Unhelpful husband after csection

I had to have an emergency c section last Sunday. I was in the hospital for 4 days after due to some complications and was told to go home on bed rest.

My dad had flown in from out of the country to watch my other kids while I was in labor. The day after we got home from the hospital my dad had to leave (we weren’t anticipating such a long hospital stay). Our first whole day home with the newborn my husband got mad at me because I asked him to wake up to get our other kids ready for school (he slept all night and didn’t help with the newborn so I was irritated and asked him with a tone). This pissed him off so bad that he told me he was filing for divorce and leaving me. He went out all day and started looking for another place to live. This behavior was completely out of the blue. He left me at hone with 4 kids to take care of alone (we have three year old triplets also). I was distraught. I have nobody close by to help me at all.

He eventually came back and acted like nothing happened and I embarrassingly let him because I had no one else to help me and I was in so much pain.

Since that day he has done things that he says are “helpful” but just aren’t. I’m an incredibly tidy person and I can’t stand mess. Since he’s been here he’s pulled out 5 closets in our home to “clean” them and has left piles of stuff everywhere. When I asked him when he’s planning to finish what he started tonight he told me he was waiting for me to heal so I could help him. I’m irate. The clutter everywhere is making my skin crawl but I’m physically incapable of fixing it myself or even with his help (which I know will be non existent). I feel like I can’t relax with my newborn because it’s all I can focus on. I feel like he did it to spite me because he knows how much I can’t stand it.

Tonight after I laid the newborn down I came out into the living room and found him asleep on the couch (he sleeps all night and doesn’t get up with the newborn at all) and the kids had trashed the living room. I got their bath routine and bedtime done on my own (which was incredibly painful for me) and he woke up, saw me then went back to sleep. I then came out and cleaned the living room because I refuse to live in filth. He just watched me again, while I winced in pain, and went back to sleep on the couch where he currently is now. He preemptively took the next 2 weeks off work (for 60% of his pay) to help me and I feel like it’s absolutely useless. He isn’t helping. He’s sleeping out of spite also because he told me he wanted to go out with his friends tonight and I told him I needed him here with me so he went to sleep on the couch instead.

I have no idea what to do. I feel so stick because I’m recovering still but also have nowhere to go. What would you do?

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