husband wants to spend every weekend with his family

I am not asking you to minimize your concerns by any means, again just to caution you about being perceived as making this a me or your family conversation. Laura Hope . Are you and your husband having any problems in your marriage? Thats why he wants to help them all the time and probably helps them with various jobs every weekend. But Im a very direct, honest, forthright, loud kind of person. muchachaenlaventana Five months later I was pregnant. The only way that this would be acceptable is if his wife is fine with this arrangement and she enjoys having quiet time to herself. 5. Maybe he doesnt understand this because YOU SPEND EVERY WEEKEND WITH HIS PARENTS. My bf is exactly the same and we have a kid he sleeps there tho and we have been together for four year i am at the end of the line now i cant deal with it no more rather than spend the nigt at home with me and his son his mam and dad showrd up and said av come to take u and he had the cheek to ask me as he was already out of the door u alright er no am not alright but get on with it, They are ruinin our relationship we just lost a baby in septemeber and things are just bad i feel lile he doesnt want to be here and doesnt love me cos if he did he wudnt want to be up there he spends 5 out of the 7 days up the in the last two month we have lived together for four years. In a family dynamic where an adult person is tethered very closely to the authority figures in particular, this does have a psychological effect on the adult child or children. If you want things to change, you need to be the catalyst for change. It doesnt have to be the way you make it out to be though. Right, If these things fail then she has to make decisions. My dad did this too, until he met his fiance and she moved in with him. January 20, 2012, 9:37 am. if it works for you, thats all that matters. Or he needs to retire to a place where he can enjoy just the feeling of solitary. So sure, you can take his word for it, and then you keep your eyes peeled like lazer beams for the rest of the relationship. Just the fact that his mom is dropping by unannounced makes me uncomfortable, considering the current state of the world. ForeverYoung ReginaRey I can see his point about just sitting around the house so get out and be a tourist in your hometown. He usually wants to go to his parents house every single weekend he gets to come home. Sometimes I think that theres something that happens around the 3-6 month mark in most relationships. I guess then that depends on the LWs definition of a routine of spending significant amounts of time at their house nearly every weekend. I love girls night out. He told you hedoesnt want to spend Christmas with your family. Yes, maybe it is a little TOO much time with the family. She is communicating to us, that even though she is coming up short on the finance side, if her live in boyfriend eased off the time with the family visiting, she wouuld be ok. ForeverYoung I hate to say it, but I dont think your boyfriend or his parents (especially his parents) are going to change. Isnt that the point of waiting to move in with someone? Theres nothing inherently wrong with wanting to spend a ton of time with your family. Im 99% sure hell be fine with this, unless theres something going on with his family that you dont know about. In all fairness- he probably has no idea this Irks LW so much. Ok fine, I actually beg DWers even to move in with me (Im looking at you, rachel!). Will.i.am What about visiting your parents? I think of it as the I got you phenomenon. January 20, 2012, 9:53 am. I got to see my parents occasionally after work even when he was away. No matter how long they could be dating, if he preferred spending his weekends with her because that was their only opportunity, she would not have known that once they live together he will choose to spend that time with his family because now he sees her every day at home. January 20, 2012, 8:49 am. Just tell your boyfriend you dont want to go to his parents house every weekend. Those conversations should have happened before. He has 3 sons two who are 26 (act like I can totally see this though, wanting to chill at the parents. Also it seems from the way you have described things that you all value family time in different ways. but, i mean my husband and i just talked about it. But if that has been the case and she doesnt want it to continue, she should try to stop it now. Look at the situation from everyones position. Make plans for activities. Granted I dont live at home so definitely value all the time I get there, but some people just are more comfortable/prefer being around their family. Any partner of mine will likely have to be the same for us to get along. Thats why the weekend is an extra time to do everything you didnt get to on weekdays. He also has a kid so Im basically competing with so much people. Youre lifestyles dont mesh and they probably never will. OR maybe he makes more money than she does and doesnt realize the strain on her finances. Laura Hope When we decided it was serious, he introduced me to his mom one weekend, and I introduced him to my parents the next. and how you spend your weekend time (in this case), i think considering the length of the LWs relationship is something they may need to talk about. Spare yourself and him a relationship that makes you both resentful. He is not making her a priority & placing a lot of his focus & free time with his parents. January 20, 2012, 8:21 am. If you dont like this? I know I had to tell my husband he still had to date me and it was news to him! They clearly have poor communication if she states her feelings and he minimizes and ignores them. But the way you spend your money, in my opinion, shouldnt change. One of my good friends goes to see her in-laws (or the come see her) every weekend, and they live about an hour away. Will.i.am January 20, 2012, 9:36 am. I guess I just dont get why this is dysfunctional exactly. The LW just needs to talk it over with the boyfriend and agree with what works for both of them. It showed up in the wrong spot for some reason. Say that you were thinking more along the lines of once a month. There is absolutely nothing wrong with her wanting him to spend more time with her. True enough, Flake. If you care about your husband, you should not try to distance him from his parents. And after 4 months, youre likely just coming out of the Honeymoon Phase. You havent had sufficient time to learn these little things youre just starting to learn. That was seven years ago. Years later, theyve never recovered. All rights reserved. So make him choose. Visiting families and spending time with siblings takes up much time in a marriage. June 18, 2014, 2:20 pm. Candance