SAHM

[Jackart]

AIbu to expect my husband to help out just a little bit around the house 🤔

O4FS thank you for your post... that’s what I’m worried about. Completely agree that if we muck in together we can spend more time as a couple rather than one with their head in a tablet and the other ironing etc.... anyhoo I’m sure this is many people’s lives!!!

If your youngest is at nursery, even if that's 3 hours a day and you have to drop off and pick up that does give you 10 or so hours during the school term. That's enough for a lot of stuff around the home - or for you to have some down time to make up for doing more on the weekends.

During the holidays this is harder and either he needs to step up or help you outsource. We've got 4 and during the holidays I get in a cleaner, and send DHs shirts out for ironing, it's worth more than an extra night on two on a vacation somewhere!

Being a SAHM can be boring, lonely and relentless.

On those occasions you are home together you really want to be treated as an equal partner, not the hired help.

It’s all well and good to say you have time during the week (I think time speeds up during those three hours), but it’s still you doing the graft and not having shared time as a family.

I completely get where you are coming from.