Need advice on my husband

Back story: I’ve been with my husband for 9 years. We are best friends. I have a nearly 9 month old son and am 18 weeks pregnant and due in July. I’m also a childcare practitioner profession wise. Lately, I’ve been feeling like I do absolutely everything all by myself with next to no help from my husband. I do all the washing, cleaning, cooking meals and looking after our son. I find that he doesn’t take much interest in playing with him, he doesn’t take initiative to make him dinner or put him down for naps. I’ve done bed time ever since he was a newborn and his excuse is “he goes down better for you”. I also feel like he thinks because my job is looking after children and has been for the last 10 years that he thinks it’s okay for me to do it all by myself. He wakes up at 5:30am every day to go to work and gets home around 3/4pm most days, goes for an hour long poo where he just sits on his phone watching TikTok’s and then comes down and falls asleep on the sofa, bearing in mind for a very long time most days. I’m just really struggling because I feel like if it’s this bad now then it’s only going to get worse when I have two kids to look after. I’m also not going back to work yet so I will be off every day with 2 under 2. I have spoken to him about this and he says “I’ll change” bla bla bla but it’s just not happening.
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Im in the same boat we communicate well as in he is a good listener and stuff but nothing changes wish I had words of wisdom and currently at uni to do my level 6 for being an early years practitioner and im so worried for what it will be like once i start work x

@Selina I feel like we communicate well and he hears me when I say how I’m feeling but I’ve had to have the same conversation multiple times now and he changes for like a day and then goes back. I just am so stuck with what to do because I obviously adore him but I can’t see myself doing this forever and especially not with 2 children. Xxx

What are the chances of shared parental leave?

@Charlie no idea xx

Just a thought, that giving him some time off as sole parent whilst you work might give some perspective. My husband is taking the last 7 weeks of my leave leave

@Charlie I can’t go back to work as I moved to Wales on maternity leave so had to leave my current job and then no one else will take me as I’m 4 months pregnant 🫣😂

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