I'm not a women of the 50's, I work, run my own business, take care of my son, and my elderly aunt.

  • June 22, 2008 at 10:15 AM by bowlingracoon
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Every time my husband gets mad he complains and screams at me about the house cleaning. It doesn't matter if like this week I spent 3 full days cleaning. We just moved my son's room. I did it all by myself, which included putting together a huge wooden loft bed. Then I had to move, organize all of his clothes, books and toys. Then my Aunt moves in 2 days later. So I have to clean up his old room and make it livable. I pick up the living room every day and just this week alone I vacuumed 4 times. The one day that included vacuuming the curtains and couch (we have shedding cats). I have done 2 loads of dishes every single day. I didn't even leave dishes this week that needed hand washed. I did them. I wiped down the counters every day and I cooked dinner except for the two nights we ordered in or went out. We had a ton of stuff on the kitchen table, which I sorted and then wiped it down. I vacuumed, sweep and mopped the kitchen floor. I gave our son's highchair a thorough cleaning this week as well. I also dusted and did all the regular stuff. I know i'm not the best house keeper, but good lord. I even went out and pulled weeds out of the garden, which he usually does. I've put our son to bed every night this week. Now on top of it all I worked 2 full days, took care of registering and transferring title on the vehicle we just bought, went grocery shopping, took my aunt to get new shoes, ran my business amongst it all.

On top of everything i had his parents over for dinner on Friday night. Which meant a ton of cooking and then cleaning up the huge mess when they left. They also brought over a train table for our son, which had to be assembled.

 I'm not saying I'm the busiest person in the world, but I'm just saying, I'm not lazy.

So last night at 10:00 PM my husband says my son needs a bath and goes down to the basement. We have a leaky faucet, so we turn the water on and off so it doesn't drip. After 30 minutes he doesn't return. So I go down to see what's going on. He's hooking the water heater to drain it out and clean it. I was like, "what are you doing?" It was 10:30, I was waiting upstairs to give Brady a bath and he's doing something that needs to be done once a year. So I said something on the line of that doesn't need to be done now...and went back upstairs

So I start to try to put Brady to bed, and I fell asleep in his bed. I had been up with him since 7:15. So all of a sudden he's screaming for me and woke me up. So I ran downstairs and he had overloaded a bag and it ripped and was all over the floor. So he starts yelling at me that I don't help do the litter box. (We're trying to get pregnant, well we were before last night) so I can't. He just keeps going on about how I don't clean the litter box. and ends up shattering a part on our brand new 200 dollar vacuum. He then pretty much says I do nothing. He wants to quit his job and stay home and I can go to work...(I work 2-3 days a week) and he'll do a much better job. Then he starts saying he's calling a lawyer tomorrow morning, because I'm a waste.

I'm so tired of this crap. He doesn't do this daily, but he lets things get built up and then freaks out. It always comes out about house work and I'm just so tired of it. I need advice!!!

Comments:

cjcha...
First of all, he needs to quit the screaming at you.  it sounds like he needs to help out.  So what does he do??  I ran a business (part time) raised 3 kids (Irish triplets) went to school and all the housework while my husband went to sea (military).  Now that he and I both retired from the military we both work at the house and yard.  He and you need to communicate DESPARATELY.  It sounds his expectations and yours don't meet by a mile.  A counselor may help. 

cjcharlie1959 Jun. 22, 2008 at 10:29 AM

2kjnb...

I have this problem with my husband too.  He was once a stay at home dad and I worked and he did NO house work at that time he said it was to hard to take care of the baby and keep house so he expected me to come home after work tend to the baby and clean house? I thought not, I did what I could when I could and when he would get sick of the mess he would help me with it or it wouldnt get done.

I think men have a time of the month, try to notice when he acts an ass just for fun.

As for as advice goes the best I can offer is let it go, if he is mad he probobly doesnt mean what he says. The time will come when he will have to look after your son and then he will see how hard it is. Other than that I dont know what to say, if you figure it out be sure to let me know! lol

2kjnbabiez Jun. 22, 2008 at 10:34 AM

sherriet
Hugs!  We used to go through the whole 'I'm tired cause I've been working all day' stuff, and me asking hubby to just help keep things in order once I do major cleaning.  It is frustrating and annoying.  I don't know about letting this go.  He shouldn't be screaming at you and sure as hell shouldn't be saying you're a waste.  Would he consider counseling?  Or at least writing letters to one another about how you feel and expect.  What did he do to clean house while you were doing what you did?

sherriet Jun. 22, 2008 at 1:06 PM

bowli...
He does clean...but only the same set of things...he did the bathroom...he also does yard work and his own laundry....yeah that's right...he only does his own laundry

bowlingracoon Jun. 22, 2008 at 5:10 PM

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