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Old Apr 14, 2025, 09:31 AM
ChaoticSpiral ChaoticSpiral is offline
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Location: Central US
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Originally Posted by divine1966 View Post
How’s he otherwise as a husband? Outside of sleep schedule issue?
He's a good husband. We get into these spats, but then he's always checking in on me, calling me when I go to bed, coming home in the early morning and kissing me on the forehead. He cooks majority of the week so we can spend more time together. He tries. He just doesn't understand my need to leave the house. He doesn't understand that I feel rushed and stressed and I prefer going places with no timeline. I just want to wander. Window shop..enjoy the weather. I felt this before I went from hybrid work schedule, it just now I want more time outside of the house now.

He prefers staying inside. He rather do a lazy weekend, stay in a burrito blanket in front of the TV. But he wants me there with him. I get bored quickly, and I start suggesting let's go on a ride, let's walk, I need to go to the crafts store. And he just wants to stay inside. Let me go by myself then. He then changes his mind as he doesn't want to stay away from me. But then he gets grumpy about his day getting ruined. In my mind, I think he's saying no because of money or no idea of what to do outside. I find staying in front of the TV for 16 hours to be boring. I want to move about. However, he wants to enjoy this time. So we have different ideas of quality time.

He keeps requesting lazy weekends, but doesn't include the days that we only leave the house for a walk or for a ride.

I want time to do errands that got delayed until the weekend or see family members that I can't during the week because they don't leave the house after 5pm due to traffic or night time. Or they are just insanely busy during the week. He wants just us. So I'm like let's go ride or walk or bored games cafe. Something outside of the house.

During the time in front of the TV is the same thing I do after he leaves for work. I crochet. I watch TV. I play games. I get on my phone and doom scroll. These are time waster activities. So I feel like I'm doing the same activities that I do when I'm bored on these lazy weekends, and it just makes me more in a slump when the weekend gives me so many opportunities to change things up. This has always been our conflict, but now I feel worst with this new work schedule, as our time together is cut in half now, and the times that gives me the opportunity to do these tasks are the same time I get with my husband. There's daylight time otherwise.

Sorry if this is all of the place or repetitive.