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So apparently its ok for DH to be annoyed with the skid's behavior, but not me.

PeanutandSons's picture

I have the skids and BS by myself all weekend, every weekend because Dh works. Their behavior is unbelievably frustrating and draining. So whenever Dh calls on his breaks he can hear it in my voice. I never complain about the skids, but if he asks hoe they are behaving I will tell him. He always just blows it off, never speaks to them, and belittles my frustration (which is why I stopped volunteering the info). Then inevitably when he calls me on the way home from work I get the "you hate my kids" crap, that I have no patience for them, they are just kids blah blah blah.

During the week Dh picks the kids (skids and BS) up from daycare. I call him when I get out of work to see how everyone day was (well, to be honest, I only care how Bs's day was.... But I ask about everyone). Atleast three out of the four days he gets the kids he is aggitated by the skids already, or having to yell at one of them while we are on the phone. He's only had them maybe 20 minutes at this point.

So yestrday I call and they are still in the car coming home from daycare cause they had to stop by the store on the way home. Dh is super aggitated, and barely able to even focus on our conversation because of the skids. He goes into this diatribe of what both SS had done since he picked them up and what SD has done. It was their usual behavior for me, the same shit he blows off when I tell him. Would I have been as mad as him? No. But it is absolutely rediculois how these kids act.

So I say, well, that's how they act for me all the time. You've only had them for 20 minutes, I have them for ten hours straight all weekend long. You can see why I am so aggrivated every day.

A moment of silence. Then he is instantly calmed down and begins talking like he was never upset at all. No aknowledgement of what I had just said, or the double standard he has for us in regards to the skids.

Yet come this weekend, he will show no understanding whats so ever when they act like little asses for me, yet he cant stand to deal with them either.

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CrazieCoconut86's picture

Tell him he needs to hire a babysitter for the weekends that you have better things to do.

oneoffour's picture

Because they are HIS kids. Criticizing his kids is criticizing him.
So do the hang-up thing or when he says you hate his kids just say "No, just their behaviour."

It seems HIM being aggitated for 20 mins is MUCH worse than YOU being aggitated for 10 hrs. At least you can self-medicate at home with wine etc.

Are you able to drop them at one of their family members? Or have family of your own you need to visit OOT (Out Of Town) with BS and he has to make other arrangements?

PeanutandSons's picture

I've tried the "just their behavior" line before..... Just switches to him going off about how they are just kids, and I give them no slack... How he's proud of them and kids are far worse.... My expectations are too high ... Ect.

So it got us no where.

So now I just stay silent and refuse to engage him in the discussion. Haven't aknowledged his statements in probably two months. Yet he still tries to bait me into the argument. Short of lying and telling him his kids are behaving great, not sure what to say.

mella's picture

That is so rude of your DH. The fact that he was silent I guess says that he KNOWS he's being a jackass. At least that is how I interpret it. But maybe it doesn't bother him to be a jackass?

Is there any way you can get a break some weekends? The skids' mom, grandparents, aunts & uncles, etc? Even a babysitter for a few hours?

PeanutandSons's picture

Yes, I am well aware of the trick. Usually I just stay silent. He was just so worked up I could help myself pointing the double standard out.

PeanutandSons's picture

We got Fil and smil to take them two Sundays last month, but that offer has been taken back. They have pretty much burned every bridge with family and friends for anything other than emergencies.

imjustthemaid's picture

My DH has told me when I criticize SD15 he feels personally attacked because he is the one who raised her. Its ok for him to say mean things about her but I am not allowed to. I no longer bring up her name. I pretend she doesn't exist.