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Anyone else's husband leaving them to work from home and do all the child care?!

30 replies

OwlinaTree · 31/03/2020 18:47

Just that really. He's up in the spare room on calls all day while I work in the dining room and entertain the kids Angry

He can't help having to be on calls but it's really pissing me off.

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LouiseTrees · 31/03/2020 23:53

@OwlinaTree my previous post saying suggest he takes them all night wasn’t so you had to work then, it was so he could see how hard work it is an you could relax.

IdblowJonSnow · 01/04/2020 00:17

Boffinmum why do you put up with that? Absolute piss taking from your husband.

BoffinMum · 20/04/2020 17:28

JonSnow, funnily enough, he has got into line after I furiously threw a bag of frozen peas in his general direction last week. Much more co-operative.

There are many more frozen vegetables where they came from ...

Fleurchamp · 20/04/2020 17:44

We have this too. I work part time (0.5 FTE) but DH "hogs" Mon - Fri 8am - 6pm so I start work at 7pm (finish at 9pm) and then work all day Saturday. We have Sunday "off" both of us.
He is a workaholic so he works in the evenings too so it isn't like he is sitting about doing nothing but it means all the childcare (he "helps" with bath and bed), housework, food sourcing and preparation falls to me. I am exhausted. Plus I end up fielding emails and calls during the day as some of my work has to be done in office hours (I lock myself out in the garden to do this). If I ask him to watch the kids for a bit during the day it is begrudgingly done - I have one team meeting a week, for less than an hour but he is normally hovering in the doorway waiting for me to "wrap it up" (he does a hand signal, twat) when I am pretty junior, it is not for me to wrap up.
I don't earn nearly as much as him, I "only" work PT and so I lose every argument we have about this. I asked my work to furlough me but they refused as I am in the only department still making money and I am even busier than usual, especially as they have furloughed support staff so I am having to do more myself (especially at weekends because no one else is working then, obviously). I am so stressed out I am tempted to hand my notice in but DH refuses to agree to it, my job is not well paid but it is much more secure at the present time.
I hate that he just gets to decide to work whereas I am always snatching pockets of time and I am drowning in work. I check my email on my phone and feel the tension in me rise as another item gets added to my ever increasing to do list.
AARGH.

tempnamechange98765 · 20/04/2020 17:51

Not so much the work side, as we both have not loads of work on and I'm only 3 days a week. But it's more the planning stuff for DS age 4 to do that's all me. Any craft, game, writing practice, numbers, ANYTHING that's not leaving him to it basically, is left down to me. He does do "PE" with DS but I have to ask him to do it. He would probably do any activity with him if I asked, but why should I have to ask/plan for everything?

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