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DH says my pregnancy is a sick joke

61 replies

nineweeksandcounting · 24/04/2011 14:53

Don't know if this is even the right place to post.

I posted before about problems with ILs but the real problem is my DH.

We've been together for 8 years after I had been a single mum to DD 14, whose dad was violent, abusive and beat me up during my pregnancy. I left him when she was a baby and when I met DH at first it seemed that I had met my knight in shining armour.

After we got married it slowly became clear that he was not the right man for me.

He's nothing like as bad as DD's father.He's not violent or abusive, he's just ... nasty to me, and makes me feel horrible every single day. He once told me that he is a nice guy, but there's something about me that makes men nasty, and when I said that I wished I could leave him and find someone else he said I would just turn them nasty too.

He never listens to me, is always too busy to speak to me, and is always pointing out my faults and how great a husband he is and what a lazy useless wife I am.

I am 9 weeks pg with unplanned baby. We are already in dire straits. We also have DS of 20 months and DSD of 12 years. DH is about to be unemployed and we are already crammed into tiny house with no money to move to bigger house. There is no room for the new baby. Please don't flame me and say I should have been more careful, it was a one off mistake. I really want this baby though and I know I will love him or her so much, and that somehow we will find a way.

DH and DD can't stand each other. They have just had yet another hideous shouting match. DH said he can't take any more and hates his awful life. No more than I hate mine. I was crying and he just said that our lives were a fucking nightmare already but with this pregnancy things have turned into a sick joke. That there's no way we can have another baby. I said, maybe I'll have another miscarriage (I had one a few years ago) and I could see by the look on his face part of him wished for that.

I wish I could leave him. I wish I never had to look at him again and feel the way he makes me feel - like an awful, difficult, woman who has ruined his life. I can't, though. We have no money to run one household, and I can't consign my DS and future unborn baby to a life split between two homes. DSD has had this all her childhood and she has hated it and had to see a psychologist at one point. I know it can work for some families. But then I think that DD is being subjected to this man who hates her. I don't know what to do. I can't stop crying.I don't know how my life turned out this way. I am 37 and too old to start again.

OP posts:
princessparty · 24/04/2011 17:26

and do not bounce into another relationship.Learn to be strong and independent on your own or you will just attract the wrong kind of man again

ENormaSnob · 24/04/2011 17:57

Put your kids first.

This isn't good for them at all, especially your dd.

goodbyemrschips · 24/04/2011 18:11

Why are you sleeping with him if he is so nasty?

hairylights · 24/04/2011 18:14

Yabvu to have stayed with this man. Dint
Stay a day longer and don't continue to put your kids through this.

Very unreasonable to continue to have sex with a man you find so hateful.

LDNmummy · 24/04/2011 18:15

He is an abuser, physical abuse is not the only form of abuse and your current partner is abusive.

If I were you I would kick him out and start over. It is not healthy for you or your children to experience this. His blaming you for turning him nasty is a classic sign of an abuser and he is also using your past against you.

Men like this make me sick Angry

hairylights · 24/04/2011 18:16

Actually I think you are being very very irresponsible to your children. How can you continue to let them go through this?

A refuge would be a good start ... Preferable to the status quo ... Starting tomorrow.

BalloonSlayer · 24/04/2011 18:19

Sounds like abuse to me too. Sad

Women's Aid will be able to help you move out and start again. They were set up because so many women in your position think it is too hard to get away from their abusers.

SequinsAndSparkles · 24/04/2011 18:20

Please PLEASE leave, you owe it to your daughter, how can you let her live with a man who hates her? It will really screw her up, and she will resent you when she is older for not removing her from that situation. Keep this in mind, and do what you need to do. PLEASE!

alicethehorse · 24/04/2011 18:37

37 is not too old to start again, please believe me.

Please, please get away from this man, it does not have to be like this.

And even if you think you're too old to start again, your children certainly aren't, are they?

alicethehorse · 24/04/2011 18:38

Please talk to women's aid, they will listen to you and can give you practical help when you are ready

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CharlieCoCo · 24/04/2011 18:51

abuse is hard to walk away from as much as it seems easy for an outsider but look at it this way. your children are growing up with this everyday environment, they dont know any different. you dont want your daughter or son to be abused when they are older because they think its normal because mummy had it (or become abusers when they are older because they think its normal because daddy did it). if your husband hates your daughter he is emotionally abusing her. her daughter is being abused by your husband! please take your children away from this situation, find a refuge and let us all know how you are getting on. be strong! xxx

nineweeksandcounting · 24/04/2011 20:08

thanks everyone. at the very least for making me feel like I am normal and not someone who turns men horrible! you have given me a lot to think about it and made me feel a lot stronger.

