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Girlfriend is stressing me out

50 replies

Fishermun · 12/06/2025 19:46

House is a mess all the time, she spends no time doing things with our daughter, I pay all the bill make breakfast and cook tea every day yet she wont wash the pots or do any house work

OP posts:
EvenMoreFuriousVexation · 13/06/2025 16:45

Fishermun · 13/06/2025 16:21

I'm male and yes DD starts in September I sorted all that out pick a great school GF wasnt even interested in coming to see the school or finding out anything about it, iv suggested about her getting a job and she just said workings not for me

Edited

What made you select this woman as the mother of your child, OP?

GrimDamnFanjo · 13/06/2025 16:48

Is it possible she’s depressed? Has she always behaved like this? Are there any positives in the relationship?

Thatloquacioustealdeer · 13/06/2025 16:52

She certainly doesn't sound like a happy bunny, does she?

Lambourn16 · 13/06/2025 17:05

She sounds awful. If the genders were reversed the comments on here would be unanimous in telling you to bin him.

Look into getting custody of the child as based on what you’ve said that is by far the best option for them.

Boomer55 · 13/06/2025 17:15

She sounds incredibly lazy and self obsessed.🤷‍♀️

Fishermun · 13/06/2025 17:16

EvenMoreFuriousVexation · 13/06/2025 16:45

What made you select this woman as the mother of your child, OP?

Well i dunno to be honest kind of just happened we meet not long before covid happened then lockdown kicked in was both out of work so nothing much to really do and we slept together a bunch over the next 6-8month found out she was pregnant so she pretty much just moved in at that point been here noe like 6 years ish

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Coconutter24 · 13/06/2025 17:23

Fishermun · 13/06/2025 15:31

Get wake up make breakfast for me and my daughter well girlfriend sleeps i then drop my daughter at nursery go to work then pick up my daughter on the way home from work make dinner I take a shower then put my daughter in the bath then to bed and I pass out, my girlfriend stays up til around 3 or 4am then comes to bed an nothing gets down in the house our clothes are not washed pots are still dirty on the side, I have to order shopping as I don't really have time to go and when I ask my GF says she's to tired to go and i dont want to say tired from what you do nothing

I’d be very tempted to just buy me and DD something to eat on the way home from nursery. If she wants food she can go to the shop when you ask

Meadowfinch · 13/06/2025 17:32

"Working's not for her'. Wow, She thinks you are her meal ticket. If she genuinely isn't doing anything in the home and she's not suffering from clinical depression then I suggest you see a solicitor.

Your dd will be at school in the autumn. Check on wrap around care and what you would need if your girlfriend was no longer around.

Make your plans. When you are clear how it could work, sit your gf down and have a blunt chat with her. Don't let it go on too long. If you already do most hands on care, your dd is unlikely to miss her much.

Octoberdreaming · 13/06/2025 17:38

“Working isn’t for me” 😳 She needs to pull her finger out - or leave.
There are many women (like myself) who manage to work full-time, keep a tidy home and manage all of the admin that goes with it and still make the effort to be attentive, present Mums.
Unless she has a seriously debilitating mental health condition, it sounds like your partner is just a couch potato and doesn’t really contribute anything. She is basically another child that you have to provide for. It may be best for everyone to go forward as a single parent.

excelledyourself · 13/06/2025 17:47

This isn’t a family, or even a relationship.

I’d say she needs to get her act together or leave, but it doesn’t even sound like you’re particularly bothered about her from a romantic perspective, so I’d just call it a day.

Itiswhysofew · 13/06/2025 17:56

Sounds really sad. She doesn't want to be a part of your family from the looks of things. Just wants to lollop around at home.

Speak to her about her moving out. It seems you can manage without her anyway.

Does she interact with your daughter at all?

Fishermun · 13/06/2025 18:04

Itiswhysofew · 13/06/2025 17:56

Sounds really sad. She doesn't want to be a part of your family from the looks of things. Just wants to lollop around at home.

Speak to her about her moving out. It seems you can manage without her anyway.

Does she interact with your daughter at all?

No not really unless some one other then me is there to see it then she super attentive DD do you need a drink DD do you want some snacks not food but snacks DD look at mommy's phone isn't this funny and it makes me so sad because soon as no-one is around she just like go away DD mommy is busy go watch your tablet, and if DD knocks something over or makes lound noise she screams at her the way she goes at DD some times makes me super pi**ed off

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RentalWoesNotFun · 13/06/2025 19:30

She needs to get to the doctor and he checked out for illness that couod make her so tired. Iron deficiency, longcovid, depression, chronic fatigue.

ifshes clear of those I’d be telling her i no longer respect her and she can beat it. Youd find thing easier alone with your child. Less mess. I'd go 50/50 custody or even more. You can’t live in a shite hole with a lazy arse who is supposed to be a role model to a child.

