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Aibu for being pissed off with DH over swimming lesson

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whitehear · 06/07/2025 09:28

So he works Monday-Friday, usually leaves around 7am and back about 5.30-6pm. I work Monday-Friday 9.30-2.30. He works away quite a lot as well as being at home.

So I am the one who does everything regarding kids and school plus housework and cooking. When he gets home everything is done, he doesn’t have to do anything. Even on a weekend I’m the one who’s up with the kids first and giving them breakfast. I don’t mind this, I’m not one for staying in bed. He usually gets up an hour later than us. He does take both dds out Sundays to his mums for about 6 hours so I can get all the house cleaned and have a bit of time to myself. He goes for a run 4 times a week and usually out of the house for about an hour.

Sundays our oldest dd has swimming lessons at 9.45am. He takes her. He’s just said to me, we can start taking it in turns taking her, let him have a rest.
Aibu to be pissed off with him saying this? This is literally the only thing he has to do.

OP posts:
Notbuzzinganymore · 08/07/2025 16:16

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 08/07/2025 13:54

But OP is also working in that time - she’s looking after their kids!

5 hours a day in the house should be plenty of time for household labour and childcare tasks. Yea so swap the roles, he cuts his hours to spend more time with the kids and doing the household labour and she can work away from the kids longer hours. I know what I would choose. Id choose to be at home and take the kids swimming every other weekend.

Ive 3 kids and I've cared and worked part time and I've worked full time and I know what I'd every single time, it will always be the kids and the house and I'd thank my lucky stars.

Crole · 08/07/2025 19:12

Nope, completely understand why you're annoyed about it.

I had a similar setup with my ex-husband as I imagine a lot of couples do. Cooking, cleaning, childcare was all mine. One day he asked us to take turns mowing the lawn (his ONLY regular task). I left him 2 months later, not just because of mowing ;-)

Unexpectedlysinglemum · 08/07/2025 23:04

99bottlesofkombucha · 06/07/2025 10:05

‘For sure I’ve been thinking about sharing the load more. Would you like to cook dinner Saturday or Sunday? And I’ll sleep in till 8:30 Sunday so you get up with the kids, if you do 2 loads of washing I’ll do 2 on the weekend too, as I am going to start going to the gym a couple of times a week, girlfriends have pointed out how you get to go 4 times a week so I’ll be going two times a week and you will have to do a bit more there.’
stop being a walk over. Tell him that other men who work clean up dinner, coach the footy team, do school admin, bedtimes, you just moan because you have to do ONE THING.

This

Unexpectedlysinglemum · 08/07/2025 23:04

IWantItToStop · 06/07/2025 11:27

You know on a Sunday he’s sitting there being waited on my mummy who’s looking after the kids and your break is six hours of housework? And then he said that?

Yup

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