Hey ladies,

First off I adore my husband, he’s a great dad both to our baby and my step daughter. Our day to day life has become the opposite to what we had planned (him home and me working full time) due to health issues from him. (He had an accident at work and has been put on temporary disability but we are now two years into this temporary situation so it feels pretty permanent to us)

So he does the majority of the household chores since he’s home so I definitely don’t have the usual issues of husband not pulling his weight.

At 3 months post partum I went to my dr concerned about post natal depression. I’ve never had any issues with bonding with my baby, everything to do with her is awesome but outside of that I felt like a weight on my shoulders and just didn’t feel myself.

Now at 6 months post partum I’ve noticed that I’m angry at my husband ALOT. Like I love and miss him and want to be home with him and baby but then as soon as I am I’m frustrated at him and find myself snapping all the time.

My dr felt that I didn’t have post natal depression and felt I was just having a dip since we’ve been through so much these last two years and then the pregnancy wasn’t great with HG kicking my butt till 22 weeks, then a c section birth due to breech and 6 weeks later being taken to hospital and having emergency surgery to remove my gall bladder. Alongside that in my home country I would have had a longer maternity leave.

I’m fortunate in my husband and I do our best to keep communication open, but ofcourse with him knowing I’m so quick to anger right now he’s feeling like he’s constantly on egg shells and I’m noticing that with keep having extremes of being our usual selfs and then having this twisted distance between us.

We have an appointment with a counsellor booked on Tuesday because I still think this is something like post natal depression. But what do you guys think? Is this standard husband hate from the ever changing hormones or something more?