On this week’s Adult segment, one woman asked how to tell her husband that she is furious with him for leaving her to shoulder the burden of childcare while he trains for a marathon.

“My husband is due to do the Dublin marathon,” she told Moncrieff.

“Everyone keeps telling me, ‘Isn’t he wonderful?’ But the truth is that his training has taken a toll on our marriage.

“We have an eight-month-old baby and I feel like for the last few months, he has prioritised his training rather than spending time with me or our son.

“I'm so angry that he gets praise for spending hours away from home while I keep the show on the road.

“Other people encouraging him actually gives me rage at this stage.

“Do I put up and shut up until it’s over and then lay down the law that he can never do a marathon ever again?”

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TV personality Declan Buckley said the real problem here has nothing to do with the marathon itself.

“The real problem is that she’s there with a brand new baby, and he’s choosing now to be AWOL,” he said.

“That was quite a disrespectful choice as far as I’m concerned.

“She’s entitled to be really annoyed.”

'Epitome of selfishness'

Broadcaster Barbara Scully said “it’s the absolute, to me, epitome of selfishness”.

“They have just had a baby,” she said.

“He has equal responsibility for that baby that she does, and the fact of the matter is, it doesn’t matter whether he’s running a marathon or whether he’s out playing golf or he’s playing football with his mates or if he’s down the pub.

“It equates to the same fallout for her as a woman and a mother.”

Depressed single mother with child at home. Image: olga Yastremska / Alamy. 5 March 2021

According to Barbara, it is even more unfair to dump the load of the household burden on this woman, whose body is still recovering from childbirth.

“The only thing is that she mentioned about banning him from ever doing a marathon again,” she said.

“I don’t think that’s the way to go.

“But you’ve got to get it through to him that what he’s doing is selfish.

“Possibly wait until after the marathon at this stage, but then you’ve got to say, ‘I was really angry, that was really selfish, it was not fair’.”

Barbara said this man could have had a bit of a crisis after becoming a new father, and may be trying to reclaim his youth.

However, she said whether that is the case or not, it still doesn’t excuse his actions.

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