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To feel this way about my oh?

357 replies

Kmoggy · 12/03/2017 13:21

I'm really struggling to like my partner just now.. i haven't been happy in our relationship for about a year, had another baby 6 months ago so I'm sure that's contributed. He's not a bad guy at all.. he loves our children so much. Trouble is he has no ambition, no drive to do better for us as a family. I know he's been brought up to accept that just by having a job and being around is enough but it really isn't in my book. He is financially dependant on me.. I bring in most of the money. Granted I get private money gifted from my family each month but still that money was never to pay bills with, it was to treat myself with etc. Now we have children I just keep thinking how I could use that money for them and their futures but instead it's paying our monthly bills.
I'm going bk to work soon and will be working part time, looking after 3 under 2,s and hopefully starting some study plus running every aspect of this household. I don't have time to take on extra work. He does tho, he works 6/3 and has weekends off.. I have tried to suggest he advertises as a handy man or looks into some courses etc as he's so good with diy. But he won't and just tells me he doesn't enjoy it... he works for my uncle and brings in £20000 a year which is nothing when I think of the cost of 3 kids when they are a bit older. I just want him to want to provide for us and not happy to sit back and take from my family.
He could help more around the house too which really upsets me as today for instance I was up 3x feeding throughout the night.. I was so tired at 7am and asked him if I could get an extra hr, he said go get boys breakfast first and I'll come down when you did that.. he did come down but went bk to bed, it's 12.30 and I've just sat down. I've been cooking, cleaning etc since I got up and now he's sitting on his again. He never offers to help me or says I'll do that you sit down. He rarely cleans to standard I need and I honestly just feel so much hatred and resentment towards him just now.. don't know if we will get through this. He thinks everything is fine and has no idea I keep thinking about what would happen if we split up. I can't communicate to him ever coz he never talks back just sits quiet and never ever offers a solution to the problems in our relationship! I just feel we are 2 different. I want the very best for my kids, I'm not prepared to settle for bare minimum and he is! Although he seems to think spending money is ok on things we can't afford etc.. he wants all the nice things but he isn't pulling the money in to have them. Any advice welcome.. but I just need to get this off my chest as I have no one I can talk to about this and I don't know if there is any going be from here.

OP posts:
Haffiana · 13/03/2017 18:49

OP, do a name change and post again in a couple of weeks without mentioning that your family help you out by giving you money.

Most posters here cannot see past that. The wish to put down anyone who has any sort of good luck or advantage is a very unpleasant trait.

PigletWasPoohsFriend · 13/03/2017 19:20

is it so unreasonable that he is on the same page with that?

Yes it is if it isn't something he wants to do!

icy121 · 13/03/2017 20:53

Piglet but he WANTS all the benefits of "bettering" the family without putting the effort in. Why is it so wrong to you for the OP to be dissatisfied with this?!

MommaGee · 13/03/2017 21:59

Op is there anything you like about him?

Philoslothy · 14/03/2017 00:02

I'm a parent of 3DC and right now I'm averaging 90-100 hours a week, DH is working 60ish. When you need to work long hours you make it happen*

I can't imagine a scenario in which it is a good idea for anybody - least of all a parent - to work 100 hours a week. That is 14 hours a day seven days a week,

Want2bSupermum · 14/03/2017 01:56

Or 16 hours 6 days a week.

It is why I am applying for other jobs (with less hours) on my 7th day off (which I have not had). We are about to be hit with an enormous amount of snow tomorrow. I was asked if I had a back up generator so I could work. I told them I would have one if they can pay for it.

May we have a power cut tomorrow for a good 6 hours or so. Long enough to have a break and short enough that the freezer doesn't melt. They are talking about this storm potentially running into Wednesday. That would not be a bad thing for me. I might only work 12 hours.

GrumbleBumble · 14/03/2017 07:45

I'm going to study at night when kids go to bed in order to improve my future earning potential, is it so unreasonable that he is on the same page with that?

Perhaps he is too knackered to study at night as he starts work very early?
Perhaps he wants to spend his weekends with his partner and kids not doing other peoples DIY?
Perhaps he feels useless, inadequate and a bit depressed because he's constantly told he does everything wrong?
He might just have stopped trying because nothing is ever good enough to meet the OP's "standards" and its easier to do nothing than it is to do something and be told he's done it wrong?

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