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He’s fucking locked me out.

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FuckingFreezing1 · 13/12/2024 22:04

Basically this. I’ve text him as I can’t get in, I’ve just finished work. He’s on a works Xmas party.

Said he was setting off at 8:45 and he’d be home for 9 so I said cool, take the key.

Now it’s 10pm and I’m sat in a fucking bus shelter because he’s locked me out and won’t come back with the keys, he’s out and apparently I’m unreasonable for asking him to come home to at least let me in.

I haven’t a clue what to do, it’s 4°, my street is poorly lit and this place doesn’t shut til 12. I can’t afford a lock change so that’s out of the question and my mums not in. So I literally have to just wait.

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Pinkbonbon · 14/12/2024 02:37

The good news is, new year fresh start!

Make sure to take any paperwork about bills. So you can cancel your accounts. They can write to him as the new tenant. Don't leave anything valuable or important like passports behind.
Make sure to put all your money into your own account (if it's currently in a joint one) because he might drain it if he finds you leaving him.

I'd go home now and tell all his work friends that the feckless loser locked you out and you're done with him so you're off. And then leave with my suitcase and flip him the bird on my way out.

Put in writing, via text to him 'I've left now and cancelled myself off the phone, electric etc...so heads up, you'll need to get in touch with your details to recontract with them'. That way you have proof you have told him you left on that date and he can't complain you are responsible for money towards the bills after that point. You will still be liable for any contract you couldn't cancel and for rent should he stop paying though.

Incakewetrust · 14/12/2024 02:34

Have you called your mum yet OP? Hope you can stay with her tonight xx

PiggyPigalle · 14/12/2024 02:32

FuckingFreezing1 · 14/12/2024 02:26

Oh it defo is. This has got sniff written all over it.

You can do better than this.

PiggyPigalle · 14/12/2024 02:31

Did you try your mum?

LauderSyme · 14/12/2024 02:29

"Moving On Up Song by M People

You've done me wrong,
Your time is up
You took a sip (just a sip) from the Devil's cup
You broke my heart, there's no way back
Move right outta here baby
Go and pack your bags
Just who do you think you are?
Stop acting like some kind of star
Just who do you think you are?
Take it like a man baby
If that's what you are

CHORUS:
'Cause I'm moving on up
You're moving on out
Movin' on up
Nothing can stop me
Moving on up
You're moving on out
Time to break free
Nothing can stop me,
Yeah

They brag a man has walked in space,
But you can't even find my place
Mm...there ain't nothing (not a thing)
You can do
'Cause I've had enough of me
Baby being part of you

Just who do you think you are?
This time you've gone too far
Just who do you think you are?
Take it like a man baby
If that's what you are

Repeat CHORUS"

This one's more directly relevant to your soon-to-be-liberated, world-is-your-oyster, you-go-girl 29 year old gorgeous self!

Thevelvelletes · 14/12/2024 02:27

Thought as much with the selfish to the core behaviour.

FuckingFreezing1 · 14/12/2024 02:26

Thevelvelletes · 14/12/2024 02:12

I wouldn't be surprised if cocaine is in the mix.

Oh it defo is. This has got sniff written all over it.

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PiggyPigalle · 14/12/2024 02:24

Yeah, he probably thinks well she's taken it for six years, she take it forever.

Caiti19 · 14/12/2024 02:23

You are so much younger than you think. You've an opportunity to claim your life back, unlike so many women who get trapped. Please seize that opportunity and please keep us updated. I look forward to reading your next chapter. He'll be so shocked you're leaving after years of him wiping his feet on you. When the inevitable tirade starts in an effort to wear you down, say nothing. Just get the hell out of there.

UniqueOP · 14/12/2024 02:21

Oh, OP, I wish I could give you a cuddle and tuck you up in a warm bed with some hot chocolate. I cannot believe that it's past 2 am and he's left you locked out. And consider this - HE wasn't to know that there was a 24-hour McDonald's where you would be warm. For all he knew, you would be freezing outside. I bet he's loving this and getting off on the power of having you locked out.

Can you imagine if you were on a night out with some mates, and it turned out that one of them had locked his partner out and was carrying on enjoying the night out, aware that his partner was out on the streets in winter because of him? You'd be like "Oh my god, my mate is an abuser."

