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Am I justified in hating my (D)P at the moment?

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boxyboxy · 24/09/2010 13:52

I really need to get this off my chest as I haven't been able to talk about this to anyone but my sister and I really need to try and get my head around this. Basically earlier this year my P agreed that we would try for a baby this september. Thene during the summer he changed his mind wanting to wait utnil next septemb her. I am 38 and we have an 18month old girl now. For many many emotional, practical, financial, career-based reasons I desperately want to start trying now. We have talked long and hard, done research into fertility and ageing, talked to doctors etc and he said he was nearly 100% sure he didn't want to try now but he would still think about it.

Anyway the other day we were having very intimate sex, and he hadn't put a condom (our normal contraception) on. I reminded him to put one on, but he just looked into my eyes and smiled and carried on, I asked again was he sure, same thing. So I thought my god he's changed his mind, fantastic, esp as I am at right time in cycle etc, and he knows that too. Then at the crucial moment he pulled out. I was so shocked and upset that went into a kind of daze and just walked out of the room in tears, needless to say. When I came back in, still in tears, he was really angry, and basically acting like a complete prick that night and following day.
A couple of days later he apologised but can't/won't tell me why he did it. I've explained how it made me feel, but even though he has acknowledged how insensitive it was of him, i still have so much resentment against him because of it. I feel utterly belittled and completely violated in every way, the thought of having sex with him again makes me feel sick. He won't talk about it any more as he says he's apologised and I should just leave it.

I'd love to get some thougths, opinions, reactions to this to try and work my way through it.

OP posts:
QueenStromba · 26/09/2010 04:21

What he did was a bit rapey. Before everyone jumps down my throat imagine meeting up with an ex that you're still in love with (and he knows full well that you are) and ending up in bed with him thinking that you're getting back together only for him to blank you the next day. Wouldn't you feel a little bit raped? I imagine that the OP feels exactly like that - sex under false pretenses is almost as bad as rape for how bad you feel afterwards.

Boxy - please don't listen to the poster who told you to "start taking the pill" - you're partner would feel justifiably even worse than you do now. Imagine if when you were younger and weren't ready for kids a boyfriend had told you they'd had a vasectomy and it turned out they were lying and just trying to get you pregnant? In a way it's worse doing it to a man because once you get pregnant they have zero control over whether you have the baby.

Animation · 26/09/2010 06:10

OMG thar struck me as VERY chilling and controlling. Completely understand how you feel.

cumfy · 26/09/2010 06:19

Maybe see the old therapist, and review the sessions in the terms you've set out.

Did you ever bring up in the sessions that he thought that she was talking bull ?

From what you've said, I wouldn't trust him.

Ineedmorechocolatenow · 26/09/2010 06:56

Um.... QueenStromba - You really can't compare the two scenarios. Have you been raped? I found your comments quite hurtful actually.

Animation · 26/09/2010 08:52

"belittled and violated in every way"

These sentiments from the op suggest that some form of sexual violence had taken place. I took QueenStromba's comments to reflect the degree of injury that the OP felt.

Ineedmorechocolatenow · 26/09/2010 09:49

I was more upset with the stupid scenario of the ex getting back for sex and then getting ignored afterwards. Yes, horrible, but rape? No.

Ineedmorechocolatenow · 26/09/2010 09:51

Oh, and OP - I'd be seriously upset with 'D'P too.

There are a number of aspects of his behaviour that are nasty.

boxyboxy · 26/09/2010 13:38

Cumfy - yes I did bring up the fact that I felt had no respect for the process and that I found that uncaring - we weren't succeeding in communicating on our own, so why not give it a try. And of course the insecurity of not knowing where you stand if he says one thing in session and then not try and carry it out. He couldn't really see that side at all. There was nothing much the therapist could do, other than try and get him to come up with his ownsuggestions that he felt he could stick with, and ask him several times if he understood and agreed with things.

OP posts:
QueenStromba · 27/09/2010 07:07

Ineedmorechocolatenow - I have been raped actually, rohypnol at a party.

Ineedmorechocolatenow · 27/09/2010 08:36

QueenStromba - Sorry that you had that experience. I was also violently raped, when I was 15.

Having had that experience, I can't compare the two situations you gave. Having consensual sex with an ex and then being cold-shouldered the next day and being forced to have sex against your will are vastly different. I also hate the word 'rapey', but that's by-the-by.

Sorry for the thread hijack OP.

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