I’m feeling totally heartbroken and lost. 5yr old DS is a joy with other people, does really well at school, everyone says how lovely and funny and clever he is. But I feel like I have no relationship with him whatsoever.
At home with me he’s argumentative, rude, aggressive, obstinate and generally a total toerag. DH finds him challenging at times but nothing like I do.
We were supposed to be going to see fireworks tonight but we ended up not being able to go because he was so unpleasant; I’m so upset because I was really looking forward to being all together doing something special.
As it is, I feel like all I do is cook, clean and argue with him. FWIW he’s an only child - we didn’t have another because I had bad PND. I feel like I’ve totally failed as a mother. What do I do? Is it just me?