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Communication with DH

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sewwhatnow · 27/10/2022 15:38

DH likes to be Mr Busy all the time and bends over backwards for others yet when I go to talk to him about anything, he huffs, looks away and carries on with what he's doing and acts like he can't take anything else on.

He takes everything I say as criticism and I get so annoyed with him as I don't feel heard so he feels 'got at' and round and round we go.

I've said I need him to look at me when I'm trying to talk to him and that it's apparent we can only talk in the evening as he's too busy in the day. Need him to put his phone down first tbh.

Why should he keep himself so busy that I just get the dregs? He literally stretches himself so thinly then he's knackered and can't hear anything else by the end of the evening. He says he's sick of it going round and round like this.

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40andfit · 27/10/2022 15:40

Have you asked him one evening when he is not busy for a chat so you can discuss how you feel?

sewwhatnow · 27/10/2022 15:43

Yes. He says yeah yeah ok like he's agreeing just get it over with. He has an ill elderly parent, 2 kids and a full time job but I can't express my opinion easily to him without him thinking I'm moaning. I am calm and reasonable when I talk but when he turns away, I get cross.

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sewwhatnow · 27/10/2022 15:46

I think someone has taken too much on when he can't even listen to me expressing my needs etc. He socialises/gym etc.

I've told him that.

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MolliciousIntent · 27/10/2022 18:25

I'm so sorry, if he cared about you, he'd make time.

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