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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^wanted to add that undoing the sleep training would have driven me bonkers though[/quote]

I am sure I would have gone equally nuts if someone sleep trained my child without my permission.  Basically OP put her kid through something that’s pretty traumatic for nothing because she didn’t talk to her spouse first.  [/quote]

OP here. It was never traumatic, DD never cried. H and I agreed to do it. I started very young and she could fall asleep in her own room, quickly. When she was 2, H decided it would be fun to let her sleep in bed with us for awhile. I warned him not to, that it would ruin her sleep training, and he got upset I was telling him how to parent.

The fun wore off for him pretty quickly, but the damage was done by that point. He was sick of going to bed with her every evening. I tried getting her to sleep in her own room and was met with huge crying fits that were traumatic. So I stopped and since then, I just go to bed with her because H can't be bothered.

H complains that we never spend time together anymore because I go to bed at 8. I've told him this was his fault and he needs to fix it. He whined that it isn't fair he has to do all the work, I could at least send him some articles. So I bought him a couple books on sleep training preschoolers. Has he even looked at them? Nope.

I guess the frustrating part is that he gets to be the fun parent, and I'm left to deal with the consequences. H even gets angry at me for cooking food DD doesn't like 
and has blamed my cooking for DD's constipation problems (he thinks veggies and beans cause her constipation, not the processed junk he feeds her every day)

Anyway, thanks for the suggestions, everyone. Counseling is a great idea, but we've been doing it for years and our communication problems persist.

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You clearly don’t like your husband. Admit it out loud. It will feel better. [/quote]

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