I've booked a day off work today, and DH has spent all of yesterday and this morning going on an on about how lucky I am to have a day off. Lots of "best go to bed then as I've got work in the morning, you're lucky you don't have to" or "I'm off to work now, unlike you, lucky you". At every single opportunity.
It's really starting to wind me up.
Backstory:
My company started wfh a week before the first lockdown, so I have worked all year. He took some time off at the start of the first lockdown while it was up in the air whether he was allowed to work.
During the first lockdown my workload went up massively, and I had to balance that with homeschooling a DS(8) and DD(6). Then mid way through the year I changed job roles, from customer service to IT, so quite a change and a lot of additional training. It's been a hectic year - plus I'm doing an OU degree (things were much less hectic when I signed up to it). I have obviously taken annual leave during the rest of the year, but all of it was taken to look after the kids and give them a break from having to be quiet in the house due to me constantly being on the phone. This is the first day I've had all year that I've taken for myself (I plan to get some blissfully uninterrupted studying done), and I only get part of it to myself anyway because his mum is coming over around lunchtime to borrow our scanner/printer.
As I've started wfh I've taken on all the school runs (we used to share them depending on which shift I worked), all the packed lunch prep, all the dinner prep, and DH frequently calls me during the day to ask me to do stuff around the house (which means me reminding him I'm working).
DH is self employed, he earns more than me per hour, but works less hours so we end up bringing home roughly the same income. But it means that there's always a part of the day where I'm working and he's just sat watching TV or browsing the web. During those times I never tell him how lucky he is to have that time, starting to wonder if I should.
I do get the impression he thinks his job is harder than mine, because it's physical whereas mine is sitting at a computer. But I also know that he tried doing a more junior IT office job than me and quit because he couldn't cope with it - so he clearly wouldn't find it easy at all.
I don't get the impression he is saying I am objectively lucky - I've had a really easy year in comparison to most people, I know I'm lucky in that regard. So that would be fair enough. But because he always pairs it with a comment about how he's working today (until 1.30pm
) it feels like a jibe to make me feel guilty. So AIBU?