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Are my standards on the floor?

31 replies

Worriz · 05/08/2025 22:36

Left the house at 5.30am to go to work. Back at 9.30pm. Husband is on long leave and at home with our young kids. He was on a lads weekend this weekend. Come home this evening to both kids still awake. One of them in backwards inside out PJs. And the kitchen is disgusting. We are talking milk out all day. Pasta stuck at bottom of pans, noodle packets everywhere, nuggets on the floor. Piss all pver the floor. Husband is sleeping and im tidying.

He doesnt usually act like this and lads weekends are rare. But I do have to organise stuff for them and book things. But he does usually tidy up.

He says "help me out love. Ive had the kids all day and im struggling" and has gone to sleep.

Do I have no standards?

OP posts:
heroinechic · 06/08/2025 00:02

@MrsSkylerWhite 😂

RhaenysRocks · 06/08/2025 00:02

heroinechic · 05/08/2025 23:58

What makes you think that the children were at risk of something really serious happening to them? As far as we know he didn’t leave them on their own all day or anything like that. He’s let them run riot a bit and not cleaned up after them because he’s hungover. It’s not great but it’s not the crime of the century to me.

If it was happening even semi-regularly it’d be problem but it doesn’t sound like it is!

Id love to know how regularly he has to actually parent alone for a whole day. I bet a million pounds the OP does it more and he doesn't come home to a disgusting, filthy mess.

steff13 · 06/08/2025 00:09

Inside out backwards pajamas is kind of funny. The rest of it is gross. Is he on leave for medical reasons?

Ohthatsmeback · 06/08/2025 00:09

heroinechic · 05/08/2025 23:58

What makes you think that the children were at risk of something really serious happening to them? As far as we know he didn’t leave them on their own all day or anything like that. He’s let them run riot a bit and not cleaned up after them because he’s hungover. It’s not great but it’s not the crime of the century to me.

If it was happening even semi-regularly it’d be problem but it doesn’t sound like it is!

I'm assuming something could have happened to them because from the state of the house and the children not dressed properly and allowing the child to piss on the floor he wasn't supervising them or looking after them properly.

You are assuming he didn't put them at risk, I'm.assuming he probably did. Neither of us know the truth.

Whatever the truth allowing his wife to come home to find what she did after a really long working day is absolutely not on.

FreestyleInTrance · 06/08/2025 00:10

Worriz · 05/08/2025 23:45

Well @JHound the lads weekend was a long weekend so I have just had 4 days of just me and the kids and no piss on the floor at any time. Also evenings fel dreamy alone!!

I can kinda see H point of "give me a break" and I've had a unusually long day which means he has had a long time alone with kids on a hangover. But I mean....instant noodles stuck to the work surface. Chicken nuggets literally on the floor and I've just walked past a spoon of Nutella on the stairs. Its ridiculous!

He had the children for 16 hours after you'd had them for FOUR DAYS STRAIGHT, but he thinks you need to help him?!

He had four days away followed by one day of (minimal effort) childcare, whereas you did four days childcare followed by 16 hours at work, but it's him who's asleep?

Find your anger!

EmeraldRoulette · 06/08/2025 00:36

@Worriz the state of what you've described makes me wonder if he is still off his face from something he took at the weekend.

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