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What should I do if my husband doesn't want to spend time alone with me?
My husband doesn't want to spend time alone with me without our 3-month-old. He thinks my desire to go out as a twosome means I don't care about our baby's well-being. Of course I do -- all I'm asking for is a couple of hours of one-on-one time with him every once in a while. What can I do?
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Yeah why not, call a friend and go out and have more social life. I do agree that it is funny that it is the other way around. Another advice I agree to is, leave him with your child and hope his tune changes for the better and not say it is his turn. First time dad, over protective and yes want to take on that role. What would you be complaining about next? You are a lucky lady and give him and the thumbs up. I met my husband with my 4 chilldren from previous relationships. We both have 2 plus between us and he tells me what to do! I had looked after my kids on my own for nearly 15 years, so I tell him that he is only the tip of learning. My husband needs to be told like a child to. lol Consider yourself, very fortunate ok, they are hard to find.posted 06/13/2012 by Islandcurles
sometimes when men do this they are feeling the same way. they feel left out I think that the best thing you could do is one night after the kids are in bed surprise him by making him a nice dinner and a letter of why you love him. he will feel loved and you will get a date. Something that I've learned is that you cant always go out when you want after you have kids. think of any time when you and he are in the same room without the baby as a date. It sounds really silly but it has worked great for me.posted 06/18/2011 by a BabyCenter Member
i thought that when my baby arrived i wouldnt pay any attention to my bf at all and wouldnt care if he didnt pay attention to me. but it was the opposite. i long for him to even acknowledge that i was in the house. ii felt so depressed when we hugged it felt like i had been away from him for years. the first few days back from the hospital are tough. after a little while things got better. we were spending more time together and i was getting used to managing baby time and husband and wifey time. things are still not so easy but at least i know my sons schedule. he is 7 weeks now. i love him to death.posted 05/23/2011 by om_lopez2009
talk to ur hubby.tht's wht i did.my baby is almost 4mths now. b4 delivery i though tht i wud lose interest in my hubby when the baby arrives, but the reality is the exact opposite! after my 1 mth confinement at mom's place we were back 2gether in our own home. he spent more time to be affectionate n loving towards the baby. she get's wtv time he has n the attention. i felt lonely & unappreciated as i toiled the whole day taking care of the baby all by myself n i'm not pampered at the end of the day.sadly i told him tht he has lost interest in me n wtv i felt. he felt bad to realize tht. almost immediately, he decided to do things differently. at times we send the baby to his mom n we go out for movies, shopping, eat out etc. sometimes we hang out too long tht we forget tht we have a baby! since i'm back working, at nite he helps me to quickly settle the hse chores, feed n put da baby to sleep, so we can watch tv/dine/just chitchat/surf web etc. feels like we are back being luvbirds.posted 01/25/2011 by a BabyCenter Member
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Since your baby is only 3 months old (and can't walk or talk yet), you're actually in a good place right now. Spend time with both your husband and your baby at the same time. I'm guessing this is your first child. Don't look at this as your husband choosing the baby over you, he just wants to protect this tiny, fragile miracle you both have. Let your husband relish in this new phase in your lives. Your baby will only be this little once. So take walks together or have a picnic. You can still talk and be close without excluding your baby. In a few months, when he/she starts to crawl, talk, etc., believe me, your husband will want alone time with you as much as you do! Find a great sitter and have her on standby. But until then, enjoy your new family and let your husband enjoy it as well. And do talk to him about how you feel. Maybe when you guys go out, he can coo at the baby a little less and focus on talking or cuddling with you a little more. Good luck and enjoy!posted 06/16/2010 by a BabyCenter Member
I think he's just over-reacting. Maybe he feels like if HE leaves the baby that HE'S neglecting his role as a father and therefore is putting that guilt on you, saying that YOU are neglectful if you want to be without the baby. You have to remind him that you still havea marriage, and if you want the marriage to succeed after baby you have to maintain it. And you are a woman and need to be treated as a woman, not just a mother now. You are both and deserve to be maintained in both areas. You have to feel like a woman, it's difficult going through the pregnancy period and then going through birth..you feel unsexy and unwanted and alone in it because they have no idea what you're going through. Maybe he doesn't know that you need to connect with him to feel like you're together still? Talk to him, communication really is the only tool.posted 04/29/2010 by iamjulez06
I had the same problem - i used to feel so alone and dejected because my husband used to spend any time he had with our son (which is great!) but then had to "unwind" in front of the tv after work or go play poker. I know he loves me. So i spoke to him. I told him i missed my best friend. That though i love caring for our child i miss adult company and all the attention i got when i was pregnant. He understood and we make it a point to step out twice a week even if it's just for a drive. He calls me from work often just to fill me in on his day. I dont think he realised till i told him! Talking helps!posted 04/26/2010 by a BabyCenter Member
To the person whose boyfriend sits at the computer all day and night: tell him to get out of your life, take his kid from the previous relationship with him, and get a job to support the child he had with you. It is NOT your job to raise HIS kid.posted 02/03/2010 by a BabyCenter Member
I know how you feel. My husband missed the first 6 months of our daughters life, shes is 10 months now and he works 9 hours a day and then spends the whole day in the garage with his friend. He sleeps a few hours a day and then the same thing everyday. When I ask him to spend the weekend with us he agrees. Then when the weekend comes he makes up an excuse.posted 04/12/2008 by me04011
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DES MOINES, Iowa -- The University of Iowa track and field team qualified three individuals and three relay teams for event finals at the Drake Relays on Friday.
The Hawkeye women kicked off the day winning their 400-meter relay heat. The team of sophomore Lake Kwaza, freshman Elexis Guster, sophomore MonTayla Holder, and freshman Brittany Brown clocked a 44.85. The quartet will compete in the finals tomorrow at 3:15 p.m. (CT).
