Frustrated and it’s over something small

Backstory: I work 11-8 Monday-Friday. I shower in the morning and getting dressed takes me about an hour. My boyfriend wanted me to start meal prepping for him and me. This morning I was telling him that I was going to go to the store this morning to buy stuff for Thursday and Friday (we still have stuff in the fridge we can use that’s not bad yet) and the weekend but saving the big meal prepping shopping trip for Saturday because I didn’t want to worry about rushing and I wanted to get stuff for lunch too.

Why I’m upset: he rolled his eyes at me because I was trying to “put it off”. I calmly told him that I think him rolling his eyes (which he does a lot) was rude and disrespectful. I just want him to start acknowledging my feelings and I don’t like it. I didn’t make a big deal about it, I just simply told him what’s up, and he said I was overreacting. I just wanted an apology for doing it after I explained my feelings.

But he does little things like that all the time. He admits he’s sarcastic and rude but will not accept that when he is sarcastic and rude, he’s mean. But he is. I work 40 hours a week, he said he would start helping with cleaning, but he doesn’t. He complains when the house is dirty and when I ask for help he says he did already (maybe doing his own laundry which is only his sports gear not his actual clothes or unloading the dishwasher).

I just want to be respected and it seems like he doesn’t a lot. I tried calmly explaining my feelings (which I think I’m allowed to have and if I think a stupid little eye roll is rude when it’s not called for he should respect that feeling enough to not do it) Am I right? I didn’t yell, scream, turn it into a fight, or anything. I just explained my feelings and why I think it’s rude and asked for an apology. (He never apologizes even when he needs to, like when he was being sarcastic to me about the birthday cake I made him and he was so mean/teasing it made me cry. And everyone says it was great and one person said it was their second favorite cake).

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