So my wife was on a business trip Monday-Wed, I had the baby all day every day during that time. She had Thursday off which was nice then I had her all day today. So I go to take a shower in order to escape the baby for twenty minutes. I get out and I’m drying my hair and my wife is like, “Let’s go see Daddy!”, and brings her in. God, I can’t even have five fucking minutes to relax? Now I am all tense, all relaxation of the shower taken away because I didn’t have the time to get dressed and get back into preparedness mode. And to make matters worse, she’s pissed off at me for being annoyed about this. I’m writing this because I really want to fucking scream at her, but that wouldn’t be productive. She is so unreceptive to anything because she gets mad that she upset me, and then takes it out on me that she feels bad for upsetting me. I just can’t ever fucking relax, I’m just not allowed to!
5…, 4…, 3…, 2 . . .
I got this. I will fly to Manhattan, take the baby from you, and you and your wife can have all the time you want without a baby. It may not be so easy to get babywas back.
SSG Schwartz
I hear ya man. I love the little buggers, but sometimes you just want to get all the way dry before the bathroom door opens and you’re onstage again.
And I’m sure your wife knows, too. She’s been there. Heck she was probably in baby overload at just that moment and hoped seeing you would be enough of a distraction to get the baby off her neck for a moment. Try to be patient with her, tell her I said to try to be patient with you, too. You guys can do this, you can be a team, you just gotta…be a team. It’s not you against her against the baby, it’s all of you trying not to lose your minds together.
Rant away; better here than at them.
Definitely. You’re just human like the rest of us.
Nike is always looking for shoe makers.
And hey, you’ll make some cash on the side.
Come on, get her an EVE account, we can train her to mine … start them young…
My hubby and I ran into this, and fought like cats and dogs.
You need to set a schedule. Even though the baby is now 4+ years old, he is still “off” until 7pm, and then I get my downtime.
Get rid of the baby for an evening, relax with your wife, then talk about this in the morning, when both of you have had both “me” time and “us” time.
Dan Rudloff, is that you?
Been there, done that. Over Christmas, I took the baby to visit family for three days while my husband stayed home. I practically forced him to, it was my family not his, plus he’d been working his butt off at work and I wanted him to have a few days totally off to relax.
So I deal with 10 hours in the car, chasing an adventurous toddler around a non-baby-proofed house, trying to get her to sleep in a strange place, etc. all by myself. I was so exhausted and I couldn’t wait to get home, thinking my hubby would be all renewed and ready to take her for a couple of hours while I rested.
Get home and he’s spent his days off working his butt off around the house…cleaning, repairing, organizing, etc. He’s exhausted, and can’t wait for me to get home to show off all he’s done.
It was a totally ridiculous situation…I was actually mad at my husband for doing work around the house when he was supposed to be resting, and he was mad at me because I wasn’t more appreciative. Rightly so, I now freely admit. But dammit, I was tired and I wanted a break! I didn’t care that the garage was all shiny and clean. I just wanted a nap and was super disappointed I wasn’t going to get one.
Babies + Two Tired People = Silly arguments and irrational behavior
You have my sympathies.
Try a trebuchet. Should work as long as the folks the next block over don’t have one too and fling the little darling back.
Advice by Muffin, Family Lawyer.
Actually I was thinking that Eve would be a great tutor for an economics class. Teach her all about supply chains and the basic math for accounting and optimization and stuff. Of course that’s not for another ten years or so, but a boy can dream can’t he?
Thanks for the kind words everyone. 
SSG Schwartz You can come babysit but crossing state lines is a felony.
Huh, all this time I thought you were female. I always read your name as ‘Ms. Wass.’
Nevermind…
If the baby’s bugging you, just spritz it with a spray bottle and it’ll run off.
Oh, wait… that’s cats.
And welcome to the lament of stay at home mothers for time immemorial.
What he needs is a baby eating cat and a spray bottle.
Dear OP, your wife is passive aggressive, RUN!
(or atleast google and learn about passive aggressive disorder)
Then again, if he never says anything out loud or deals with the situation, he might just go postal a few years from now. Staying silent about problems doesn’t solve them.
Which is why I said, in the part of my post you chose not to quote, that he should speak with her. But he shouldn’t rant at her, if he wants to get anything productive out of it. Talking things over, making a schedule and supporting each other emotionally are antithetical to ranting. Ranting just makes people defensive and lash-outy. It can be a good release valve here, but it will only make things worse if he does it to her.
Actually, it would be good training for various types of economics, logistics, and even strategy …