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[quote=Anonymous]I’m so frustrated and can’t seem to find a way to call DH out on this behavior that gets him to care of change.

When we’re faced with a difficult parenting decision, rather than state his opinion based on the actual scenario we’re facing, he’ll give a general equivocating statement (“teenagers are hard”, “babies get really grumpy!”) then criticize my plan (teenager needs support for homework planning, baby needed a sleep schedule, etc) without suggesting his own practical solution.

Then he sits back and watches it play out, and afterwards he Monday morning quarterbacks the entire situation. So a situation that he said was no big deal and I was overreacting to: I deal with it, and then he says I should have actually dealt with it in this way or that way and it would have been way better than what I did. Never mind that at the time I asked him for advice he thought even talking about it was unnecessary.

I hate that DH thinks he can be a spectator to our family life when it’s hard and a critic of my parenting once things are easy again.

How do I break out of this pattern?[/quote]

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