Vent post: irritating husband. I'm so pissed off at him I'm ready to scream.
My daughter is 4 months old and currently has a cold. My parents are coming today and my husband decided on Friday that he's going on a fishing trip Sunday with two of his friends. I said, "You know my parents are coming up Sunday, right?" He says yes. I asked him to please reschedule his trip and he said it's non-refundable since he booked last minute. I told him I was upset that he decided to book this trip while our daughter is sick, and he didn't tell me until it was paid for.
Well he says he worked all week and he says he needs "me time". So Saturday I juggled a sick baby and meal prepped for Sunday while he played video games all day. Like, woke up at 6am because our daughter woke him up when she woke up to nurse and played until after midnight. He didn't even hold our daughter on Saturday, but he spent 18 hours playing games. I was not impressed and I told him as much, but he dismissed me and said he's had a stressful week at work and needs "me time". I told him WE have a sick 4 month old who needs both her parents, and he told me he "can't deal with her right now".
I told him I needed a break so I could sleep and he said, "Take her to my mom's then. I'm busy." I asked him if he could just watch our daughter for an hour or two while I caught a nap and he said "no, I'm busy. Call my mom if you need help." I ended up just staying awake and I've slept like six hours in two days.
I told him that this new attitude of his is immature and selfish. Our child is sick and he hasn't helped out one bit with her. He told me I have no idea how stressful work is and I told him I have been running off of very little sleep because our daughter is sick and fussy. He just ignored me and told me to take a nap because I'm grumpy. I FREAKING WONDER WHY I'M GRUMPY.
So Saturday, I ran around running errands (with a sick baby since my husband refused to have anything to do with her) and made lunch and dinner for Sunday. I told him specifically yesterday, "Don't touch the stuff in the green containers. That's for when my parents come." What did this motherf***er do when he left before I woke up this morning? He decided to take the food I prepared for today on his fishing trip for him and his friends. I have no means of getting to the grocery store because he took our car on his fishing trip. Everything I have is frozen and I spent a lot of time yesterday working on this stuff.
I am so pissed at this man child. He's never done something quite like this before but he has increasingly been away on the weekends for "me time". He gets more "me time" in a day than I get in two weeks. I get maybe two or three hours to myself every two weeks.
He recently got back into gaming and since then he's been a complete asshole. I was talking to my MIL about it and mentioned that the longest he's spent with our daughter this month is that four hour stretch last Saturday. Then I found out that the few hours I had to myself last Saturday were courtesy of his mom. He knew I would be gone for four hours and purposely made it look like he watched her for that entire time, meanwhile, he had his mom come up to watch our daughter so he could play games without our daughter interrupting him. She came and went while I was gone.
At this point I'm practically a single mom and I hate it. Ever since he got back into gaming he's been a complete bum. I asked him if he could cut down the time he spends on games but he won't. He says it's "stress relief". He comes home at 6pm and plays a minimum of 4 hours, but it's usually after midnight by the time he comes to bed. We don't eat dinner together anymore. We haven't been on a date in ages and he spends more time playing games in one evening than he does with our daughter all week. I'm freaking done with this bull.
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