Currently, each week my husband will play golf one evening after work, watches his home football matches and plays cricket one afternoon on the weekend. He works 4 full days and 2 half days. I have not been out once on my own/ without our baby since he was born nearly 12 months ago.
Currently Friday afternoon and Sunday are family time.
My husband was due to play golf this evening but I have told him he’s not playing as my friends have invited me over for a well deserved pamper evening.
He has been in a grump about this for the past few days and has asked to play golf on Friday afternoon instead. I explained that this is our promised family time and that I never have any time to myself. If I wanted an equal amount of free time then we would have no family time.
I just want to have a few hours to myself and be me again. Am I being unreasonable?
I am a SAHM and realise he needs a break from work but I just wanted to do one thing for just me that doesn’t impact family time.
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U are definitely not being unreasonable u need u time aswell he is out working then out all the time he can have time away from u and baby so u can have time away from baby and he can watch his child for once go out enjoy urself relax dont worry about him he will have to realise that he can't keep goin out and u stay in all the time u need time for urself weather he likes it or not

I think some people don't see SAHMs as having more than a full time job. You're 'working hours' are 12+ hours a day, plus whatever else needs to be done after baby goes to sleep. Its not unreasonable for you to need time off and it shouldn't be unreasonable for your partner to compromise for that.
Maybe not this week, if tensions are high. But I would print a weekly calendar view with hourly splits and highlight his protected time and yours in different colours. Men are visual, he should see the imbalance. Then work together to make a more even split