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Dinero86 · 17/12/2024 23:26

So I don’t want to come across like I’m not understanding here, I just need some opinions or advice as I genuinely have no idea about this kind of thing and it’s really putting a strain on my relationship not understanding it.

so my partner is from London and moved down to Liverpool in July (off his own back I never asked for this). He has 3 children, 1 of them being an autistic 5yr old. He’s not majorly autistic but he is on the spectrum. Now as much as my partner is a good dad I do feel he doesn’t have ANY boundaries in place for his son. His son comes to visit and will cry to not go home, so he lets him stay and miss school no problem. His son follows him everywhere and goes everywhere with him. He has currently been down for 5weeks now, hasn’t been to school or anything, in which time I had a difficult pregnancy and miscarriage and had NO support cos again - the son was down and didn’t want to go back to his mums. My partner has his own place and so do I, so when his son is down I basically don’t get to see my partner and his son refuses to sleep alone so wants to co sleep in his dads arms all night. He also sits up til all hours playing on the Xbox with no routine. As much as I do love his son and will do anything for him I’m really struggling with the concept of not having any time alone with my partner, I had no support in my pregnancy, I lost my baby alone and even now in my greif I can’t even sit and talk to my partner without “dad, dad, dad”. Haven’t been able to cuddle, sleep next to or even have sex with my partner (sorry to be graphic) I know children should always come first but I am really starting to question if I can do this, there just seems to be no boundaries or discipline or managing of the situation. Am I being unreasonable to feel this way, is this a better way I could view it, what would anyone else do? I genuinely am just looking for advice as I don’t want know what to do. I can’t even speak to my partner about it as he gets defensive and starts shouting at me. He is wanting us to start a family and move in together but there’s absolutely no way I could handle this how it is.

OP posts:
Dinero86 · 18/12/2024 13:25

PylaSheight · 18/12/2024 13:08

That’s just the type of person I am I could never see the kid starve or not have nice experiences/trips and I know he hasn’t got a penny to his name cos he hasn’t been to work.
But it always seems to be me paying everything, feeding him, replacing clothes or football boots etc. my partner just sits smoking weed on Xbox!

Fucks sake, stop it! If they are being neglected because of their awful parents report them to social services. NOT put a sticking plaster over this shit show with “nice experiences”

Any decent mother would have came down and collected the child

And if he was a decent father he would’ve stayed living local to his children, not move to the other end of the country to be with a new girlfriend and suggest they have babies. He’d also get a job rather than smoke weed and game all day, whilst keeping his child off school and not safeguarding his other 2 kids from their supposedly awful mother.

she has never worked a day in her life and had 8 children which she can’t look after and the kids beg to live with me, teeth rotting out their heads, unwashed and stinking when they come down and I have to go out and buy all new clothes etc

Yet this prince of a boyfriend is just as bad with his employment history, and also decided to have 3 kids with this woman! And you do NOT have to buy them clothes. If you had any sense you’d dump him and report the 2 of them to social services. If she’s so bad why haven’t you reported her eh?!

I appreciate you’re upset about your miscarriage but I’m not going to say sorry. All I’m sorry about is that you actually thought it was OK to bring a child into this carnage, and it’s a bloody good thing that’s not happening now (until you have another totally irresponsible contraception failure). Someone mentioned you’re 38. If that’s true this is even more shocking as you’re old enough to know better. Sort your shit out OP. Talking Therapies is available free on the NHS and you fucking need therapy.

