We have kids (5 and 7), and my husband feels like all he does is work and come home.

I am with our kids all day, work at their school, take them home from school, stay with them until evening and then put them to bed. On the weekends I take them somewhere to have fun at least once while he stays home.

He also, just in the last month, has gone to dinner w a friend (he was gone for 5 ish hours), flew out of state w friends to go to a football game, watches every single football game that his team plays, had a friend over here for dinner etc…

He also travels for work and has been gone an entire week at a time as well as was sick, too sick to care for kids, for 4 days. That all occurred in the last 30 days.

Am I missing something? I understand that work and illness shouldn’t be considered alone time, but jeeze. I also don’t typically have everything he does written out in a list like it is up above, but when he made this statement I really had to sit down and think about this because I truly don’t understand where he’s coming from. I think he’s mad that I went to lunch and to get my nails done yesterday. I don’t know.

The reason we got into an argument is because his family invited him over to hang out and he went. My feelings were hurt that they only invited him.

2 comments
  1. Sounds like you are both burned out. Traveling for work isn’t fun and can wear you out. As I’m sure you are worn out from a full time job and kid care after-school. If you are both working, find a budget for a babysitter and take some time together!

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