My wife refuses to parent our son and won’t even go near him – I took matters into my own hands but nothing is working

A MAN has found himself wondering if his wife even loves their 2-year-old child as she allegedly refuses to go near him.

She apparently has never even changed a diaper.

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A man has found himself caring for his son all on his own while his wife refuses to help[/caption]

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She claims she is too tired from her work as a neurosurgeon[/caption]

Taking to Reddit, a man shared how he’s at his wit’s end with his wife.

“My wife is a neurosurgeon and I am a stay-at-home dad,” he explained.

“We have a 2-year-old son who I take care of. I say I, because past giving birth, my wife eat hasn’t been much of an attentive mother and has left the parenting to me.

“My wife was given four months maternity leave but only took three months as she said, she bounced back physically and wanted to get back to work as she saves lives. Since then it’s been all on me.

“My wife never changed a diaper unless I physically could not do it. If our son was crying in the middle of the night, she wakes me up as she has to be well-rested for work or someone could die.”

He also claimed that during the weekends, she sleeps in and “won’t come out of bed till the afternoon and still won’t come near our son.”

He continued: “I’ve talked about it with her more than a few times and her reasoning is that I’m good at being a dad and it comes naturally to me so I should be the one doing most of the work.

“Along with the parenting, I do all of the work for the house: cooking, cleaning, fixing, maintenance.

“My wife hasn’t washed a dish, scrubbed a toilet, or folded a shirt since I quit my job to be a stay-at-home dad.

“The last time I asked her to pitch in, she said that she doesn’t think it’s unfair for me to ask more of her when she comes home from work since what she does keeps the lights on and a roof over all of our heads.

“She also said she deserves some time to relax especially when she sees people nearly dying and dead nearly every single day and is asked to save the lives of her patients.”

From their conversation, he claimed that he understood she feels what he does for her isn’t important.

“So why do it?” he asked.

“I stopped doing anything for her. If she wanted food she can get some herself.

“I was a software developer and saved most of my money and she’s a neurosurgeon, our household isn’t hurting for money.

“If she wants her laundry done, she can do it. If she wants to come home to a clean house, she can do it. If our shower head falls off, she can do it. Nothing I do is important anyways.”

He later claimed that this arrangement only lasted a week because she later confronted him and told him he was being selfish and petty.

“I told her I was showing her how important what I do is. She told me that I was being a massive a**hole and that I behaved like a child who was mad,” he concluded.

Following his post, many people agreed that he was not in the wrong for his behavior.

One person wrote: “Just reverse the bloody gender roles, he became a stay-at-home dad and had been working without support or without appreciation.”

A second person added: “People accept that those with a vocation like hers feel like they have a bigger purpose?”

And a third person said: “There’s obviously something wrong but she won’t do anything about it either, she’s treating him like nothing he does is important so all he’s doing is showing her that he is important.”

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He has tried to talk to her but she’s only snapped back[/caption]