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Am I nagging?

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Jamontoast123x · 11/02/2025 11:08

I’ve been with my partner for 12 years this year. We have 4 children together. I just wanted to know if anyone else’s partner does this or just mine, he will come home from work spend some time downstairs with us and then he will go upstairs , lay in bed/on the bed watching tv, enjoying his own company. Sometimes he will even eat dinner up there. When he’s off work, he pretty much does the same. We will take kids out and then as soon as we come back in he will make a point of saying he’s chilling out now and he will come upstairs and do just that. I say to him a lot I want to spend more time with him but he always says he likes his own company and he can’t watch what he wants downstairs as our toddler watches stuff. Which I get but what happened to speaking and just enjoying each others company?

Aibu for nagging him to stop doing this or does anyone else’s partner/husband do this?

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DaisyChain505 · 11/02/2025 15:28

Your statements are completely contradictory. How can he be a great dad and partner but also want f all to do with any of you?

People who want to be in relationships with a partner or children or whoever put the time and effort in to nurture those relationships.

Being a stay at home mum means you are “working” the hours that he works. When he clocks off from his job, so do you and from then you are just two parents equally looking after your children and home.

Murmum · 11/02/2025 16:42

Not nagging, they are his kids too. Where is your downtime or chill time.
Harsh but he needs to step up,

tothelefttotheleft · 11/02/2025 19:21

Dror · 11/02/2025 14:10

There's no such thing as 'as good as' married when one person has chosen to be dependent. You don't have any legal protection.
Are you on the deeds of the house? Is the misogynist paying towards your pension?

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/family/living-together-marriage-and-civil-partnership/living-together-and-marriage-legal-differences/

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