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OT: At what point does your patience run out?

princessmofo's picture

DH has really been dropping the ball lately. Not only for me (see my previous post about losing my beloved dog) but for our family. I've been working extra hours, both at work and the home studio and been picking up all the slack. Example: watching ss on my days off, doing ALL the housework, trying to de-clutter our lives by purging useless possessions (which has been a fight since dh hoards) and handling all the day to day extras. So after working until 9:30 last night I come home to: a sink full of dishes, clothes dumped on my bed, clothes in the dryer not folded (dh's excuse for this is "he doesn't know where anything goes" :jawdrop: ) and unresponded to emails regarding several high dollar items I am attempting to sell on Craigslist (these items are dh's and he said he would deal with it). So I am at a freaking loss right now. My patience is running out with this man. He may as well be the same lazy asshole I was married to before. The only difference is, I knew I couldn't count on my first husband so I learned to do everything on my own. But my douche dh reassured me when we were courting and first got married that he "would always be there to help me, just simply ask." Uh huh. I did that. Repeatedly. I even made you a "honey do" list as you requested. Guess how much of it is done? ZERO! And it just keeps growing. You know, come to think of it dh used to complain that bm said he was lazy and didn't have his priorities straight when they were together. Beginning to think she was on to something there. . .

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princessmofo's picture

Wish, maybe we should let them live together and we can be "life partners". LOL! It's gotta be better than what we are dealing with right now.

myspoonistoobig's picture

Confront, and do not back down. Let him know that if he's not the sole and primary breadwinner that he needs to contribute. And be mean if you have to. If he pulls the "I don't know where shit goes" crap again you bite back with "It's not rocket science, are you stupid?"

If he genuinely feels bad then, start being nice and come up with a plan together to divy up the work and help him remember to take care of his shit.

Break him down, build him up. Only way to change some habits.

princessmofo's picture

Seriously that is what throws me! The whole "I don't know where stuff goes". Really? Are you new here? Did aliens assume your body and brain and wipe out the pertinent information regarding where your clean clothes belong? Did you suffer a blunt force trauma today to your skull that I am unaware of? NO! Then figure it out! You are a middle-aged adult man! You are not 6! And mind you, my six year old knows where to put his clothes away and does it, happily! My mother was right...I married a child.

myspoonistoobig's picture

Say all of those things! They need to be said. He has to know that this is too much strain on you and that he has to step up his game!

princessmofo's picture

Do you know that song by Icona Pop entitled "I love it"? It goes, "I threw your shit into a bag and pushed it down the stairs." Yeah, that's where I'm at right now, Red. Ready to f*ck his shit up royally.

SMof2Girls's picture

LOL .. my DH used to try that same line with the laundry .. "I don't know where it all goes"

I told him he gets dressed every morning .. he knows where to GET things from when he's looking for them. And besides, they surely don't belong in a pile on the bed either.

He's much improved over the years .. now I only really need to deal with the lazy bones when he's injured (happens often at work) or sick (at which point he reverts to a 6 year old child mentality).