Hi - hope you can help with a minor but sticky issue!
My husband is demanding to take my 5 year old daughter off camping. No problem you'd think. Except that this is the latest in a long and in total unreasonable list of demands that I've given in to.
While he goes off camping he wants me to look after our two year old son and dog for the weekend (I'm a stay at home mum so I will have looked after them during the week). I'm six months pregnant with a high risk pregnancy and I think that the little time he spends with me and our family should be spent doing something we can share or even better support me in the pregnancy. I worry that this is the thin end of the wedge and it will give him free rein to exclude part of the family from a stream of other activities that are hard to do with either a pregnant wife, toddler or a new baby.
He is not hard done to, he has a man week's holiday to himself every year, plays squash three times a week, goes jogging in his lunch hours (instead of ever making it home for tea together). He plays tennis and also has his own windsurfer and microlight aircraft. At home he has his own computer games room (which he goes into virtually every night) and he refuses point blank to do any shopping, cooking, laundry, cleaning or tidying whatsoever, which I have accepted.
My question mumsnetters is: am I being as unreasonable and as horrible as he is making out for saying that I want us to do something as a family instead of camping??? He tells me that he demands to go and I am controlling him, which I find really upsetting. Should I just give in and suck up being left on my own again????
Thanks for any suggestions....