I suggested to Tom that we get a babysitter for Saturday night and have a night out together.

We haven’t had any time, just the two of us, since I was a couple of months pregnant. I haven’t had a night out at all for five months.

He said no.

He said that he liked staying home on Saturday nights; that it’s one of the only nights he is in, and is unwilling to give that up. Most other nights of the week he’s at the pub or the gym.

He refused to see that it was my only night to get a babysitter to go out, but he just wouldn’t back down. I can’t even go out without him as I don’t have any money of my own.