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Sarver joined Twitter in 2009 after a three-year stint as director of consumer products at location services firm Skyhook Wireless. He served as a liaison between Twitter and its developer partner ecosystem, spearheading the firm's efforts to institute official branded applications in place of third-party services. Sarver's much-discussed March 2011 post on the Twitter Development Talk forum made it clear that the days of third-party client applications were officially numbered: "Developers ask us if they should build client apps that mimic or reproduce the mainstream Twitter consumer client experience. The answer is no," Sarver wrote at that time. "We need to move to a less fragmented world, where every user can experience Twitter in a consistent way."
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Thanks for the replies. So you think it may be his many years of experience under the one regime that's his problem? Makes some sense but doesn't in another way because all those years experience in the top class should get him get dialled in faster?


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Mr. DASCHLE. Madam President, over the course of the past several months, I have come to the Senate floor on three occasions to discuss what I believe is the most important national security challenge we face today--reducing the risks associated with the spread and potential use of weapons of mass destruction. The depth and urgency of this challenge were dramatically illustrated in a recent article from Scientific American by Drs. Bruce Blair, Harold Feiveson, and Frank von Hippl. I am quoting from that article:
[M]ilitary technicians at a handful of radar stations across northern Russia saw a troubling blip suddenly appear on their screens. A rocket, launched from somewhere off the coast of Norway, was rising rapidly through the night sky. Well aware that a single missile from a U.S. submarine plying those waters could scatter eight nuclear bombs over Moscow within 15 minutes, the radar operators immediately alerted their superiors. The message passed swiftly from Russian military authorities to the Russian President, who holding the electronic case that could order the firing of nuclear missiles in response, hurriedly conferred by telephone with his top advisors. For the first time ever, that nuclear briefcase was activated for emergency use.
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Reasonable people can only ask the obvious question: with the Soviet Union dissolved and the cold war over for nearly seven years, how can the United States and Russia continue to be one bad call away from a nuclear disaster?
It is precisely for this reason that last September I sent a letter to the Congressional Budget Office asking them to assess the budget and security consequences of a series of measures designed to reduce the spread of nuclear weapons and the likelihood that they will ever be used. On Friday I received preliminary results from CBO on one means to accomplish this objective--improving Russia's confidence that it is not under attack by providing it with a global awareness of missile launches.
CBO reaches several conclusions in its report. First, there are a number of deficiencies in Russia's ground- and satellite-based early-warning systems. According to CBO, `Russia's early warning radars will not detect all missile attacks, especially missiles launched on shallow trajectories from submarines.' The situation is similar with respect to Russia's space-based platforms. Quoting CBO, `Russia's satellite-based early-warning system also has shortcomings . . . CBO has estimated that its [satellite] fleet currently provides coverage of the U.S. missile fields for less than 17 hours a day. Thus, Russia cannot depend on its fleet to detect a U.S. missile launch.' Second, CBO states that, `shortcomings in Russia's early-warning system can have a direct effect on the security of the United States.' Nothing demonstrates this reality better than the Norwegian missile launch. Third, there are a variety of options available to the United States and Russia to address deficiencies in Russia's early warning system. Although CBO rightly asserts that further study is required to ensure that U.S. security is enhanced, not compromised, CBO lays out 5 options for U.S. policymakers. I ask that all of my colleagues take a look at this excellent study.
It must be noted at this point that during the recently concluded U.S.-Russia summit, just days before CBO released its analysis to me, the Administration and the Russians reached agreement to implement the first of CBO's 5 options--sharing early warning information on the launch of ballistic missiles and space launch vehicles. I commend the Administration for this initiative. I believe it is a small but useful step. However, it does not fully address the underlying weaknesses in Russia's early warning systems. The proposal will give the Russians access to some of our early warning data but does nothing to improve Russia's own ability to collect and assess this same information.
Therefore, much more needs to be done, not only in the area of early warning but elsewhere, if we are to reduce the risk of the spread and use of weapons of mass destruction to an acceptable level. As I stand here today--nearly 8 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War--the United States and Russia still possess nearly 14,000 strategic nuclear weapons and tens of thousands of tactical nuclear weapons. Even more alarming, both sides keep the vast majority of their strategic weapons on a high level of alert, greatly increasing the likelihood of an unauthorized or accidental launch.
Russia's current economic and fiscal woes only add to my sense of concern. Numerous press accounts point out that Russia's early warning sensors are aging and incomplete, its command and control system is deteriorating, and the morale of the personnel operating these systems is suffering as a result of lack of pay and difficult working conditions. The Washington Post ran an article just yesterday that illustrates how increasingly dire economic circumstances in Russia affect U.S. security. According to the Post, street protests are popping up all over Russia, including a town called Snezhinsk, home of a nuclear weapons laboratory where workers said they have not been paid for 5 months.
I believe reducing the risks posed by weapons of mass destruction in Russia and elsewhere must be our number one national security objective in the post-Cold War era. In this regard, there are 3 initiatives the United States could take immediately that begin to address these risks: de-alerting a portion of the U.S. and Russian strategic and nuclear weapons, ratifying the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, and pushing for much deeper reductions in nuclear weapons than currently contemplated in START II.
However, these measures alone are not enough. We must vigorously pursue other possible avenues, many of which may lie outside the traditional arms control process. Therefore, I have asked the Congressional Budget Office to explore the budgetary and security implications of numerous other `non-traditional' proposals. I understand this work is nearing completion and hope to report back to the Senate on CBO's findings before we adjourn. I look forward to working with my colleagues and the Administration in the next session of Congress to fully explore these proposals.
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