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PutThatInYourPipeandSmokeIt · 29/11/2007 12:19

DH had a work do last night and in the half an hour before he went he kept saying and emphasising that he would look after DD this morning and give me a lie in because he was going to work from home today and it was him being nice because he knew I couldn?t go to the black tie do etc (I'm 7 wks PG and inflicted with exhaustion). At 4:30 this morning I wake up to an empty bed. This is REALLY unusual, so I panic and wonder what the hell has happened and go and find him asleep on the sofa. I go back to bed but never managed to get back to sleep because the adrenaline had kicked in and that was enough to wake me up properly. DD starts squeaking from 6 but gets up at 6:50 and then we get up and still DH sleeps. He wakes up after about 10 mins. Not a word about anything other than wasn?t he kind sleeping on the sofa so as not to wake me up. Then he announces that he got in at 2am and must get more sleep so I go and shower and to bed he goes. A luxury I?ve never had when I?ve been out the night before as usually it?s a work day or DD gets me up anyway, so I don?t come home at 2, I come home at 11 or 12. Not a word about the supposed lie in or childcare that he was promising me last night.

I?m annoyed because I couldn?t get back to sleep; I could never announce I was going back to bed in those circumstances and get away with it; he offered a lie in and took it away without a thought or a mention?

He has just asked if I have a problem so I said yes and told him my issues. He laughed and said ?oh so it?s all to do with you then is it?. I am steaming.

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EmsMum · 29/11/2007 12:24

Oooh! Men!

sparkybabe · 29/11/2007 12:28

It's not all to do with you - its to do with him and his inability to honour his promises. I suggest you offer him something he realy really covets (and we know what that might be) and then just roll over and go to sleep.
Get an early night tonight.

mynameisnic · 29/11/2007 12:40

YANBU - he didn't deliver on his promise. However, what a dumb promise. To offer to get up with the kids the morning after a night out really is a tall order, perhaps you shouldn't have held him to it. I would ensure that he stays in tonight and lets you lie in properly tomorrow.

Swedes2Turnips1 · 29/11/2007 12:44

I call these seeimingly small events "dossier events". Because that is what women do. They let them build and build and then one pleasant evening, over a glass of wine perhaps, that's it the relationship is over because his watch is ticking too loudly or his breath stinks of garlic or he has farted in the kitchen again. Only it is nothing to do with the watch/garlic/farting but everything to do with the dossier.
YANBU - tell him that pregnancy is very tiring, there is a limited time for you to rest and he can't help if he is on New York City time.

MuffinMclay · 29/11/2007 12:56

YANBU to because he did go back on his promise, but he was in cloud cuckoo land to promise that for the morning after a work do.

Perhaps he could look after dd for 2 normal mornings as a way of making it up to you.

LazyLinePainterJane · 29/11/2007 13:04

Yes, he went back on his promise and yes, it was rather a foolish promise but I think the main issue is that he doesn't give a toss that he went back on it, he thinks his wife is being self centred. Doesn't sound to me like he is offering any make up offers.

PutThatInYourPipeandSmokeIt · 29/11/2007 13:10

You've hit the nail on the head - it's my principles I think and him giving with one hand and taking away with the other without caring a toss. In my book if you're on childcare duty, you communicate with the other if you're backing out of it for whatever reason.

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