Husband won't shut up about chores and mess

My husband got home from work today and just instantly started complaining about how annoying it is that the house is always a mess. First of all, it's not always a mess, I clean, tidy and do chores every day, as well as looking after baby and going out with him somewhere once a day. Baby and I are loaded with a cold atm so I think I've done pretty well considering that, but he just has no sympathy and doesn't understand how hard it is to try and parent whilst sick because he never has to do it. If he was unwell he'd get to sit about all day and not worry about baby because I'm here. Like for instance I went to Tesco today, which was out of the way of where I was planning on taking baby, because my husband wanted me to get him a couple things. So I'm going round Tesco trying to balance the shopping in one hand and arm, whilst pushing baby's pram in the other, baby is screaming at me so much everyone is staring at me, I'm absolutely sweating, my nose is running and I'm suppressing the urge to cough my lungs out. I've done plenty today with tidying, making dinner and doing bathtime all whilst my husband just moans about the state of the house which isn't even bad and took me literally 5 minutes to pick up. He's currently hoovering and then telling me he needs to clean the bathroom because baby's bath stuff is still laying out. But he's telling me as if I should feel bad that he 'needs' to do these things since he's been working. I'm like just leave the bathroom until tomorrow, it doesn't matter??? Like just sit down and shut up about the damn mess I'm sick of hearing about it.
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I'm sorry you are going through this, I think it's a chat that needs to be had..sometimes because we are at home people assume we have all the freedom in the world? If it were the other way round, and you went out for the day w/out the baby would he be okay cleaning up and looking after little one?

Suggest to him that he takes a day annual leave and you go out for the day and tell him everything he needs to achieve for the day (look after baby, make breakfast, lunch and dinner for baby & tidy up, take baby out at least once, play with baby, vacumn and clean house, do some laundry, bath baby & clean the bathroom after, make dinner for you and him). Tell him you're suggesting this in the interest of being able to understand eachother better. If he genuinely tried to do all of that in a day I think he might be more understanding going forwards. I hope he would consider doing this for you xx

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