So, husband takes daughter to nursery in the morning. She is being a little rascal and won’t put her coat on. Fridays is ice cream day, so I said to her, ‘Pop on your coat and we’ll have ice cream later. But only if you put your coat on…’
Husband then gets very angry and says, ‘Thank you VERY much. Now she’ll be screaming for ice cream on the way to nursery.’ I said it’s a Friday tradition, and - to me - a bit of screeching en route to nursery is standard toddler practice, especially when tired on Fridays.
He then says the problem is that I always have to be right - that I couldn’t accept being ‘wrong’ about this. From my point of view, I was just explaining my thought process - she responds well to a potential reward. He then told me, ‘I don’t want to speak to you any more. Say goodbye to DC, we’re going now’.
Some of you may recognise me from previous husband issues (most recently inset days) - clearly, we’re having issues at the moment. I do the vast majority of everything for our child (he drops DC off 4x a week and that’s pretty much it.) I don’t know if I’m being unreasonable - my sense of self is pretty shot at the moment, TBH.
People of Mumsnet, please do weigh in. If I’m in the wrong, I’ll take it.