For SAHMs
Do any of you have to deal with a husband who makes you feel less than because you don’t work? I feel like I’m never allowed to be tired because if I am I get “tired from what?? Sitting on your ass all day?” He won’t do family things on the weekends because he’s “too tired being that he’s the only one that works and works so hard to provide for us”. He works 40-45 hours a week like most people 🙄. I take my daughter out almost everyday and do things to keep her busy, but on the weekends sometimes it would be nice to do things as a family. He’ll say “go ahead no ones stopping you, you can use MY car and MY gas and MY money to take her out, but I don’t want to go” He loves to remind me that everything is his because he pays for it. I won’t be a SAHM forever, I only have been for a few months since I’m in between finishing grad school and taking my exam/getting certified to then find a job. Even when I was in school if I had a day off or spring break etc, I would have to hear everyday how “it must be nice”. He literally comes home from work and does what he wants- whether that’s working on something, watching tv or going to sleep. I have to beg him to interact with our daughter, like to play with her so I can make dinner or something. Then I get the “there are single mothers out there who do all this housework, take care of the kids AND work” and I say well I’m not a single mother and I will fully give props to them because I couldn’t do it. I just don’t know how to make him stop being so nasty. Anyone else been through this and did/said something to get him to change?
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