| View Blog
|
|
|
I have always believe that a relationship is suppose to be 50/50. Growing up, I watched my step father go to work for many hours and my mother stayed home and took care of all of us kids. She cooked, cleaned, and took care of all the little household needs. I seen this as 50/50. I never heard my step father nor my mother complain about the situation.
Fast forward 25 years, I have 2 daughters, one that resides in Germany with her mother and step father, and one that lives with me and my girlfirend. I work a full time job and most nights work a part time job as a gas station attendant, just to help our financial situation a little bit. My girlfriend, she works a 3rd shift job at a local factory.
When she is sleeping and I am working my full time job, our little one is at a babysitters. When my girlfriend wakes, she goes gets her. Around the time that she arrives home, I am getting home. I make supper, jump in the shower, start laundry (if it needs it), and then off to work at the gas station for about 5 hours.
During the time that I am working and she is home with the baby. Talking on the phone most nights, or sending me nasty text messages to tell me that I am lazy because I didn't get one sock into the laundry basket when I was getting into the shower. I get home most nights around 10 PM to see that the dishes that were used for supper are still sitting in the sink, and the house is tore up for the little one getting into everything. I have enough time to give my girlfriend a hug and a kiss before she goes out the door and tell her how my night was. Then it is right back to "work" again. Doing dishes, finishing laundry, getting the little one down for the evening so that I can go to sleep. Catch a few Zzz's and wake up bright and early to start the grueling day back over again.
50/50?
I have put my foot down and told her that I understand that a 3rd shift wears her out, but I would like some help around the house. It hasn't helped. I get excuse after excuse about how tired she was so she took a couple naps and yacked with her best friend on the phone, then got busy watching a movie on the Lifetime Channel. I have told her many times that all thouse times that she was caught up in a movie or yacking on the phone that she instead could have been washing dishes, folding laundry, sweeping the floor, or just down right making the main rooms in the house look "presentable."
Baby, I love you, but it always has been, and always will be, 1 part you and 3 parts me.
|
|
Posted by hater22 on 2007-11-28 22:21:32 | Rating: | Views: 60
|
| |
|
|
| Blog Comments
|
|
|
|
|
sad. Tell her to get the act together or move the hell out.
|
|
Posted by norm4u2
on 2007-11-28 22:35:43
|
|
|
|
|
a relationship is 50/50, dont compromise.
|
|
Posted by shannatucker
on 2007-12-14 08:26:51
|
|
|
|
|
|
