Am I being too sensitive?

Dar

Today we got home after being out for 2 and 1/2 hours with our 22 month old, just going places and “running errands”. We got home and usually I will wash my hands and then I (or my husband) will give our daughter a bowl of water with soap to wash her hands on the floor. Today we walked in, I washed my hands and he was already opening her new Lego toy that she was excited to play with and he was showing her how to build with them. I was preparing her lunch. We had forgotten something of his in the car so I said I would go down and get it. I went downstairs all the way to the car and realized I didn’t have the car key so went all the way back up to get them. By this time I had forgotten about washing our daughters hands. Mixed her food. I got the keys, went down, got his bag and came back up. So we put her in her chair to eat and go on about our day. X amount of time goes by and we give her some pear/applesauce. Sometimes she spoons food into her hand and eats it off her hand. I don’t have a huge problem with it but I do remind her to eat with her spoon. Apparently she was doing it and my husband says, “don’t let her do that blah blah blah” and I apologized and said I didn’t realize she was doing it. So I sat down to eat with her and realized I never washed her hands and didn’t know if he had so I said, “oh I never washed her hands” he said “I know, that’s why she shouldn’t eat off her hands” (this is after she’s eaten other finger foods so I’m thinking, what’s the difference?). Anyway, he says, “you really have to remember to wash her hand when we come home” as if I forget all the time or something! I said “yes we do, I agree.” Because it’s both our responsibility. He said, “well I remember better when the bowl has been emptied previously.” As if I never empty the bowl! I always empty it if I’ve helped her wash her hands in it. However this morning she was playing with her animals in it with a little water before we went out for the morning and it’s always a rush to get out of the door (and he was the last one out of the door anyway). So he continues, “you didn’t empty the animals out of the bowl” as if it’s solely my responsibility, as if he’s incapable of emptying toys out of a bowl and filling it with water and soap to clean her hands. Anyway. This upset me because I had forgotten because I went back down to the car twice to get his bag for him and he blamed it all on me that her hands didn’t get washed and that the bowl had toys in it… and I was going to tell him that I forgot because I went to the car but he sees reasons as excuses so I stopped myself from saying it halfway through and apologized for everything. And he said thanks for getting his bag but I was still upset and he said. So I was trying not to cry from being blamed for everything, and went on eating my food but he said, “Pick your head up. I don’t have time for your sulking.” And I said that I was upset and that was not supportive. And I don’t remember what else he said just that he did t have time for my sulking and to “stop making us have this conversation in front of our daughter.”

I don’t know if I’m being too sensitive that this all hurt my feelings or if this is just third trimester hormones. I’ve always been a little more sensitive than others (I think?) or others just bottle up their feelings. Idk. I try to push it aside now but I don’t know if I’m just overreacting or being too sensitive.

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