Stay at home mom doing EVERYTHING 😩😩

I am a stay at home mom and my boyfriend works. We were having issues with him not contributing to housework, parenting or anything other than working. Every piece of trash was left on the counters for me to pick up, every time he ate, it was left for me to clean his food and dishes that he left around the house, things dropped on the floor, changing diapers, laundry, cooking, grocery shopping, EVERYTHING. I even have to wake him up for work in the morning for him to go to work.

I asked him to watch our daughter so I could have dinner with my friend and he gave me an hour and a half and then started a fight with me. I tried explaining to him that I don’t get a break, not evenings or weekends like he does, but he insisted that it was “my job” and he only needed to work. After months of this I finally couldn’t take it anymore. I felt like my thoughts and feelings didn’t matter and he and my daughter were always put first and I was NEVER even thought of and I finally fed up with feeling like i didn’t matter.

He left to “clear his head” and actually sat in the driveway reading up on how to fix the situation. He sent me these screenshots of others speaking about how it’s not “her job” and how women’ deserve a break and help when the husband/boyfriend gets home. He walked out angry, thinking he was right and i was being selfish, but he actually did some research and realized he was wrong and he was the one being selfish. He apologized and has been helping out today, offering to help any way he can. It’s only been a day but he’s been doing a lot today and is making a list of things he can do to help so that everything isn’t 100% on me and to help lift some of the stress off of me.

Guys, people CAN change. Sometimes people aren’t “bad” they just don’t know any better. Don’t GIVE up, SPEAK up! ♥️