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Dh threw milk at me

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Namechangingoverspilledmilk · 21/01/2023 21:39

Name change because this is embarrassing and scary.
My DH and I had a disagreement over who was sleeping on sofa bed- it should be my turn tonight but he wanted to stay up late and game. I said I would go upstairs but also wanted to keep my expected day of Sunday for the nice bed. We no longer share a bed atm because We both snore horribly and I am a terrible light sleeper. Throw a 1yo into mix who sometimes likes to wake in night or early hours and it works best for everyone to do what we need to get a good night's sleep. Anyway when I said well I guess but I want to keep Sunday night too as it isn't me who wants to stay up late and change the pattern of who is going where he got really cross. He was on his way up to feed the baby and our disagreement carried from living room into kitchen. He was pouring milk into the bottle and I broke off what I was saying to point out he had poured too much as we are trying to wean baby off of this night bottle by reducing milk amount slowly. He then really angrily tipped it down sink instead of back into milk carton which I thought was wasteful- we aren't exactly flush with cash atm. He then had tipped too much out so he stomped back to fridge got milk out, slopped more into bottle spilling everywhere. The disagreement was still continuing and I said I thought he was being unreasonable. He then sloshed milk out of the plastic carton towards me- it splashed all over the floor, nearly caught the washing I have hanging up drying and went a bit on my work laptop case. He also made a horrible comment about my mental health- saying it was already shit, in response to me reminding him why we weren't just sharing a bed because of snoring and my MH goes down pan quickly on little sleep.
I was so gobsmacked by what he'd done. I said nothing. He got the mop straight out and started clearing it up and said nothing to me. He went to feed baby and I just went to bedroom whilst he did that. I'm really upset- by the mental health comment but also by the milk throwing. It was meant for me. It was a total moment of loss of control of his anger. This is first time he's done something this intimidating but isn't first time he's just lost his temper in an argument- usually it's verbally and he has previously told me to fuck off and called me a bitch. Those incidents have probably happened 4 or 5 times- a few times in front of our eldest. We've been married nearly 6 years and together for 9 for context.
I'm lying here feeling sick. I don't know if I'm overreacting but I know that what just happened isn't right and that serious domestic violence doesn't always start with significant incidents initially it can start with small things like this. I now can't stop thinking about that and my anxiety is sky high worried he might still be angry and come in the room and strangle me or something and then what will happen to my kids. This is absolutely not rational but anxiety isn't and I'm trying to talk myself down. Aibu to be so upset by this incident?

OP posts:
donttellmehesalive · 22/01/2023 12:32

queenMab99 · 22/01/2023 11:16

I think he should cut down on the gaming, it makes him short tempered, unreasonable, and affects sleep patterns, I have noticed this with teenagers.

OP hasn't said how long he games for.

Or that it affects his sleep patterns beyond not wanting to go to bed at 9:30 so op could sleep on the sofa.

This is two sleep-deprived people who no longer share a bed. She is frightened of him now, since he sloshed milk in her direction. It sounds as if he doesn't currently like her very much. I think they both need to talk about it today before it spirals into increasing contempt and separation.

GreetingsToTheNewBrunette · 22/01/2023 12:55

Have either of you been to a sleep clinic? I wouldn’t want to not sleep with my partner and be shoved onto a sofa bed so I think it’s a bit compromise on his behalf in that respect too, so trying to get 3 days in the actual bed does seem a little cheeky.

I hope you’re feeling better now OP. Anxiety is horrible.

Namechangingoverspilledmilk · 22/01/2023 15:25

He doesn't game excessively- just at weekend, he's too busy during week to game.
I am back at work now in what many would consider a pretty demanding job and so I need my sleep to be decent quality. I would be happy to sleep on sofa bed all the time if I had to as that's how important decent sleep is for me to function well at home and in workplace. And I have said this before and offered it and he hasn't wanted to do it like that which is kind.
A big issue is he never wants to discuss things like this afterwards. He just wants to pretend it hasn't happened- maybe will do silent treatment for a few hours or something then just continues as though everything is normal. I try to communicate with him about things which I feel need to be addressed things like share of domestic load and chores especially since I've gone back to work and he just gets snappy, short tempered and so I give up really. He doesn't listen to me when I talk- if I ask him a question from another room because I'm sorting eldest out, he would hear and not respond eg 'Have we got bread in?' Or 'is heating on/off?' so question I need to have answer to and he just won't answer. So I'll ask again thinking he hasn't heard me and then he'll get cross and answer as though I've been really out of order and annoying for keeping on asking. I've explained multiple times until he answers I don't know if he's heard me. Our communication as a couple is shit. Anything hard or uncomfortable he doesn't want to discuss.
I feel as though my communication skills are strong and this is one of my strengths at work but also in personal relationships with good friends. I've tried different tacts to bring stuff that I know will make him cross up eg the fact he keeps leaving bathroom in a state after shaving his beard. And it always ends the same- him getting pissed off and making out that I'm v unreasonable.to bring it up and am just a nag.
But I don't see why I should just accept having a 3rd child to clean up after? I've got 2. That's enough. And why should my life be made harder by his laziness when it comes to tidiness etc.?

