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To think relationships take work?

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Halloeeee · 14/05/2024 22:53

Been together 6 years, we have 2.5 yo and 5mo. due to get married this year, have a mortgage and a dog.

We’ve really struggled I’d say sinc e our first. We got back to a good place then I had to terminate a pregnancy for personal reasons which I know my fiance resents me for (it was his baby too).

I feel like he hates me like I live with someone who hates me. He resents me I can see it

We conflict on parenting styles , he’s so strict and I’m more of a gentle touch. Our son gets in our bed because he asks for me and wakes, my fiance thinks I should leave him to cry and he’d go back asleep? I think this I absurd

anyway, he says things to me and says he’d just be marrying me for the kids. I’m making him deeply unhappy. I piss him off? But tbh it doesn’t take much. He snaps at everyone. He won’t speak to a therapist because “they don’t know what they’re fucking doing”

But he constantly throws splitting up and cancelling a wedding in my face - yet has booked his stag?

I’ve asked could we work on things. He says he doesn’t know how it’s not worth it

He says “how can I work on it” I’ve explained to him, then he just says he doesn’t know if I’m worth it

i said any relationship you’d be in would require work and he said he’d just die alone then?

we’ve both lost our sex drives. I think he forgets we have 2 young kids which demand a lot. We have jobs(I am on mat leave) a house to run erc

its a lot. But he just wants to quit

OP posts:
RandomButtons · 14/05/2024 22:59

All relationships require work, however you are never going to make things work with this abusive man.

Aquamarine1029 · 14/05/2024 22:58

Your partner has contempt for you.

That is a 100% deal breaker.

NewName24 · 14/05/2024 22:58

Yes. Or perhaps compromise is a better word.

When you have young dc, life is hard, and I'd say most relationships have bad patches, or even just bad days, because you are both exhausted, even before you discover you have different parenting styles. So yes, at that point you do have to take a deep breath and count to 10 and think about how you can get through it, if that is what you both want.

However, it doesn't sound like a good time to be getting married, if you aren't on the same path.

Aquamarine1029 · 14/05/2024 22:56

This relationship needs to end, right now. It's toxic. It's horrible. It's a horrendous example for your kids. Please end it now before it gets any worse, because it's never going to get better.

TheChosenTwo · 14/05/2024 22:56

While I would say that yes my relationship has certainly been through phases where we’ve had to work hard at things to get back on an even keel, we were always working towards the same things even if going different ways about it.
From what you’ve posted I’m not sure I’d be persevering with wedding planning. Neither of you sound very happy and I’m not sure it’s going to improve 😔

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