SAHM ? Christ, this has to be the most undervalued job in the World!

[Treadmillmom]

I am wife and a mother to 3 DC under 5.
Of all the jobs I have ever had being a SAHM mom is the bloody hardest!
I?ve been a SAHM now for exactly 12 months and not only do I not get a salary but everyone just whinges and whinges constantly, and I?m not just talking about the kids.
I cook fresh meals 6 days outta 7, DH never touches them, kids just moan. Seriously, I can see the attraction of serving chips with everything or ready meals, I bet there?s never any waste or complaint!
From 7am till approx. 9pm I?m on the move (not including the night shift), but there?s still always gripes for the things perceived not to have been done or done satisfactorlly.
Seriously thinking of going AWOL or getting prescription drugs from GP.
Getting pissed off being everyone?s skivvy and getting nowt but moans and criticism in return!

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Is this what you want to do or do you think you would be happier going back to work?

Also, it sounds to me like your DH needs a bit of a reality check and could do with being left in charge for a while. Why does he not eat what you cook for him?

I have been a SAHM for nearly 9 yrs (although a part time student and trying to start a business from home) and it is hard. I wouldn't chose to do things differently if I had my time again, I would still be a SAHM, but I think I would make sure I got more time for myself in the early days which I didn't.

I used to end up resenting holidays actually because it ended up being the same old routine for me but in a different place. DH at least got a change of scene from work.

But on the other hand, I know that being a work is no more fun, being at the beck and call of a boss and being expected to turn up the same time every week and do the same thing. I don't think the grass is necessarily any greener.

Why does your dh never eat the meals you cook??????

Niecie - I agree about holidays, I think they are often harder work than normal. You have to do all the preparation, washing ironing and packing (usually for DH too if they are anything like mine) and then do all the organising whilst away. We're self catering this year and I'm dreading it - cooking away from home with unfamilair equipment etc is hardly a rest is it?

Seeline - I have come close to refusing to get in the car a couple of times as I get so fed up with the preparation and the packing and DH standing at the bottom of the stairs shouting about how he hasn't been given any bags to pack yet. And then when I come down stairs after packing I find he hasn't even washed up the breakfast things or tidied up (can't bear coming home to an untidy house).

I start most holidays in a right grump - what a joy I must be?

And then the final straw comes about 20 miles into the journey when DH turns to me and says something about have you remember to pack the directions or turn the heating off or something.

Actually it isn't so much the doing of stuff, it is being responsible for remembering and organising and negotiatingall the time.

Sorry this is Threadmillmom's thread for a moan not mine.