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Merry Effing Christmas to me

Unhappy's picture

I am so sick of all of this crap. I mean I really am.

Yesterday I get a text from DH around 1 saying, "thanks for the mixer." My response was what mixer? The one sitting on the porch. I asked him how he knew what it was and he said that it wasn't in a shipping box it just came in the mixer box.

This p!ssed me off because that was DH's big gift. He loves cooking so I got him a kitchen aid mixer. Why would anybody ship anything around Christmas time not in a shipping box and why couldn't DH just pretend he didn't see it.

So I text DH and tell him not to open it and that he can't use it until Christmas. I also texted DH and told him to make the Christmas reservations so that we can go out to dinner, which he was supposed to do a while ago, because we don't have any of the kids for Christmas. He texts back a little bit latter and said that he made them for 6:30. I texted him back and asked him if they had anything earlier and he said that it was all they had.

A little back story is neccessary here. I gave up my Christmas with my BD this year so that we can get all of the kids on the same holiday schedule so that we can go and see HIS family on the holidays. That means that I miss Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years day with my BD. The whole freaking holiday season just for HIM and HIS family. I do get her Christmas morning and I thought I was going to get her a little hit on Christmas night but because he procrastinated on the only thing that he had to do for Christmas now I don't get her Christmas night because by the time we get done with dinner and pick her up it will be her bedtime. Why does it matter to him. He doesn't get his kids on Christmas night so why would it matter if I don't get to spend time with my BD on Christmas night. I told him to just freaking cancel it. I'll drop BD off at her grandparents house for dinner and then pick her up and we'll go see a movie together.

DH has been sick the last couple of days. He was really sick the day before yesterday but not so much yesterday seeing as how he consumed almost an entire BIG bottle of wine while I was at work. I walked in the door to find dog sh!t in the laundry room and in the entry way in the dinning room. Not just dog poop but liquid dog poop that has sat there so long it was dried to the floor which meant DH just walked by it all day long and didn't clean it up. Apparently in his drunken sicken haze he forgot to let the freaking dog out. I asked him where the mixer was and he told me he put it out in the garage. I told him that I was still planning on wrapping it and putting it under the tree and his response was, "why bother." WHY BOTHER!!!! WHY FREAKING BOTHER!!!! Because I put a lot of time and energy into finding that freaking gift for DH. He's hard to shop for because he has everything already and the two things he loves, football and fishing, I know nothing about and even if I went to Cabelas to buy him something they could sell me a 300 dollar piece of crap and I would never know.

So now I'm really p!issed as I'm standing in the kitchen when DH walks in with a blanket that the dog puked on because he fed her people food a couple of days ago when he knows it'll make her sick. Do you think he would maybe go put it in the washer and start the damn thing? Nope he wonders around like a lost freaking puppy until I tell him to just put it down and I'll do it. Does he put in the laundry room? Nope. He just drops it on the floor right in the entry way to the hall.

We ended up getting into it so he decided that he was going to go and pass out in his chair. So after I worked that day I spent the next three hours cleaning. As I'm cleaning I see my laptop. Now DH's laptop, that his brother gave him, was broken not all to long ago by SS. And by broken I mean the who back part of the thing is cracked. Why might you ask? Because DH always sets it on the floor on the side of his recliner where is gets walked on, ran on, and jumped on. I told DH that if he was going to use the laptop that I bought he is not to set it there. DH's response in the past has been, "it's not even what it's worth when you bought it anymore." So.....let me get this straight. You feel that you can put it where ever you want DH because it's not worth what I paid for it and if it gets broken it's okay because the expensive laptop is worth less now?!? Guess where I found my laptop? Sitting on the side of his chair on top of his broken laptop.

I was done at this point. I took my laptop, that I worked for and can't afford to replace, and hid it from him. If he can't follow a simple request then fine. He can't use it. I now understand why his kids don't listen to a freaking thing anybody says. DH can't do the same either.

We ended up getting into it again and I asked him why he couldn't put the freaking puked on blanket in the washer and get it started and he tells me not my dog. Really DH. Apparently you have forgotten that your freaking son almost killed everybody in the car last Monday with his freak out. You know. The day that I had to restrain YOUR child as I am driving 45 mph. Or how about the fact that I sat at home with him while you went back to work because SS wanted you to stay and we both agreed not to give him what he wanted. You can't even throw a freaking blanket into the washer for me. I called him out on that and he really didn't have much to say. I told him that I am not going to Washington next weekend to visit his parents because the roads are extremely bad at this time of year and I don't want to do the drive where he's constantly yelling at his kids, they won't listen, and he has to act like he's going to hit them just to get them to be good for all of five minutes. Doesn't sound like fun to me. And his mother doesn't care if we all die just as long as she can get her hands on SS and SD for a freaking day. I have to be stuck in a car with those two and a p!ssed off DH for 14 hours round trip so that they can hang out for one day because that's all they'll get.

