My SO feels lonely now....Help!
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Hey guys looking for some advice:
My baby is 19 weeks, and I can feel my SOās depression starting to build, heās getting more frustrated with little things and being cranky and distant a lot... heās normally the calmest person Iāve ever met who lives in the moment and is always laughing. He has no ill feelings towards the baby, or me really for that matter... but heās frustrated with the lack of time we have for eachother. Weve kinda become two passing ships, we both work six days a week, and when weāre home, one of us has the baby the other cooks or cleans or takes care of what needs to be done. He will mention he has no āoutletā he sold his Subaru because heās an adrenaline junky and it was getting him in trouble, he got really into airsoft but then we had the baby in October and then it became winter, and Iām sure Iāll be bummed when it starts back up cuz we only have two weekends as a family a month, and i know I have to choose either since we both work every other Saturday I either choose that Sunday for him to go, or the Saturday I changed my schedule to make sure we had as a family.... weāre hikers, Iām not currently cuz winter and really out of shape lol he doesnāt go cuz he rushes home to help with the baby.....we donāt even sleep in the same room... he will avoid me because he knows Iām too tired to be in the mood. My child still wakes every two hours and I have an autoimmune disease and a birth defect that cause my body a lot of pain when itās overly tired, but I donāt complain, I just keep
Going, but the baby and I go to bed together around 1030pm and he ends up falling asleep on the couch, idk maybe this is all normal, but he doesnāt speak much, so when he constantly keeps saying things like āI need a hugā or āreally needed that hugā (when I give him one) or random messages like āsorry if I was a jerk last nightā (when I didnāt notice anything) or getting overly angry about something that usually wouldnāt phase him.... I listen. But I donāt know what to do.... Iām a breastfeeding new mom working two jobs, I donāt have any time for myself whatsoever but Iām fine with it. My son is all Iāve ever wanted... but I certainly donāt want to make my SO feel Unwanted... but I honestly have NO extra mental space right now.... what do I do?
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