DEAR DEIDRE: I’M expecting my fourth child with my husband. It should be a happy time but we’re not getting on. Our second baby, a girl, died when she was a week old. My husband and I disagree on everything lately, even trivial things. He sleeps all day, gets up and moans, plays his Xbox […]
DEAR DEIDRE: I’M expecting my fourth child with my husband.
It should be a happy time but we’re not getting on. Our second baby, a girl, died when she was a week old.
My husband and I disagree on everything lately, even trivial things.
He sleeps all day, gets up and moans, plays his Xbox and goes back to bed.
I feel like a single mother caring for our two children, who are two and four. We are both 34.
I hate the way he speaks to me. I know he’s grieving but he won’t get help.
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DEIDRE SAYS: Losing a baby is so heartbreaking.
Reach out for support yourself and hopefully your husband will follow.
Contact the Sands stillbirth and neonatal death charity, which supports men too (sands.org.uk, 0808 164 3332).
But insist he signs up to a fair share at home, especially parenting.
Maybe he should get up with the children on alternate days.
