So I’m happily married to my husband of 2 years (dating for 1.5 previously), John*, but there’s one thing that drives me crazy and I’m not sure if I’m overreacting or not. We have a 6 month old daughter together.
In the grand scheme of things I know this seems pretty minor, but over the years this has grated away at me until I’m ready to snap.
John seems to have no concept of time whatsoever. His favourite line is ‘I’ll be back in a second’ and then takes over an hour to do the simplest of tasks, for example getting changed or making up our daughter’s bottles, which takes 10 minutes maximum.
It’s the worst when he has been at work for 12 hours, and arrives home as I’m trying to cook dinner. Usually the baby is either screaming or I have her in my arms, trying to cook one handed. He will tell me ‘I’ll be two minutes, just need to change out of my work clothes’, and then proceeds to spend an hour upstairs until dinner is practically on the table and I’m frazzled and exhausted.
It wouldn’t be so bad if he helped out with her at the weekend, but he doesn’t. He is such a lazy parent. I do every single night feed, as he just puts a pillow over his head when she cries and I get up to see to her. He gets clearly angry at her when she cries while he has her, to the point it’s easier on both of us if I take her as our girl continues to get increasingly upset. I love her more than anything, but is it so wrong to want a break?
We are currently on holiday with his family and I’ve had our baby for 90% of the day. He got up 40 minutes ago with his famous line of ‘back in a second’, and he is now upstairs playing pool with his dad.
I don’t really know how to describe this properly, but I’m tired of being promised help with our baby ‘in a minute’ and waiting an hour for him to take her for 30 minutes and being visibly annoyed about it.
Tl;dr: husband is lazy with our baby and keeps making false promises about help
Submitted November 04, 2018 at 01:27PM by amithatbad94 https://ift.tt/2PdGP8A
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