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AIBU to ask SAHD to clean?

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RunningAtStuff · 08/05/2021 21:20

I work FT and my OH is a SAHD, we have three DCs, two at primary, one just at secondary and eldest has additional needs.
Before lockdown we had a cleaner once a week. Through lockdown we were dividing all chores as he was doing home schooling and I was working long hours from home.
Now schools are open again but I’m still wfh I don’t want a cleaner - it feels lazy (and I’m a little bit Covid paranoid about having someone in the house). But I’m doing most of (all) the cleaning at weekends. OH does all the cooking, kids stuff and we share the laundry.
AIBU to ask him to do the cleaning too and not pay for a cleaner? It feels like he just doesn’t notice when things are dirty and is comfortable with a higher level of chaos than I am, so I feel like it’s my problem and therefore my job to do. I do want him to have a break and time to himself and I know the time the kids are actually at school isn’t that long so maybe it’s unrealistic?

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lookylookyhooky · 11/05/2021 15:17

@Dontknowowt you can’t just “give” assets to someone else during a divorce as the transactions would show up. You honestly expect people to believe you received nothing in terms of a settlement if you were married to a wealthy man without a prenup? That is just a legal impossibility. Sounds to me as though you just didn’t get as much as you’d have liked....
Had you been cohabiting you really would have got nothing.

Dontknowowt · 11/05/2021 15:26

@lookylookyhooky I got a rubbish settlement. He bought me out of the family home. So crap was the settlement in fact we are still renting seven years on. Note to self: Never marry a Chartered Accountant Grin

lookylookyhooky · 11/05/2021 15:53

@Dontknowowt people have different ideas of what rubbish is. But at least you admit got a settlement.

Either way you’d have been entitled to nothing had you not been married. So as I said previously marriage does provide a level of stability.

Dontknowowt · 11/05/2021 16:37

@lookylookyhooky Indeed, although I certainly regret marrying him in the first place!! Grin

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