Need advice!

I have a 16 month old and a 6 week old, I’m really struggling during the day to get anything done let alone feed myself, have a shower, keep the house clean and tidy. My partner works ridiculous hours getting home at 7-8pm some nights. Tonight has been a real struggle my 16 month old is going through the testing stage, my 6 week old has been really unsettled due to him being constipated, my partner walks in at 7.45pm I said I can’t keep having him walking in so late because I’m struggling. He said he has to work to support us (which I understand) said am I just in a mood, blaming the contraception injection I’m on for my ‘’moods’’ I’m just fed up of parenting on my own and if I ever say how I feel it’s turned around on me, I’m made to feel guilty for saying anything and I’m made to feel like I’m going crazy. I don’t know what to do, how to feel, how to make things better. I don’t have a job and I don’t know how to leave if it came to it. I’m just fed up 🙄
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I have a 2 year age gap with my 2 and my husband works from home and I still struggled so I can’t imagine how you are coping and to then try communicate that and get it almost thrown back in your face, that’s not ok. I hope you’re ok!! It’s bloody hard and you must be knackered. Are you able to take a few hours for yourself on the weekend to just get some air, a coffee. He may realise just how hard it is with both whilst you’re gone as well but it will give you the time to maybe think about how you can tell him hope you’re feeling burnt out and need some support and what that might look like from him?

It’s difficult on weekends to Saturday we take my little girl swimming and on some Sundays he works, he’s working this weekend but I might be able to have a few hours on Saturday morning I just don’t know how to communicate with him 🤷‍♀️

I only have 1 and struggle during the day and i still live with my mum and sisters and my sister ans partner both aren't working atm so hats off to you for powering through and doing it! In regards to telling your partner how u feel i completely get that apart from my partner isn't working and he still rarely does much, he'll clean bottles and have baby for the odd hour here and there so i can have a bath or a little sleep but it's always me not eating to sort the baby and me not getting sleep on a night and he just says am 'moody' all the time and that he's sick of my moods and no matter how much i explain to him why and that im stressed that he's not working and im finding me him and our son while he sits and plays cod all day he still doesn't listen and turns me into the bad guy! seems like a lot of men are the same. I have got through to him a few times by literally crying 🤣 i have to sit there in tears for him to listen and it'll change for a little bit be them it's the same

Could you not put your oldest in nursery to give you a bit of a breather? Even if it was just a day or couple of days a week

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