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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. We both work. We also live simply. There is no financial reason for DH to work all the time. He feels like his is being a "strong man" by doing so. Even though that is not my idea of a strong man, and never has been.

I treat DH fine in front of the kids. When I say I don't respect him, I don't mean in terms of my treatment. I mean that I don't admire him as a man. I will always be polite to him, and I will always expect the kids to do so as well. I correct them constantly on how they treat their father, and it just a big turn off to me that as their father he doesn't insist they treat him properly.[/quote]

What do you mean by "treat him properly" and how old are the kids?  Are they teens saying mean things and yelling and cursing?  Are they little kids "talking back"?  It's not good to be in a place that you don't respect your DH, but personally, the two things you mention are not things that would make me lose respect for someone.  Either I don't really understand what you're describing, or it might be possible for you to re-interpret these particular things in a way that does not cause you to lose respect for your DH.  If he's just informal with the kids and lets them speak freely about their feelings even when the way they express them is less than ideal, that can build a really strong relationship between him and the kids.  I don't know.  I think it depends a lot on specifics that you don't describe here and how open you are to seeing value in the way that your DH understands these choices rather than clinging to the way that you understand them.  [/quote]

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