Husband says he should be able to do whatever he wants with his free time
Been together 10 years and have 4 children together, two with special needs. I’m a SAHM and my husband works. Because of this I’m responsible for the kids, all aspects of their care and everything to do with the general running of the home and family 100% of the time. My husband gets all of his laundry done, meals made and has never had to change a diaper. He hasn’t once gotten up with our children over night and expects that if one wakes up crying at night I move to another bedroom or he gets extremely upset since he “works” and shouldn’t ever be woken up at night. He also has come to the conclusion that since he’s the one that works that every extra second he has outside of work should be spent doing whatever he wants. He got two weeks off for Christmas and spent every single day (12 hour days) expectorant for Christmas working on his “project truck” with his friends. This morning he got ready to leave again and said he had to stop by Walmart for something for his project and I asked him if he could pick up some stuff from the store for me while he was there since my car is in the shop right now. He told me that he couldn’t because I needed some cold things and he won’t be back home until tonight to give them to me. I got understandably upset since he’s actually going to the store and I have no way of going on my own and he yelled at me. He asked me if I thought be spent too much time doing whatever he wanted. When I said I did think that he got even more upset and told me that the “small amount of free time he has off work on a weekly basis” (he works 8 hour days and is off by 4pm everyday) should be his to do whatever he wants with since he spends the majority of his time working and providing for me to stay home doing “whatever I want all day”. He also said that I could go and do whatever I want also (bringing the kids with me of course) but I choose to always stay home (because we’re in an area with EXTREMELY high covid numbers and my youngest is immunocompromised) and that I just get mad at him for doing things because I want everything done for me and groceries brought to me so I never have to get “off my ass and leave the house” 🙄🙄🙄🙄
I have four kids and two are special needs so I am absolutely NEVER lying around doing whatever I want. I stay home the majority of the time to protect my kids because we’re still in the throws of a horrible pandemic!!
I wanted the argument to be over and for him to just leave because I can’t stand the tension in the house when he’s mad so I told him to just go and do whatever he wanted. As he was leaving I asked him if he could take out the trash (literally the ONLY household chore I ask of him) and he got so pissed. Yelled that he will no longer be doing that from now on and that’s now my job now because he hates doing it. He left, slammed the door and I heard him slam the trash in the dumpster 😳 Am I wrong here? Is it normal for him to spend every extra second doing what he wants?
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