How to handle the overly critical?

I feel like my husband is hyper-critical. Everything he says has to have a snarky comment. He can’t give credit where it is due. Half of the things he says would be fine if it wasn’t followed up by a negative, unnecessary comment.

Example:

We were arguing because it was 14:00 and I hadn’t made him lunch. I told him he never eats when I make lunch for our daughter and myself, and I don’t have time to cook twice, so if he won’t eat with us, he is on his own.

He told me I hadn’t cooked at all this week. I listed off everything I had made, including the homemade buns I baked (which took hours). He said, “oh, yeah, you did bake buns. But only because you forgot to order the bread at the store.” ...like why is that necessary??

I went on to ask if 17:00 was an okay dinner time. My daughter always eats at 17:00, but sometimes we eat when she goes to sleep. He said he was going to work on something and didn’t want to eat at 17:00. I asked him if I could make the rice and beans to feed to our daughter at 17:00, and I would make the rest of the burrito bowl ingredients fresh for us around 19:00. His response? “what, so she can have a warm, fresh meal, and I have to eat something that is reheated?”

...well, I have to feed our daughter. I would prefer not to make two separate dinners completely. I wish he would just respect our feeding schedule.

Additionally, last night...

I came in the living room and said, “Are you staying up for a while?” He responded he was coming to bed. I said, “oh, okay, I will just kiss you goodnight when you come in then.” That was it. I just wanted to know if I needed to tell him goodnight now or when he came to bed. He told me I was “creepy” and “pushy”. And he was mad because I interrupted his YouTube video so he missed some of it. Like, push pause. It was like 5 seconds of conversation. 🤦‍♀️

Point being, he is so critical of everything and it is really obnoxious.

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