Yano what, I’m actually fucking sick of some of the responses here thinking they are so high and mighty. There are ways of saying things and this ain’t it! How do u know I haven’t reported her? Do you even know me from Adam?! I have reported her TWICE actually and each time it caused holy hell when it was suspected to be me hence why police ended up being called out and him arrested and my life was made hell until charges got dropped. I reported her to try and shock her into changing but things don’t change!! My partner suffers with mental health himself and thinks he’s doing the right thing keeping his son up here away from her but it really isn’t as the kid just rules the roost, doesn’t wana go to school or go home, doesn’t wana go to bed and wants to sit up on Xbox, doesn’t wana let his dad go to work to make money! What kind of woman would I be to be sat at home at night eating knowing the kid is sat there staving eating packet noodles?? The first time I even saw him again after the miscarriage I walked in and saw what a shit show it was so took them both out bought a Christmas tree, decorations, food etc. yes maybe I am a mug but at the same time I’m a human and have a connection to these people. If domestic abuse was so easy to leave like some people seem to think it is why are many women going through it?! It’s a vicious cycle and I get from the outside it looks bad. But nobody sees the nice side to him when things aren’t bad and he is promising me things will be how they used to be and that’s what I literally crave is just that love back. Talking about irrisponsible getting pregnant like it’s never happened to people before, I took the morning after pill for god sake it wasn’t like it was planned or just thought fuck it! I own my home, I drive a nice car, I have a business making enough money to support a child I’m hardly irresponsible or unable to take care of a child! I left him during my pregnancy to raise the child on my own because things wernt good and I realised that I had to protect my child. But yes since then we have spoken and I’m sorry but when you go from a relationship and carrying a baby to literally being alone and greiving over the Christmas period it’s very easy to fall back Into just clinging onto the hope you can make this work and have your family you have always wanted when we sat and spoke about everything and how this miscarriage opened his eyes etc. People act like it’s so easy to leave a difficult relationship or women go through things for attention when believe me that is not the case!!

OP posts:
PylaSheight · 18/12/2024 13:08

That’s just the type of person I am I could never see the kid starve or not have nice experiences/trips and I know he hasn’t got a penny to his name cos he hasn’t been to work.
But it always seems to be me paying everything, feeding him, replacing clothes or football boots etc. my partner just sits smoking weed on Xbox!

Fucks sake, stop it! If they are being neglected because of their awful parents report them to social services. NOT put a sticking plaster over this shit show with “nice experiences”

Any decent mother would have came down and collected the child

And if he was a decent father he would’ve stayed living local to his children, not move to the other end of the country to be with a new girlfriend and suggest they have babies. He’d also get a job rather than smoke weed and game all day, whilst keeping his child off school and not safeguarding his other 2 kids from their supposedly awful mother.

she has never worked a day in her life and had 8 children which she can’t look after and the kids beg to live with me, teeth rotting out their heads, unwashed and stinking when they come down and I have to go out and buy all new clothes etc

Yet this prince of a boyfriend is just as bad with his employment history, and also decided to have 3 kids with this woman! And you do NOT have to buy them clothes. If you had any sense you’d dump him and report the 2 of them to social services. If she’s so bad why haven’t you reported her eh?!

I appreciate you’re upset about your miscarriage but I’m not going to say sorry. All I’m sorry about is that you actually thought it was OK to bring a child into this carnage, and it’s a bloody good thing that’s not happening now (until you have another totally irresponsible contraception failure). Someone mentioned you’re 38. If that’s true this is even more shocking as you’re old enough to know better. Sort your shit out OP. Talking Therapies is available free on the NHS and you fucking need therapy.

TwistedWonder · 18/12/2024 12:35

https://www.freedomprogramme.co.uk/online.php

littlehorsesthatrun · 18/12/2024 12:31

Dinero86 · 18/12/2024 10:34

I don’t have a family.

You are really vulnerable to being taken advantage of. Love isn’t enough- he doesn’t love you back to leave you alone like he has and to treat you the way he has. Please get some help and counselling. See your GP, go to woman’s aid. Please don’t have a child with this man.

Vinvertebrate · 18/12/2024 12:18

I have an autistic 8 year old. I don't think the autism is particularly relevant here, except to the extent that a routine, good sleep and a calm living environment are vitally important to this LO, and his needs are not being met.

The problem is this man is a selfish prick and a crap dad. In your shoes, I would take all necessary precautions not to get pregnant again, call SS and then run for the hills.

