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To be upset DH never ask me

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Emerald95 · 25/01/2024 18:03

Every day as we sit down with tea I ask my DH, DS and DD what the best and worst part of their day has been. Sometimes this leads into a whole conversation about their day or sometimes they just answer with a few words.
But in the months they've been asked the same question every single night they've never asked me the best and worst part of my day. My DC are 8 and 3, still very young and learning how to hold polite conversations but my DH is in his 40's so you'd think he'd have learnt the basics of showing respect in a conversation by asking how others are doing.
For context I left my job 4 months ago to become a SAHM as childcare costs were too high and ever since then my life has lacked a certain amount of adult interactions outside of small talk at baby groups so im unsure if this is why it's bothering me so much.
I know if i mention it he'll make an effort to ask me but having to ask him to consider me is somehow more pathetic than feeling like he doesn't care about my day.

Am I being unreasonable to feel put out that he never asks me?

OP posts:
bombardelli · 26/01/2024 00:01

ButWhatAboutTheBees · 25/01/2024 18:14

If you don't do much outside of childcare/housework then maybe he feels you won't have anything to say? Perhaps thinking you'd mention it first if you had anything to say?
Maybe he doesn't enjoy this forced style of conversation but he can see you do so he just leaves you to it?
Maybe you should start by saying "well, today I did X, Y and Z. The best bit was when J happened and the worst was when K happened. What about you DC?" It might at least make he think and realise

Do you not think a SAHM would have much to say about the best and worst part of her day?

bombardelli · 26/01/2024 00:01

ButWhatAboutTheBees · 25/01/2024 23:57

I think pointing out these seems contrived and false is relevant. Because that might be why OP isn't being asked. DH finds it a faff and a bother to have to join in this contrivance and therefore he does the perfunctory amount to be done with it.

And yet I bet he waffles on about himself, as OP alludes to whole comversations.

SleepingBeautySnores · 26/01/2024 00:17

If it bothers you OP, tell him! You're expecting him to take part in this nightly conversation, but you're not actually communicating your own needs clearly, are you? Sorry, I don't mean that to sound nasty, but so many women seem to expect their partners to read their minds, and say or do things without being told that that's what we need or want them to do. For example, I know a woman who is always moaning that her DH never takes the bins out. I asked her, whether she's told him that she would like him to do that particular job each day/week, etc., and she looked at me as if I was daft, so I said, "if you don't ask, how do you expect him to know that's what you want?' Her response, 'well he should know it needs doing', and I do agree, but while I know this is a huge generalisation, it seems that men just don't seem to be brought up to think about the needs of others, and so simply think of themselves, hence, if we want them to fulfil our needs, we have to speak up and tell them. Hopefully, given another generation or two, we as Mums, will have taught our boys to consider the needs of others, and not just their own, but I guess time will tell.

Fraaahnces · 26/01/2024 01:48

I can understand your resentment. I would ask if anyone is interested in your day and look pointedly at DH.

ButWhatAboutTheBees · 26/01/2024 01:59

bombardelli · 26/01/2024 00:01

Do you not think a SAHM would have much to say about the best and worst part of her day?

Not when she talks of a lack of interaction outside baby groups... implying she has little else going on.

And she says it opens up full conversations from all of them. Not that her husband waffles on.

But go ahead, pick just my comments out of the whole thread of people pointing out this is quite tedious and they'd struggle what to say every day

32degrees · 26/01/2024 02:01

TeeBee · 25/01/2024 18:34

I'd just end the conversation with 'well, the worst part of my day is that nobody cares enough to ask how my day went.'

Coming from someone who was raised by a passive aggressive guilt tripping mother- please don't do this.

Just say how you feel and what you want. No games or traps.

DoorPath · 26/01/2024 05:20

TeeBee · 25/01/2024 18:34

I'd just end the conversation with 'well, the worst part of my day is that nobody cares enough to ask how my day went.'

Jesus, din't be that person!

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