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Husband wants me to take a lie detector test

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Sjrl1 · 18/10/2023 14:58

My husband I have been together for almost 20 years, we have two young kids at home. I started a job around a year ago- my husband has never meet anyone from my job but is completely jealous of the few men that work in my office. He is convinced I have cheated on him. So much so he has asked me to take a lie detector test. He doesn’t believe me when I tell him nothing has happened. It is destroying our lives. I will take the test because I have nothing to hide but I am heartbroken that it has come to this.

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ArcticBells · 18/10/2023 17:52

Either he needs help or this is a wind up

Gillypie23 · 18/10/2023 17:54

Why is he acting like this. Has he cheated and taking it out on you.

ThereIsNoTomorrow · 18/10/2023 18:03

@GilberMarkham sorry should have said it was 3 questions per test not 9 all at once.
He didnt believe the first, so I did it again but 3 different questions again he didnt believe it so I did another with different questions again but all relating to having sex with somebody else and cheating. He didnt believe any of them, hes actually asked me to do another 🤣

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Ktime · 18/10/2023 18:07

He knows you’re not cheating.

He sees you slowly gaining confidence and your world is getting bugger, so he is trying to make you small again, and to get you to work from home again.

You work full time.

You do all the housework.

He is lazy and now controlling as well.

There is nothing worth staying for, your ds will thrive away from this atmosphere.

saythatagaintome · 18/10/2023 18:07

GilberMarkham · 18/10/2023 17:29

I had one of these too.

Would go through my phone and open unopened phone company etc messages I hadn't bothered opening when I left it behind or he got access to it

About 3 months in he started the "when I'm in a relationship I don't socialise on my own" campaign, to try to get me to match him. I was so green I didn't even realise he was trying to get me to match him til he started cracking up if I went out on my own and implying the relationship was over.
He was still at it months later. Reasoning and reassuring did nothing.

During the relationship he suggested I open my own business and we renovate one of his outbuildings to base it in. At the time I thought nothing of it but afterwards realised he was trying to get me out of the workplace.
He was trying to cut out and shut down my every point of contact with other men on my own.
With my work at his home, he could supervise. From my experience of him, he'd also have been trying to "influence" my choice of work colleagues too, if I got any.

There really are men who think like this. They can't lock you up/away like in some regions of the world; so they try to create the cage in other ways

Edited

@GilberMarkham that’s the pattern 👀

I remember how on this same visit he wiped the makeup (think sparkly glitter on my inner eyelid) off my face and said “only
loose women wear makeup” !!!!!

and also made a comment about the spaghetti straps on my tshirt and how the shirt was “too revealing 😬🤔

later that day the cellphone incident.

this guy came from a backasswards family living in southern US.

what a nightmare!

Littlewhitecat · 18/10/2023 18:11

Completely missing point of the thread - but where would you go to get a lie detector test? It's a ridiculous request on multiple levels.

Everydayiscake · 18/10/2023 18:13

So he doesn’t trust you. I would say no. But we can go for counselling. I was married to someone jealous and controlling and my life became miserable. These are his issues not yours.

Floofydawg · 18/10/2023 18:14

Does he think he's on Jeremy Kyle? Is this even real?

Coldbrewnumber2 · 18/10/2023 18:17

FayCarew · 18/10/2023 15:52

My first thought is that he's the one cheating.

100 percent. He’s guilty.

ThereIsNoTomorrow · 18/10/2023 18:22

@Littlewhitecat a company called liedetectortestuk will come to your house or have several offices to do these in

Emotionalsupportviper · 18/10/2023 18:23

vix3rd · 18/10/2023 15:03

I'm going to say that even if it comes back that your telling the truth, there's every chance he still wont believe it & will say you cheated somehow.

I couldn't put up with this.

This.

Plus, they are notoriously unreliable - that is why their results are not admissible in court.

He either trusts you or he doesn't. If he doesn't, then you have no relationship any more.

Often a partner who doesn't trust the other is "off on the side themselves" - they judge others by their own behaviour.

Tell him you'll take one if he takes one.

Goldfishonabike · 18/10/2023 18:24

This sounds like a toxic relationship, sorry op. Hope you’re ok. It’s not for any of us to judge if your relationship is beyond repair, but this situation is toxic and his behavior is outrageous. My DH had a period of jealously at the start of our relationship and it drove me nuts, I didn’t pander to it but told him to get himself together or it was over. He occasionally slips back into it, but I don’t allow it for a second. I tell him he has no reason to worry and that I won’t be treated like that and that it’s fucked up. He usually stops the behavior then. For him, it’s about deep seated insecurities and stuff that happened in his childhood, but that isn’t my fault and I won’t be the victim of it. Don’t let him treat you that way.