Owens told Tucker Carlson on Tuesday the final battle with the left is the war against sanity during an interview about President Biden's age and Sen. John Fetterman's mental issues. i dont know every time i go to assume anything i say the little rhyme to myself in my head. Does that make sense? But it seems like they want to take things slowly. allathian ive assumed i knew what my husband wanted/was thinking before, and because like i tell him often i unfortunately cant read his mind, ive been off. Those are two crucial things that need to be in place if youre going to spend your life with this man. I mean, I worked so hard to play for this place, might as well enjoy it on occasion. Drews father is in his 90s (!!) Your boyfriend is spending every weekend at his parents house because you are enabling that to happen. As your history with him has shown, he likes spending his weekends with you. If you spent every weekend together in the city before you lived together, it would seem that thats something he enjoys doing. If Bitter Gay Mark disagrees with me, Ill reconsider. If the moms just dropping by it cant be *that* far away. They arent her parents. I asked him all the time if 1. we could have weekends where we spent more time just with each other and 2. maybe even have one every once in awhile where he didnt see his parents, that was just us my argument being that I never got a weekend to relax at home and have him come to mei was always either driving to him or driving an hour out to his parents for the weekend and spending the night and all that. allathian You might even consider scheduling family holidays to spend time with your husbands family, so that you can strengthen your bonds with your husbands family while also strengthening your bond with him. Alternatively, you can figure out what specific times are appropriate for him to spend with his parents. All I will say is that I could not be with this man. I live a minute from my mom and 3 from his. This has been going on for 4 years and its not going to change on its own. Over time, the wife found living so close to her in-laws stifling, contributing to the divorce. At the same time, I know Ive put off talking about finances WAY longer than three weeks before (yeah, yeah, I know, bad), so that doesnt seem like a huge problem to me either. If he goes to see his parents every single weekend while his gf, who has made it clear she will only go with him once a month, stays home, he is essentially choosing them over. I like to relax at home. I Hate My New Job After 2 Days Is it Horrible To Quit? But dont punish him for having parents close by, ts nobodys fault. You want to avoid jumping to conclusions and coming off as the bad guy. She does go with him on occasion, but it is something that is always an issue between them. June 18, 2014, 10:44 am. But I dont automatically think that they have some huge communication problem because of this one issue. If theyve only been living together 3 weeks how is spending every weekend at his parents excessive? Like I said before, I get along great with them and dont mind visiting them, but I also need privacy and a chance for my boyfriend and me to have a separate life from them. Occasionally, this is fine with me and I understand Im not the only person hes away from while hes gone. I get that many dont, but I dont think thats dysfunctional. I absolutely love his family to death, but there are some boundary issues. Like hey I can afford around this much, SO says I can afford a little more, so how about I pay a little more of the rent every month so we can get a nicer place? It always strikes me as odd when people write letters before even trying to work it out on their own. "I Help him understand that while you do like his family (and its great that you like his family thats not always the case! If I say Im ready to get home on one of those nights, his dad always makes a comment trying to make me feel guilty for leaving even if weve spent the entire day there. Like, it didnt even cross their mind to get out. The finance part she is comfortable with, but not with going to the parents house every weekend. Decompressing is a perfectly acceptable way to spend a weekend. Ugh and when girls believe their boyfriends that clearly just dont want the bang train to leave over other people it drives me crazy. The evening must be spent together as well? Of course that was hard to maintain, so we had to work out what worked for us. Then, he needs to ask her, calmly and without accusation, why she prefers to spend her weekends with her lets_be_honest Yeah, it is all really about individual preferences. Tell him that while you love his parents, you miss going into the city on weekends and having weekend time alone with him in the city too. Lets not start with how many siblings he has. Is it because the LWs own lease was up? Thats what next times are for! Stop getting angry over small unrelated things and tell him what is really bothering you. I agree that some more information about the timeline would be helpful. If he came back home, he would insist that we spend the whole weekend out in the rural area hanging out with his parents. Yea I totally agreethis is a very short timeline. January 20, 2012, 11:43 am. Of course Im describing a worse-case scenario, but think of what feels right for YOU as far as family interaction & seek that out. June 18, 2014, 10:18 am. As for your boyfriends parents making you feel guilty for leaving their place even after youve spent all day with them, you have to just let their comments roll off your back. You know how it usually goes, on weekdays, you and your husband work, and you have a little time for yourself. I have a friend in Chicago who, as soon as he gets off work at 4:30 (bastard works until only 4:30!) You mention what you used to do when your were single. Your husband loves to drink it with his dad while discussing sports. which reminds me of my friends who was cheated on i was telling you about yesterday. Husband says we will spend Christmasses together when we have our own family. So LW, if you dont like it, I think you should MOA. definitely not enough information here. Come on, BGM! You can accept that this is how it is for as long as he works a job that has him away from home for months on end and if you ever have kids, it will be worse because his parents will have grandkids theyll want to spend time with in addition to their son or you can decide this is a deal-breaker and move on. Its when a relationship switches from the wooing phase to the were together phase. OR look up state parks. My boyfriends mom can be like this wants to spend all her time with him/us because she doesnt work much anymore and is bored, and obviously loves him. 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