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My husband acts like a child.?

My husband and I are expecting our second child now, I am 37 weeks. We are both thrilled we are having a girl, because we already have a 2 year old son...and only planned on having two children so this has worked out perfectly. I've had somewhat of a rough pregnancy. I had to go to the hospital at 13 weeks because of a high heart rate of 180. I found out I had a overactive thyroid. I also had terrible sickness that lasted all day for almost 6 months. I'm also a stay at home mom...and with the pregnancy it just made it even more exhausting. I still had sex with my husband... we would have dry spells of course when I was just feeling very sick or uncomfortable. Things have been fine with us until we moved into our new house. It seems like since we've moved and my pregnancy is coming to a end he has started to act a lot more immature. Playing xbox, hanging with friends, not helping with our son at all and constantly hounding me for sex. Even though I'm just BEYOND uncomfortable at this point, and last time I tried I started having contractions. I'm just going crazy.....I know it's probably just because we are a bout to have another baby and it will be a huge change but it's still unfair for me. I am a bout to go through a huge change as well but I never get to have breaks or get to escape reality....why should he be able to?? He never has to worry a bout a sitter because I'm here to take care of Noah and he acts like he should be the only one to ever get a break. This is all really effecting our marriage. He says he doesn't see how he's creating such a problem and that he's happy. I don't know what to do, or how to get him to see how shitty he's been. I just feel super alone...And like I'm a bout to have my 3rd child since he is pretty much a 13 year old right now. I'm just super nervous a bout giving birth, all the big changes that were a bout to go through. I don't know how to fix us....but I'd love for things to be better before the baby comes. Because aside from his sudden selfishness we are really happy.

Any advice would be great!

Thanks!!

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  • 8 years ago
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    Girl i know just how you feel. I just went through the same thing. No bull i have my 3 year old and my daughter is now 5months. But when i was pregnant just like you my husband did the same thing. I was so close to live his a--. Lol. But just know your not the only one like that. In part its your hormones talking. So you and your husbabd do need to relax a lil. N tell your husbanf straight out that you need time for you n you take a long hot bath. And dont worry when the baby comes you feel a lot better. Of course like 2months after. You have to wait for your hormones could go back to normal. But good luck and congrats...

  • 8 years ago

    The problem with a man in this situation is-he doesn't have a place. He's unconnected so to speak. You're the one pregnant, carrying the baby, going through the sickness, and all that goes with it. What is there for him? Not much. Other than his planting the seed, his involvement is over-in a way. Now that you're experiencing some sickness and unable to have sex with him he feels even more removed.

    What else does he have to turn to, but his Xbox. A poor substitute, but it gives him something to do. Here's the problem. He could have plenty to do. Supporting you, catering to you, doing what he can to make you feel comfortable. Since men don't know what it's like to be pregnant and give birth they have nothing to relate it to. They can't empathize well enough to want to make you feel as comfortable as possible. It sucks, but it's the truth. Men don't see having babies for what it is. A hard enduring task with which after the pregnancy the real work begins. Many men just see it as natural for a woman to give birth and do what nature intends.

    What you can do is talk to your husband about what you're going through and with the added overactive thyroid issue you need his help even more so now. Not just with you, but your 2 year old as well. Being a stay at home mom you're going to be straddled with a lot of unthankful work once the baby arrives. I love the time after birth to about 4 months maybe because they sleep a lot. Not much of a break with a 2 year old running around, so be thankful for the times when they're both napping. Take that time to slow down yourself and kick your feet up. You're going to have years where you won't be able to do that as they get older.

    As a man who is working and paying the bills, being the provider and such he feels that his job is being done, what he is overlooking is his job extends to more than just the house and bills being taken care of, but that you are being taken care of first. Happy wife, happy life. You need a break. You don't get lunch breaks, alone time in the car on the way to work and the way home, chats with coworkers, projects that make you think on your feet. He needs to see to it that for a while you need some alone time or some adult time and he needs to be attentive to that. That is his job at home. OT in life. Raising kids is going to be a life long job and he's in the mailroom right now. He needs to step up his game so he can get that internship in the upstairs office when one is 4 and the other is 1 almost 2.

    He's creating a problem because you're not happy even if he is. His job is to make you happy. He needs to get more involved and it only helps in the long run with the kids. Having a stronger bond, connection with the kids starts at these young ages. There are plenty of fathers out there, but not plenty of fathers who are checked in and engaged with their kids. He doesn't have to be a stone age dad. He can be a new millennium dad. The 2 year old can be playing Xbox with his dad and give mom a break on that end. Plenty of kids games out there. I know, my 4 year old has been playing 2 years now. We share it and spend time together and he calls me the best dad ever just for spending time with him.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Maybe if he were to stay at home with a 2 year old all day, while carrying a 30 pound sandbag around his front 24/7, he'd have a better idea of what you're going through.

    I would hide the X-Box and tell him he gets to play on the weekends AFTER he's helped you around the house and spent time with his son.

  • hempel
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    some adult males sense that teasing each whather is a thank you to bolster the newborn up. that's no longer what this newborn desires. He could want counseling to handle his dads teasing. The play struggling with although is thoroughly regularly occurring and you shouldn't intervene with this because of the fact it rather is a bonding element between adult males. yet communicate on your husband approximately how mush you adore Tommy and want him to be triumphant at school, and how plenty it wounds you while he teases him. If this does no solid then enable Tommy recognize which you care and he can come to you while his dad upsets him. Ultimatly, no rely if it rather is bothering Tommy then he will could desire to be the single that confronts his dad to stop the boyish habit.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    about is a one word. and either u re happy or u re not happy. and when i was pregnant i wanted to have sex all the time but my husband didn't so i do not understand what u re lamenting about - he wants to have sex with u, not with someone else. other than that i can not give u any advice - if u wanted to have a man not a child u should have married one or at least waited until this one grows up before starting to have children. and why would a grown up man even have an xbox in his household?

  • ?
    Lv 4
    8 years ago

    I know this will sound crazy. But he needs to recieve some oral sex.

    It will make him happy and relaxed, ease the sexual pressure on you, and it will make him want to repay your kindness with doing something to make you feel good.

    Oh, and let him play some Xbox, once the baby comes, there will be little time. He is unwinding.

    Don't forget to allow yourself some time to relax too. We, as women, often don't give ourselves as much free time as we need.

    And don't worry, all my friends tell me that when their sons got to be around 3, their fathers started enjoying playing with their kids a lot more. Some guys just can't relate to babies as much, but toddlers are funner.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    You're both going to have a child, he could just be nervous..

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