Article "Ive Dumped My Mum Friends who Treat Their Husbands Like An Extra Child" (incompetent husbands")

[HelenaDove]

This will certainly resonate with some of the posters from the incompetent husbands threads. Just spotted this on twitter.

graziadaily.co.uk/life/opinion/i-ve-dumped-my-mum-friends-who-treat-their-husbands-like-an-extra-child/

I am just tolerating my man baby BIL and thanking the lord he isn’t my problem. But I’ve lost the friend I had in my sister due to it all. It’s not her kids why she doesn’t go out or have much social life of her own, it’s because he’s a man child and she treats him like one. It’s so frustrating to be around

Pookie i bet you really have to bite your tongue.

Not always. I’ve said things before when really pushed, when it’s imvolved or impacted me. But she really doesn’t see that it could be any other way, he is what he is and we all just have to like it or lump it

I’ve had to baby sit him while he’s babysitting

Oh FFS that is ridiculous.

She would text me to see how he was getting on. It was all fine. Hella awkward for me though...

I love how it's the women's fault that their husbands are shit. Christ.

Obviously it's their own fault for not being mind readers that their husbands would take advantage of them after they had kids.

I'm guilty of this. I try not to be and hate that I am but he only sees them for 2 hours before bed Monday- Saturday and then Sunday. So I worry about how well the kids will be looked after. Now the older one is 3 I've unclenched a bit.

Hmm. She has an unfortunate bunch of friends then. I know one couple in which the husband is rather useless and refers to looking after his children as 'babysitting' but other than that my husband and friends' husbands/partners are entirely competent and as proactive - more so in some cases - as the mothers.

I suspect many of hers are too but she needed a tenuous link to how she's directly affected by all these baby men so she could put an article out.

Fair point Chiara If it were me i wouldnt be able to resist making comments to the husbands themselves.