Welsh baby boy names 💙

I'm trying to persuade my husband to have a Welsh first name, but he struggles to pronounce some (may be on purpose 😅) any suggestions would be greatly appreciated 🤩🥰

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Cancelling Easter…

So my step son (11) lives with us full time we’ve started with an issue of him stealing little stuff from school, taking his brothers clothes from his mums here without anyone knowing ect but now
He’s also got the habit of taking chocolate and crisps out the kitchen to the point of he’s eating all my 1 year olds snacks like the 6month+ wafers and then he’s got no snacks. I’m buying loads of stuff to last us the month and he’s going through them within less then a week 🫠 (he never gets told no to snacks either unless it’s just before a meal then he gets told to wait until after hes ate)
He has now gone through all the chocolate we hid for Easter that was also his two little brothers and he’s gone through the stuff my mum brought round for them. So now iv got just over a week with hardly any money to try and get all the Easter stuff back. We’ve sat and spoke about it and why he feels like need to just take and we get a “i don’t know” or “it’s just snacks”

My thing is should I re buy him Easter stuff or leave it as a “you’ve already had you Easter early behind our backs” he’s not missing out completely because he has Easter at his mums but I feel like there’s nothing more we can do other then put locks on cabinets so he can’t get in them but that’s just stopping him from getting to the thing he wants not necessarily him learning 🤷🏻‍♀️
My partners just in that “can’t be arsed” “just replace it” where we have 1 child together and 2 step children and a baby on the way so just constantly going out and replacing stuff really isn’t happening ☹️ he’s agreeing with not giving him anything for Easter but I feel guilty about it but he has teqnically had his Easter + more…

We have also spoken to his mum about it and she just says she has locks on the doors and she did it as a kid and laughs about it which just feels like shes validating what he’s doing.

Sorry for the rant just wanted to see other people opinions and views as I feel so guilty to cancel Easter for him but at the same time we don’t have the money to re buy everything he’s gone through 🫠

Guilt

My baby just wouldn’t settle. It had been an hour. I’m completely exhausted and I lost it and shouted. He was so upset and scared afterwards and I feel so guilty and disgusted with myself. He’s in bed with me now which is what I’ve been trying to avoid as it makes me so anxious that I’ll hurt him in my sleep but he needs the comfort so now I’m going to be awake all night. I just feel like I don’t deserve him now I shouldn’t have lost it but nothing was working. I’m on my own as my partner works away all week. 😢

Feeling guilty for resting

This may sound silly but if I ever get a chance to ‘rest’ or have 5 mins to myself i have this guilty feeling that i should be doing something baby related? Am I the only one?

I have always been quite an organised person so when it comes to babies nap time I don’t usually have any tasks to do. For example, he’s having a nap right now and I’ve made myself a cup of tea and sat down on the sofa, and I feel like I shouldn’t be doing this. Am I being silly ?

Just a rant

Being a primary parent sucks sometimes.

I love my daughter more than anything but I feel this world is not built for primary parents.

I work from home (thankfully) part time. My partner works full time but he's in meetings or calls all day.

My daughter has a medical condition which causes her to be sent home from nursery frequently. So it isn't unusual for me to be working, parenting, cleaning and cooking all in one day.

I'm exhausted. I can't have any more dependants leave because I'm only a couple of more incidents away from a disciplinary. We aren't in a financial position for me to quit work either.

The world wants more babies, but isn't prepared to support mothers or primary parents. It sucks.

How do you know when to leave? (long post)

My daughter's dad and I have been having more and more issues. Sometimes when I think about it, I wonder what I should do. I stay home with our daughter while I am trying to find a job that pays enough for her care and to help with bills. So at the moment I rely on him financially. But some of the things he does and says lately have been making me think this isn't healthy and we either need to split up or maybe try therapy for our daughter. He doesn't show love unless its for sex, he will grope and rub against me thinking its a turn on ( its not). He expects so much of me but doesn't appreciate anything I do. He barely takes care of our daughter, he has maybe changed 15 diapers in her two years of life. Lately I just feel like a maid or servant. In his mind the world revolves around him and only him. He is the most important thing around. So he things. If I try to talk to him about something that bothers me he calls me emotional and says a really fake sounding sorry. He doesn't ever seem to care if he makes me upset. If I get angry he starts laughing and pokes at me to get me angrier. He acts like I am here to serve him and that's it. He has anger problems, he can go from 0 to 100 in 5 seconds. Never physically violent but sometimes a little verbally to me. We have some really good weeks and even months but then we will have a horrible few days and it makes me question everything.

Sorry for the ramble but I know other people have been in this situation and I just want others advice and thoughts. My daughter loves her father and the idea of having to share custody makes me physically ill. I can't imagine being away from my child. I would love to work through it. But I don't know if something like therapy would help.

Why do I find it so hard to talk to my husband about finances?

My baby is just over a year old and, for the first time ever, I’m not working as we decided that I’d be a SAHM for my baby. He makes decent money and can cover both of us, but we’ve recently done a big move and our finances need readjusting so that we can properly see where the money is going (bills, necessities, disposal income for each of us). We’re finding that we’re unable to save at the end of each month but can’t quite work out if we’re losing money yet, so I’m really keen to get this setup sorted so we can properly see the cash flow. It was something I used to manage before the big move. My husband has no problem with me managing the finances.

The problem is that he always makes a joke about me spending too much money, like saying there’s always Amazon packages turning up. It particularly hard for me right now because I’m not earning so I am genuinely trying hard not to spend money frivolously. I do get a lot of Amazon packages, but it’s always necessities and/or things for the baby, and he gets just as many packages as I do, but it’s usually just stuff for him.

The jokes aren’t landing with me anymore because I’m sensitive about not contributing financially to the household. He never makes that a big deal, but when I get serious about trying to get a handle on where our money is going, he jokes that I spend it all and I hate it