Anyone else with a less than helpful partner?
I'm truly heartbroken right now, pp hormones don't help. My fiance is not being helpful with our daughter at all. She's almost 3 weeks old and he's only changed her ONCE since we got home from the hospital.
I've been looking forward to today all week bc he said it would be my day and I could do whatever I wanted. Well, I planned on doing the grocery shopping.. that was going to be my big exciting trip out of the house.. and he decided since he had an errand to run too that we would do this as a family.. which was fine... BUT.. we fed her at 12:45 and left about 30 minutes later.. he even asked ME to change her diaper, she was just wet!!! By the time we ended up at the grocery store it had been almost 2 hours and she was stirring a bit in her carseat. He had wanted to carry her in the sling but I said maybe I should in case I had to run back out to the car to feed her. I didn't mean to offend him or hurt his feelings but I obviously did and we drove home without getting groceries.. (we are only minutes from the store) half the argument was the fact that he thought she had eaten more recently. Sorry, when she eats has been my entire life for the last 3 weeks so I knew for a fact that he was wrong. And I didn't really want the stress of a crying newborn in the fricking grocery store..
Well i told him I had planned on going alone anyway and tried to go back out. He wouldn't speak to me. I did apologize for hurting his feelings. When I got back down to the store I realized I never asked what he needed at the store. He texted back a list of vegetables and then said "I need a lot of things" so I gave up and came back home bc this was just getting ridiculous.
So that was my 10 minute trip without my daughter for the first time in her life.. woo... what a great "mommy day" it's been so far.. don't know why I had my hopes up, I should've known better.
And I'm losing my mind a little thinking about how I will ever go back to work if he can't even change a wet diaper! We work opposite shifts so he'd be taking care of her in the mornings.. now I'm having my doubts and feeling really horrible and emotional about the whole thing.
😭 tell me how horrible your partners have been! Single moms, I have so much respect for you, but sometimes it must be a little easier on you not to have to deal with the bullshit that comes with relationships 😟
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