advises him repeatedly that Bear is a dog, not a pig, and can't tolerate eating spicy, oily foods like mapo tofu, causing the dog to vomit on the carpet, which he's also too important and busy to clean up
Why is it every time I ask my husband to take a turn watching Tilly, five minutes lates she ends up screaming alone in the foyer or crawling up the stairs to come find me?
to do chores, or to meaningfully watch his kid, or set up childproofing, or open his mail, or to listen to his wife
used to his elders waiting on him
he won't clear the sink in the kitchen if I ask him to
None of this is acceptable at all, do his parents not know about this? Especially if he's from Chongqing there's literally no excuse for any of this, Sichuan is literally famous for understanding that there is an expectation to take care of and listen to your wife. He has literally no excuse, what the actual fuck?
He knows I am too angry at divorce as a practice to ever leave
I'd like to first ask what your issue is with regard to divorce, (see edit) but more importantly he's very brazenly exploiting the fact that you have feelings against it.
Combined with this:
Alex is very used to his elders waiting on him, and IMO he kinda exploits them and doesn't feel too bad about it because he thinks filial piety means the elders are obligated to take care of their kids' babies
I am 100% beyond certain that he knows what he's doing. He knows none of what he's doing is what he should, none of it is right, but he's seeing decency and morality he can exploit in others and doing so.
short of him beating me to an inch of my life
I know I've said this before but his little tantrum is a threat at this, there is no other reason he's going to destroy the furniture just for the fuck of it.
Please keep your safety in mind, and even if not your own safety then your daughter's. Please make sure your MIL knows what's going on because this isn't normal, and this sure as shit isn't acceptable. It's not safe, and he contributes less than nothing anyway besides danger.
I think that would be reasonably difficult to do; I got a knife. I would not lay down and let Alex kill me for tax reasons or whatever.
I'm sorry but a knife is not nearly as useful as you think and the fact that you even need to keep a knife on you to protect yourself from your husband is genuinely disturbing.
I doubt that he would be up to that no matter the potential reward.
You overestimate men. I'm sorry but you are being insanely optimistic, every woman I've ever known who thought like this ended up being brutalized for her faith in scrotes.
He's already a young lord, to quote what his chinese worker bees call him.
That's not a good thing, that's a term for someone who doesn't know consequences because they're too insulated by money. These are the men who go around casually gangraping women, everybody knows, but nothing ever happens because their victims are fucking buried if they say a word.
Edit: I don't agree at all. Being stuck with a parent who mistreats you is much, much worse on a child than being raised without them. Having your parents pretend like being in a neglectful or abusive relationship is somehow normal or acceptable over getting the fuck out and being safe is a horrible example to set for a child and it will absolutely affect her later.