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Beline4u · 21/07/2021 22:14

What do you do when you have had enough! You have done all the communicating crap, you've been calm as hell, you've gone a bit mad but still, youre the one carrying the load of 4 kids and a husband...
I genuinely can not take anymore! I've booked in for therapy cause clearly I'm the problem... although I know I'm not!!

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Comedycook · 21/07/2021 22:15

What's going on? How old are your dc? Mine and my dh regularly drive me mad

DoItAfraid · 21/07/2021 22:17
Flowers

Cannot tell you how many times i have dreamed of walking out the door, out the gate and not returning. Husband is worse than the kids to be fair.

What’s going on?

Growtheroses · 21/07/2021 22:18

Give yourself a break op (literally). Are the DC old enough that you can go away for a w/e on your own? It's been a really difficult eighteen months Flowers

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Beline4u · 21/07/2021 22:19

3, 6, 10, 13. Anything that involves bringing up a family, looking after home it's up to me. I work part time. I genuinely can't do it anymore. I've told DH I can't deal with this load anymore, he looks at me blankly.

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Beline4u · 21/07/2021 22:23

Thank you guys!! It's so hard!!
Ohmigoodness, DH can be overwhelming too! He literally thinks there is one bin in the house that needs changed. He doesn't see a pile of clothes that need folded or toys that need put away.

All I want is level headed happy kids and not screw them up.

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Dizzywizz · 22/07/2021 06:30

Sounds really hard op.

ApolloandDaphne · 22/07/2021 07:02

Do your children help out and do chores at home? Can you instigate a rota for chores which includes all of you? Pocket money for the older children in return for them being done.

Ylvamoon · 22/07/2021 07:06

Delegate, make everyone pull their weight.

Growtheroses · 22/07/2021 07:52

Delegate, make everyone pull their weight.

My experience is that apart from little children, you can't make anyone do anything they don't want to, and it's exhausting trying. Mine helped out when they were young, but now they are teens they do nothing but make mess. DH too. It is depressing.

Yesterday I asked DH if, this summer, he would help me clear out two spaces under our terrace that are full of old (heavy) gardening equipment and ancient paddling pools etc, and he looked at me as though someone had died Sad

I am at my wit's end too op. Flowers. I don't know what to suggest except leaving your DH with the DC and a long list of household chores for a long weekend and see how he likes it?

Also could you record in to your phone every single task you do in a week, however small, write them all out, then work out the number of hours you both have available outside work, and divide accordingly. You shouldn't have to micro- manage it all like this but there we are.

The other alternatives are going from PT to sahm. (Not recommended as you will end up doing more housework.)

How about employing a cleaner or mother's help and economising in some other area to pay for them?

Good luck Flowers

Wormholes · 22/07/2021 07:55

The other alternatives are going from PT to sahm

Better yet - get a FT job and tell your fucking useless DH he'll have to step up.

Growtheroses · 22/07/2021 07:55

I guess the other alternative is to go full time, employ a PT nanny and a cleaner, and then your DH will have no excuse but to go halves for the rest?

Beline4u · 22/07/2021 08:29

@Growtheroses Yes!! This sounds a bit like me! They all have chores, pocket money (money doesn't be given if chores are not done) Eveyone knows what they need to be doing but I'm the one encouraging/maintaining.
I've taken before and after photos of what I have done. He agrees kids are messy 🤔 (wasn't really the point I was making DH) My mother, well I was looking after her growing up, so she's not much help.

I feel like I tried everything, I just have to accept it. FT scares the crap out of me, I starting a degree in September which also freaks me out.

Going away for a few days sounds amazing! I might actually do that!

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