Resentment after children
Hello all, I’m looking for some godly advice on dealing with resentment for husband after having children.
Context: I (26F) have two boys (3 and 10 months) with my husband (27M). He works 5 days a week and sometimes a few hours on the weekends too. He is self-employed in a labor intensive job as a mechanic. He works between 8-10 hours a day starting around 9:00 am. I work two days a week from home 8:00-4:00. My MIL watches the three year old and a sitter comes over to watch the baby.
My husband is not a morning person. He is the type to set 10 alarms in order to wake up. I’m convinced he would sleep through a tornado. He will generally wake up right before he goes to work. The children generally wake up between 6-7. Now since I wake up when I here the baby cry I get up and go take care of him when he wakes which leads to me waking up with the kids every single day. I feed them and dress them and watch them play and try to drink my coffee as peacefully as possible.
I even do this on the days I work so some days I’m essentially waking up at 7, getting my oldest dressed, putting the baby with my sleeping husband, taking the three year old to grandmas, driving back, then getting the 10 month old dressed and given to sitter. I then work for eight hours, pick up my oldest son, drive home and watch them for another 2-3 hours before my husband gets home. The baby also wakes 2-3 times at night so my sleep is very broken.
The other 3 days I don’t work and will usually wake up with the children and take the children to the gym with me at 8:00 am and hangout with them at home the rest of the day.
When he does get home he happily plays with them, will volunteer to bring dinner home, etc. He will also help clean the house, do home projects, maintenance and he is an amazing worker and very honest.
I guess what I need help with is I just feel angry all the time and ungrateful and just…irritated that I don’t sleep as much or spend so much more time with the kids and doing tasks. I don’t want to feel like this and I’ve been praying that I don’t feel this all the time. Can someone please offer helpful advice.
Posted Dec 4, 2025, 9:40 PM UTC