Here_2_talk wrote: ↑Tue Mar 10, 2020 12:01 pm
I actually got the feeling that it’s Justine who is blocking Trashy in her attempts of getting ready.
He was really discouraging about setting up the halo bassinets, cleaning the carseat covers, buying a car... he just kept saying not yet(re:car), laughs at Trashy washing and assembling the car seat, questions the halo set up, do you want to have to manoeuvre around this?! What an asshole!
Yes, the way you prepare and lessen your wife’s anxiety is that you support her need (quite normal) to prepare, set a date for car shopping, do research on cars in your budget, set up halo baskets and leave them in place. clean the house, wash baby clothes. Assemble babies’s dresser. Just be a human and be proactive. Rather than just sit there and be ignorant and laugh at hour wife’s misery
he really doesn’t pull his weight.
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Yeah agreed! But I don't think he's the only issue, Rachelle should've still been doing more before now. And if Justin is unaware of how these things work, it's kind of on her to educate him, at least in my opinion. Tell him no, we're doing this, there's no more time to wait. It's pretty normal for dads to be clueless about this shit, especially if they're as young as he is. And unfortunately then it falls onto the wife/mother to show him how it's done. It'd be nice if it wasn't the "woman's job" to educate the husband in that situation but there's no time to fight the patriarchy when you're about to give birth lmao.
Sometimes I am super surprised at how fucking clueless Justin is. I mean he's only like 24, right? But I'm not that much older and I've known plenty of guys who are way more onto it than he is. He likes to pretend he knows everything, and he can be SO cocky. It's like he thinks being a cocky asshole is a fun personality trait! Rachelle isn't much better, so between the two of them I'm surprised they can keep themselves alive, let alone a kid.
Maybe Rachelle doesn't like to set him straight when he's being an idiot about the baby stuff because she doesn't want to look domineering? But then she goes and dominates him in like every other situation, so the balance is off. Maybe if she stopped interrupting him all the time and correcting him on the most unimportant shit, she could set him straight on the baby stuff without looking so controlling. If that is what she's worried about/why she's not saying anything. Personally I love strong women who can tell it how it is to anybody, especially their partners, and I love strong men who aren't so fragile that they can't handle that. As long as there's mutual respect, obviously. But this is Rachelle and Justin we're talking about, I doubt they feel that way.
Also part of Justin telling her not to do all this stuff now, is I think the fact that he desperately wants to look caring and protective. Like when she was washing the car seat cover, he was all "you shouldn't be doing that! You should be resting babe!" But he's OBVIOUSLY saying it for the camera (it was a reenactment of a previous interaction they had) so he's only saying it for the image it gives him. And the way he says these things, while looking into the camera like *you guys hear that? I'm so caring, I'm the perfect husband*
.... It just gives me major fake vibes. I wonder what he is covering for? The fact that he's actually super inadequate as a husband and father and even Rachelle, who is hella preggers and was just in hospital, is doing more than him? That must be it. He hates that she's making him look bad. He's got no excuse to not be doing these things, he's just lazy, so when Rachelle goes and does it then he gets mad because he looks bad and he has to overcompensate by being all "you should be resting babe, you don't need to do that, you should've asked me to do it!" I wonder if Rachelle has asked him to do these things in the past but he hasn't, so she's given up on waiting and doing it herself.