Would you be upset if your husband spent hours a day on a “hobby”
We have 3 kids. All under 5. My husband is off for two weeks from his job for Christmas. Paid which is great. Every day of his Christmas break, with the exception of Christmas Day, my husband has been spending 10 hours a day working on a truck he bought to “fix up”. The truck thing was an issue to begin with because he spent a lump sum of our savings to buy this truck telling me he was going to fix the small thing that was wrong with it and sell it for twice as much money within ONE WEEK. That was two months ago and every single spare second my husband has free outside of work gets spent working on this truck. He now says he has no intention of selling this truck, he wants me to have it. While it’s a sweet gesture I’m a little annoyed that he spent so much money on it while telling me he would resell it then after buying it changed the narrative and told me it was in fact a gift for me. He constantly comes home at around 8pm every night telling me excitedly the progress he’s made on “my truck”. He’s put about $1000 into it on top of what he paid and he gets mad at me unless I’m overly enthusiastic about it and if I look at all unenthused about it he just says “you hate it, I don’t know why I try to do nice things for you, you hate it”. I already have a car. I have no need for another, I feel like this is just a loophole for him to spend 10 hours a day doing whatever he wants and spending money but saying it’s for me makes it seem like I can’t be mad. He’s never here to do anything with me or the kids. I do every thing with them alone. He hasn’t spent a single day with them over their school break other than Christmas because he’s working on the truck. He left this morning at 9am. It’s now 10pm and he still isn’t home. I know he is working on the truck because it’s parked on my brothers property so he vouched that he’s there but the fact that’s he’s spending so much time away from us and so much money on his “hobby” for me makes me upset. I told him all of this and he called me ungrateful and told me I was trying to be controlling and not let him have a hobby 🙄 what would you do? Am I wrong here?
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