Is it me?
I’m really struggling just now, I’ve been back at work for a few months and my partner is not really helping at home at all and it’s getting on top of me, and when I try and bring it up it’s a fight and he says he’s working five days a week😭 I’m trying to be a good mum have a clean tidy home make dinners lunches it’s so hard trying to do at all at once I feel like I’m massively failing 😭 I had post p depression after my baby and I feel like everything is just triggering it now..
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I’m still off and dreading going back as I’m sooo exhausted atm I can’t imagine how it will be when I’m back. My partner is amazing tho and does a lot of the housework and will cook several nights a week. Thankfully she works part time as will be taking the main carer duties once I’m back from maternity as I earn more per hour
Just because he's working 5 days a week doesn't mean he shouldn't be helping. Does he do anything at all? You're not failing at all. Your partner can't expect you to literally do it all.
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Even if you're only working part time, the days you're off I'm assuming you have the baby so that's not a day off! I'm not back at work yet but I can just about manage to do lunch the washing up (sometimes) and maybe 1 load of washing a week during the day but everything else we split between us or do together! Typically I cook dinner then he does the washing up and tidies up while I do bedtime. I'll take my boy for a walk while he vacuums and then we split the kitchen when I get back and he dusts while I do the bathrooms.