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oh making himself a martyr - has anyone come across this?

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livingonthedge · 25/09/2011 12:24

We cospept with all our children - joint decision - if anything more ohs idea than mine. We still often have 5 yr old ds arriving at some point each night.

We argued this morning during which oh shouted that I had "made him sleep on the floor for a year when we had ds". I didn't. He ended up sleeping on the floor because he said that ds kicked too much nd that he would prefer sleeping on the floor to either separate beds or ds in own room. He never had any problem with this though at the time, suggested it himself, refused all my suggestions that me and ds or he slept in bed in dss room (I was bfing and ds fed most of the night). He just kept saying that he was happy on floor as better for back etc (he was working away a lot at the time and slept on the floor then as usually said that the bed was too soft). Now he is claiming that I made him do it.

He has done this with other things - ie insists on eating horrid stale crusts (which I try to throw out for the birds but am told not to so that he can eat them) and then he makes a thing of the fact that I get "nice food whilst he has to eat stale crusts" - often jokingly but pretty constantly and sometimes crossly (but if I threw them out then he'd shout that i was throwing out food that he wanted). When I suggests that he doesn't make these comments then he either says that I'm over reacting or loses it.

Any suggestions?

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eicosapentaenoic · 25/09/2011 19:03

Riverboat is on it. I martyr myself when I feel guilty about something eg I've been slaving all day blah blah when I've actually been skiving. Or I've been overdoing it slaving for everybody else without taking time out. Any correlation?

livingonthedge · 25/09/2011 19:10

I have tried discussing it with him. He either gets very cross very quickly and shouts at me or he doen't get cross and claims that he does like eating crusts/prefers the floor and was "just joking"when he said that he didn't. He often does joke about it - it is as if he likes thinking of himself as "poor little me".

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eicosapentaenoic · 25/09/2011 19:16

This is the kind of relationship stress we had when the DCs were younger. Any chance of a regular night out with the dude, just like the old days?

livingonthedge · 25/09/2011 19:21

no - he never wants to go out. Prefers to stay in. When we do go out he sits looking at his watch worrying that we have been too long and/or talking about how much the baby sitter will be costing :( so have given up trying to get him to.

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eicosapentaenoic · 25/09/2011 19:28

Ha. Mine does that watch thing. It is soooo annoying. I've given up too on evenings. Most fun times we have are with DCs on days out. Do you have loads of DCs? Is he feeling way down in the pecking order/wage slave?

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