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monsteramunch · 22/01/2023 15:31

He sounds like a lazy, selfish manchild in your last post OP.

Can you bear the thought of spending the rest of your life having to either beg another adult to behave like an adult or doing all of the adulting yourself?

You could be happy without him, but I don't see how you can ever be happy with him.

pocketvenuss · 22/01/2023 15:48

For the love of god now any display of frustration and or anger is abuse? Get a grip. You sound like you are both tired and stressed. You are reacting by being nagging and micro managing him. He is reacting by flaking about splashing milk everywhere.

theGooHasGone · 22/01/2023 17:07

Given that your sleep issues are as bad as they are (and you say you've always been like this) you really do need to figure out a way for both of you to sleep in a proper bed every night and stop the situation where one of you can't use the living room. It doesn't have to be together if that's a problem (although that's still ultimately likely to cause issues in the longer term) but consistency of environment is important for sleep hygiene. In addition, your husband probably feels like there's a total lack of intimacy and any time for each other. A lack of good communication has negative consequences really quickly and resentment builds. It sounds like overall he's pretty accommodating of your needs but this doesn't happen in a vacuum.

Maybe consider getting a proper single bed which will fit elsewhere? Treating the sofa bed as a temporary solution doesn't seem to really be working well for either of you and the situation is going to keep going downhill until it's addressed.

LottoLaura · 22/01/2023 17:11

I’d have done a lot more than sloshed some milk in your direction.

You were being so unreasonable, how on earth can you not see that?

ChiefWiggumsBoy · 22/01/2023 20:16

SnarkyBag · 21/01/2023 23:20

I think posters like you are getting your knickers in a twist because it’s gaming. Which ordinarily I would agree many gamer DH’s on here seem to be tossers. But taking it at face value it just sounds like the they have less than ideal sleeping arrangements with apparently no flexibility to stay up late and game on a Saturday night.

if the OP posted to say her DH wouldn’t swap beds so she could stay up to watch a film everyone would be calling him a prick.

Er...I am as much a gamer as my husband (and children) are. We are saddos that have a gaming room. I don't place a moral judgement on leisure activities.

It doesn't matter the activity, if someone wants to stay up in the room someone needs to sleep in, they either swap beds for that night only or they wait until it is their night to use the room. If it doesn't matter to the other party to swap the nights then fine, but it does bother OP.

SnarkyBag · 22/01/2023 21:45

ChiefWiggumsBoy · 22/01/2023 20:16

Er...I am as much a gamer as my husband (and children) are. We are saddos that have a gaming room. I don't place a moral judgement on leisure activities.

It doesn't matter the activity, if someone wants to stay up in the room someone needs to sleep in, they either swap beds for that night only or they wait until it is their night to use the room. If it doesn't matter to the other party to swap the nights then fine, but it does bother OP.

But she doesn’t need to sleep in there. There is a perfectly useable bed elsewhere. The only reason he has to have this sleeping arrangement at all is to accommodate the OP’s poor sleep and mental health. I think some flexibility is reasonable. Does he just have to suck up only using the room for gaming on certain nights indefinitely? Sorry but that’s nonsense.

OldFan · 22/01/2023 22:08

OP’s partner did not throw milk at her.

@MrsSkylerWhite He deliberately and pointedly threw milk towards her.

Throwing anything is a really bad sign.

LottoLaura · 22/01/2023 22:11

OldFan · 22/01/2023 22:08

OP’s partner did not throw milk at her.

@MrsSkylerWhite He deliberately and pointedly threw milk towards her.

Throwing anything is a really bad sign.

Sloshing milk towards someone isn’t the same as throwing anything.

The OP is seriously in the wrong on just about every level here

OldFan · 22/01/2023 22:12

It sounds like overall he's pretty accommodating of your needs

Not really. He sounds like a stroppy a-hole.

OldFan · 22/01/2023 22:12

Sloshing milk towards someone isn’t the same as throwing anything.

It is throwing something towards someone.

MademoiselleTrunchbull · 22/01/2023 22:14

I agree that it sounds like an argument. I'd probs have erred on the side of him being the most unreasonable, but I've witnessed years of my mum following my dad around the house berating him until he finally snapped - at which point she'd be playing the victim.

LottoLaura · 22/01/2023 22:15

OldFan · 22/01/2023 22:12

Sloshing milk towards someone isn’t the same as throwing anything.

It is throwing something towards someone.

It’s really not

by definition it’s not. Nothing was propelled. Milk was sloshed.

MinBins · 22/01/2023 23:02

There have been lots of feedback here on what happened, who is at fault etc. So won't go into that.

One thing I caught in your message is that he's sworn at you and has been derogative in front of your eldest. That's not okay.

Hope you manage to sort it out and get some rest, sleep deprivation brings out all the crankiness in us.

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