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Not to have dropped DH off at the hospital?

36 replies

Schnullerbacke · 21/09/2009 12:50

So perdiodicaly we have this argument, I'm a SAHM and obviously don't earn any money and obviously HE is the one bringing all the money home.

Two days ago we had a normal chat about divorce, not us, but in general as we know some people who are getting divorced. He thought it was not fair that the wife gets so much of the divorce settlement until I had to explain that we work harder than men (7 days a week), enable them to further their career and usually foresake ours etc. In any case, the money is not for the wife to go on a cruise trip (although probably well deserved), its used to look after the kids if she cannot work. Ok, think I got my point across and he said he can see my point.

So yesterday we had a little domestic over the words 'mine' and 'yours'. He is Asian and when we first met he said he cannot understand us Westerners and how everything is divided into 'mine' and 'yours.
He slipped up yesterday again and said 'my' money and 'my' car so I called him a hyppocrite (sp?). Then he said he has to protect himself as if I was ever to divorce him he would be left with nothing.

I was fuming.

Ok, so we argue every now and then like everyone else does but we don't talk about divorce and stuff. I guess it must be in his mind somehow or he would have not brought it up.

To come to the end of this, I'm obviously deeply offended to be called a goldigger, threw his bank card at him and gave the key back to 'his' car.
He had to go to hospital today for a shoulder operation and I was meant to drive him and pick him up on Wed as he won't be able to drive (45 mins drive each way).

He didn't apologise so needless to say he was driving himself today in HIS car.

I did feel a bit guilty after he left and called his mobile to see whether I should drive him (still wouldn' have talked to him though), called 4 times but he didn't pick up so that was that.

So if you are still with me, AIBU?

OP posts:
bubblagirl · 21/09/2009 13:27

i think in arguments we can all say things wrong in the heat of the moment but if you really love them you will do right by them and personally although fuming or still upset over argument i will never let my dp go anywhere without me telling him i love him i would have taken him

my dp in rows often brings up the fact he works he earns money im always saying how much i do for the family how little he does etc that is equally as hurtful for them to hear as they work hard to provide as we work hard but in arguments im sure we have all made the other seem bad

Lilyloo · 21/09/2009 13:27

the more i think about this the more i am , your poor dh hopefully he has found someone else to take him !

Hulababy · 21/09/2009 13:29

I think you should have cleared the air well before he went into hospital for an operation, and you should have driven him as planned.

Where is the car now and where will it be until Wednesday and beyond?

bubblagirl · 21/09/2009 13:31

also i dont see myslef as working harder than my dp i see us as being equal i may work harder in the home but he works harder outside of it that makes us equal i think you ought to go tot he hosp and make up how sad to go into theatre with the looming feeling of having row thats not been sorted especially if you really do love each other

rows are stupid and it needs someone to be the bigger person at times and forget it and put it down as an argument only and talk to the other person about what has been said and still support each other in important moments in there life regardless

troutpout · 21/09/2009 13:34

yep you are..you know it too don't you
Life is too blardy short for this sort of stuff isn't it?
Because I never lower myself to such pettiness...no siree

MadreInglese · 21/09/2009 13:37

YABU

What's yours and what's mine and who works harder and hypothetical divorce convos.....?

MovingOutOfBlighty · 21/09/2009 13:43

Scarey.

And by that I mean both of you.

BTW - how patronising to say that you work 'much harder' as a SAHM. I hate all that competitive parenting bollocks.
It was a typical petty argument about a theoretical situation. But the only difference is that you really took it to a very petty conclusion.

GetOrfMoiLand · 21/09/2009 14:34

Funnily enough OP has disappeared off the face of the earth

Lilyloo · 21/09/2009 19:39

see op doesn't agree then

Hulababy · 21/09/2009 19:41

Let's hope OP has gone off to the hospital to see said partner.

bentneckwine1 · 22/09/2009 23:18

Maybe he was feeling really nervous and on edge because of the operation which then made him act defensive. And if you have been worring about him going into hospital then you won't have been thinking straight either.

Arguement got out of hand. I bet he will be pleased to see you if you go visit.

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