You take the children away on vacation, leaving him home alone and he complains that he is tired? In what crazy bizzaro parallel universe does looking after a dog preclude taking care of clients? Sounds like your H is in need of a serious attitude adjustment.
Did you and your H come to the decision for you to stay at home mutually? Subscription to the erronerous belief that SAHM sit around eating bon bons and watching Oprah all day coupled with financial blackmail can be especially destructive.
My H brings up the splitting chores/childcare/income down the middle anytime I try to discuss anything that he doesn't want to discuss. I tell him I would gladly do that and he backs down.
I avoid talking to my H when he has been drinking, as even the most innocuous of subjects can escalate into an ugly shouting match. I think it has to do with sitting around drinking and commiserating with his buddies. They all get worked into a I'm-gonna-go-home-and-show-the-little-woman-who's-boss frenzy that anything will set him off.
Maybe with the dawning his hangover, he will be properly apologetic.
I don't mind the sun sometime
The images it shows
I can taste you on my lips
And smell you in my clothes
Cinnamon and Sugar
And softly spoken lies
You never know just how you look
Through someone elses eyes
BHS-"Pepper"
