"Can you help hang the washing out"
"No I'm tired, I'm sitting down"
"Can you please check Matthew"
"No I'm busy"
"Can you give me a hand washing Ava up"
"No about to have a smoke"
"Can you please look after Matthews first night feed so I can get some rest"
"I have to get up and go to work woman, its your job"
Excuse me but what the fuck. This was what I was handed yesterday in a series of conversations. Washing - ok I'll do it seeing as all you do is complain. Matthew, ok I'll check on him, after all he is only crying. Ava's bath, sure dear you smoke I'll wash her whilst feeding your son. Night feed, well at about 10ish - that one pissed me off.
How come this time around its become an unwritten rule that John has taken the role of 1950's husband and I must therefore fall into the perfectly coiffed role of pretty housewife. I had help with these little requests with the other two kids, but for some reason its all different this time.
I got pushed well over the abyss last night as I was up all night not sure which end to point at the toilet bowl first. Who knows what brought on this sudden bout of gastro but it would seem that I will have to remember in future to time my inconvenient toilet runs in between my other housewifely/mother of the year duties.
Today once I recovered from my unfortunate sickness (very rude of me to get sick and be a bother to all) I cleaned my house as I do each day. Yep MY house. I organised dinner and looked after my children, bathed them and fed them and sat them down to some entertaining tasks and waited for Daddy to come home. He probably shouldn't have. I then told him that if he was going to make my role the "housewife" then whilst he is in MY house he follows MY rules. The rules are:
1. Help when asked to - it is only when I am preoccupied or exhausted that I ask so don't give me shit excuses.
2. Put your crap away - if I find anything just dumped I will throw it into the "man cave" (aka garage), no man clutter will be tolerated in MY house.
3. Accept that these three children are equally his responsibility and I don't care if he goes to work - I work from home these days and it is just as fucking exhausting - its a 24 hour job not 9 a day..
I think I have been quite lenient with these rules, after all I am willing to accept that as a SAHM it is my job. Although like has at work, every know and then an assistant at work is appreciated Lets see how long till the husband objects in some spectacular fashion.
How rude! Let us know how he goes with those rules... Can't believe there are men out there who still behave like this - I have come across a few myself and every time I am flabbergasted!
ReplyDelete"I have to get up and go to work woman, its your job"
ReplyDeleteIf David EVER said that to me, I would be telling him to pack his bags and get the fuck out. It isn't YOUR job....did you have immaculate conception witht he 3 of them No I don't think you did or we all would have saw it on the news...
I told Daviod from day dot I never signed up to be housewife and if he thinks I have he has another thing coming, I think household jobs..ESPECIALLY the children is a COMBINED job, and it is completly unfair that John says that is it your job not his..maybe he should have thought of that before he helped conceieve HIS children.
Ditto to Sandie here! RUDE! >:(
ReplyDeleteYou go girl, perfect rules, you stick to them to the letter, he'll soon get the point.
Sometimes men are the stupidest things invented, WTF Mother Nature was thinking... she MUST have been having some kind of brainsnap... I'm thinking PMS ;)