Recently DH has started saying things like the family only feels complete when DSS is here, only arranging shifts around when DSS is here, he’s his happiest when DSS is here too, etc.
It just makes me feel like we’re not enough for him without DSS and that spending time with DSS is the priority.
It makes sense about shifts on a practical level but it just makes me a feel a bit like we’re down the pecking order and that time with us is dispensable.
FWIW, DH has never lived with DSS and it’s always been an EOW arrangement plus time in school holidays. DH and I have a DC together. I love DSS but accept the situation for what it is, I don’t dwell on us all missing him.
AIBU in feeling like this?
PS I wasn’t the OW, etc, etc