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This is sleep related .... I've no perspective

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sleepyshiftworker · 15/02/2021 06:56

Apologies in advance - I need some outside perspective but I'll try and keep this brief and pertinent.

Back story. Second relationship. Both have children from previous. 18 month old with each other. Our older DC are with their other parents atm due to half term.

He works normal office hours, senior management, due to COVID he's WFH 8am-5 with breaks. When he has to go in it's an hours drive each way. EOW he leaves work on Friday at 2 to collect his older DC.

I'm a paramedic. I work shifts. I have an hours drive to work and same home. I cut my hours when I went back after the baby to 24 a week as I went back just as COVID hit last year and I couldn't find child care that worked for the DC (especially the baby) and it's draining and always over time if I want to do it which is more flexible for me than being contracted full time.

We have a mortgage, joint finances, joint account which we both pay into. He earns more than me but contributes more than I.

Here's the AIBU.
I'm absolutely exhausted. Homeschooling, all that jazz with a whirlwind toddler and working and doing everything else.

For example last week I worked Tuesday 1400-0200 so I cooked dinner in slow cooker before I left, enabled him to just get on with work and not worry. My older dc are self sufficient and don't require too much input - He wFH with my DC and the baby here which is rare as I've been relying on my sister having them when I work during the day, then all he does is pick them up circa 1930 and put them to bed.

The baby was up on and off teething with temperature Friday night. I had about 2 hours sleep. Apparently he felt too unwell to help even though I asked him to, and he went and slept in one of the older DC empty beds.

Then I worked Saturday 1000-2200 getting home at 0000.

Saturday night after work I got up with the baby in the night then up for the day at 6 on Sunday- He slept in yesterday til 0900.

Classic. I'm on nights tonight and tomorrow night. I asked last night if he would take over the baby so I could get a decent sleep last night as I now won't sleep til mid morning Tuesday when I've dropped the baby off at my sisters. He said yes, but didn't. Then this morning baby awake at 5.15 I asked him to get up with him and he just laid there and didn't move.

I've had enough. I am tired. It isn't safe to do this. The baby doesn't sleep through but isn't hard, he just needs a cuddle / quick shhhh and given his milk which he then drinks himself. Now DH is using the "he doesn't want me, he wants his mum". I'm just raging but I don't know. AIBU? I neee him to actually engage and help without being nagged like a teenager. He soon pipes up the "he's my son" if I suggest plans he doesn't like - but doesn't actually help.

OP posts:
MissyMoooo · 22/02/2021 11:33

This is my first LTB. You absolutely shouldn’t be putting up with this. If my DH assaulted me like that when I was asleep he’d be out the door. That’s disgusting!

sleepyshiftworker · 22/02/2021 11:44

Lol @Oldbutstillgotit is it really 9 pages? Fuck I've never had such a response.

OP posts:
MadeForThis · 22/02/2021 19:27

The only reaction he's had is too huff and complain you weren't affectionate enough last week - translated - he didn't get sex.

He will never listen, care or understand.

LTB

Abitofalark · 22/02/2021 21:05

You are having an awful time with everything and are being worn down by it all. As I see it, you can tell him this and that till you are blue in the face and it will get you nothing except even more exhaustion than you already have. His selfishness is impenetrable. It's not in him to hear, to listen, to understand and to step in. This is the very model of an inadequate character. You have to make up the deficit and it is draining you. There is no understanding between you. There's no meeting, no connection. How can you go on with him? He won't change.
For what it is worth, in my opinion the relationship, whatever it once was, is already broken. Turn to your great sister and parents for practical and moral support while you work out how to free yourself and how you can make a go of it on your own. With their sterling support, you will be able to do it and you will have peace of mind and a life that you need and deserve.

CoxwellHuge · 23/02/2021 21:20

How are you doing @sleepyshiftworker ?
I've been following the thread but haven't posted before, just wanted to check in and make sure you're ok

sleepyshiftworker · 23/02/2021 23:00

@CoxwellHuge thanks! I'm at work SmileSmile

OP posts:
Weenurse · 27/02/2021 11:34

Any progress?

Theluggagerules · 04/03/2021 06:02

Are you ok OP?

MissyMoooo · 08/03/2021 22:59

Any update OP? Hope you’re ok Flowers

NoseinBook3 · 09/03/2021 01:05

I hope you’ve given him his marching orders OP. He is a disgrace.

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