AdoraBell · 18/10/2023 18:28

What is his reason asking you to do this? His exact reason, not a vague waffling accusation.

DinnaeFashYersel · 18/10/2023 18:28

Your relationship is already over if he's asking for this.

FairyMaclary · 18/10/2023 18:28

If you are going to do this I recommend you ask him to do the same.

Just in case he is judging you by his standards.

I would also make sure you give your own cheating definition. So you include cam girls, only fans, prostitutes, texting women without your knowledge etc

Bluetrews25 · 18/10/2023 18:29

Please be aware OP that very often these abusive controllers hint at or threaten to harm themselves if you step out of line or leave.
It's all empty words.
He is not your responsibility.

And he's the one who's cheating. You see it written about on here All The Time.

Zebedee55 · 18/10/2023 18:30

Lol...the Jeremy Kyle showed them to be unreliable.

But, no, I wouldn't do one.

Either your DH trusts you or he doesn't.

If trust is doubted or broken, it's over really.

Thelnebriati · 18/10/2023 18:35

@Sjrl1 This isn't about trust, its about his jealousy and paranoia. He is making your relationship toxic and unsafe.
Please talk to people- - your GP, Refuge, and your local police domestic abuse team. Get some support and help.

Aajfss · 18/10/2023 18:37

If I truly believed my husband was cheating a lie detector wouldn't convince me otherwise, I'd assume he cheated or it didn't work on him, they're not 100%. If I hired a private investigator and they didn't find anything I'd thing he knew\other woman was on holiday\PI was shit etc. If I truly believed it then that's what I believe and a less than perfect lie detector test wouldn't help

In your shoes I'd be worried he's cheated with a colleague and has seen how easy it is to do that and lie and has assumed you'll do it too. A lot of women over in relationships have a story just like that.

StopStartStop · 18/10/2023 18:37

Divorce. Plan quietly and leave safely, in case he turns violent. If you ask him to leave, have people with you when you do so.
He's completely unreasonable. Also, he's probably projecting and up to no good himself.

CheekyHobson · 18/10/2023 18:42

So you out-earn him, do all the household chores and are primary caregiver to the children. This is your first time working outside the home, and all of a sudden, he has become jealous and paranoid.

You've been together for 20 years, yet your children are under the age of 5.

I assume you had to get together with him in your mid-late teens or very early 20s at the latest? Was he your first boyfriend? Is there an age gap?

EasterFlower · 18/10/2023 18:43

OP don't do relationship counselling with him. It's a bad idea where abuse is involved. He'll just use the sessions to further abuse you. It won't fix anything. You've done nothing wrong at all. You're not the problem. Your job isn't the problem. He is the problem - but he will never ever admit it. Nor will he ever change.

Don't let your performance suffer at work because he's stressing you out at home. That's a deliberate tactic. He wants your mind on him, and only him, every second of the day. Look how you're on here posting about him, worrying about him, when you should be having downtime from work.

When you start to ignore all his bullshit, stop attempting to reassure him etc and focus your mind on other things (any other things) he will respond to that by ramping up the abuse further. Watch out for him sabotaging your attempts to get to work on time. Including things like keeping you up late, picking a row the night before so you sleep badly, taking up your time in the morning with inconsequential things or with his "mental" issues, suddenly having weird unexplained symptoms that need a doctor and you to wait with him because he's "scared". Or any other tactics he may try. Pay attention to it, to the timing, to the effects on your life. See it for what it is.

You say you're not scared of him. You should be. When his attempts to control by coersion fail, he's unlikely to just stop, he's likely to resort to violence. A push, a shove, a waved fist, slamming a door like a tantrum, banging a table, getting up in your face all angry, cornering you, blocking the exit with his body, grabbing your arm as you turn away to walk off. All of it is an escalation of abuse. Don't tolerate any of it, leave. Better still, leave now before it happens.

billy1966 · 18/10/2023 18:45

This is what a controlling abusive marriage looks like.

He was fine when you were in your box.

Contact Women's aid for a chat.

I think he sounds deeply disturbed.

Do not do this.

If he doesn't trust you, your marriage is over.

This behaviour is not normal.

Protect yourself.

billy1966 · 18/10/2023 18:47

His threat to self harm is highly abusive and should be reported to police.

Abusive men do this all the time.

BasiliskStare · 18/10/2023 18:52

I agree with @Bluetrews25 - I had this once

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