I've been trying to divorce stbxh for the last few months and its going very slowly. He's been arrested for domestic violence twice, but both times was let off. And he mega talked the female police officers round, and she recommended to me - we just need some relationship counselling!
Things are getting worse and I'm sure he's learned his lesson for the time being to keep his distance, but he's doing crazy financial control. He's keeping his money out of the joint account (I'm not working at the moment) and he's refusing to pay the nursery bill, (2 mornings a week) meaning I won't even be able to look for work as I won't have any childcare.
But what is getting to me the most is the harassment. He is in my face constantly from 6pm till midnight, threatening and belittling me. Tonight I went into the bathroom at 10pm to have a bath, and he kept up his diatribe outside the door for a whole hour and was waiting for me when I got out.
It is psychological torture, as I am still breast feeding my baby, so I only get snatches of downtime before the baby wakes up. And he was deliberately ruining it for me.
I had my phone on me and I wondered if I should have texted my friend to call 101 and report harassment? I am flagged by the police as high-alert and last time they arrived within seconds. Anyway I chickened out, but I wondered if that is something that would be reasonable to do?
I'm going to phone women's aid tomorrow to talk about it in any case :(
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Harassment by stbxh - can I call the police?
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Darcey2105 · 08/07/2015 23:22
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