No one deserves this, OP. No one. Ring your mum, go to hers, and never, ever go back into that flat, except to get your stuff. And take people with you when you get it.

PiggyPigalle · 14/12/2024 02:21

If OP told MD's manager she had been locked out intentionally, I think they would call the police. It's a safeguarding matter.

tolerable · 14/12/2024 02:21

FuckingFreezing1 · 14/12/2024 02:09

I’m gonna be brave and ring my mum. She’ll be so fucking annoyed and that’s before I’ve relayed 6 years of it. Losing my dad’s ashes ring, the birthdays I’ve spent alone whilst he’s out with his brother, the Christmas days I’ve spent watching him open his presents only to find nothing for me. And I just put up with it.

YES! Do it immediately.right now. Please

trackerc · 14/12/2024 02:19

You are brave. You have had a wake up call & this is a turning point. We are all cheerleaders from the sidelines (& many of us lived it & passed through it to the other side)
You are ready for a different story.
Don't hide his fuckwittery. Share the tales with your mum of how he degraded you & kept you hypervigilant. Reverse the shame. It's not yours to keep.
Thank god for McDonald's too. Be safe

PinkArt · 14/12/2024 02:18

30 is an amazing age to start fresh, it's a brilliant decade for so many people and it's going to be for you too.
It sounds like it will be a tough chat with your mum but so worth it, especially as she clearly knows what a cunt he is. You've toughed out tonight so you've clearly got gumption - channel all of that now into that break and a brilliant new future.

LauderSyme · 14/12/2024 02:16

"Still I Rise Poem by Maya Angelou

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may tread me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise."

A little out of context but I hope still an inspiration.

PiggyPigalle · 14/12/2024 02:15

Thevelvelletes · 14/12/2024 02:12

I wouldn't be surprised if cocaine is in the mix.

OP is too nice. Police would love that. Chillin indeed. Chill tonight mate cos tomorrow you get frozen out.

raspberryripplecheesecake · 14/12/2024 02:14

Please do ring your mum. He's left you for over 5 hours. Awful, awful man.

CalicoPusscat · 14/12/2024 02:13

Hope it goes well with your mum.

Thevelvelletes · 14/12/2024 02:12

PiggyPigalle · 14/12/2024 02:09

If he's drinking and driving, I'd call the police for that and that I'd been locked out.
What's the betting he doesn't surface tonight and says he fell asleep.
I'd ask the McDonalds manager if the police ever call in there. If they call in for a bite, have a word with them.

I wouldn't be surprised if cocaine is in the mix.

pikkumyy77 · 14/12/2024 02:12

Get back in the apartment, grab your stuff, shit under his pillow, and leave with your head held high.

cordeliavorkosigan · 14/12/2024 02:12

30 is young.
You can have so much .
No harm giving the police a try, he's taken your keys and excluded you from your home. Maybe they can help. He's probably abusive in other ways.
Do not pay any of his bills ever again. What an absolute cunt. You deserve so so much better.

FuckingFreezing1 · 14/12/2024 02:09

I’m gonna be brave and ring my mum. She’ll be so fucking annoyed and that’s before I’ve relayed 6 years of it. Losing my dad’s ashes ring, the birthdays I’ve spent alone whilst he’s out with his brother, the Christmas days I’ve spent watching him open his presents only to find nothing for me. And I just put up with it.

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PiggyPigalle · 14/12/2024 02:09

If he's drinking and driving, I'd call the police for that and that I'd been locked out.
What's the betting he doesn't surface tonight and says he fell asleep.
I'd ask the McDonalds manager if the police ever call in there. If they call in for a bite, have a word with them.

Cryingatthegym · 14/12/2024 02:09

You are worth so much more than this.

What a cruel man.

I'm so sorry he's doing this to you OP.

SuperLoudPoppingAction · 14/12/2024 02:05

I spent my twenties with an abusive shit of a man. It's getting to the point now that I can hardly remember some of it, and I'm so glad I got out.
You've got a job, too, so you're doing better than I was back then - being financially independent will be such a help.

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