Advice? Relate? Relationship question…

Not sure how to word it…but this is a thing and it’s really bothering me right now in my marriage and I don’t think it’s unique to my husband! Have had a partner who you’ve grown very comfortable with, been together for years, been through all the life things and they get to a point sometimes where the typical social mindfulness of their words/tone/body language comes off shitty because they aren’t putting on that nice normalcy anymore? It’s natural to get so comfortable that you lose certain things you normally hold back, raw emotion and honesty is great but that’s not what I mean, I’m referring to the day to day small things of losing mindfulness or sight that your person is an actual person and it is important to still be kind even when cranky… For example - if you wake up in a bad mood, you don’t go to work, get coffee with coworkers and speak and talk to them rudely and or be short. Its understood that it’s important to be self aware of how we speak to others because it has impact and we are mindful and would feel bad for treating other people poorly because of our personal issue. It’s important! My husband tends to forget this…sometimes it’s like he forgets I’m his friend and partner…so he talks to me or disregards me in a way that ends up hurting my feelings and I just deal with it, but it makes me feel like complete shit sometimes. For example: I work from home, we have 3 kids under 6, I generally do everything if we are being honest and I don’t complain or harass him, it’s just our norm and I don’t feel like begging someone to help me. So yesterday I get off work, take the kids outside to play around 5pm, while they play I start working in the yard. I decide to move a firepit I built and use the sand for the kids play area…which is a lot of physical work, so I’m busting ass shoveling a ton of sand and moving bricks and clearing weeds and he comes outside and is like “what are you even doing” in a rude tone…I said “they need sand for their sandpit and it’s $200 per order so I figured I’d move this since we don’t use it”…he says “that’s stupid af”…”you’re gunna make it look like shit” so I stop shoveling to explain the plan and he dismisses me, shakes his head and speaks over me while walking away “nah it’s just dumb, always doing stupid shit” as he walks back inside to play his video games. This is a pattern. He doesn’t understand something I’m doing and he won’t let me speak and just calls it dumb or if he disagrees he criticizes but won’t let me speak and walks away. Or he will misunderstand a plan and call it dumb or say I’m a “liar” if he isn’t understanding which is insane and the second I try to clarify whatever info isn’t clicking, he cuts me off, tells me to stop talking to him or he doesn’t care and walks away. Then he acts like everything is normal our next interaction? He does it with so many little things it feels mean spirited to me, but I rationalize that he can just be an asshole, his family talks to each other that way so he isn’t intentionally trying to hurt me. The thing is, I’m positive and bubbly, I am always one step ahead of his needs, I think of him, I offer him help or do everything for him, if his mood is off I check in or ask if needs anything…being mindful is important to me…so when I’m vibing through the day, even doing work I personally feel like he should be helping with without complaint it really hurts me even worse….I feel so unseen and it makes me feel bad. I decided this time to finally say something, so I texted this: (comment) What do you think, I always try and stay solution focused when we have an issue, but he got mad my feelings were hurt? Then he ignored me neutralizing with a simple plan to make it better…which again is hurtful because I usually just eat my feelings, so opening up and then this is the reaction is confusing.
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In my honest opinion you are way too nice to this boy. Instead of being just down right disrespectful to what you were trying to do for the kids he could have made himself useful and went and bought some sand or helped you clean up. Sounds like he is possibly a narcissist and very immature. I know how you feel and I’ve been there with someone that I kept trying to force to communicate with me be but just could not. Some guys are just emotionally not available and immature and they will never get it unfortunately. Fortunately for me I did separate after being with someone for 10 years and wasting my breath telling him about what I needed and never got it…until I moved on and found someone who got me 100% and I never have to ask for what I need and have the most supportive, loving and kind person. Don’t let him disrespect you this way, your kids are also watching and hearing and they will grow up thinking it’s okay to be that way to others as well. Good luck, hugs to you!

@Brenda tbh I do have times where I’m really tired of explaining basic human decency and I’m tired of doing so many things alone that I need a man’s help with, I see the men I grew up with not letting women do any hard work and I’m out here working, raising kids, and building shit and doing yardwork alone…and then to be criticized and not appreciated for all of that is mindblowing to me. I think he thinks he is the prize somehow. I see where when I met him I wasn’t as healed as I am now, and I skipped over certain values that didn’t align…but I love him and he loves me and I don’t want a divorce, I just have concern he’s a narcissist or has mental health things going on that he will never address…his mother is this way…and she is divorced form his dad but his dad still does everything for her and she uses him to the fullest degree shamelessly and is almost sociopathic values-wise.

I think it’s time u start fighting fire with fire! Dont let his words hurt u anymore instead take that pain n throw it right back at him. Give him a taste of his own shit. His ego needs to be chopped down significantly thinking he’s a grown man playing video games!? Hit em where it hurts it won’t take much to shut him up n put him n his place.

I was originally going to go with what Jennifer said lol sometimes ya gotta be a B back, throw his game out, throw a remote at his head…get a little crazy to wake him up and think “whoa somethings wrong” but that’s something I hadn’t learned with my first partner (father of my kids) and learned very much after some healing and learning to speak up for myself in what I will and will not accept in any relationship and made it known to whoever tried to disrespect me, belittle or whatever in any way. Even if he is going through his own struggles that is not an excuse to treat you like crap and not be a man in the household. But again, I know some people like this will never change regardless. To this day the father of my children and I are great friends/co-parents and over the years he has tried to get back together but I know for a fact he is still the same and hasn’t changed in the ways that matter to me most so I know it would never work…something I’ve accepted.

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