I would be grateful of any advice as I am feeling really low. I’ve been married to my husband for nearly twenty years and we have two children who are both teenagers.
I work part time 3 days per week and part of my wages goes on a cleaner every two weeks.
i finished work yesterday and picked up my children from school. We have just come back (Tuesday) from holiday over Easter and everything was fine. Obviously the house was in chaos. Clothes / suitcases etc everywhere and everything was untidy so as soon as I got home yesterday I started tidying up and putting stuff away in readiness for my cleaner coming today whilst I would be at work.
I emptied all the suitcases of clothes but left the suitcases downstairs as they were still heavy and cumbersome with all the shoes and remainder of toiletries in them.
I solidly was tidying away for at least two and half hours when my husband arrived home from work. I was upstairs in our bedroom. He came in and went straight to say hello to the children and then when he came into our room he walked in and said a vague hello and then said I hadn’t opened the side curtains of the windows and could I do it. I explained that I had been super busy and hadn’t occurred to me to open them. I was then pottering around whilst he was getting changed to go to the gym and I asked him if he could bring the suitcases upstairs to which he replied he’d do it when he would be back from the gym. I explained I could be getting on and emptying them whilst he was at the gym so he said he would bring them up. He then said “you still haven’t opened the curtains” to which I replied “you still haven’t picked up the bath mat which I’ve asked tou to do countless times” and he responded with “I can’t wait to go out you are always moaning” so I responded with “I can’t wait for you to go out either” to which he replied “f* you”. I asked why he had said that and he said because I said I can’t wait for you to go out which was nasty. He then went downstairs.
I followed him down and asked why it was ok for him to say such a thing to me but when I replied with a similar comment he told me to f* myself. He didn’t listen. Wasn’t answering told me to get out of the way and then walked out in a different direction. I asked him to take the suitcases upstairs and he refused. So I said well I won’t make your dinner then.
Then and I’m not proud what happened then but I just lost my rag. I called him a name, said I hated him. Really saw Red mist. Started lagging the suitcases upstairs but ended up throwing them back down. My children were crying and I am upset that I upset them. My husband was shouting at me to “get out” of the house but I took myself off upstairs to calm down. I very quickly calmed down and apologised to my children. By this point my husband had left and gone to the gym. When he came home I apologised for calling him a name, throwing the suitcases and upsetting the children.
However he doesn’t think he’s done anything wrong in how he spoke to me prior to all this happening. Yes my reaction was totally over the top and I’m sorry this happened. Im really upset with myself too over it. But I can’t get past how he now thinks he’s done nothing wrong. Almost as through because I’ve reacted in the way I did he is the victim.
I would be grateful of any advice. In my opinion he always is the instigator of arguments and for the most part I keep my cool but as I said I saw red yesterday and I’m not proud of that.