Roles between a sthm and a working partner?

I started wondering if our arrangement makes any sense. When I was pregnant I saw a cute video of a couple where they sleep seperately, the mom takes care of the baby during the night, the husband wakes up early in the morning takes over so the woman sleeps a bit before he gets to work I suggest this arrangement to my husband and we both liked it. Since I gave birth to my 22 month old boy, we are sleeping separately, I’m taking care of everything. My toddler still wakes up during the night every two hours on average. I wake up in the morning to make his breakfast and drive him to the train station and pick him up later in the day. I clean and cook and take care of my boy, with no appreciation or thank you. If I say I’m tired it turns he’d say what are you doing all day or he’d remind me of how he’s paying for everything. I am emotionally and physically exhausted and I don’t feel this is how a team should work.

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It’s not honey my husband and I sleep together with are son he works and I stay at home today my son woke up right around the time he’s supposed to go to work so he took him while I get to sleep in and then I woke up he kissed me and then left every day after work he comes home and grabs his son I don’t have to ask him and when I do ask him he grabs him whether he is playing the game or not he knows my job of taking care of are son is a job as well honey if your husband knows how much babysitting cost and house cleaning and a chef I don’t think he could pay for it each month it’s way to much my husband would never tell me the bullshit your husband just told you I am so sorry and your right that is not ok you need to talk to him again just because he works and you’re gonna stay at home. Mama does not mean that he can just come home and do nothing and expect you to do everything mind you my husband does hard labor which is flooring my husband could come home tired and still grab his son

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You are right—it is not how a team should work. If I was in your situation and he would not hear me out, I would look into getting a job to possibly leave if things don’t get better

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I'm sorry, I completely feel you. I'm growing such a hatred towards my son's dad. I've gotten to the point where I dont expect anything from him, I give him so much understanding, and he acts like I just sit around and have it easy. We both co sleep with our son, and lately, I've just been making him get up during the night to help. I am going to try to start seeing a therapist because I'm having so much rage.

I take care of him, his 17 y/o neice, and my son with no help, appreciation, or anything. I'm to the point I would rather him be out doing Uber or whatever because I'm more pissed when he's home watching me on go non-stop, and he just sits on his game or phone smh

I also work once a week and make $100, and that's all I get. I can hardly ask for anything without feeling like it's an issue. I cry way too much, but eventually, I won't care anymore.

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Look up the nanny, private chef, house manager, and family assistant rates in your area. Add them together, (remember to factor in night rates and overtime as well) and start billing him. Then remind him that you are saving the household more money than he is bringing in so really if the only factor in his eyes is money, this is a great way to show him he needs to contribute more.

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that’s not teamwork. you’re doing EVERYTHING so he can focus on ONE thing. remember that. also I would suggest trying after your kiddo falls asleep you roll out of bed and go back to yours (floor bed) I realized way too late that the reason my kid was waking so many times at night was actually because we were on the same bed. once she was able to sleep undisturbed by any movement or whatever by me she started sleeping through the night about 60% of the time. I roll away and get me time or couple time and if she does wake in the middle of the night then i’ll go in and sleep the rest of the night with my kid. took it from 2-3 night wakings to none or one and I desperately needed that quiet time to myself or the couple time for our relationship to get romance back. the way I explained it to my man was being a parent is a 24/7 job you don’t get to clock out of and so I understand he works all day but i’m also working all day and it doesn’t end at 5pm. he’s also a parent 24/7 clocked in

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The problem is you can't force people to see insight, but you can control what you put up with and whether or not you choose to stay in this. It'll take some courage but get a clear picture first of what he's willing to do and not do, how he feels, what your expected to do and if you can't communicate these things calmly unfortunately that's your answer. From what you feel said his views are old fashioned and unhealthy. I wish you the best. My inbox is open if you need someone to talk to 💕

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Need a good rant SORRY but does anyone else feel like HV's seek joy by trying to make you feel like a bad parent or is it just me!? 🫠

I took my son to the HV drop in clinic to query something about his skin, they weighed him whilst he was there, plotted it on a graph and said that he hasn't put on enough weight and that they want to refer me to a feeding specialist, essentially, what I am doing is not good enough and he's withering away

This is my second breast fed child, and the HV's should know more than anyone that ALL children develop differently!?

He turned 3 months old last week, he is quite clearly happy and healthy and fed on demand whenever the heck he wants some din din

I ALWAYS come away from HV's pissed off for whatever reason

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Time-out method at nursery

I just found out that they put our son on time out in the corner of the room for 2 minutes for pushing another child. He had been pushing a lot that day apparently but they didn’t tell us on pick up. We found out coincidentally because his key person was at the drop off this morning. I’m fuming! What would you do? Am I overreacting?

