I’m13 weeks, My husband went from being an angel to a monster and I don’t know what to do
I turned 13 weeks yesterday. In the beginning my husband was furloughed and since I was so fatigued and sick he waited on me hand and foot and was great. Then he got called back to work 3 weeks ago. Luckily I got my energy back around the same time and have been feeling good. They are scheduling him two night shifts a week and his sleep deprivation is really showing in his attitude. The first week he was really quick to anger and screamed at me a lot. Then last week he started getting really lazy and making huge messes for me to clean up after him. This week he’s been staying up all hours on his phone, computer, laptop, Xbox, you name it playing videos games like his life depends on it, and then wonders why he can’t sleep. Each night I get woken up by him and spend at least two hours awake because he’s throwing a fit and yelling at me about the house being too hot or walking around the house screaming or whatever and blaming me. He’s saying nasty hurtful things to me in the middle of the night and making me so emotional that I just wanna die. I am losing my sleep now too over it and it’s starting to bring my fatigue back. It’s like he forgets I’m pregnant and need my sleep, and when he yells at me if I cry he calls me childish or yells at me to stop and says he can’t handle my meltdowns, also forgetting that I’m fucking pregnant and cry at commercials. He went from being the perfect husband to an angry monster that is trying to bring me down with him.
Last night we had a huge fight that lasted from 3am-6am. I don’t know what to do anymore. I have no one in the town I live in. I have no work over the summers. I’m losing sleep. And my husband is treating me like trash.
Update: He came home and said all these things in his own words which was pretty surprising. He apologized for what he said and how he’s been acting the past few weeks. He took responsibility for the fact that work is work and he’s going to have to adapt to it to make it work for us. He also said he wants to watch any video or download any audiobook he can on how for us to have healthy communication so that when he’s under slept from having a new born, he’ll be better equipped to handle it
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