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Pregnant and fed up of DP

31 replies

tiredmummytobe · 10/05/2012 23:52

I have namechanged for this. I am 3 months pregnant with our first child and I'm really beginning to get fed up of DP's attitude. I don't know if it's hormones or if I am justified in being utterly pissed off.

We both work full time. Fair enough his job is manual and is quite tough physically where as mine is office based. However, I come home from work and have to do all the cooking, cleaning, washing. If I didn't do anything he would literally live on shop-bought sandwiches and crisps and the plates would mount up and just sit there until they start to go mouldy.

He works as many hours as me but completely different shift patterns so he is at home every single day until 1pm sometimes 2pm. I on the other hand leave the house at 8am and sometimes don't get home until 8 or 9pm by which time I am knackered but still have to cook and do the housework.

I also resent the fact that he is so fucking miserable a lot of the time. He whinges about such trivial things and stresses me out when I could do without it. He also keeps complaining that we haven't had sex in about a month now. Every time we get into bed he says 'do you know how long it's been?' I have told him how much of a turn off it is and that perhaps if he changed his attitude and tried kissing me and a bit of foreplay rather than moaning then perhaps he wouldn't have had to wait so long.

Is it me or is it him? And how are we going to cope if we are like this before the baby has even arrived? Sad

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OxfordBags · 11/05/2012 14:16

For a start, tell hom that you are too busy doing all the housework by yourself when you are pg and working the same hours as him to feel like having sex.

Secondly... he sounds like an arsehole. Sorry, I can't offer Anything more constructive. This really needs to be nipped in the bud right now or else it will only go on getting worse and worse.

kittycatwoman · 11/05/2012 15:38

If you hadnt been pregnant I would have said to dump him and kick his sorry arse out.

HotDAMNlifeisgood · 11/05/2012 16:44

Huh, kittycat? Being pregnant sounds like an additional reason to dump a sorry arse: it removes a dead weight from the responsible and over-worked parent, and also removes a harmful role model for the child.

HotDAMNlifeisgood · 11/05/2012 16:47

*harmful relationship role model

solidgoldbrass · 11/05/2012 17:22

Yup, throw him out. Ok if you have any goodwill left towards him at all (and I wouldn't blame you if you don't) you might offer him one chance to change his attitude, but that's probably going to be delaying the inevitable. Men like this consider women less than human, to him you are a domestic appliance with a sexual orifice for his convenience.

izzyizin · 11/05/2012 17:47

GoPoldark has given you the blueprint to turn him into something approaching a loving, caring, and responsible partner who might morph into an equally responsible parent.

If you don't act on GP's advice you might as well tell the whinging lazy arse to pack his bags and sling his hook now because his attitude will get infinitely worse after your pfb has arrived.

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