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Feel foolish moaning about this...

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HappyDaddy · 11/04/2005 20:28

... because it's so minor but I'm going to anyway. I'd like to know what you guys think.
My dw works while I'm a sahd. She works hard and has had a really shitty time of it, recently. She had some very good news at work today, so I was a bit surprised that she seemed off with me when she came home. I've done the things, today, that you guys do with no complaints. Cleaned the kitchen, that was like a bombsite, tidied the living room, did all the washing and dried it, too. I also managed to cook dinner and look for jobs for dw on the net.
There were two things i didn't do, though. I forgot to ring Sky after they sent a letter this morning and I also forgot to give our teething dd her calpol at lunchtime. Our dd hardly ever cries, whinges or moans except when tired but dw had a moan that how could i forget to give her calpol. Since dinner, she has mentioned it twice more, not directly to me but to dd as in, "daddy's useless isn't he? it's a good job i'm not going on strike or you wouldn't be looked after at all, would you?".
Now that I've written it down it sounds as if I'm brooding over nothing. Sorry.

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Prufrock · 11/04/2005 22:03

Should be a happy day, but maybe she's been waiting for this news and thinking, "if only I get that new job, I'll be happy" and now she has it, and has realised that it's not the perfect solution she thought it would be. And she also realises taht she can no longer moan about being in teh wrong department, so needs to find soemthing else to moan about

HappyDaddy · 11/04/2005 22:10

Maybe I should listen to lou33, she says it's always my fault.

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Nemo1977 · 11/04/2005 22:16

Hd u are entitled to be a bit annoyed / upset as I would be if dh came home and said those things to me [ even indirectly].
But as u said shes due af
she could also be tired and fed up at work
My dh tends to gripe when hes feeling left out of being part of ds life etc and as a mum i know that i think no one knows my little boy like me...am sure its the same for dh but it can cause minor frictions....hope everything is sorted soon

HappyDaddy · 11/04/2005 22:19

The thing that gripes is that as a bloke I'm very direct with my moaning. If I've got the hump about something I moan to her about that. She and women generally seem to moan about everything EXCEPT what the real problem is. I can't keep up...

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sallystrawberry · 11/04/2005 22:22

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wild · 12/04/2005 09:21

How are you Happydaddy?

HappyDaddy · 12/04/2005 10:55

I'm ok, wild. DW seems fine today.

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