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24 th Jan

Trouble in Guise town

Posted by Paul to Family ,Humor

Here is an update to my rather heated rant about my wifes decision to leave me that I wrote earlier this week.

On Monday evening, late, my daughter got ill. She was throwing up (which is not at all pleasant coming from a 1 1/2 year old). As soon as I heard this, I was picking her up and cleaning up things. She got sick again and again. In total she threw up 4 times, causing an equal number of sheet changes before I finally laid her down on our bed to sleep between me and my wife.

In the morning, my wife took our son to school and left me and the baby girl home to get better (it was easy since I work from home). I just called my boss and told him that I couldnt work too much that day due to our daughters sickness. He was cool about it, said no problem and hope she gets better. So basically all day I just took care of her.

In the evening when my wife got home, she said hi to her and asked how everything went. I told her the events of the day (Katen threw up majorly once; my sweater will never be the same color again :) I also told her that I got the unflavored Pedialite because they didnt have the grape flavor. At this, my wife went slight off the handle at me. “Why didnt you go to the other store?”, “I know they have it there.”, and so on.
Anyways, after dinner and everyone was down for the night I did a couple of quick projects and went to bed around midnight. This morning, she said that Katen was staying home again. I wasnt surprised because it was what we had agreed upon.

What was surprising is that my wife did not at all say anything about me giving up 2 entire days of work to take care of our daughter. I mean not even a ‘Thank You’ or anything. I know that her taking a day off is disastrous since she is paid hourly and I’m on salary, but even though I have an extremely flexible employer, missing 2 days of work is no small thing. I would have been glad to do it, and I’m still glad to do it, but not getting so much as a ‘Thanks’ is just plain wrong.

Its like she is seeing me not even as a human, but as a constant annoyance to her. Aside from the fact that she is technically living in My apartment, that I make most of the dinners, that I take whole days off several times a month to attend to family needs (including when she was sick a few times), and don’t even mention the other household tasks like dishes and laundry and cleaning up, or giving her back rubs whenever she asks, she is fast becoming the most unappreciative person I know. Am I expected to just go on like this; pretend to be invisible so as not to piss her off? Frankly, Im wondering if there actually is merit in her and I divorcing. If shes going to be like this the rest of her life, I sure as hell not going to just take it anymore.

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