And it is driving me mad, to the point where some mornings I feel like packing up and walking out. In the week it's not so much of a problem as we both get up at the same time and I take the dc into the living room while he gets ready and goes- we barely speak.
The weekends are awful. I appreciate he is tired. He works hard and our dc have never been great sleepers. DS1 who is 3 is usually up at around 5. DS2 (11 months) wakes soon after. As soon a DH is woken he is in a foul mood and is really nasty to the children. I hate this-it make me hate him. He thinks he must be more tired than I am as he goes out to work and I don't. He convieniently overlooks the fact that I have been up for half of the night feeding DS2. I usually have around 4 hours broken sleep.
At the weekend we take it in turns to have a lie in. I still wake up with the children when it is my turn, until he is ready to get up but when he does he can be quite vicious with ds1. He shouts at him for waking him up and usually makes him cry. He stomps around shouting and swearing. This really upsets me. I usually cannot go back to sleep and I can't lie in bed thinking about him being moody with the children downstairs.
I don't know what to do, should I just accept that he is not a morning person and forget about my lie in and get up with the children to avoid the situation or do something about this? Yesterday morning we had a huge row about it and I told him that if he couldn't sort himself out that he should move out as early mornings are part of being a parent. Was I over reacting?
Sorry to have rambled but to finish I must say, I love my DH very much. He is a good husband and father. He loves me and his children more than anything. He is not a bad person- just not a morning person.