• CommentAuthorErinT1980
    • said   CommentTimeOctober 23rd, 2007
     
    I really need some advice on this. Here is my story . . .

    My husband and I brought home our newborn daughter a little less than 3 weeks ago. Everything started out perfect, this was my husbands first child (my second) and he was SUCH a doting daddy. All he wanted to do was hold her and tell everyone who would listen how beautiful she was. Well, about a week after we got home, it seemed like the "new" started to wear off. He still dotes on her, but hardly ever picks her up, feeds her, changes her, and has never even attempted to bathe her. He works in a restaurant, so the only nights he helps me get up with her are the nights he doesn't have to work the next day. The days he does have to work, the earliest he has to leave the house is 10 am! He will go to bed at 11 or 12 and sleep 9 or 10 hours straight while I am up all night and MAYBE get 2 or 3 hours. If I ask him to help me get my oldest ready for school the next morning, so I can finally sleep, he yells at me and tells me that since he has to work that day, he should be getting all the sleep. Mind you, this is after he has already slept 7 or 8 hours. I have to beg him to get up because I haven't even been to bed yet. He's not like that if he doesn't have to work the next day, but seriously, if you don't have to work until 10 or 11 the next day, you can get up and help me out. He also doesn't help AT ALL around the house. I realize that I am home all day, but I just popped a baby out less than 3 weeks ago, and still need a little bit of rest. I am doing all the laundry, cooking, cleaning, shopping and taking care of a newborn. He comes home from work and gets straight on the computer to check his fantasy football teams (he has 3) instead of coming and picking up his daughter. When he is home, I still feed her, change her and bathe her while he watches TV or plays on the computer. He leaves dishes and garbage all over, and I am constantly picking up after him.

    I love my husband, and I don't mean to sit here and make him out to be some total a-hole, because he's not, but I am starting to feel completely unappreciated. I'm totally depressed, and feel like all I am here for is to tend to everyone else's needs. There is no touching, holding, or anything like that unless it is of a sexual nature. I want to be held and asked how I feel. I want him to tell me to sit down and relax and let him take care of our daughter. We used to be best friends and have a relationship that most people were jealous of. Now I find myself resenting the hell out of him.
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