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[quote=Anonymous]Has anyone else dealt with this, and if so, how? Over the last few months my spouse has become increasingly competitive with me about parenting our young child. I get some sort of passive-aggressive remark or attitude every time my spouse beats me to a meal, diaper change, or bath (and I do mean beat me - spouse sometimes actually [b]tries[/b] to get there first in order to have something to be aggrieved about. Not to mention the constant second-guessing, criticism, and undermining over my parenting choices. Example: child throws food and yells at lunch. I remove the food tray and turn the chair for a short time out. Within a minute, spouse comes storming around the corner, dramatically "rescues" DC from chair, and scolds for me doing a time out. This is the EXACT same method that my spouse uses when feeding our child to try to discourage food throwing and yelling. Literally no difference in our actions.

I have zero interest in being treated like the bad/inferior parent and will not tolerate it. Bad for DC and ruinous for a marriage. I'm remaining gender neutral on purpose to avoid biased responses and because I'd actually like to hear from both sexes if possible. And for everyone who can't wait to tell me that it's "a marriage problem, not a parenting problem" - yeah, no kidding, I know. But I'm still interested to know how others successfully navigated this particular type of marriage problem.[/quote]

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