My mother in law had nothing to do with me the whole pregnancy, didn’t ask to see me once (I invited her to my baby shower, that was the only time I saw her in 10 months).
To be honest it suits me because me and my partner don’t really like her anyways. I dread seeing her🤣so I’m not complaining.
However, yesterday she messaged me asking if we’d like to all go on a day out at the weekend together, obviously I had to say “yes that would be lovely”. And I told her to let me know what she’s thinking of doing….then she replies back telling ME to come up with something and organise it!
I already have enough to do? I’m taking care of their grandchild full time alone while my fiance is at work, I don’t get a minute to myself to pee. If I wanted to plan a day out, I would have. If you want to make effort to see your child, grandchild & daughter in law, do it. I think it seems so lazy.
In my opinion I’m thinking why invite me out, if you’re then going to tell me to plan it ??
I thought this was the ONE time they were going to make a bit of effort. But nope I was wrong.
I tried to talk to my partner about it but he thought nothing of it.
My own mum thinks it’s odd that they’ve never even invited us round for dinner.
My mum always invites and hosts her 4 kids & all their in-laws.
I haven’t replied to her message yet because honestly I don’t know what to say. She’s the sort of person that would complain about everything even if you did plan something. If you really don’t know what to do then atleast tell your son to come up with something. Dont drop it all on me. You either want to see us or you don’t. Baffled
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Giving her the benefit of the doubt (which is generous as she sounds like she’s very uninvolved), she might just not feel like she knows you well enough to plan something you would enjoy, and also what would feel doable postpartum.
Personally I would just turn this around and say something like “oh I’m absolutely knackered so don’t think I’ll be planning much! How about you come to us on X date - or we could come to yours? We could do lunch?”
Then see what she says from there. Maybe she’s realised she does need to make more effort if she wants to be involved with her grandchild but no idea where to start x
it’s been a quite while now my husband jokes HURT me badly
some of them are he had a bad hair cut and start to look a teenager i was crying looking at him because i was insecure about myself and late at night he said your armpit looks so ugly and i was like wth you know after baby im insecure about it he reply so i had a bad hair cut and you cried he took a revenge and they are so many stories now cant even tell them now
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im been burned out completely my baby is refusing a milk for a week now she just started to have a bottle yesterday ( took doctors and everything) he sleeps outside because he has work i was exhausted i slept for 4 hours and last night i cooked for at 6 to 7 hours i cooked his favourite meal and i asked him to make me a tea he said he’s exhausted i made tea i went to sleep my baby woke at 3am i gave her a massage and made her sleep again she woke at 8 again i slept at 4 i was exhausted i was slapping myself hard af he was leaving for gym and HE LEFT !!! was i invisible? i told him i dont wanna live with you book my ticket i told him as well i dont care about your baby i wanna go and he came back within 5 minutes saying he’ll make breakfast and stuff i refuse i started to hate this man so much i cant be intimate with him i cant even talk to him about myself aaahhh help me out please my baby is 5 months old and we’re been together for 2yr
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How does this situation work? ATM I am working from home and husband was made redundant, but I will need to return to the office after xmas. Baby goes to nursery 3 days a week, and husband is doing interviews/building portfolio etc. But even with us both being at home , it's so hard to manage a baby, getting sick/ having to pick him up from nursery. Or mornings are chaotic and I end up starting not when I want to. I just don't understand how you all manage to make it work if both parents need to go into an office? I know (and hope) that we will both be working soon, but am struggling to see how we will cope.
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I’m currently 29, married & a first time mum (little one is 11 weeks old).
Even though I’m married, I feel like I’m a single parent as I’m doing absolutely everything. My husband has never got our baby to sleep, in 11 weeks he’s probably fed him once or twice (he’s formula fed). The only thing he seems to do is bath him for 5/10 minutes at night.
He works 5 days a week, but currently is always busy doing something he wants to do on a Saturday (golf, fishing etc). He’s gone pretty much all day from 8-9am until 5-6pm despite me being at home all day, everyday.
How do I even approach the subject or get a resolution to this without causing an argument? I am feeling super upset & emotional about this. I feel I could be slowly slipping into postpartum depression as I feel this should be the happiest time of my life but yet I feel so miserable.
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Long story but I’ve been with my partner for nearly 9 years since the age of 15 (24 now) we’ve got 2 beautiful babies aged 3 and 1 and just sold our home a couple of months back to purchase a new house that’s currently going through probate. We are currently moved back in with his parents whilst we was waiting for the sale to go through but I can’t help but be so unhappy in the relationship this past 2 months, we don’t argue as such but I find he is so miserable and hard to have a bit of fun with, I’m more outgoing and like to have fun whilst he is quiet, he doesn’t like it if I say I’m going out with friends even though I still have a friendship group and I just feel constantly miserable. I would never condone cheating but I can’t help but think that I’m missing out on being with someone who is more me and someone I can have fun with. But it’s so hard to know what to do as I do love him and I am so petrified of tearing our family apart but I just want to be happy too and I’m still young I don’t want to waste all my life being in a relationship in which I’m not 100% happy. The guilt is taking over my life 😭
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My man always be tryna fuck all day then the kids go to sleep and he doesnt. Like he went right to his game. Its always some excuse to play his game. I stayed up to have time with him. I feel like our relationship is falling apart. I barely see him. He stays up til 7am then sleeps til 2pm when he goes to work. At 10 he comes home and gets on the game. Im a SAHM so im dead tired but i still want to spend time with him and he just doesn’t want anything to do with me.
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A little backstory. 2 years ago I found out that my husband was watching half naked ladies live on TikTok. Not only that, he went as far as paying them to FaceTime with him for “private performances”. When I found out I was heartbroken 💔 I cried so much and when I confronted him he accused me of searching his phone. He said it wasn’t cheating because he never met those women and there was no penetration involved. He later apologised but deep down he still thought he didn’t do anything wrong. He then changed his password and said we shouldn’t look into each other’s phones Forgiving him was so hard but I never forgot. Not even once.
Fast forward to 2 night ago, he fell asleep while watching a totally different, non sexual live. I took his phone to turn it off and decided to check if he was still doing that thing.
I found out he still follows those women on TikTok. This time I was just sad and unsurprised I guess. When I asked him about it he said he doesn’t do that anymore and he swore he stopped.
My problem is, even if he doesn’t watch those lives anymore why is he still following those women? When I asked him why he hasn’t unfollowed them yet he said they are too many to unfollow and that he’s not had the time.
I find this excuse very stupid and honestly I’m heartbroken but I have accepted that I will not be insulted in this marriage. I have accepted that even if we get a divorce I’m fine with it, we’ll just raise our 2 year old as co-parents.
Am I overreacting? Should I be more understanding about this? I’d really appreciate some advice now.
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