Bananalanacake · 18/12/2024 12:10

So he's about to be evicted? there's no point saying don't let him move in with you as he'll probably move in by stealth anyway. May as well sit down and give him all your spare cash now,

arcticpandas · 18/12/2024 12:04

@Dinero86 If you care at all for this 5 year old boy you should call Social Services right now. This poor little boy is being neglected and his needs are not met by his lazy potsmoking father.

And you want to put another child of his into the world? Are you for real? I can't even feel sorry for you because that's just so selfish and stupid. Why would you give him the opportunity to fuck up another kid? Take a random bloke off the street to have a kid with and it's 99% sure he will be better father materiel than this lazy asshole.

Adelstrop · 18/12/2024 11:51

Every time you post there is something additional that screams 'run!'. You have a 'partner' who shows no concern for you, lives off you, takes drugs around his child and cannot parent that child. Surely an eternity being single would be better than this, and that is hardly the only option for you. Clearly you have a lot of empathy, but you need to apply some of it to yourself.

NobleWashedLinen · 18/12/2024 11:30

Sorry but this is not the man for you. You need to let him go and look elsewhere. He may or may not be a good man (sounded ok in the OP. Less so in further posts) but your lives are not compatible.

JFDIYOLO · 18/12/2024 11:23

I'm sorry you don't have a family - it's one of the things he noticed. You have a home. Money. The desperate urge to see the best and nurture and save. And a complete lack of a support network and next to fill that gap.

You don't pick these men. They pick you.

The best thing you can do to help these children is find out where they live, where they go to school (if they do and if he even knows), and inform the school and local social services that here is a case of neglect and that these children need help.

And step back. Buying them stuff will not help. It's amateur thinking and these children need professional help.

Please don't bring a new child into this.

C152 · 18/12/2024 11:20

This is not the man for you, OP.

I am sorry for the loss of your baby. This man will not help you heal, as you already know.

@MyPithyPoster is right. Men like this target women without a strong support network, systematically cutting them off from the few people they do have in their lives, so that they can manipulate them. It is not your responsibility to parent this manchild or his children. Cut your losses, don't look back and live the life you deserve.

Ohnobackagain · 18/12/2024 10:55

TwistedWonder · 18/12/2024 10:40

It’s that word ‘sweet’ again. Honestly in my almost 60 years on this planet I’ve never heard a grown adult man referred to as sweet and then I joined this website and it seems to be the absolutely standard way victims on here describe their abusers. It’s like part of a script. It’s repeated like a mantra ‘but he’s soooooooo sweet’ No he really fucking isn’t. And it’s textbook for an abusive cunt to put on an act to reel you in. If he showed his true colours from day one, you’d run a mile.

OP this man doesn’t love respect or like you, he treats you like shit, cheats on you and scrounges - what is there to love? Hes a useless waste of space scumbag - what will it take for you to wake the fuck up? He saw you coming

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As this poster said @Dinero86 he is a piece of work.

OlderGlaswegianLivingInDevon · 18/12/2024 10:55

Harden your heart !

Ohnobackagain · 18/12/2024 10:51

@Dinero86 he’s got you completely fooled. He’s a c*cklodger!

MyPithyPoster · 18/12/2024 10:41

Dinero86 · 18/12/2024 10:34

I don’t have a family.

Yes, I thought as much. You’ve literally been targeted by this man.
It’s textbook stuff, you need to reach out for some support. Speak to women’s aid. There is an online course. I believe called the freedom program that will help you to make better choices in the future.
But yes, I absolutely knew it would be the case that you would not have a mother or a father in your corner fighting for you.

You can have a wonderful life and your next baby can be loved cherished and brought up in a wonderful environment with the best of Everything but the only person who can make that decision for your unborn future baby. Is you.

DisappearingGirl · 18/12/2024 10:40

OP, people on here can agree with you that he's not parenting his kids properly (even if he's a well meaning person). And that he's never going to be able to give you (or any future kids with you) much in the way of time or money.

But people on here cannot change him for you, and he is unlikely to change, and his situation is unlikely to change.

I would absolutely not be having kids with a man in his situation, even if he is a nice person underneath it all.

