Feelings like frustration and anger are common. What matters is how you handle them. Pregnancy can be a time when some men use violence for the first time in their relationship. Violence happens when people use their power to hurt, control or bully someone else.
There are many types of violence. For example, violence can be verbal, emotional or physical. Everybody feels angry sometimes. You can express anger in healthy ways, like going for a run or hitting a punching bag. Thinking and talking about what triggers your anger in calmer moments is also a good step towards managing it. If you get help, you might find good things coming back into your life. For example, being able to speak and express yourself without anger might help rebuild trust in your relationships with your family and other important people in your life.
Will there be people around to help and support you? If there's nobody who can give you support, it might help to discuss your situation with someone.
Learn more here about the development and quality assurance of healthdirect content. A relationship breakdown and divorce can be a distressing time for everyone involved. Here are some coping strategies to help you and your child through it. We know all of these relationships are affected by the reality of pregnancy and impending parenthood — some more than others. Read practical tips for pregnant couples. Read more on raisingchildren. You can help your partner in many ways during pregnancy and childbirth.
Your support will benefit her, your relationship and ultimately your baby. Our pregnancy guide has essential tips on antenatal care, healthy eating, exercise, morning sickness, your pregnant body, emotions, relationships and more.
A healthy lifestyle can help you avoid health problems. Helping twins to understand the psychology of their relationship means going right back to conception. They've had to share space right from the time of conception, and that really sets the stage for sharing space right throughout life. Read more on Twins Research Australia website. Week 5 of pregnancy is the best time to have a pregnancy test. This may involve an early pregnancy ultrasound. You should also receive pregnancy health advice and discuss pregnancy folate supplements in the fifth week of pregnancy if you have not already done so.
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Yet others might insist on offering a whole lot of unsolicited pregnancy advice that the mom-to-be has absolutely no intention of following. The metabolism boost that comes along with pregnancy, as well as all that extra blood, can make the pregnant mom warmer. But just like even dad gets irritable on the hottest of summer days, this increased heat can make mom just prone to emotional combustion.
Often, one of the best ways to keep temper down is to keep cool. A nice, long tepid bath, perhaps, can help. Or even just turning up the air conditioning can do wonders. If dad wants to make the extra effort to keep mom from absolutely hating him, perhaps he can bring her home her favorite ice cream or smoothie.
Provided that she can still stand the smell, of course. This is a common sentiment for unplanned pregnancies. But you might be surprised at just how many women who planned their pregnancy with their partner have similar sentiments as well. After all, if mom is going through some specific form of misery, like insomnia, for instance, it seems only fair that dad has some ownership over it as well.
The least that dad can do is to take responsibility for his wandering sperm cells and offer a backrub. But even then, it may not be enough to make mom resent him less. Some dads are clueless. In the worst of cases, a dad might hurt or even beat his wife. Yes, it does happen to pregnant women around the world and this is not OK. And, if we must say, getting a beating is a pretty legitimate reason to hate a husband. With all the changes going on with her body, a pregnant mom can get insecure.
Many of these changes are necessary to the pregnancy, such as the belly and the breasts increasing in size. Others, however, are side effects such as swollen feet due to the retention of bodily fluids. Partner that with the glamorous probably Photoshopped magazine covers of pregnant superstars, it can all make the mom-to-be feel less than beautiful.
To be fair, many husbands are supportive, making sure that the mom-to-be knows that, no, she does not actually look like a whale with stretch marks.
This can, of course, depend on whether mom or dad are both working or if either of them is the primary breadwinner. Resentment over laundry left undone and floors unswept can grate into a relationship, after all, especially if one or both partners are stressed out.
Pregnancy is basically one of those things that test a relationship. But like with any challenge in the relationship, it will involve times when one or both partners might hate the other. Otherwise, relationship counseling might be a good idea to repair the damage. Most women crave closeness, affection, intimacy. If dad is stressed out by the pregnancy, he might distance himself from it.
As a result, he may come off as cold and uncaring.
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