressed etc) so everything takes far longer than it should and we’re usually in a rush.

I cook 99% of meals, sort out food deliveries, washing, ironing, finances, do the books for his company, VAT and tax returns. I make 95% of DD’s packed lunches and deal with all the school stuff like PE kit, reading books, non-uniform days etc.

DH has for several years been a bit of a workaholic. For the past several months he’s barely managed to work 6hours on average per day, despite needing to work late regularly. Turns out he’s been going back to bed once DD and I have left, then getting up around lunchtime and starting work somewhere around 1pm. He says he can’t get going in the mornings, but it has absolutely nothing to do with him staying up online gaming until 3 or 4am. Hmm

On Saturdays DD has either one or 2 activities (one thing is every week, the other is fortnightly). Today it was both things. I was up before 8am to get ready. DD was up at about 8:15am. I had to wake him up at 9:15am and ask him to get DD some breakfast. I had to remind him of what she needed in her bag. He was such a mess that we ended up leaving late, and she was late to her activity. I spent the time she was there going to get things she needs for a show next week. I picked her up, took her to get lunch and then off to her other activity. She usually has a sleepover with grandparents once a fortnight and i meet them with her at a retail park between our homes. (Around 20mile drive.)

DH needs some new shoes, so asked if after DD’s 2nd activity could I detour to pick him up and he could get some shoes at the retail park. I told him what time we’d be there. He wasn’t ready. In the car he tells me that he’s emptied the dishwasher and put out the washing. I am not impressed. He said he has spent the day on his PS4. I say nothing.

When we get to the retail park I get DD’s overnight bag (which I packed with her) out and go to get her activity bag as she has an extra session tomorrow which my way parents are taking her to. It’s not there. He took it out of the car when we went to pick him up. He said he didn’t know about the session tomorrow, but I reminded him that it was him who told me about it last weekend as he found the letter in her bag. I said that I had told him my parents would be taking her to the activity and now he would have to make arrangements to get the stuff to her as he didn’t bother asking before deciding to take the stuff out of the car. He stormed off. I have moved the car and am sitting in the car park. We are meant to be going for food and to the cinema as he complains that I am usually too busy/tired to spend time with him.

I really don’t want to spend another 10 years putting up with this shit. I am so utterly fucked off that everything is down to me whilst he spends hours and hours playing games online, shirking his responsibilities and not even working full days. Any hint of criticism and the blame gets put onto me.

WIBU to go home and take a hammer to the PS4 and pack up his stuff? I feel I’ve lost all rational thought.

OP posts:
dustyfan · 10/02/2019 11:57

Blaming you for not doing enough about your birth injury is disgusting. I bet if his penis was injured you wouldn't be telling him to sort himself out and watching him suffer.

Boobiliboobiliboo · 10/02/2019 11:58

I have offered to let him in on the experiment. Even promised to sharpen the kitchen knife first. Wink

OP posts:
BrioLover · 10/02/2019 12:06

He sounds like a Teflon person - nothing ever sticks. He won't seek help for his depression because it's your fault. He is unhappy because you haven't done enough re. your birth injury. You don't do as much as him around the house. Poor me poor me poor me.

I'm not surprised you're feeling this way OP. You sound very capable and I hope you find your happiness. From what you've said it's unlikely he will change and when you split up it will be all your fault of course... because no blame can ever go his way.

mooncuplanding · 10/02/2019 12:09

I know I will get flamed for this however this is an obvious problem around enforced celibacy - for both of you.

Marriage is unlike any other relationship in that you are sexually intimate with one another and you have both lost that. A basic function of a marriage has gone.

It is nobody's fault like both of you are intimating ("I didn't want a baby" hints that you blame him for it) other than the hospital in all probability.

I don't know what the solution is but the problem sounds pretty obvious when reading. His response to this problem is of course really awful day to day, and perhaps you also may play a part in 'attacking' him, and so the cycle continues.

How far have you gone into the lack of intimacy with the counselling? Would he know for example you hold resentment that he pressured you into having a baby? Do you know how he feels about enforced celibacy?

RandomMess · 10/02/2019 12:12

What is so infuriating is that you can still have a different but satisfying sex life without PIV but not with his attitude about it or when behaving like a teenager AngryAngryAngryAngryAngry

Was sex without PIV just too much effort for him...

bastardkitty · 10/02/2019 12:29

You should get flamed for it mooncup. It's full of holes and stupid assumptions. Just because OP has a birth injury and cannot have PIV sex, doesn't mean her husband's not an abusive arsehole.

