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2nd Trimester
My house is messy as hell if I don't clean it... VENT
I don't know what to do anymore. If I don't do the dishes they don't get done. I don't even have a friggin' spoon and bowl to use to eat cereal. I told myself I was going to have a mini-strike so that hubby starts to understand that I really need him to help out more so I did and I swear I'd rather have cleaned up everything because I'm so mad right now, everything's a mess and I can't even eat cereal because our utensils are all dirty. I'm so stressed. When I got home from where I was and saw the mess I just broke down in tears not to mention that I'm sweating like a b*t*h. Things get on my nerves so bad. I'll be fine for a while and then out of nowhere things drive me so nuts that I can't help but cry. I don't know if being this emotional during pregnancy is normal or not. I think the dirty dishes just triggered something, I don't know. Anyways, thanks for listening.
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Re: My house is messy as hell if I don't clean it... VENT
Well, I guess that makes at least 3 of us! Hang in there!
This!!
I'm sorry you are feeling like that. Don't worry though - it's so easy to feel overwhelmed when we don't have the energy levels we did before. Everything seems bigger then it probably is. Have you tried sitting DH down and working out what house chores you can share. Sometimes guys just don't get hints, then when we break down they are like "I didn't know!!!"
Wash a bowl and spoon, eat some cereal and I'm sure you'll feel much better:)
I say go on strike! Call a maid service and send him the bill. That should teach him.
I'm so sorry
. Like a pp said, you're not alone! This is probably gonna sound dumb but have you tried just laying down the law with your DH? Maybe instead of a strike, you can just do things for yourself and let him see that? Either way, good luck!
You can make it 4! I've gone on strike myself but it doesn't help
Ditto all this. The "strike" almost makes it worse because then everythings a mess, and you really don't want to have to do EVERYTHING since it's been piling up. We've talked and talked and talked about it but it doesn't help. If I want things done, I got to do them myself. His reasoning is he does all the fixing, etc. But it's not like he's done a ton of that, and there's still SO many things he needs to do he hasn't done yet, so it's not like he's working on the list every moment he's off. So I hear you. I love him but sometimes I just wanna smack him upside the head hehe. Put down your xbox controller... before I give it to the dogs as a chew toy :oP I figure though if that's one of our biggest problems, I guess we're doing pretty good. Though I'm similar in the "things are fine till one day they get to me and I breakdown" mentality. Ugh.