TwistedWonder · 18/12/2024 10:40

It’s that word ‘sweet’ again. Honestly in my almost 60 years on this planet I’ve never heard a grown adult man referred to as sweet and then I joined this website and it seems to be the absolutely standard way victims on here describe their abusers. It’s like part of a script. It’s repeated like a mantra ‘but he’s soooooooo sweet’ No he really fucking isn’t. And it’s textbook for an abusive cunt to put on an act to reel you in. If he showed his true colours from day one, you’d run a mile.

OP this man doesn’t love respect or like you, he treats you like shit, cheats on you and scrounges - what is there to love? Hes a useless waste of space scumbag - what will it take for you to wake the fuck up? He saw you coming

MildredSauce · 18/12/2024 10:38

Dinero86 · 18/12/2024 10:34

seeing it in black and white does make me think to be honest. When your living in the situation though it’s not as easy as all that cos he DOES have this nice side to him

It makes you THINK? Oh COME ON @Dinero86 !

You are in danger of being an absolute caricature of one of those "naaaah but i loooooove him" women.

I'm another one that hopes this is a windup.

Dinero86 · 18/12/2024 10:34

MyPithyPoster · 18/12/2024 10:32

Okay, I’ll put it another way. Where are your family? What do they make of this situation?

I don’t have a family.

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InAnyOtherLife · 18/12/2024 10:34

Seriously, get some self-respect, and get rid of him. And if the eight children - is he father to all 8? - are living in the conditions you say, ring social services and report the neglect.

Dinero86 · 18/12/2024 10:34

DrinkFeckArseBrick · 18/12/2024 10:08

Hi OP, I hope that writing this down has helped you see just how crap he is

He hardly works, smokes weed, doesn't parent his own child...my 10 year old sounds more driven, more responsible, and less lazy than him. You can surely do better than him

seeing it in black and white does make me think to be honest. When your living in the situation though it’s not as easy as all that cos he DOES have this nice side to him

OP posts:
MyPithyPoster · 18/12/2024 10:32

Dinero86 · 18/12/2024 10:31

Sorry I don’t understand this comment?

Okay, I’ll put it another way. Where are your family? What do they make of this situation?

Dinero86 · 18/12/2024 10:31

MyPithyPoster · 18/12/2024 10:25

This is why I always flinch when people suggest going no contact with families because it leaves them wide open to people like this in fact I’m convinced they target young girls that are fallen out with their families and probably boys as well.

My daughters have met a few men who suddenly started painting me and their father as the devil incarnate and pointing out all of the horrendous things we’ve done in their lives allegedly. But don’t worry, he’s there to look after her, yeah right fuck off.
It’s something to watch out for.

Sorry I don’t understand this comment?

OP posts:
Dinero86 · 18/12/2024 10:29

OlderGlaswegianLivingInDevon · 18/12/2024 10:06

@Dinero86

How did this prince afford to move up from London to Liverpool ?

is he in a private rental - how did he find it / how did he afford the deposit and the 1st month's rent...

This is the part the gets even better. I do actually question my own sanity at times being with him but in the beginning it wasn’t ever like this.

so he knew someone who lived where he does now and the landlord is just a bit of a dodgy one and let him move in and just pay the first months rent upfront. It’s only a studio flat. But he already stopped paying him 2 months ago cos he said there was issues in the flat that wasn’t fixed so his landlord is going thru the eviction process to get him out. I do see how it looks from the outside and reading it out loud I see exactly what people are saying. But as I say in the beginning I had never met anyone sweeter and kinder and it’s hard because i do stupidly love him.

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Mistletones · 18/12/2024 10:26

I’m so fascinated by how you talk about this vile woman vs the partner you love
when they’re both the same, if anything she is better because she at least gets the kids to school. Like i can’t even tell if you’re trolling it’s so mad how you phrase things.
he’s clearly so awful and so stupid, you think you’re helping the children but you’re just enabling them to continue to be neglected and abused, and you want to add another to the mix. It’s horrendous.
I hope you see the light, call SS on the parents so someone is looking out for those children and get yourself away from that man

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