6 things all parents fight about during their baby’s first year of life
The expectation is that you’ll both be immersed in a delightful and cosy baby bubble, snuggling your tot and beaming at each other across the breakfast table. The reality is you’ve got sneaky newborn spew down your back, seven rice bubbles in your hair and a very unsympathetic and now strangely monstrous partner who is frankly lazy AND mean AND must be stopped.
Okay, we’re exaggerating, but we wanted to talk about some very common relationship snags and solutions – and to let you know that you’re in good company with these six upsetting pressure points.
3. Workload
Who is doing more? Whether you’re sharing the parenting and out-of-home work evenly or it’s split in a stay-home parent and out-to-work parent way, we can guarantee that rumblings about who is more overwhelmed will spill over into cross words and wild eyed accusations.
THIS. IS. NORMAL. (And also upsetting, obviously. Hugs to you both). If you can’t get to the bottom of this problem, try chatting to a counsellor about your respective responsibilities and feelings of overwhelm, and see if the three of you can troubleshoot a fix to what is often a logistical glitch.