Husbands treating me like I’m seriously ill
I know this will sound so ungrateful and it’s not intended to. I’m just over 8 weeks pregnant and of course as pregnancy goes you become tired, nauseous, grumpy etc so I’ve been extremely tired lately and had quite bad nausea and my other half is smothering me. I don’t just mean like simple things asking how I am or being nice offering to clean the house, he is literally smothering me. He asks me every 5-8 minutes “you ok?” And I’ll say yes then he’ll jump to “what’s wrong? Why do you look tired?” “Go to sleep” “have a nap” I’ll say no I’m not needing a nap and he’ll come back ten mins later “I’ve made the bed have a nap”, I’ll jump in the shower and he’ll come in and say “no have a bath and run me a bath instead”, if I want to have a takeaway or even just a burger “no that’s not good for you have fruit have a sandwich have this have that” followed by “what’s wrong?” 60000x times. I’ve told him he has to back off a bit and let me breathe he can’t be down my throat constantly, but today really got to me. I went to lift our kitchen chair and put it at the other side of the table (literally a standard kitchen chair no weight to it at all) and he absolutely glared at me “you can’t do that in your condition” and that’s it I haven’t heard the end of it. All I hear is “your condition” this “your condition” that. I’ve tried talking to him but this is the 3rd week of it and I am demented. It was great at first having someone be affectionate but at this point I just want him to back off and let me breathe. I can’t even sit on the sofa to watch tv unless I have the right padded cushions and i get it he cares it’s sweet it really is but it’s also sooooo frkin irritating!!! He’s behaving like I’m on deaths row and not capable of doing anything for myself to the point he lays out my clothes for in the morning because “my skinny jeans are too tight for the baby” so I have to wear what he puts out or it’s just hell. I just wanna be able to breathe from him!! He gets so annoyed whenever I mention needing a bit of space and storms out or won’t talk to me the entire day. Does anyone have any suggestions for how I can get him to just back off a little? I’m so happy to be pregnant and so happy he’s excited and caring but I just need that bit of personal space to breathe
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