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Appropriate age to go out

I am the kind of person who struggles with being at home all day, not good for my mental health. I have a 1 month old and I am trying to start doing things with her. Like going ti the park, running errands. But people seem surprised and kind of judgy that I am out with the baby at her age. Is this wrong?

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Can anyone offer me reassurance?😪

It's currently 4:35am where we live, I've been up since 2am with my toddler (2years9months) who has vomited 5 times.
I'm not sure what it could be, whether food poisoning or a stomach bug, but he's exhausted and has finally fallen asleep.

I'm just really shaken up and don't think I'll sleep tonight. I'm 37 weeks pregnant, sitting on my birth ball next to his bed just watching him and listening for signs he may be sick.


He woke me up over his baby monitor at 2am, I just heard him coughing and spluttering and thrashing around in his bed, it gave me such a massive fright. I don't mind vomit so much, like physically I'm not someone who's bothered by vomiting and ill happily catch it in my hands, but him being unwell just gives me SO much anxiety, and I'm already a hormonal mess atm.


It's so typical that it happens tonight as my husband has a really important day at work tomorrow. Usually he works from home but he has an important meeting in the office tomorrow that he can't miss. He's been up helping me since 2am but I've told him to go back to sleep now. Now I'm just sitting here full of anxiety. Can anyone reassure me, give advice etc?

He started being sick at 2am, again at around 2.30, 3, 3.30, 4.15. He's just completely conked out asleep he's exhausted. He's refusing water, he took one little sip after the 2nd bout of sickness and just threw up again. I have it here just in case of course. I've had to change the bedding, his clothes twice, my clothes, we have several towels dirty too. I'm so overwhelmed and anxious 😪


And he's been sick before obviously but just never so much in such a short space of time.

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First Mother’s Day

I feel like such a bad person for this & I’m not looking for sympathy or anything but yesterday was going so well and than I got really emotional and upset because my partner done everything special he could have done but he didn’t even put a few lines in a card from my baby for my first Mother’s Day card..
He said that because there was lots of writing in the card he didn’t realise that it would have hurt or upset me so bad but it did.. I let it affect me alot more than I feel like it should have but I LOVE sentimental things I love little things like that, meaningful stuff. Especially being my first Mother’s Day that I’ve dreamt of all my life..
There is a big age gap between me and my partner and also he’s Italian so maybe he didn’t realise but I just feel so goddam shit about it. Like I ruined MY day..
I spent the day all on my own with my baby at my mums house instead of with my partner bc of me reacting the way I did and I just felt like I toke it so wrong..
I feel I can’t forgive myself for this and I am the type of person to keep thinking about the situation even if my partner says everything’s okay. I beat myself up about it so badly and in such a low mood for it. Even today and yesterday has passed😞
Maybe this may help getting it off my chest and writing it down but how can I seriously live with myself from this? What can I do better?
I’m such an awful person I know😫😫

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“Bad mum”

I had a Mother’s Day afternoon tea yesterday for myself, my mum and my MIL. MIL arrived and didn’t say anything to me, just walked in and sat down. My mum was fussing over my LG as she usually does whilst I was in and out sorting food, making a bottle, feeding the cat, but she was getting wriggly so I took her and put her on her play mat and when I walked away to get her some toys to play with she whinged a bit so I said “I’m not leaving you, I’m coming back” to which my MIL replied “she is leaving you, she’s a bad mum”. It was probably meant as a joke (maybe) but I’d never say anything like that, even as a joke. Probably being a bit over sensitive but I’m tired and constantly doubting if I even know what I’m doing. It’s bad enough thinking I’m a bad mum every day without somebody literally saying it. I spoke to my partner about it, both at the time and afterwards, and he’s said she was out of order… but not out of order to say anything to her but even if he did, she’d just deny it or say it was a joke. The worst part is she actually has no interest in my LG, she only wants to see her if her friends are round at her house and then she wants me to take baby round for her to show her off, who to me are just strangers. To add insult to injury, after she called me a bad mum, she said that her niece had a baby a month before me, and my LG “will probably catch her up when she’s ready” 🙄 Again, baring in mind, she’s seen my LG 3 times since she was born and she’s nearly 5 months old but has implied that she’s not developing as quickly as the other baby. I know babies develop at their own rate but my LG is rolling, trying to crawl, can sit up with very little support, can bring a spoon from a bowl to her mouth to feed herself (I’ve not given her any food, but we practiced with a spoon to see if she was showing any readiness to start weaning). I think she’s doing really well so I don’t think she needs to “catch up” 🙄
The cherry on top of the day was that we sat down to eat and she felt an appropriate topic to discuss was my partners upcoming colonoscopy and bowel prep 😂
I think the outcome and the 2 hours that she was here is that we won’t be seeing her again anytime soon, and I know that wouldn’t bother her in the slightest, which is quite sad when my LG is her first grandchild and she has no interest in her

That’s my little rant over

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