Am I overreacting?

I co sleep with my son and every night I get woken up every hour/hour and a half. He wake up crying and looking to feed to sleep. My nipples are red and in pain and im just so tired. Last night I got woken up again at 3:49 and I was complaining about how tired I was and how I if my fiance could please help me. I know its hard for him to put him back to sleep but I just felt so drained and tired that I was just asking for help and some compassion. Instead when I had complained that I dont get sleep he immediately interrupts with "well I dont get sleep either". It feels like anything i complained about something like how Im on the corner of the bed; he has to add " well so am i". I felt unheard and hurt by this and when I brought it up he said something along the lines that he had already apologized, what else did I want? When he had apologized about it he said it in the most scarcastic tone and It made me more upset. This is how its been since I had my son and its been making me reevaluate my relationship with my fiance. I know im an overthinker so its hard to tell when im overtaking a situation and thinking the worse or if thats really as I think.

Either way it was nice to talk about it, thank you.

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Going through the same thing currently. You’re doing great and you deserve so help. They don’t care to understand what we go through and it’s actually pathetic.

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Going through it too!!

How do they not get it - it's not a dam competition!! Yes they may be tired but that doesn't change the fact that we are!!! Plus they aren't healing from the birth etc.

Slightly glad to know other men are as infuriating as mine.....

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