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AIBU?

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AIBU this morning with my DH?

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Macandcheeseplease · 08/01/2020 10:18

Kids back to school this morning. Shock to the system!

DH starting work slightly later, leaving house at 8 instead of 7 as normal.

I'm up at about 6.45 to shower/get ready for work before kids wake up. Then deal with everything - breakfast, clothes, school bags ready, tidying away dishes etc.

DH stays in bed til 7.45. So has not helped getting the kids ready at all. He has floated about this morning leaving a wet towel on the shower room floor, has left the bedroom blinds closed, left his glass of water from last night at the side of the bed, left his breakfast bowl on the side in the kitchen.

I'm so bloody annoyed at him! As he was leaving he said, 'everything ok? You look like you're in a bad mood'. I replied saying that I was just busy, trying to get the kids ready and get ready for work at the same time. He said 'would you like me to do anything' but by this point I'd already done everything!!

Release this is super petty but my god it annoys me. Why on earth can he not realise that he should pick his towel up, help with kids etc without being asked to?

Doesn't normally annoy me so much but I think it's because he's been lying in bed while I'm doing everything this morning it's annoyed me more!!

Anyway. I feel better now for writing it down. Getting it our of my system! But AIBU? Would this annoy you or do I just need to get a grip??

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Karenisbaren · 09/01/2020 12:27

Damntheman Thanks I had not read through all posts, Op he needs to be picking up his own shit and doing his fair share of cleaning and getting up with the kids.

twoshedsjackson · 09/01/2020 12:44

Complete tidying up reinforces the concept of the "tidy fairy", but maybe you could compromise by using Shirley Conran's tactic in "Superwoman", admittedly written her DC were at home, many years ago.
She would place a large box on the middle of the room, and anything out of place went in there, leaving the rest of the rom tidy. Nothing was ever thrown away, but eventually the DC got tired of trawling through the "tidy box" to find their discarded possessions,
Make it easier to keep things in the right place.
As a child, I was cured of shoving my Brownie uniform into the toybox (sooo much easier than getting a hanger and putting it in the wardrobe ready for next week!) by my DM simply leaving it for me to forget, cue panic following week, tears when too late for the Brownie Pack meeting......she was a working mum, unusual in those days, and I simply had to learn.
My cousin, on the other hand, had the shock of his life when the laundry fairy didn't follow him to university.

Macandcheeseplease · 09/01/2020 19:05

@GreenFingersWouldBeHandy he was better this morning thank you! I spoke to him yesterday and did as most of you have advised- told him why I was annoyed. He apologised and said he would make sure he picks up towel, put breakfast dishes away.

To those that asked, yes he got ready and was out the door in 15 mins. He slept through his alarm clock. If only he could be that efficient when doing household stuff!!

I've stopped waking him up in the morning because I feel like his mother. He's 45 so if he can't wake up when his alarm clock goes off that's his problem. So that's what sort of prevents me from going in and telling him to get up and help with the kids. Which I know is obviously counter productive.

Thanks everyone for your comments. You're all completely right!!

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