What is the father supposed to do?

[jrHowser]

So I'm home and taking care of the baby, even through out the night when he wakes up every 2 hours... it's super mom to the rescue. Plus I do all the errans... shopping and take care of all the needs for this family. So the father always says.... "I work!" or "I pay the bills!"   ..... it pisses me off so much! I made life changes for both Devon and him. What life changes have you made concerning little Devon? You've worked for the past few years.... you've always paid bills... before Devon existed... before we met.... don't give me that crap. All I ask is for you to watch the baby for 1 hour... so i can have peace to myself.... or just for you to spend some time with him... and I always have to fight and argue with you about it! .... I shouldn't have to.... I shouldn't have to ask! It stresses me out. I don't mind caring for my boy, but I'm couped up in this house all day... simple as just going to the gas station to get a pop with the pellet ice that i love so much... gone maybe 5 minutes 10 at the most.... and I hear... "oh I gotta do this and I gatta do that" .... It amazes me how with little boys... the mothers are the one that cares and nurtures them... but still in the end majority of the boys always tend to look up to their dads and want to grow up to be just like them.... just a saying... but I do believe in it. And I just want Devon to have a father to look up to who respects me and wants to help with the baby stuff. But then again... I understand like you said "He's so boring" But just wait.... not to long from now... you're going to wish he was boring...

Okay... I got that off my chest i feel better.... does anyone else expeierence a case like this?

[roseym]

Sep. 11, 2008 at 1:14 PM

i know exactley where your coming from my husband does that all the time he brings home my boys some cookies everyday after work and thinks that is his extent of being a dad and I tell him every day he is WRONG!! But they are momma's boys so I am glad about that but i need a break sometimes

[jordan31808]

Sep. 22, 2008 at 1:16 AM

i have that same problem with my fionce, he barely helps me with our little girl and when he does he is eather complaining or getting angry at me for "not taking care of HIS daughter" and even though he works from 4pm till 1am. he still gets up the next day around 12 and does what ever he wants and at around 2:30 almost 3 he will ether call me to let me know that he is too busy to come over to c me and the baby or he will come over and just sit there on the couch telling me that i am doing so much stuff wrong and that i the baby is crying or something along that line untill he has to leave. lol i think if men had to take over what we do for just one week they will ether endup breaking down or having just a little more respect for us, lol

[jrHowser]

Sep. 24, 2008 at 12:40 PM

More like 1 day..... I want to get a weekend job, because he is off on the weekends..... but there is no way he would be able to hadle Devon for a few hours alone with him. Boo on the men.... sure he pays all the bills and stuff... but that's a commitment he made before I became pregnant.

(Original Poster)