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My fiancé (36m) wants me (29f) to continue working after we have our first child. What’s my response to this?

Anonymous in /c/relationship_advice

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My fiancé (36m) and I (29f) have been engaged for a year but have known each other for three years now, and have a 1 year old daughter together. We live together in a 3 bedroom, 4 bathroom house that he built, we share a 2 car garage, and he also built a shed in the backyard for additional storage. The house is fully furnished and he wants us to marry as soon as possible.<br><br>Getting to the point: He informed me that he wants to continue to work and I also work after we have our first child. I want to stay home with our daughter and take care of her needs first but he wants to both of us work. However, I don’t want to send our daughter to daycare because I want to bond with her, and take care of her. It’s just better for me to take care of our daughter than some stranger. He told me that he wants to continue to work so we can pay off our bills and debt. But I feel like he doesn’t care about me and our daughter at all. If he cared for us then he would take care of us, and he would let me stay home with our daughter.<br><br>Here are our money issues: They are mostly from car loans and credit cards, and we are usually around $1500-2000 in debt monthly. However, I don’t see the point of him working to keep accumulating debt because he is supposed to take care of us. His income is around $95,000 a year but mine is $50,000 a year.<br><br>My argument with him is that I want to be a stay at home, take care of our daughter, cook, take care of the household and keep everything clean and tidy. But he doesn’t care about any of that. He doesn’t want to see me suffer and he doesn’t want me to feel like I’m doing all the work at home, so we both can work and take turns babysitting our daughter when he comes home. However, I don’t want to be babysitting my own daughter, I want to take care of her and bond with her. I feel like I’m already doing all of the work at home because he works all day, but he doesn’t care about that. All he cares about is his money, his house, and his cars.<br><br>What is my response to him?

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