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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote caliandjack Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25 May 2010 at 10:24am

We've already had this conversation and the baby isn't born yet - as Dh works all day and wants to be able to come home and relax - also Dh is going to be away a bit over the next 3 years as he's being assigned to the Navy.

DH is pretty good at cleaning and doing stuff around the house if I give him enough notice he will even cook the dinner - I think in the end we'll work our way through it.

Neither of us really has any idea what kind of parent we're going to be and will be a bit of trial and error to get into some sort of organisation - thankfully baby is due not long before Christmas and DH will be on leave, FX we can get ourselves sorted by the time he goes back to work.


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote RicKer Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25 May 2010 at 2:13pm
Ill happily trade

My DP does nothing. He works 7:30am - 4 pm and its a really relaxed job (i went to work with him a couple Saturdays). All he does is sit at his dest on the net all day waiting for someone to call and tell him he wants to buy such-in-such product and puts it through the computer. Hes gets maybe 1 call an hour.
When he gets home he expects to relax and for me to continue to do everything (all the washing, vacuuming, mopping, sweeping, dusting, dishes, dinner, looking after DD etc etc) He also doesn't bother with his daughter. I have to ask him to hold/talk to her for 5mins and he sometimes says no!
All i ask him to do is mow the lawns when they need doing, wash the dishers every night and cook tea every other night. He does the dishers maybe twice a week with me asking and asking, mows the lawns after my dad gets sh*tty with him (hes out landlord) etc. I also have to pay half the bills with my tiny winz income so i cant tell myself thats its okay since he brings home the money (he spends his money on himself leaving me the tiny bit im left to buy for DD) *sigh*

Anyone up for a trade?

ETA: he also goes out drinking 2 out of 7 nights, often not telling me where he is if he doesn't bother coming home and last weekend he decided to drink drive/speed do now we are going to get a ticket

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote HoneybunsMa Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25 May 2010 at 3:26pm
We live at my parents so abit different. We have however lived together for 6+years and we generally do abit of everything each of us. Both of us worked fulltime until last year but we've always been abit different as we've both worked hospitality.

Now we do dinner ourselves and normally he comes home around the time its dinner time for DD so I ask him to do that. I quite often give him an option of cooking dinner or bathing baby he normally cooks (wonder why as bathing DD is only a 10min job lol) If I went to work and he was home I would ask him to chuck a load of washing on, do dishes etc. If I ask him he normally does it. Although in saying that it took him a couple of months to clean the microwave and I couldn't do it as it was ontop of the fridge and too high for me.

He did have a go at me about our old house not being tidy but we lived in a one brm with no clothesline and there was basically the equivalent of a 2brm worth of furniture in it. We had a spare bed that I tried to keep tidy and he would come home and dump all his sh*t on it along with the dining table. So I am going to be hard and find a place for everything in our new place so he can't dump things everywhere! We got rid of the coffee tables because he dumped stuff everywhere


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote pepsi Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25 May 2010 at 5:58pm
You should point this out to your husband also:

Men who share the load get more sex
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Excellent, thanks Pepsi. I've opened it and will leave it there for DH to have a read, I wonder if it will sink in
 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote julz85 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25 May 2010 at 10:22pm
well when Amelia was born (10months ago) i was a solo mum as Amelias dad walked out when i was prego ( another story) anyway it was just me who did everything because it was only me, it was hard, and not only hard because i did everything myself but to be honest the hardest thing i found was how lonely i was, never having anything to look forward to at the end of the day (like having someone to come home to) and not being able to share all the cool, and not so cool things Amelia had done that day  , then when Amelia was 4 months old i met my partner and we became pretty close pretty fast, now after 6months of being together he stays most nights and is a huge help, he works 40-50hrs a week and from next week on i will be working 20 hrs a week so he will look after Amelia in the eveinings i work (till 8pm) , its so nice to look forward to seeing him at the end of the day . He helps me with housework etc when he can , and he will always do something when i ask. im very lucky really , going from having no help what so ever to having someone who cooks, cleans, baths baby plays with baby, and even the simple things like having someone there while i can take a shower alone,. Its made the hugest difference to my mental state of mind .
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