Hello, I am 36 years old. I have a 13 yo son with my ex wife. I do not know what I was thinking but my new fiance wanted a baby and I thought it would be selfish of me to have my son and not give her, her god giving gift of giving birth. So, what can I say, when you're in there, you don't think clearly, so we have a healthy cute baby now. My fiance works from noon to midnight so I watch our daughter for these hours. I'll be honest, I am bored out of my mind. I our daughter so much but also I feel like I am not as interactive as women are with kids so I feel like the baby could be getting more. In addition to that, I feel guilty for feeling bored out of my mind and wanting to do other things always thinking to myself, wtf was I thinking going back to diapers. I explained all this beforehand, but women can be very convincing with reassurance that everything will be ok with the baby and they will handle it when the baby comes. lol yea right!!! I have a flexible job which helps since my fiance does not, but this is really creating a lot of stress on our relationship because whenever something changes at her job, I am constantly taking the brunt of things. Soon I will be going back to work so we will be putting her in day care for 7hours and as much as I hate the fact that strangers will be watching her, I am trying to look at the bright side that she'll be around other kids and doing activities. I then will be picking her up right after work. I am really stressed over this. I admit women are better at this and hats off to you. I have a 13 year old son and it became easier when he turned 5 so I know it will go quick once you look back, but right now I am really stressed. I don't know exactly what my question is, I guess I am looking for some tips on dealing with no freedom lol and getting through this, maybe someone who can relate.
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Try and organise or join a kind of support/coffee group for ideas, support, kids can play etc. Take her to baby gymnastics, baby music groups and so forth. You need to get proactive in your community and find out what's on offer- ask in the community centres or libraries. That tends to be what the stay-at-home moms are doing. Good luck.