Stay at home Dad and Division of labour; How to negotiate?? Help!!So, my husband (46M) lost his job because of Covid. He is now the SAH parent. I’m (40F) working full time as frontline worker.The past few months have been a nightmare. I am working 50+ hours a week as a frontline healthcare worker. I’m still coming home to clean the house(hoovering, cleaning, bathrooms, ironing, half laundry, dishes etc) and I do all the home schooling and homework.He stays up to 2am playing computer games. Often spends a lot of the hours during the day playing computer games, while I’m working.My husband does makes the meals. But I end up cleaning up afterwards. As our previous rule when we were both working was “whoever cooks, the other cleans up” but the mess he makes is phenomenal. Like every pot and dish used.He attempts to home school, but he gets too angry and frustrated with the kids and shouts out them. They get upset. So I end up doing it to protect them.I know he’s struggling with the locks down and being the SAH parent. I know how hard that is, and that he had no idea how hard it actually was gonna be. (I think he thought he’d play golf all day).We are also really struggling financially. So I’m trying g to do extra shifts. But don’t know how I can with all the work at home.Ive tried to talk to him about the strain I’m Under, and how we can sort it out. But he just gets angry and tells me I’m nagging and giving out.Any advice please?? via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/2YprS5i
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