Since having children, my husband has turned into a bully and I’m just lost as to how to deal with it. He constantly criticises my parenting but yet spend no time with me or our three children at the weekend instead plays sports both days for long periods of time. We both work full time. He challenges me if I hug our son and play fights with him to toughen him up as according to him he’s too soft. This is not true at all, our little boy is lovely. Last half term, we went to a park and he spent the whole time following game around chastising me for helping our son go on the slide or swing etc as he should be doing it for himself. He’s two and I was simply helping him. Last month, we went to a preschool tour and I was bending down playing with my son with some of the toys whilst talking to the prospective teacher and my husband says stop playing with him, let him go on his own. I could see the preschool teacher look embarrassed. He has this thing about our children being seen to be the most sporty or the toughest and if they’re not, it’s my fault. He took our youngest to swimming when he was about six months and stormed out of the changing g rooms after he wasn’t good enough or well behaved. He was six months old. I am so flustered by keeping the peace all the time but I feel like I’m living with a bully. ☹️