Sad about lack of help

This is more an offload of how sad I feel about a lack of help from my parents. They live 15 mins away and I’m a FTM. My sister also lives 10mins from me, and has two kids. When my sister had her babies my mum moved in to help - she covered night shifts and helped round the house. When my mum went back home both she and my dad were on call for my sister. I’ve had none of this with my baby, and as my husband has a long commute I’m doing the parenting 24/7, with no let up in the morning or evening as he leaves the house at 6:30 and gets home late. I’m exhausted. What’s triggered me posting is I asked my parents if they could watch my son later this week for a couple of hours so I could get a proper sleep, as I’m feeling really quite out of it at the moment (4month regression is hard). I said I could drop him off at theirs and supply everything. I was totally flexible with dates and times to suit them. They’ve said no, and told me that I need to learn to stand on my own two feet, and handle it. It’s made me cry. My husband is so angry about it as he does what he can when he can. What’s affecting me most is that they give so much time to my sister, including having her boys for regular sleepovers and her for dinner, and I feel differently treated. She even has time for the gym, whilst I can barely stand some days, because they take her boys. I’ve tried to talk to them about it but get told my sister needs their help most. I’ve even tried to approach my sister and she says she needs them so she can keep on top of things. Im only asking for the odd hour or so of help, not even regularly. I don’t know why I’m posting here, but I just felt like I needed to get it off my chest
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This is bloody awful Im so sorry 😔❤️

Bless you. It sounds very unfair! I'm treated very differently to my sibling so I understand ❤️

It’s unfair . I’m assuming they don’t have a great relationship with you . Why would they treat you this way

I’m so sorry this is absolutely awful. I understand how you feel as I feel as though my mum treats my sibling very differently too. Is your sister younger? I often feel that I’m treated differently because I’m older. Sending you lots of hugs, this is just so unfair ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Yeah that’s really unsupportive and quite cold, I’m sorry! You’re totally within your rights to feel upset.

I’m so sorry you’re going through this. How awful. I would have a conversation with your parents about this. It’s really unfair. Sending hugs ❤️

I've never had any help with either of my girls.. even when I was in labour with my youngest, my parents refused to come and look after my 3 year old (even though this had been agreed far in advance). I've accepted that they only see the girls when I'm there with them. It makes me feel better that I can say that we raised our girls with very little support and did a good job of it! I'm so proud of what we've achieved on our own ❤️

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