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[quote=Anonymous]My husband was like this for awhile. He also complained about me asking him to watch the kids so I could clean and do laundry, tasks that he was certainly not volunteering to do. (And we did both work full-time and earn the same amount.) He had that same attitude of "you make me do stuff/it's not faaaair" when I was the one making sure the kids were watched, we had groceries, laundry and dishes were done, etc., and I would have loved for him to come up with a plan for any of those, or even just not default to ignoring the kids.

It did actually get a lot better. We did therapy and also I made it clear I wasn't going to put up with it. (There were other issues as well.) I wouldn't say he's, like, the most proactive human, but he's stepped up around the house and with the kids in a big way that's made everything doable. I can't say what part of this worked. Like, we did have a lot of conversations where I made clear that he was being ridiculous, and the therapist never said that, but she asked some pointed questions. He realized that he was taking his resentment of the change in lifestyle associated with having kids out on me and that it wasn't ok. [/quote]

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