Resentment and disinterest towards my partner. I only received one month maternity leave and I had to go back to work immediately after that luckily, my job is flexible and allow me to work from home for an extra month with a valid doctors note since I had a C-section but now it’s been two months and I’m back working and I’m miserable but I don’t show it at work and I have sour taste towards my partner for reasons that I don’t even understand. I feel that he could just be very lazy sometimes and I do the bulk of the work taking care of baby, cleaning the house, picking up after him, working for 40-50 hours a week then coming home exhausted. He was like this before I don’t know why it bothers me so much now. He’s a good guy and respects me and I think he makes a good dad. What is wrong with me? Is it the hormones and me being away from my baby or what?
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it's a combination of hormones and your role shifting in the house. So naturally while you shift you want him to shift as well. I went through the same thing. I did put a bit of effort into trying not to treat him differently because it wasn't him it was me. But after a while we had to talk about how I needed him to do more because everything I was doing was starting to affect my attitude. It's not an easy shift, try to remember that even when he's not doing much he's also trying to figure out this new balance too. When my husband and I really spoke about it, I found out that allot of time he was watching me he felt like he was useless because to him I was doing everything so effortlessly that he couldn't figure out where he fit in the new process. Now obviously that sounded like nonsense to me lol. But now we are 2 kids in and sometimes I just watch him, and he really has found his rhythm things that I just shouldn't touch and even time with the kids that I step away and let him figure out two toddlers.