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Unsupportive partner?!

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Mommycool24 · 11/11/2019 16:09

Ok so my little boy is almost 2 weeks old and I have a three year old. My partner doesn’t work and has NO form of income at the moment. So you would think he would have time to help out? Wrong. I’ve been doing all the night feeds and getting up the next day and running our home and looking after our children while he sleeps all night and is always away during the day and sometimes night running after friends and hanging out with them. I’m exhausted. I broke down last night saying how I felt unsupported and how I think he’s being a tad selfish and how I need anoitnof help and he just brushed it off and told me to stop being a cry baby and just didn’t take my feelings into account atall then later on in the night he said he would start giving me some help. Today I had visitors and the health visitor comming and our house was an absolute mess, he told me lastnight He would help me today to clean and what not before they come, he got up this morning and kept saying how tired he was and done absolutely nothing, so of course I confronted him saying he said he would give me help and he started a whole big argument over this and stormed out of the house and left in the car pretty much saying this is my punishment for crying for some help, so with no sleep and the two children I was left to sort the whole house out myself. This was at 10am, it’s 4pm and he’s still not home. I’m at a dead end on what to do, he’s forever running after his friends and never at home with me or the two boys. I’ve tried expressing my feelings but I’m getting nowhere doing that. He’s been so horrible to me from I’ve come home from giving birth to our son, he’s always shouting and jumping down my throat, he’s calling me names, arguing infront of the children, saying “i do nothing” even though I do everything. Clearing off for hours on end, he hasn’t even changed a nappy of our 2 week olds yet. I’m so depressed and I feel so lonely and lost and very unloved. This is meant to be a happy time. But it’s just been so miserable and unhappy for me. Any Advice would be appreciated.

OP posts:
FairiesontheSwing · 12/11/2019 14:33

When he does manage to find the time he can be an amazing dad.

Manage to find the time? When he does the sum total of fuck all? Angry

How dare he treat you and his children like this. What an absolute wanker.

Practicalities - can you legally bar him from coming back to the home?

willowmelangell · 16/11/2019 14:31

@Mommycool24 How are things?

Gogreen · 16/11/2019 14:55

Your being foolish op, how can someone be an amazing dad when they provide no finical stability, hasn’t changed his kids nappy in two weeks or does anything around the house to provide them with a clean home? You must be young?

Haffiana · 16/11/2019 15:56

I wonder why you think this is all that you deserve out of life.

You have to make a choice. You can carry on chasing the dream or you can wake up and get rid of him.

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