My husband is the family's personal assistant.?

My husband has been a stay at home dad for the last 2 years with our 3 year old son. (He was about 1 1/2 when he first started staying home with him.) It became necessary for him to find some additional work occasionally, so he starting working for his family for some extra money. For example: landscaped a koi pond with his step mother, built an office in my parents house, spread bark dust and pea gravel for the grandma, built a fence for his step mother... I had our second child in Sept and he needed to go back to work. Now he has been called to work on the weekends doing odd construction jobs and some pretty silly things. (silly stuff include organizing his mothers pantry and putting up her christmas lights and tree.) Now that he works full time he only has the weekends to really unwind, and he's still getting asked to do odd jobs. He isn't the type to tell someone no, but I really want him to. I'm getting frustrated sharing him over the weekends with all the familys issues.

i wish i had a direct black & white answer, but i don't. it's wonderful to have a husband like this. i am in a similar boat, but not much of him being invloved with his family. it's taken time, my husband has learned to say no, or when he can help relatives, but makes it known that he does have his own family at home, that he is missing spending time with, whether husband or father. as a wife, you can't tell him how to run his life, he'll really rebell. all you can do is pray for him & lift him up to God. ask the Lord when to direct you to talk to him about this or any other situation. God will see fit to open the door, when your husband is ready to hear. in the mean time, be patient, take things into consideration. there is a book called, "Power of a Praying Wife", by Stormie Omartian. I highly recomend it!!! You'll see. give it tme.

u need to be very honest about ur feelings with ur spouse. unless u will tell him that how bad u feel and how it hurts u to share him on weekends how will he come to know. for every problem u have to talk and let him understand ur position.