You were warned about the sleepless nights, the diapers, the constant crying. But no one told you how easily love can turn into snapping at each other over a misplaced burp cloth. No one told you how parenting—this beautiful, brutal marathon—could quietly erode your partnership while you're both just trying to make it to bedtime without losing your minds.

Sleep, Cry, Repeat, Resent doesn't sugarcoat a damn thing. It dives headfirst into the raw truth most parenting books tiptoe around: the part where you secretly count the minutes your partner gets to nap while you pace the living room with a baby who won't stop screaming. The part where resentment brews faster than a pot of coffee because you both feel invisible, stretched thin, and like you're doing this alone even when you're standing side by side.

This book isn't about perfect parenting or picture-perfect marriages. It's about surviving the chaos without emotionally wrecking each other in the process. It's about fighting fair when you're both fighting fatigue. About finding your way back to intimacy when your bodies feel like they belong to a small dictator and your minds are fried from counting feedings and folding laundry that never ends.

Written in a voice that's more like your exhausted, brutally honest best friend than a parenting expert trying to fix you, this guide doesn't pretend to solve every problem. Instead, it helps you name what's happening underneath the bickering, the silence, the avoidance. It shines a light on the unspoken tensions, the invisible scorekeeping, and the ways parenting stress leaks into every corner of your relationship.

You'll find strategies, yes—but not the kind that tell you to breathe deeply and just "communicate better." These are tools forged in the fire of real arguments and small reconciliations. You'll learn how to press pause before things spiral, how to ask for help without guilt, and how to rebuild trust in the middle of emotional debris.

There's space here for anger, for grief over the life you used to have, for laughter that comes from losing your grip at 3 a.m. and somehow finding a way to laugh anyway. There's room to admit you don't always like your partner right now—and that doesn't make you a bad spouse or a bad parent. It makes you human.

This book understands that love under pressure looks different. That sometimes the most romantic gesture is emptying the dishwasher without being asked. That survival isn't about pretending everything's okay—it's about choosing each other again, even when you're both exhausted, worn down, and running on empty.

For the couples knee-deep in diapers and distance, Sleep, Cry, Repeat, Resent is a permission slip to be messy, to be angry, to be flawed—and still be in this together. You won't find idealized parenting myths here. You'll find stories that sound uncomfortably familiar, moments you thought you were the only one having, and the quiet relief of not being alone.

This is the book for the nights when you sit in separate rooms, wondering how the two of you got here. For the mornings when one more passive-aggressive comment might break something for good. It's a reminder that resentment is not inevitable, that partnership can be rebuilt even when it's cracked, and that just because parenting is hard doesn't mean love has to vanish.

Readers will walk away with the ability to recognize destructive patterns before they take hold, communicate honestly when words feel impossible, and find small daily ways to protect each other's sanity. They'll learn how to ride the tidal waves of sleep deprivation...