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Night shift issues again

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Raspberryfrog · 03/09/2019 18:58

I work night shifts. At the moment I am doing two 12 hour shifts Monday night and Tuesday night. It’s a caring role and last night I was really really busy as the girl I care for was quite poorly
This morning I got in and got to bed about 10.

DH works 6 hours a day term time only as a teacher. He finished at 1 every day
He woke me at 3 and asked if I wanted to go and get Ds from school. I said I was shattered still after a busy night and please could he do it.

Usually I am up by 4 but when 4 came around I had a seizure (epileptic) so I asked if I could stay in bed a bit longer. I asked if Ds was ok and DH said he was being no trouble but I could tell DH was a bit annoyed but I am working tonight so had to recover.
I get up at 6 and come down. DH barges past me and says Ds is all yours I am going to bed.

I go upstairs and ask what he problem was and he says I have been in bed all day. I point out that the time is 10 past 6 and he was up at half seven this morning so he has not even been up for 12 hours yet. Yet I had done a 12 hour shift last night and was about to go on another.
Over the holidays I have worked 50 hour weeks to cover staff leave. Ds has been at holiday club most days and a couple of days DH took him out.
Aibu to think DH is not hard done by. I think I need to give up this job and find a day job it has caused nothing but trouble

OP posts:
WhoKnewBeefStew · 05/09/2019 08:37

What a complete twat bag! I'd have gone absolutely bonkers if my dh woke me at that time to ask me if I wanted to go out... in your shoes op I'd be ringing him at 5am and asking 'him' if he wanted to go out... what a selfish, self centred arse!

lottiegarbanzo · 05/09/2019 09:32

SD1978 I acknowledged that in the post you're responding to. No-one is disagreeing with your explanation.

That's the point really. I do believe you when you say. Any normal person with normal intelligence believes credible people who've experienced things, when those people describe them. They don't need to have experienced that thing themselves, to gain an understanding of it (or school-based education would be pretty pointless, we'd all be out living everything instead).

People who love and care about other people are inclined to try to make their lives easier, not use them as permanently on-call domestic staff, as OP's husband does.

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