Does your partner get it?!

My partner made a comment about not having a good nights sleep all week. And I just gave him a look (like really?! But smiling) Which started an argument. He works long hours and I have it easy He does yeah, but he gets to chill when he's home which is every evening and weekend from Friday lunch time I am at home with a newborn and a toddler. We also have his daughter every weekend and I do all the cooking, cleaning, laundry... Last weekend I organised my step daughters birthday, brought everything for it, made a cake etc. all day Saturday I was tidying and prepping while he sat in bed playing games with his daughter and Sunday he napped whilst I talked to his mum, tidied and dealt with baby scream crying for an hour but moaned he didn't chill all weekend ?! I don't depend on him financially either. So him working all the time and moaning that he's tired just seems silly When I had my son (now 13) before we met and I had the baby, I worked 40/50 hours but also did school runs, ran the home, made dinner and looked after my boy alone. So I feel like I understand his side more. But he says things like yeah I know you have responsibilities, but you can just watch TV and do the dishes later or you don't need to go to baby groups Guess I just need to vent a bit lol
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Exact same as mine! Boils my blood 🫠🙄😬

I am lucky, my partner totally gets it, he respects me so much for looking after baby all day, he knows how hard it is. He gets back from work and either helps with baby or cooks/cleans - at weekends we do equal amounts or he’ll run me a bath and tell me to have a break, some days I’ll tell him to go play some games and have a break. He does half the night shift and says we’re a TEAM - don’t settle for less there are guys who get it and want to make your life easier whenever they can!

I’m lucky my fiancé does a little bit more but I feel you he says I have it easy too nothing about being a mother is easy they don’t understand the mental strain

@Cass you’re so lucky🥹

Mine is the same way. He works long hours but when he comes home he gets to relax and watch TV or play his video games. I never get a good night sleep because I am no longer allowed to sleep in our bedroom because he says the baby monitor bothers him so I have to sleep on the couch every night. I pretty much am the ones with the kids 99% of the time and still only get a few hours of sleep here and there on the couch but he always complains he never gets alone time or enough sleep.

Men don't understand how dumb they sound when they say things like that. I am consistently shocked by the self-serving, ignorant garbage that comes out of their mouths around this topic and their die-hard support for it in spite of any information/evidence to the contrary. Not knowing is one thing, but really, are you too stupid to learn? 🙄 Guess I needed to vent a bit too, haha

@Cass the problem is that you don't know until it's too late and you have a baby together..

@Jo pretty much. Things were great in my relationship/marriage and then he wanted to bust and didn’t expect me to get pregnant and stay pregnant I guess. He struggled with the baby (now toddler) getting all the attention. I’m burnt out from doing everything all day so no, I don’t have the energy for you either, Sir. 🙄

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