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Is this a normal question?

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Stuckinit21 · 24/02/2025 13:02

I have a 4 year old daughter that has been sick overnight and I have been up with her most of the night. I have two other children that are older and so my husband took the other two to school. I assumed he would tell school that our daughter that has been up sick all night wouldn’t be coming in to school. Anyway once me and my daughter did finally go back to sleep, school rang and I missed the call. They were asking why my daughter wasn’t in school. I was so tired I sent a quick message to my husband asking him to call school, which he did.

Right so now I get to my point. Once I woke up I asked my husband if he rang school, which he said he has. So the part that I find very weird is I asked him “what did you exactly say to school?” “Did you say just sick or she vomited?”. I asked him this because they tend to always ask specifics as to why a child is off school. He then told me oh the school didn’t actually answer the phone so he left a voicemail. I said that’s absolutely fine. Just so that we are on the same page I needed to know what he told them otherwise they would be ringing us back.

It’s his reaction and tone to me asking these questions that has me bewildered. He threw a strop saying “I find these questions you ask me are so strange and weird” . I said it’s just normal day to day family life questions. He went on to say there’s so many weird questions you ask me about the kids.

Tbh I don’t think it’s just regarding this. The man can’t be asked any questions really. Iv said to him a lot of marriage/family life is not going to be amazing fun conversations is it especially when we have young children(3 children 10 and under) Is this a man thing? It’s hard to converse a lot of the time. He says it’s “annoying and unnecessary questions” “that I don’t trust him to be a parent”

Is it me being too much or should he be able to answer normal every day type of questions?

Thanks

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RentalWoesNotFun · 24/02/2025 20:05

I get why you asked him questions.

It's because (in my opinion) some men don't think far enough ahead, whereas we try and do that so we can try and ensure that things go smoothly and head off any problems at the pass. Men just see the here and now.

You give them one little job to do and they fuck it up through inattentive or inability to do two things at once. It's infuriating. We do sooo much more.

Then you go around trying thinking i should have just done this my fucking self shoulda known better... Meanwhile the guy is all ruffled up at you with hurt feelings as you're questioning him like he's a fuckwit.

When he is a fuckwit.
He just doesn't see it.

That's why I'm single. They have to be micromanaged because they aren't as smart as us.

Those are my opinions and im entitled to them. Others may be if different opinions and that's fine too. Just saying.

Dancingatthepinkponyclub · 25/02/2025 14:56

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