'I think my husband is going out too much but other wives say I'm wrong'

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A woman has taken to Mumsnet to vent her frustration at her husband's frequent outings with his mates, leaving her feeling isolated. She explained that while she works part-time and looks after their two-year-old son for two days a week, her husband works full-time.

Her days with her son are filled with mum and child classes, soft play, errands, chores, shopping and the like, while weekends are free time. The mum shared: "Husband has one full night a week doing a hobby. He's started meeting a friend from this on a weekend day, maybe once a month. He either takes our son, and I am just at home alone, or I have him."

She added that he also enjoys Christmas nights out with friends who don't have families of their own and is now trying to organise more regular meet-ups with other male friends from his hobby.

She asked: "Am I being unreasonable to think that this is too much?" She further revealed that she has "no one to go out with" on her days off as her friends are all mums who are busy with breastfeeding babies, pregnant, with their families, or busy on weekends and not remotely interested in evening or weekend meet-ups.

In the comments, many were taken aback that she considered the meet-ups excessive. One individual commented: "One meet-up once a month? No, it's not too much. Especially if he is also taking the kiddo with him sometimes. Your lack of a supportive social circle really isn't a good reason for him to stay at home. You can just as easily get a hobby on one of the four evenings during the week."

Another wrote: "I don't think one night a week doing something and one night out a month is unreasonable. I do think it feels off because you're not doing the same. If he'd happily facilitate you being out the same, he's not doing anything wrong. Perhaps consider finding something for yourself."

A third Mumsnet user suggested she join a "choir or a book club" for her own engagement. An additional commenter expressed: "I think you need to find some child-free time for yourself, even if it's doing more than sitting at home when he takes the baby out. What he is doing doesn't sound excessive."

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