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Categories » The "4th" Trimester » My boyfriend is giving me the baby blues.....

My boyfriend is giving me the baby blues.....
Anonymous
My boyfriend is giving me the baby blues..... | 4/16/09 11:12 PM
I'm really in a rock and a hard place with my boyfriend. He is 9 years older than me (37) and we just both had our first child, a son. He originally didn't want me to keep this pregnancy and stuck by me even though he resented the change it was going to bring in our lives. He's very selfish and since our son arrived.....it's gotten to a whole new level.

Now that the baby is here, he's just making me miserable and I'm not sure what to do. I love my son and harbor no frustrations towards him at all but I'm ready to pull a CSI episode with my boyfriend. We agreed that I could quite my job for a year to take care of our baby and since he is paying all our bills, he feels that not only taking care of our son is 100% my responsibility, but all the house work is too. Oh and god forbid I don't take care of him like I always have.

If I ask him to take out the trash, he throws a fit like a 5 year old. Other than paying the bills, it's gotten to the point where I can't count on him for help with anything without it turning into a huge battle.

I'm at my wits end because I don't want my son to have a broken family and I feel that if he would just get his head out of his ass, we could be a couple and help eachother. I just don't know what to do anymore and I am so tired of fighting with him. I need him to show me more respect, take an interest in raising his son without me having to tell him what to do, and be a partner like he used to be. Did any of you go through this with your man?
kdyke

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RE: My boyfriend is giving me the baby blues..... | 4/17/09 6:59 AM as a reply to Anonymous.
WOW - that is really hard to deal with! I wouldn't let it go too much further though. I would ask him about his true feelings about being in the role that he is in. Ask him all those questions you've had running around in your head, and eventhough you may not like the answers, be stong for you and your son..... if it turns out that he is really unhappy, then you should be prepared to discuss moving on in diffrent directions. You don't want him to have resentment toward your son and have him grow up miserable too! Sometimes splitting is better then staying with someone who makes you miserable. I stayed with a guy once for two years who treated me like your boyfriend treats you and toward the end of those two years i found out I was pregnate. I ended up termnating the pregnancy, because as it turns out he only "felt" responsiable for the situation, and nothing esle. Ouch... once i asked him about his true feelings, and everything was out on the table, I went my own way because as it turns out, he said he would resent the child to a certin drgree, and I didn't want my child to grow up that way! I was torn apart and so depressed, but I got through it.
krislimer

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RE: My boyfriend is giving me the baby blues..... | 4/17/09 8:43 AM as a reply to Anonymous.
Sweetie...
First of all, have you talked to him about this? told him what you said here? About being a partner and being a part of his son's life... The one thing that I've learned is that if you don't speak up, he's not going to know what you're thinking. Though sometimes it seems like he should.
Second, do NOT stay with him in the hopes that he'll all of a sudden come to the light and change his ways. If he blatantly says that he's not interested in taking care of the child, it won't just magically change overnight. You say that you don't want your son to come from a broken home, but look at it this way... In the situation you're in now, say it escalates. If he throws tantrums now, say in a year or so, that resentment becomes even stronger and turns into violence. (obviously I don't know him so can't say this WILL happen, but giving you a "for instance") OR... you leave, find a man that will love you AND your son and treat you both the way you should be treated. He takes the kid in as his own and you live happily ever after. It's better to be in that "broken home" situation after all.
I'm not encouraging you to leave your current beau, but what I am saying, is that it doesn't have to be this bad. I come from a broken home, as does my boyfriend, we're both successful, semi-normal, happy people...
I hope for all the happiness and fondness in you and your son's lives that you deserve. And I hope that things go the way that you want... but don't resign yourself to staying with a man who won't appreciate you and treats you the way he does.
Hit me up if you need to talk any more about this ok?
Take care.

 

 

JuneBug63084

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RE: My boyfriend is giving me the baby blues..... | 4/17/09 10:01 AM as a reply to Anonymous.
I really resent guys that tell women to "terminate" pregnancies because they don't want the responsibility of taking care of a child...Something they should think about before having sex without protection...And to me any man that tells me to terminate something he helped create can go to hell its not something I stand for. Anyways, as for you in your situation I would get out as quickly as possible he has already stated his true feelings towards you and your son and they are not going to change. At this point it is not about your boyfriend and what he wants, its about you and your son! I know its hard to leave someone you care about but its for your own good to leave him, he sounds like a jerk and doesn't seem to be doing anything to ease stress off you or make you happy.