When discussing forms of negative paternal support for breastfeeding with fathers, all fathers identified examples which fell into the sub-theme of failure to provide positive support. Often, fathers responded that unsupportive actions would be everything opposite of what they had just described as positive support for breastfeeding. When fathers elaborated on the topic of failure to provide positive support, they identified many examples of specific forms of this type of support including not helping with household chores or the baby, not being around and/or working a lot, not being involved in the breastfeeding process, not giving care of affection to the mother, not communicating, not defending “her” decision to breastfeed, being selfish, creating a stressful environment, not being understanding, not working, and being controlling. At every time point, the most often cited form of failing to provide positive support identified by fathers was expecting the mother to do everything, which included the father not helping with household chores or with caring for the baby. According to one father: