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BusyMaker · 03/11/2024 07:06

Just signed up after hours of looking on google for people in a similar situation. No judgement please 😭…. I’ve been with my partner for 4 years, I have children from a previous relationship and one to this man currently 35 weeks pregnant with his second child. My heads doing overtime lately, all my kids are winter babies so birthdays start from November from January. Of course Christmas in between all of that. Don’t know why I’m only just feeling this now but hey ho somethings came over me. Hoping I make sense for everyone to understand and give me some advice…. So he is down to be staying at his mothers but stays me with me the majority. Please no judgement 😖 I’m trying to figure things out 😖 yes he helps around the house at times and is good with the kids but I can’t help but feel like he’s leeching off me. I pay for absolutely everything. Gas electric petrol food anything that comes into the house I pay for. He gets UC and doesn’t contribute one bit. It’s a touchy subject with him as I’ve tried to mention it previously but he just shuts me down by saying well you get paid for the kids and I do my bit for them so there you go. 😖. Yes okay I am on benefits and I am also very sensible financially. I have been decorating the whole house and I paid for it all to look nice with abit extra I had saved and had put away. I have been buying birthday presents Christmas presents since august as I like to start a little early and I cannot for the life of me shift my brain from thinking he is a taking the piss basically. It’s always my card that is being used. I feed him wash his clothes take him to appointments just everything in general basically. He just wants his bank balance to build he says because I have more than him (whatever is in my bank goes towards the kids needs and the house) 😭 draining me even thinking about how to bring it up in conversation without him commenting on my benefits which are totally for my kids and our home to keep running. The kids do not go without and our house is a happy home. I suppose I just need some advice from others because I am losing my mind talking to myself over it all. He tells me he loves me and I do believe it but still, there’s just no input. Am I being used 😔

OP posts:
BusyMaker · 03/11/2024 07:15

He does make me happy but not all the time. When he says I get paid for the kids he means me getting benefits and him doing a bit around the house entitles him to the benefits going into my bank therefore he shouldn’t have to use what is in his bank. I have said about making a joint claim and moving in full time but something in me feels off 😭

OP posts:
Mrsttcno1 · 03/11/2024 07:10

Yes OP you are being used, if he’s living with you the majority of the time, eating the food from your fridge, using the gas and electric in your house, then he should be paying towards those things at least something. When he says you are getting paid for the kids does he mean by him or by UC?

Personally if he doesn’t see any issue with this I’d be separating formally and making a claim for CMS.

DustyLee123 · 03/11/2024 07:09

Yes, you are being used.
Think very carefully before you give baby his name.

Chocolateorange22 · 03/11/2024 07:09

Honestly I think you'd be financially better off without him. You are paying an extra mouth, clothing and extra body and he'll use water etc that he doesn't contribute towards. Also I don't know the ins and outs but you may get CMS off him if he doesn't live with you either. I imagine it would be a pittance if you can get any at all though.

I have to ask apart from sex and children is he actually providing you with anything i.e happiness?