Let's not forget that DH is on board with parenting his kids now. He's asked me to help him because he doesn't know how. So what does that mean? He won't make any efforts to change. I'll constantly be pointing sh!t out in front of the kids and they'll end up hating me. Essentially he wants me to do it all for him while he just coasts through raising his kids in this I don't know what I'm doing or how to do it haze.

Oh and as I was b!tching about the blanket being puked on I told him that we had a similar thing happen the last time he gave her fatty meat and he turns around and gives her a fatty piece of ham. His response, "if you knew what you were talking about you would know ham isn't fatty." I also got flipped off by him and he either told me to f^ck off or f^ck you at one point.

I am so over Christmas and DH at this point. I just want it to be over.

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Unhappy's picture

Thank you. I am so done at this point. It's so rediculous I can't believe that I'm even typing this crap out. I mean this is my life. It blows me away. What they h*ll am I doing in this mess.

dad'swife's picture

Does your DH always drink like this? Does he always treat things (laptop, mixer, blanket) with no regard?

If you really want to be with your BD and don't want to go see your IL's or whatever your plan is then just don't.

Unhappy's picture

That's my plan. I am not going to give up anymore of my time to this BS. He wants to drive to Washington for a freaking day in bad weather conditions. Fine. Let him. I won't be there. My MIL will be pissed and probably hate me for forever according to DH but I really don't care at this point. That lady has no clue what it's like in our house. And I do plan on keeping my BD for Christmas. I am not going to make anymore sacrafices when they go completely unappreciated. If he want's the kids to be on the SAME holiday schedule he can forgo a Christmas with his kids. I'm over it.

bi's picture

you said it, unhappy. they DO NOT know what every day life is like in our homes, but they sure as hell think they are entitled to a say so about it, don't they? that is what pisses me off more than anything about fdh's family. they don't know shit about our life or about what i deal with out of him, but if i dare to express a tiny bit of annoyance with him or this precious house that i am SOOOOOOOO lucky to be living in (fat ass eye roll), then i'm horrible and they hate me forever for it. fuck them. let them deal with this shit for a while and see how they like it then!

Unhappy's picture

I can't agree more with you. I flat out told DH last night that he's a mommas boy. He can't go a single day without talking to his mother and father. And usually it's multiple times a day. It's nuts. I have never seen anything like it and I think it's wierd. I know that they have a close relationship but everyday. His mother knows when there's a problem in the house or with the kids before I do most of the time unless I was there to witness it.

And his mother doesn't even care if BM takes Christmas morning from DH. DH hasn't had a Christmas morning in almost three years. It matters to him. She thinks that the kids are so young that the only thing that they care about is the presents which you can do on any day. What about us? What about what we want? What about what matters to us? Nope. She doesn't care just as long as we show up at her house so she can have her Christmas with them.

What she fails to do is realize that she got all the Christmases with her kids. She doesn't know what she's talking about. She's only thinking of herself and what she wants. If she could talk DH into waiting until next weekend to do Christmas with the kids she would. Actually it wouldn't shock me if she already tried and DH just hasn't said anything. She would freak the eff out if she was put in a similar situation when her kids were little. It makes me sick.

Unhappy's picture

I'm sure that I've read about stepaside's MIL but I can't remember anything about her. I'll have to go back through her past blogs and see what that lady is like.

dad'swife's picture

I'm sorry Unhappy. I know you have tried so hard to make it work and I'm sorry to hear that you seem fed up.

bi's picture

what a prick. the next time he wants you to take care of his brats, you should say "not my kids."

whatwasithinkin's picture

AMEN

Unhappy's picture

I just don't get him. I really don't. Why is it so hard to listen or to help. It's like he just can't do it. He didn't even understand why I'm p!ssed about the mixer or why I wrapped it even though he already knew what it was. I flat out told him that he has no idea who I am and he married a women not a man. These things matter to me.