OP posts:
Flisspaps · 24/04/2011 20:11

You're not too old to start again.

You ARE too young to put up with possibly another 50 years with this man, and for your children to spend another 20 or more years living with him.

princessparty · 25/04/2011 20:07

Can't you get the locks changed while he is out and leave his stuff outside in bin bags

RunAwayWife · 25/04/2011 20:15

Wow you know how to choose them don't you, do you have a flashing light about your head reading low self worth come and abuse me?

You need to end this marriage, walk away.

Stop wallowing in self pity with the "I'm 37 too old to start again" and the "I don't want my children going between two homes" rubbish so you think it is better to let your children grow up in this farcical family? They will all end up on the shrinks couch if you stay.
Go to the CA and see what benefits you can claim, what help with housing you can get and then have the balls to take your son and have a life with him and the new baby.

GloriaSmut · 25/04/2011 20:25

Firstly, you are NOT, like nowhere near, not too old to start again.

Secondly, instead of thinking you will ruin your dcs' lives by splitting from this unpleasant excuse for a husband, consider that you will be doing the best for them if you remove yourselves from this horrid situation. Do they really deserve to grow up in a household where nastiness is common currency?

Dozer · 25/04/2011 20:38

37 is young. Plenty of women have their first dc at that age.

Agree with the posters who say you should leave for the sake of your children, especially dd. It's very hard for you, but you have choices (even though it may not seem like that). Your daughter does not and is young and vulnerable.

If you do leave, perhaps one of the organisations mentioned on this thread can help you to think about why you are drawn to abusive men the problem definitely isn't that you turn them nasty, but it probably isn't just bad luck, you are picking the bad'uns.

Is there anyone in real life for you/dd to talk to?

christmasdaybaby · 25/04/2011 20:41

This thread just made me cry, and if its having that effect on an outsider imagine what its doing to your children! Get out!

MrsDrOwenHunt · 25/04/2011 21:02

you are not to old, i was 37 when i left ex h, i was so so so unhappy and i thought i would never be happy again, i left him and went to a refuge, i felt tbh that i was a fraud because i wasnt hit as much as some of the other girls in there but the feeling of sheer lonliness was so hard to deal with, he never use to talk to me either, preferring to go and sit and drink alone then sit with me, i thought i had met the man i was gonna spend the rest of my life with and it turns out that i was just a means to an end. i live by myself with ds now and yes i am not gonna lie to u its hard but my god, so much better than when i was alone with him iyswim? you can message me if u need to xxx

iscream · 25/04/2011 21:07

My God, woman, this is no way for you or the children to live. He should pack his bags and get out. Unless there is somewhere for you and the children to go.

I'd never stay with a hateful man who made my children and myself's life a living hell. Get away from this guy, and make a happy home for your kids. Take his dd too, if you feel that would work out, and she would want to be with you and her half sibs/step sibs.

MrsDrOwenHunt · 25/04/2011 21:09

sometimes it is harder to leave, i always said that i would never stay too, god know what happened to me, he just took away all my confidence slowly

TheVisitor · 25/04/2011 21:10

You deserve a life where you're respected and not belittled.
You deserve to feel safe and secure in your own home.
You deserve to not be made to feel like a bad person.
You deserve to not be called names.

Your children deserve the above too. Ring Women's Aid and see what they can do to help you. They'll support you until you're ready to leave and then beyond. I know it's not always just straightforward. Get together paperwork like birth certificates, passports, bank books etc and keep them in a safe place, ready for you to walk out. If you can start squirreling away a little money, that's good too.

MrsDrOwenHunt · 25/04/2011 21:17

i agree with everything thevisitor said, i know its hard babe i know, but as i sit here sipping well ok guzzling!! my echo falls rose in my own flat sat on the carpet i paid for watching the tele i brought i am finally calm in my head, i have friends now and ds is happy too xx

iscream · 25/04/2011 21:18

PS You are not too old to start again, you are still young. You feel overwhelmed right now, but you can do it!

My mom started again at ages 25,widowed 54, windowed 72 divorced. She at age 78 just broke up with her gentleman friend over the week end...she will not accept anything less than she gives.
I started over again twice myself, with a child, left all of my possessions behind, started a new life.
Material stuff is just baggage if it prevents you from having freedom.

iscream · 25/04/2011 21:20

*54, windowed widowed, I meant, please excuse the grammar, typo's etc.

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