ScrumpyCrack · 10/02/2019 12:37

mooncup it’s 2019, keep up.

AnotherEmma · 10/02/2019 13:12

On what planet is no PIV sex equal to "enforced celibacy"? Have you never heard of all the other forms of intimacy?!

Anyway that's not the point. Who would want to be intimate with this idiot.

"I said that if he had a broken leg and sought no treatment/didn’t take the treatment and thought that marathon training was appropriate I’d absolutely respond in the same way."

Well said.

What's his plan then? Gamblers anonymous and GP to discuss his depression?

If he doesn't have a plan you shouldn't wait until the end of March. It will be a waste of 6 weeks.

AlexaAmbidextra · 10/02/2019 13:22

He’s catastrophising about Brexit at the moment (as am I but I’m in practical mode as opposed to panic) and said we would need to stick together if it happens

It’s Brexit. Not WW3.

Boobiliboobiliboo · 10/02/2019 13:30

His biggest client is global but based in the EU. If trade becomes harder/more expensive he potentially doesn’t have work.

OP posts:
Boobiliboobiliboo · 10/02/2019 13:31

Gamblers anonymous

?

OP posts:
RandomMess · 10/02/2019 13:33

So potentially a future cock lodger...

No work, gaming, minimal help with DD, oh and sulking due to no PIV

AnotherEmma · 10/02/2019 13:35

Sorry I meant gamers anonymous not gamblers anonymous

Don't know if it actually exists, that said

Boobiliboobiliboo · 10/02/2019 13:55

So potentially a future cock lodger.

Absolutely not.

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iMatter · 10/02/2019 16:25

How is the business doing?

My concern is that he is gaming all day and the business will fail

Boobiliboobiliboo · 10/02/2019 16:39

He’s not gaming all day during the week. It’s a post 10pm thing (but goes on till 2/3am and then he struggles to sleep.)

Turnover has always been six figures. It’s probably dropped a bit over the past few months as invoices have been at about 65-75% of normal levels.

He earns more this way than he would in a permanent job, plus most perm jobs in his field would be away.

OP posts:
AnotherEmma · 10/02/2019 16:44

He's not gaming during working hours but he's gaming into the night and then sleeping all morning. So the gaming does impact on his work. As evidenced by the decrease in turnover, it's hardly a coincidence is it?!

RandomMess · 10/02/2019 16:49

No to mention the resentment of/not doing parenting as agreed in the mornings...

mooncuplanding · 10/02/2019 16:51

You should get flamed for it mooncup. It's full of holes and stupid assumptions. Just because OP has a birth injury and cannot have PIV sex, doesn't mean her husband's not an abusive arsehole

I don’t think it helps calling someone abusive in this circumstance. He’s lazy clearly, he’s also withdrawing from the partnership of marriage, but I don’t see evidence he’s abusive

PegLegAntoine · 10/02/2019 16:55

What is so infuriating is that you can still have a different but satisfying sex life without PIV but not with his attitude about it or when behaving like a teenager

Completely this

Boobiliboobiliboo · 10/02/2019 17:01

He's not gaming during working hours but he's gaming into the night and then sleeping all morning. So the gaming does impact on his work. As evidenced by the decrease in turnover, it's hardly a coincidence is it?!

I haven’t said it is. I mentioned it in my original post......

OP posts:
RandomMess · 10/02/2019 17:09

Boo I think it's really tough when someone that was a great partner and parent does this slow slide into well being crap and selfish. It's horrible because they were once so lovable and rock solid and it's so difficult to accept they aren't being that person anymore and you are just left wondering WTF happened SadSad

I hope he has his epiphany Thanks

GabsAlot · 10/02/2019 19:44

hes blaming brexit now of all the things

if i never hear that word again it will be too soon

Weenurse · 11/02/2019 06:37

I hope you are able to sort things out.
I think it would be easier on your own, to be honest.
At least then he would have to do alternate weekends if nothing else

Horsemenoftheaclopalypse · 11/02/2019 07:34

online gaming until 3 or 4am.

he say if he is depressed it’s because of me

*”if I got my injury sorted out it would all be fine”

All these signs point to a poor outcome.
He wants out and is seeing how far he can push you...