Never Good Enough

Kristen

I guess I just need to vent. My husband and I have been together 18 years and married 8 months. We have a 7 month old son whom we both adore. He is great with the baby and I love that about him. My problem is with how he treats me.

I constantly feel inferior to him. He says that the things I do are stupid, complains that I never have an opinion on anything and that I move too slow when I do pretty much anything. I cannot do anything right and it's getting old.

I don't know why I felt the need to put it out here. I don't have any family or friends I can talk to without them just being judgmental. I became a stay at home mom when our son was born but my husband works from home so I never have a moment to myself. He complains if I take too long in the shower which can be judy 25 minutes tops. Complains if I take more than 5 minutes to clean and sterilize the bottles. Etc etc etc. But when he does the dishes or takes out the trash I'm supposed to heap praise on him. In my opinion he isn't helping me do those things he is doing the bare minimum of what is expected put of a partner. But I don't dare say that.

Right now we are sleep training the baby but he will only nap on me. I feel like I have to balance everything around his naps. And my husband says I'm being neurotic because I pay attention to wake windows and try to give him a somewhat decent routine. If his family wants to visit during one of the napping times I'm supposed to just be okay with it and wake the baby up. It's maddening. His dad will literally just say he will be in town on such and such day and the texts us 5 minutes before he gets here. I'm not being neurotic...babies need naps. And when he doesn't have his he turns into a mess before bedtime which interrupts dinner. I would love to get him 3 naps or extend his 2nd one longer so he can go to bed later than 6pm. He does sleep 11 hours but that's not the point. My husband isn't the one waking up with him at 530 in the damn morning.