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AIBU?

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To think he's acting like a child?

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BlewJeanz · 09/09/2023 12:16

DH and I both work full time. I also do 90% of the chores and administration tasks because DH has Fibromyalgia and gets exhausted.

So today is village fete day and a heatwave. We woke up 8am. Laid in bed having a laugh and reading the news.

I let him stay in bed and have a leisurely shower while I went downstairs and made a healthy cooked breakfast, tidied, did last night's dishes and got the laundry hung up.

Then after breakfast he immediately starts saying he wants to go to the fete. I said I hadn't showered yet and wanted to get ready leisurely and not feel rushed.

So next thing our DD20 calls from university and has had a package go missing with vital things so I spent an hour trying to sort that and while changing all the sheets and cleaning the bathroom.

DH starts getting restless so I get him out a sunlounger from the garage and tell him to read his book. He gets irritable because he says I can do the chores later.

I can't, because DD needs her package, it's got her cookware in it, and if I don't sort the laundry before we go, I'll not have dry sheets back on the beds later as we don't have a dryer.

DH gets in a thunder tantrum at midday saying I am wasting our day, at which point I snap and tell him that while he's being waited on hand and foot, I am doing the vital things that need doing.

AIBU to want to get things done and have decent time to look nice in the morning? I don't expect him to help with chores because the Fibromyalgia makes him so exhausted...but is it too much to ask that he's patient while the slave gets things done???!!!

OP posts:
Crazycrazylady · 11/09/2023 10:20

Op

This is the first day of a much better life for you. You sound amazing and strong and insightful. He will of course try and come back because as someone down threat mentioned sometimes disability can make people more selfish and given he was selfish to start with , it's magnified it. You have loads of life to live and no one should have to live like this. He is a grown man , he needs to take some responsibility for himself regardless of his Illness.

Timmytap18 · 11/09/2023 10:22

My husband arses about while I just want to get out the house so yeah I think YABU

Timmytap18 · 11/09/2023 10:24

Timmytap18 · 11/09/2023 10:22

My husband arses about while I just want to get out the house so yeah I think YABU

Apologies, I've just noticed your updates and obviously this is about a lot more.

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