Hi everyone
The saga continues.. (my last post is here)
I know I said my DP is hard work, but I just wanted to share some examples and ask for opinions as to whether his behaviour is odd or not (I think it's weird)
Some examples of things he does/has done:
Saved a strawberry in a glass jar for a year as an experiment to see how it deteriorated (lived on his study windowsill, he wouldn't let me throw it out)
He caught a spider in the bathroom one day - I didn't think anything of it - then I discovered he'd kept it in a jam jar (pierced the lid for air) and went out every evening and caught flies to feed it. Then a few weeks later he caught another spider and put it in the same jar to see what would happen.
We have been in our house for a year and have a huge, unkept mature garden with 6 vegetable patches. I tried to encourage DP to do some gardening to get him away from the TV and internet. His idea of gardening is as follows:
buy a bag of birdseed and plant it (to see what happens)
buy sunflower seeds (meant as petfood) and plant them somewhere else
buy grass seed and plant another vegetable plot with it
dig up a patch of lawn, replant it in a flowerbed and let it grow so it produces seeds which he can sow somewhere else
Other random weirdness includes:
Keeping the t-shirt he wore for DDs birth (complete with blood spatterings) hanging up in wardrobe - I discovered it last month, covered in mould (yup, he refused to wash it) We had a huge fight about washing it, I eventually won
Has kept both DC umbilical cord clips in a jamjar, complete with umbilical cord stump (looks for nauseous emoticon )
I could go on
I'm at the point where I feel I need to make a decision whether to stay in the relationship and make a committment to it (i.e. get married) or plan my escape. I just find it really hard to relate to him at the moment.
Opinions please?
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The saga continues.. is this normal behaviour for a 37 year old man? And should I marry him if I feel like this?
WhatsupDoc · 23/07/2008 21:34
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