My husband stays up every night playing video games until 5am. I’ve tried talking to him about it but when it comes to his game, he gets very defensive. I’m a stay at home mom and he works 2 jobs but when he’s not working, the game is where he’s at. I use to wish he’d help around our house or with our son a little but I gave up on wishing that. I now just wish him and I spent more time together. All we do is watch tv when we spend time together. I’ve tried recommending walks, taking our son to the park, board games, etc.. but it seems like he only wants to do those things when other people/couples are around. When i approach him about any of this, he just thinks I’m bored and need a hobby and he starts telling me how we shouldn’t control what one another does in our free time because “we’re grown”
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Girl I feel you. I was in a similar situation with my partner, the only difference is we both work full time and I was finding hard to deal with the baby, the house, the dog. And I complained to him many times that I needed more help but nothing and at one point I snapped. I literally said I didn’t want to do this anymore as I knew being single was going to be easier than being with him and he said he will change and he has!!
I’m not saying give him an ultimatum but try to really lay your points down.
What also helped us was that my son’s nursery was closed for a week and I could take holidays from work so he did for the whole week and he realised how hard it actually is to take care of everything, you could do something similar and go on holiday.