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Dh driving me to tears

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MeowthThatsRight · 26/03/2019 12:09

He is just so bloody frustrating. He’s normally at work mon-fri but he’s here for the next couple of days and he is driving me completely potty. He is just completely incapable at seeing what needs doing in a situation. I do everything. Absolutely bloody everything.

I went to have a shower this morning and asked if he could get dc’s dressed which he agreed to. I’m putting some bits away before I get in the shower and no sign of him getting them ready. I ask him again as we’ll end up late for the school run. Dh replies he asked but they said no. So, I tell dc’s to go up with their dad and get dressed. Have my shower and they’re still in their bedroom naked and playing Lego. I ask dh why they’re not dressed. He didn’t know where they’re clothes were. I show him and get myself dressed. I come out to see dc1 wearing dc2’s uniform and vice versa. They think it’s hilarious, dh genuinely not noticed (dc’s are 3yo and 7yo so big difference in sizes). I change them and take them to school.

Get back from school and dh is just sat on dc’s bed, exactly where I left him, looking at FB on his phone. He won’t do anything at all for dc’s or me. All he does as ‘housework’ is once a fortnight he will spend an entire day mowing the lawn. He comes on days out with us and doesn’t interact at all. He’s not moody or anything. He’s just completely disinterested. I don’t understand it.

OP posts:
WhoKnewBeefStew · 27/03/2019 13:59

FizzyGreenWater

I’d do this !!

Mix56 · 27/03/2019 16:26

sat that to Him I just don’t understand it. We were together for a decade before we had dc’s. I had always been fairly sure I didn’t want kids. Dh said his one ambition in life was to be a dad. We now have 2 absolutely amazing kids, he’s not here 90% of the time and then when he is, he’s completely uninterested and incompetent. I just feel I’ve been tricked

churgon · 27/03/2019 20:11

I had this then threatened to divorce (a real threat hired solicitor etc) said let’s work our when you have dc and me. It’s for the best as I feel it’s the only way you’ll learn to raise your dc is 100% one to one contact without me busy bodying or making you feel bad.
In an instant he appeared to magically acquire skills he didn’t previously have. He found a lunchbox and filled it, polished school shoes that were apparently always unable to be found.

Anyway my marriage certificate got dumped at the solicitors and I haven’t bothered going to get it back.
If dh slips up I say ah well let’s go back to solicitors and sort this once and for all.

Extreme but this is extreme fucking ridiculousness! All in all though I doubt very much we’ll be together forever but I am much happier being one of two actual parents now instead of the slave wife who’s just there as it’s convenient!

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