AIBU is my husband the slowest moving man to have ever existed?

[Kanfuzed123]

Light hearted but dear god does anyone else’s husband move at a glacial pace?

20 minutes on the toilet
25 minutes to peel potatoes for dinner which will make our toddlers dinner late. I was feeding our newborn and had to take over because it was taking an eternity. When I get to the potatoes they’re all cut in different sizes so will cook at different speeds and the over hasn’t been preheated either. Anything food related takes 6 times the amount of time it would take a normal person.

I know it’s a meme but I’ve had 2 kids in the same amount of time my husband spends on the loo. He’s always done this pre kids too, it’s the same if we’re in a rush.

I’m venting a bit now but does anyone else have to lay out detailed instructions for the most simple tasks for their husband.

I pre made lunch the other day for us and our toddler (omelette and wedges) it was in the fridge, i again feeding baby, asked him to sort it out and put lunch out, he puts out stone cold omelettes and potato wedges. Who the f eats stone cold potato wedges. I came in and was like ‘name… this is cold, didn’t you reheat it’ to which he responded ‘ you never said, I didn’t know I had to’ Jesus Christ… think man.

In labour, I started feeling sick about to vomit at home on our lovely new carpet, couldn’t move due to contractions. Asked him to get me a sick bag..: 10 minutes later, he shouts upstairs ‘what kind of bag’ ‘a poly bag no holes’ he meanders back upstairs, I’m wretching at this point swallowing sick, and chucks at me a closed poly bag with fucking holes in it, in that time I’m sick on the carpet. He proceeds to try and clean it up with baby blankets.

Am I the only one?
Aibu this is infuriating right?

@ButtockUp

But surely you knew this before you married him? Why are you moaning about him now, after you've had children with him?

🤣🤣🤣

There's always one!

Well @ButtockUp, I’d noticed he was quite passive before, had a few bust ups about it as he just lets himself get taken advantage of or just led down the garden path. I put it down to a personality trait and a bit of a lack of confidence. He does tend to shut down in terms of confrontation too but in general I think he zones out it’s like he doesn’t engage with what’s in front of him.

The slowpoke thing, i just never noticed. He’s not bad in terms of getting changed and getting ready and cooking wise, when he married me we started a mummy’s boy reeducation programme where we’d cook together and do the washing up together so I never really noticed. Plus pre children I guess we never really had a tremendous sense of urgency, plus we lived in a flat (smaller less stuff and easier to keep clean) now with kids we have a 4 bed house and we need dinner and meals need to be done efficiently, can’t really make a 2 year old wait an hour for lunch.

Exactly,It is team work living with someone,we all do things differently, but get there somehow in the end!
I have enjoyed this thread.

I've worked with a man like this. He was lovely, but how I didn't fucking shank him, I'll never know. He was a Mummy's boy too and had absolutely no common sense.

Why are you with him

@CelestiaNoctis

Why are you with him

For material for MN threads of course

He's a fuckwit.

Poor you.

‘Gormless potato’ 🤣🤣🤣 I wonder what all the man babies would think if they read this thread, I’m wondering if they’d have enough self awareness to spot themselves.

He does, good upper middle management just shy of 50k style job but he drives me crackers.

Ah that explains it, he probably does very little at work so he most certainly doesn’t want to get his hands dirty at home either.