My (29F) husband (30M) says he wants to stay married and work together, but refuses to do actual work.
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(Warning, this will be a long post)<br><br>My husband and I are married 7 years. No kids, but I am currently pregnant. I am due in less than 11 weeks. <br><br>My husband has been the sole bread winner, but I am a software engineer myself. We live in a 4 bedroom house with a big yard and a dog. My husband does basically 0% of housework. It has recently come to light that he doesn’t even send text messages to the company he works for. This is very strange because we know he has been breaking rules at work which has put him in danger of being fired, and his boss gave him instructions to only work from home for a while and to only send text messages to him, for like 4 months. The problem is, I just found out that he has texted people in his company with his personal phone, but not his work phone. This is big evidence that he is no longer sending texts with his work phone because it has been compromised. He admits he didn’t, but insists it’s “no big deal, I didn’t care about that stupid rule, it’s not gonna get me in trouble because it was so minor”. He also says he didn’t send any texts with his work phone because he just spent all day at home playing video games, he didn’t have anything to talk about with his bosses. It’s insane.<br><br>At this rate, I’m sure he’ll be fired, and I’ll have to take on additional responsibilities so he can be a stay at home dad. He’s been given the choice to shape up, start doing chores in the house or he can go back to his apartment. He won’t agree to do either. He says he won’t divorce me, but he also says he doesn’t want to stay in a marriage with me because I’m being so controlling and I’m telling him what to do. I’m not allowed to tell him anything. I’m like, well, then I guess you can just go to your apartment until you are willing to have a conversation with me. That’s how we are right now. He’s been staying at his apartment for over a month, and he only comes home to spend time with me. He doesn’t even spend time with the dog. <br><br>He completely estranged himself from his family 10 years ago, so we don’t have any help or support. Am I overreacting?
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