Bibi12 · 13/06/2025 19:30

MyPeppyCat · 12/06/2025 22:23

I assumed from the OP's screen name that this is a two-female couple, the OP being the child's biological mother. It would be good to have clarity as it affects possible outcomes, such as the girlfriend possibly moving out.

Because men can't possibly have full custody of their children while women can? Or if homosexual couple have a child together then that child belongs to biological parent and the other one can just simply move out even if they are stay at home mum? You're making a lot of unfair assumptions there.

Guavafish1 · 13/06/2025 19:32

Get a weekly cleaner

Fishermun · 13/06/2025 20:53

Bibi12 · 13/06/2025 19:30

Because men can't possibly have full custody of their children while women can? Or if homosexual couple have a child together then that child belongs to biological parent and the other one can just simply move out even if they are stay at home mum? You're making a lot of unfair assumptions there.

Little harder for men to get custody, mostly due to the woman been the one who spent the most time with the child and courts see that as she is then the main caregiver for the child, luckily but sadly it was mostly left to me to care for my daughter, night feed nappy changing bathing getting her to sleep getting her to start eating toilet training honesty can't remember her mom doing anything but give birth to her and even then she opted for a c section and I had to give her belly injection every day for i can't remember how long and clean her cut 3 or 4 times aday

OP posts:
nautys · 13/06/2025 21:35

Fishermun · 13/06/2025 20:53

Little harder for men to get custody, mostly due to the woman been the one who spent the most time with the child and courts see that as she is then the main caregiver for the child, luckily but sadly it was mostly left to me to care for my daughter, night feed nappy changing bathing getting her to sleep getting her to start eating toilet training honesty can't remember her mom doing anything but give birth to her and even then she opted for a c section and I had to give her belly injection every day for i can't remember how long and clean her cut 3 or 4 times aday

This whole situation sounds horrible for everyone involved. She obviously checked out of, not only your relationship, but parenting your child completely. You need to decide if this is how you want to continue living or if you’re going to ask her to leave. Does she have anywhere else to go? What does she do all day when you’re at work and daughter at nursery?

There’s nothing wrong with any woman choosing to opt for a c section. Having major abdominal surgery isn’t a lazy option.

Lullabycrickets23 · 13/06/2025 22:03

Fishermun · 13/06/2025 16:21

I'm male and yes DD starts in September I sorted all that out pick a great school GF wasnt even interested in coming to see the school or finding out anything about it, iv suggested about her getting a job and she just said workings not for me

Edited

Any chance she is depressed?
was she always so inactive? Or is it a postpartum/new attitude?

Fishermun · 13/06/2025 22:25

nautys · 13/06/2025 21:35

This whole situation sounds horrible for everyone involved. She obviously checked out of, not only your relationship, but parenting your child completely. You need to decide if this is how you want to continue living or if you’re going to ask her to leave. Does she have anywhere else to go? What does she do all day when you’re at work and daughter at nursery?

There’s nothing wrong with any woman choosing to opt for a c section. Having major abdominal surgery isn’t a lazy option.

It' was her choice dont mind it so much, I guess she felt been cut open was a better option then pushing a watermelon out of a lemon, I took care of her though it all, maybe thats where she started been lazy thinking this is the life il lay here an he can wait on my hand an foot x̌x

OP posts:
Fishermun · 13/06/2025 22:28

Lullabycrickets23 · 13/06/2025 22:03

Any chance she is depressed?
was she always so inactive? Or is it a postpartum/new attitude?

Il try suggesting for her to see a dr but I do feel she will just have a goŕ

OP posts:
nautys · 13/06/2025 23:45

Fishermun · 13/06/2025 22:25

It' was her choice dont mind it so much, I guess she felt been cut open was a better option then pushing a watermelon out of a lemon, I took care of her though it all, maybe thats where she started been lazy thinking this is the life il lay here an he can wait on my hand an foot x̌x

Yea, I’m out.

Devianinc · 14/06/2025 01:14

Is anyone getting the selfish girlfriend that doesn’t do anything from this post and her whining about not being appreciated. I’m guessing this is her boyfriend.

MyPeppyCat · 15/06/2025 08:40

Bibi12 · 13/06/2025 19:30

Because men can't possibly have full custody of their children while women can? Or if homosexual couple have a child together then that child belongs to biological parent and the other one can just simply move out even if they are stay at home mum? You're making a lot of unfair assumptions there.

How on earth did you get all that from my misreading a screen name? Talk about assumptions...jeez. 😂

Bibi12 · 19/06/2025 19:47

MyPeppyCat · 15/06/2025 08:40

How on earth did you get all that from my misreading a screen name? Talk about assumptions...jeez. 😂

Not from you misreading the screen name. From you saying her being a biological mother would affect the outcome.

Bananalanacake · 19/06/2025 21:16

Surely she had a job before COVID lockdown?

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