A mother took to an online messaging board to voice her frustration with her husband after he told her that she should wake up earlier to watch their children.
The woman, who has a three-year-old son and is on maternity leave after recently gave birth to her second child, posted on forum Mumsnet asking for advice from other parents about her partner's comments.
The mum stated that the couple each had very different work routines and that her husband failed to understand this.
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She wrote that while he leaves the house for work at 8am and returns home at 8pm - waking up at 5.45am to walk their dog and feed their son - she stays up later and wakes up twice throughout the night to feed the baby.
As reported by MyLondon, she commented: “Am I Being Unreasonable (AIBU) to stand my ground and stay in bed till 7am and leave him to do the early mornings?
“I go to bed around 11pm and feed baby usually from 1-2am and then again 3.30-5am-ish.”
“I get up about 7am, but have normally been awake for longer feeding baby. He thinks I should get up earlier because he says he finds leaving in the morning stressful if I’m still getting ready, but usually, everything is under control.”
The mum added that her partner "struggles with being woken in the night so sleeps in the spare room" while she feeds the baby and also deals with the toddler if he wakes up at any point too.
She described feeling "exhausted" as she continued laying out her household tasks.
“Apart from taking out the bins and gardening, I do literally everything else most of the time with him pitching in when he can - the shopping, cooking, cleaning, bath time, bedtime, taking kids to parties, organising bills, school run etc are all my responsibility.
Other Mumsnet users were quick to voice their support for the mother, and stated that her partner was behaving unreasonably.
One wrote: “Absobloodylutely. And he needs to get used to doing a lot more as your pregnancy progresses.”
Another posted: “Why does it make it stressful for him? I'm not seeing the logic there.”
A third commented: “This is 100per cent his problem for him to solve. Tell him that he needs to find his own way of dealing with his stress levels.”
However, one user tried to see the situation from the man's point of view, writing: “Can understand his perspective (it's just a difficult/tiring time in general for you all) but you really need your sleep and you should stand your ground.”
