Friday, August 27, 2010

And in other news....

I'm pissed at my husband. He has been acting like a child lately and I'm getting sick of it.

I can't even have a proper argument with him because he just fires stuff right back at me-mean things that have nothing to do with why we're fighting. Granted, our fight started over something stupid, but it's an ongoing issue.

I don't care how many more hours he works than me, or how much more money  he makes than me, it doesn't make it solely my responsibility to do EVERYTHING around the house. He bitches if the house isn't clean enough, but then all he does is leave shit everywhere. And forget asking him to help with anything, because he'll just say, "I do what I want. I'll do it, but I'll do it when I want to do it.." which means never. Just a few examples: Sunday, we went to a cookout. He brought a cooler. It is now Thursday and the cooler was sitting in our kitchen, with nasty stagnant water in it, until about an hour ago. Is he the one who dumped it out and put it away? Nope. I did. Even though I specifically asked him to do it. I was sick of looking at it. Another example, I ALWAYS cook dinner AND do the dishes. Once in a while, I will ask him if he will HELP me with the dishes (like just dry them). Today I asked if he could do the few things that were in the sink and of course he said he would do it when he felt like it. About an hour ago, right before I dumped the cooler out, I did the dishes. All of them. All by myself. Last night I vacuumed the whole house and the couches, I always do all the laundry and  put it away...it's just getting old. He sits in his stupid chair and watches TV...meanwhile, he just piles his empty pop cans and water bottles and food wrappers and shit on the fireplace cuz he's too fucking lazy to get up and throw the shit away.

A few weeks ago we bought some shelves and spent a good amount of time organizing his entire closet. He was keeping it nice. Today, I went to put away some of his laundry and he has already started putting piles of clothes at the bottom of the closet again. He has a place for everything in there and he's putting shit on the floor again. I'm so FUCKING frustrated! And the worst part is that he doesn't give a shit. He thinks that this kind of stuff is my job. Oh, I also handle our budget too. He acts like we're sharing the responsibility, but in reality, all he does is work and then sit on his ass or sleep. I work, then I have to come home and cook, clean, grocery shop, take care of the pets, do laundry, do dishes, make sure our budget is on track, play bills, etc...it's NEVER ending.

He has this fucked up 1950's attitude...like the woman has a role and the man has a role and that's that. I'm so sick of that shit. Ugh...fuck this, I'm going to bed.

3 comments:

  1. I'm sorry you are having to go through this. He is so wrong about working the most....it seems to me that you work the most hours. Your job is never ending! I'm not sure if this suggestion might work but when my husband and I started living together we made a to do list together for each of us. This helped us a lot. Yes sometimes he might do a little more or I might if one of us had a rough day but everything gets done and we reward each other with a movie or date night because everything gets done faster by both of us instead of one of us.

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  2. Thank you! That's exactly what I think-it gets done faster with two people, and honestly, it's only fair. Why should two people make the mess and only one have to clean it up?

    We did talk and get things straightened out. Hopefully it works.

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  3. I'm happy to hear everything turned out better :)

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