My husband and I have been together for 10+ years and we finally got our little baby after years of waiting. I changed my lifestyle a lot, scaling way back at work to only a few hours a day and staying home full-time to take care of our baby. He has moved up on his field with a recent promotion and works outside the home. Anyway, it drives me NUTS when he can't handle his first toddler meltdown experience of the evening, or if I ask him to take care of a poopy diaper.. his excuse is always that he doesn't want our kid "mad at him".
I understand wanting happy moments, we all do. And I do everything I can to time naps so he's got a happy kid greeting him at the door as often as possible. But the dinner hour or pre-bed meltdowns still happen 🤷🤷
I really think big emotions just turn my lumberjack into a field mouse 🙈
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Honestly this would irritate me too! Like why do I have to do all the none fun activities and potentially the kid be mad at me? Unfortunately as a parent your kid is going to not like you sometimes and I think that’s something everyone needs to come to terms with. I do expect 50/50 with my partner and we both work outside the home though.
Yeah I'm definitely not throwing him a grumpy poopy kid right when he gets home or anything, but if there's a poopy diaper and dinner half done on the stove I've only got so many hands!

I actually tell my husband he has to be the bad guy. He’s only there sometimes, I’m there all the time. You can be the bad guy here and there. Since we’re not talking about beating our children or anything, it’ll be perfectly fine if not bonding. But they need to get through it together. I leaned that by forcing myself to stay upstairs during my self care time if he was fussing, at all. Daddy can handle it