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Is it just my dh who is an idiot? (Apologies in advance to all dhs who are not).

37 replies

arabella2 · 04/03/2004 08:39

Dh has been away for two nights as he does every week as he is working away. I quite look forward to him coming back even though he is a sometimes stressful character to have around. Then this morning he chucks one of ds's pooey nappies (he often does this), not in a plastic bag, not even closed properly, into the bathroom bin which does not have a plastic lining. I have told him before that this really makes the bin stink but he still does it. He seems to think the bin lady is going to empty it... So I took the nappy downstairs... Sounds incredibly petty but I just find this really disrespectful... Like he is kind of saying sod you, you or anything you say does not matter.
I am almost 37 weeks pregnant and feel that I get very little in the way of any kind of support from him mentally... He comes home and tells ds a million times how much he has missed him and how wonderful he is, and I get shouted at because I say about the bin smelling if he puts a nappy in it. Sorry if this sounds incredibly childish but this then sets me off to a bad day and I don't feel like having anything to do with him or talking to him at all. He also shouted at me because I had the "nerve" to ask him to come to the bathroom so I could say something to him while I was in the shower. Apparently I should have shouted what I wanted to say through the wall without calling him over (he was not far away at the time).
I even then feel that I do not want this obnoxious person anywhere near the delivery room when baby2 is born.
Things are not always like this but often enough to make me wonder how I got together with such a stroppy person.

OP posts:
Blackduck · 04/03/2004 17:12

Agree about both singing from same hymn sheet - my dp would live in a pig stye and eat cereal for every meal, but I don't want that! He says he'll do whatever I want him to, but could I leave him a list AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! He can't see how annoying that is! That the whole point is I don't want to have to keep asking, leaving detailed instructions etc........(btw I am not the most tidy person in the world either...)

crystaltips · 04/03/2004 18:14

How about buying one of those Mothercare "sausage machines" ... put nappies in special holder and only have to be emptied every couple of days .... DOn't smell either ...

Might be a good idea - if you are going to have 2 in nappies ...

If not - I'm with Bugsy's idea - nappy on briefcase and totally innocent reponse when tackled!!!

Evita · 04/03/2004 21:05

Droile, sorry I missed your question on the other thread. He's into continental philosophy - Deleuze, Kant, Nietzsche, all those guys. Why do you ask?

Clarinet60 · 04/03/2004 22:53

Just curious. I did philosophy as a minor subject. You don't often meet philosophy lecturers around the place.

Evita · 05/03/2004 09:53

No, you don't. They're a rare, strange, unique breed of people who are both enchanting and absolutely infuriating.

What did you study?

And did you sort out the stinky bin problem?!

emsiewill · 05/03/2004 17:15

Blackduck, I know exactly what you mean. My dh will do anything I ask him, "just give me a list", but if it isn't on the list, it more than likely won't get done. "Why didn't you feed the children?" "it wasn't on the list" (well, not quite that bad!).

WHY WHY WHY do I have to be the one who's "in charge" of everything? Drives me crazy. One of the only things he used to do was a lot of the running around - taking children to classes, doing shopping etc. Now he's been banned from driving for 6 months, so won't have use of the car for at least the next couple of years (insurance premiums ridiculously high), so he can't even do that. And who's been inconvenienced? ME - he just gets to read his book on the train every morning, and never has to get up to do the Saturday morning gym class run.

Life just seems to happen to him. No forethought, no planning. No need, he's got me.

Sorry for the rant, can you tell he's been getting on my nerves recently?

luckymum · 05/03/2004 18:38

Bugsy's idea of nappy on briefcase is good......but what about nappy IN briefcase, better don't you think

Must admit my dh tries his best (awww sweet) but it really bugs me when he says things like 'I've put the rubbish out for you or I've emptied the washer for you'. Like its my job and he's doing me a favour!!!!!!!

lailag · 05/03/2004 18:49

DH to nephew who is staying with us for a while: "just put your dirty cloths in the basket and it will be washed automatically"...(and dried and ironed and....)

Easy · 05/03/2004 19:09

emsiewill

You need to make sure that whenever you're doing the running around in the car he has a list of jobs to do, rather than sitting around and relaxing.

It's funny how they can never see jobs that need doing tho' isn't it.

Evita · 05/03/2004 21:43

luckymum, that too gets on my nerves: 'I did the washing up for you' even when I haven't created any of the things that need washing. I mean do I go around saying 'I put your dirty socks in the laundry bin for you' and expect thanks?! I just ignore those remarks. I refuse to say thanks. It's both our responsibility. I have to say though that I only ever do the minimum of what needs to be done to keep things hygeinic and basically tidy. I refuse to become a domestic slave!

Clarinet60 · 08/03/2004 15:03

Evita, I didn't have a stinky bin. Whenever a bottom has exploded, DH hands the owner to me, so it couldn't occur.
Re philosophy, I majored in science, so took philosophy of the life sciences to complement it. My special interests were ethics, consciousness, truth, AI, etc.

Have just had depressing thought, folks. If things carry on as they are, then when we are grandparents visiting our offspring, we'll be helping out in the kitchen while our partners veg out in front of the TV.

Bit bitter today. When we came back from hospital with the toddler and he was unputdownable, I had to shout at DH to make other son a sandwhich for his tea (too busy reading papers), do all the washing with one hand and coax him through every step of the bedtime routine ('now do his teeth' 'now put pjs on, etc'. He knows what to do - we do it every night, but every night I have to either direct operations or do it myself. AAHHHHHHHHHHH - rant over.

Lailag, that's a classic. I laughed for ages.

Clarinet60 · 08/03/2004 15:04

Don't know why that winked. I think I must have begun to twitch.

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