As for the reservations, he told me the earliest that we could get in was 5, this is his excuse, so it 6:30 isn't much different. It is when you want to spend time with your kid on Christmas. It matters. If the reservations were made at 5 the latest we would have been out of the restaurant is 7 and I could have spent a little bit of time with my BD on Christmas night. He would never do that to his kids even if he had them everyday.

And the dog that he claims isn't his. We got that dog when we were together. The kids love that dog. She wouldn't have liquid poop and be puking if HE didn't feed her people food because HE knows it will make her sick. But what does he do? Does it anyways and then leaves the after math for me to clean up because, "it's not his dog."

I am sick and tiered of the BS. I am sick and tierd of the excuses. There's always a reason why the right thing can't be done. Did I b!tch as I scrubbed his son's urine off the toilet while he slept because he was mad at me? Nope. Did I just not do it because, "he's not my kid"? Nope. I did it because it needed to be done. I didn't just walk right by it because I figured somebody else would do it.

I not making anymore sacrafices for this guy. I am not going to parent his kids for him. If they turn into holy terrors that end up prenant and in jail, guess what? Not my problem. He can do it on his own. I didn't give birth to them and I would be embarassed if I had. I have bent over backwards trying to help this man and I'm not doing it anymore.

StillRixchick's picture

Oh and as I was b!tching about the blanket being puked on I told him that we had a similar thing happen the last time he gave her fatty meat and he turns around and gives her a fatty piece of ham. His response, "if you knew what you were talking about you would know ham isn't fatty." I also got flipped off by him and he either told me to f^ck off or f^ck you at one point.

:jawdrop: WTF?!?!?!?!?!?!

This would have my a$$ out the door so fast...what an f'n a$$hole. If you stay with this douchebag you will have a MISERABLE life :O

misSTEP's picture

Unhappy. I know the frustration of having someone's Xmas present delivered with what it is CLEARLY marked on the box. Thanks for letting MY DH know that he is getting a surround sound system!!

Please think long and hard about this. You do not HAVE to have this be the rest of your life. Sometimes we stick it out because of love. Sometimes we stick it out because we think it will get better eventually (most of the time, it doesn't). Sometimes, we just don't want to admit that we made a mistake!

Even if your DH treated you like a QUEEN (sure doesn't seem like it!) and was the perfect man, the crap with SS and BM would be pretty damn close to a deal breaker. And I would be very concerned about my own children and what they are learning from what they witness.

Unhappy's picture

But DH sees nothing wrong with it. He's going to put on his big boy pants and start to parent now. Yeah right. I'll belive that when I see it. I don't trust him. He'll expect me to point everything out right in front of the kids, like DH don't let your son yell at you or don't let your daughter talk to you like that, then he'll parent. But what does this do for me. He will never make an effort to start trying to notice these things on his own. He'll be full of excuses at to why he can't and I'll look like the bad guy and his kids will hate mfor it.

He doesn't see how all of his drama and his baggage that he has caused effects me because to him this is his life and just how things are. I on the other hand am at my breaking point with all of this. I have freaking had it. I have no more to give and if I did I wouldn't give it to him.

Unhappy's picture

And I was pissed about the mixer showing up but what really got me going was his why bother comment when I said I was still going to wrap it. He doesn't even care about the amount of time and effort that I put into it and now it's all ruined. There will be no surprise on Christmas. But at least I can wrap the damn thing and slap a bow on it and salvage what I can out of the gift that I got for him. But nope. Dumba$$ DH can't see anything beyond what he wants and how he feels about everything which is why I have gotten to this point. It's not the mixer, it's the fact that he has no clue who I am and makes no effort to get to know me. It's all about him and don't make my mother mad or she'll hate you for forever, or don't do that or my mother will hate you for forever. Well DH. That's great. I'm glad you know your mother so well to know the things that will p!ss her off but you don't have a damn clue about who your wife is and what will p!ss her off and you don't care even if you do. I'm just so over it at this point.

Unhappy's picture

I'm going to be honest with you Ripley. I am at my wits end with him. I really don't see anything changing because he just doesn't give a damn. I'm tiered of the fighting all of the time because he just can't manage to pull his head out of his a$$ to see the light. And if I leave him he is going to have one heck of a time finding anybody who will put up with the amount of crap I have put up with and be as patient as I have been and he knows this but apparently he just doesn't care enough to actually do something about it. He can talk change all he wants but actions speak louder then words. I really don't have time for this type of crap. I'm pretty sure that this is the reason I have been having heart issues and I know that I have been depressed. Life is to short to spend it like this.