Comments like this are catnip to the tinfoil hat wearing weirdos.

I hear people say things like this and I just can’t conceive of how it’s possible. My seven-month-old won’t let me out of her line of sight anymore and she wants me to entertain her constantly. I can barely go to the bathroom, nevermind fold laundry or cook.

As long as he doesn’t have to part with money to raise them, he’s fine with it. I know much of it is the way HE was raised, but shit, after awhile you need to take some fucking responsibility for your shit, you know?

Most of the dads I know are past this stuff and fully embrace child-rearing and family-friendly work environments, though that may be because I live in a liberal area of California. I certainly never hear anyone talking like this guy, like, “Wow, having kids is so much more work than I thought, I should leave it to my…

Like, as much as he wants to talk about how this is way too tough for him to do, she’s so much better at it and that’s awesome, go Mom, I wonder how much that carries over when, say, his co-worker goes on maternity leave and he has to pick up some of the slack because his employer won’t hire a temp? Or asks for a more…

My apartment was never as clean as it was when my son was a baby, because he loved being in a carrier and walked around so I’d basically pop him into a sling and then clean the apartment every day. We also went for walks all the time.

LIES!!! There is always some bullshit job around here to do. But when your husband is a 40 year old man-child who never learned to pick up after himself AND you’re taking care of an actual small child, the sheer volume of bullshit can be a little overwhelming.

Men who write this kind of shit need to die in a fire. It annoyed the crap out of me when my kids were infants, and it still annoys me when I read it now.

The Little Dude is 14 months old, and my experience is that it’s harder when they’re mobile. I feel like I spend my weekends watching him to make sure he doesn’t injure himself or ingest something he shouldn’t.

this is partly why my ILs and I don’t get along.

back several years ago before I had a kiddo, I was in school full time and working 20 hrs a week besides. I left the house at 6 am and i returned around 10 pm Mon-Thurs, and I was home at 8 on fri. I worked 8-2 Sat/Sun. Cleaning the house and cooking were not my top…

I manage a donation center and one of our volunteers brought her four young children and her husband one day. He did absolute jack shit. Sat at my desk in my chair and just yelled periodically. They were running around for hours making other kids cry and destroying the place and having screaming meltdowns and he just…

Not to be guilt trip-inducing, but you can ask if he’d be happy with the extent of his relationship with his adult children being limited to phone calls on birthdays and holidays. That’s the only way my dad and I interact. He never took time off to care for us when we were sick, helped cook dinner or clean, or…

$10 says she emerged from her migraine to a dirty house and a husband who wanted a cookie for being such a big help.

Hahahahahahahahahaha. Nope. My husband (pre-baby) was amazing. He cooked most meals, kept his laundry and the towels under control, took care of the cat box and cleaned the toilets. He was stoked when ‘we’ got pregnant cuz he’d had such a good time with my niece. Then our fmla expired and we went back to work while…

This. All of this.

Amen!! I may print this out to be able to express my unending hatred of my husband’s total disassociation from his own children. But he still wouldn’t get it.

But it’s haaaaaaard! Doing things like Internet research and interviewing other people in the field to see how it's done is way too difficult for him. What do you think he is, some kind of investigative reporter?

Just want to highlight this statement:

he simply wants to thank his wife for being a good mother