ignorant husband pisses the f out of me for all of these reasons
Hubby has not educated himself one iota on anything pregnancy or childcare related. I am constantly reading, watching, learning stuff. It's been all on me. Yesterday he threw a temper tantrum because I decided to take some loose leaf Japanese tea and coffee filters and make some cute little tea bags convenience. The reason was because I was stapling the bags shut. He said I would get tetanus 🙄 I pointed out that commercial tea bags, such as the raspberry leaf ones I just bought, also have a metal staple (albeit a smaller one). Idiot starts talking about how that's been "treated." I offer to put the staples into boiling water before putting back in stapler but he says nevermind. Then he tried a teabag and complains the cone coffee filter is too thick to let tea brew. Later he complains the reason he got a headache is because of the staple.
But it gets even better. Today he comes home from work and mentions a colleague says a friend of his (also guy) comes home from work and the wife "hasn't done anything....the baby is dirty, the dishes aren't cleaned." I say "you think when you have to feed the kid or pump every 2-3 hours and you're probably sleep deprived, that your priority is doing dishes? And what does "the baby is dirty" mean? He said "it's been 6 months since she had him." I say, "well maybe it's postpartum depression." He asks, "are you going to have that? Because if you are I'm going to take the baby on the plane back to (his native country)." How the fuck am I supposed to know what I'm going to have, one, and two, that is illegal to do. "Well I would get your consent first." And why the hell would I give you my consent? And what the hell are you going to feed the baby? Then it becomes obvious this idiot has already forgotten "that word" that I used two minutes before. Excuse? "I don't speak Latin and English isn't my first language." Ah, but you've heard of the word prenatal and know it means "before birth" and that's Latin. And you've heard of the term "post-traumatic stress syndrome" because that's a household term plus all the military stuff you're into being a dude. Well postpartum depression is just as much a household term as PTSD! There are random childless men that have heard of it and you're an expectant father in less than two months and haven't! Then this idiot preceeds to tell me this woman, who neither of us know, must be "lazy" and "since that syndrome means you don't want to take care of your child that's why I would take the baby to my family." So on top of not even being familiar with the term, this moron and aspiring psychiatrist pulls out of his ass the assumption that it's defined entirely by "not wanting to take care of your baby." The chutzpah on this one! I am so sick of these men that unload their load and go back to watching Netflix without a care in the world, say their job is to "go to work," and then criticize us women who have the REAL responsibility. Who is with me????
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