Feeling Overwhelmed and Looking for Advice

I love my husband, and I appreciate that he works hard and provides for our family so I can stay home with our 16-month-old daughter. However, I’m feeling completely overwhelmed. I take care of our daughter all day and all night, and when my husband gets home, he says he’s too tired to help. If I mention that I’m tired too, it often turns into an argument.

He seems to think that because I’m a stay-at-home mom, I can sleep in or nap whenever I want, but that’s not the reality of caring for a very active toddler. I often have to beg for help with simple things like changing a diaper or making a bottle, and most of the time I end up doing it myself.

I’m exhausted and burned out. I can’t keep doing everything on my own, and I don’t know what to do anymore because I need help and support too

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Yes I’ve brought this up to him and he says he gets it and does his best to give me that time but after a couple days it feels like it goes right back and I’ve pretty much trauma driven myself to believe that since I haven’t been keeping up with the house work I don’t deserve time to myself which is not his fault in the slightest I always choose to keep the baby while I watch tv and make dinner so he can have his de-stress time but I tend to let myself fall to the waist side and keep pushing past it till I cry to him at midnight about how much I’m struggling.

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