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AIBU that i want to leave my dh as he doesnt want anymore kids

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bliss88 · 16/07/2011 10:30

i have been with my dh for 4 years now and we are very happy, we had a baby 2 years ago and he is beautiful, Dh is fantastic dad! one evening i started to talk about having more kids and he just snapped at me saying i dont want any more! i was shocked as i thought being brought up in a big family enviroment it would make him want to have a bigger family with me! i said to him that i dont think i can be with someone who doesnt want anymore kids, he then turned it round saying i was using him etc!

i feel so upset that the man i love and who i thought loved me doesnt want anymore children with me!

i really really want more children i dont want my ds brought up an only child! i was brought up in a big family too and i had such amazing times with my brothers and sisters.

i am currently on the coil but i dont want to have it all my life as i want more kids!

What do i do??

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springydaffs · 18/07/2011 17:52

So many women banging on about OP's age! . imo doing everything right in the right order doesn't necessarily mean you're going to be successful. OP took her situation on the chin, went through with the pg at a difficult time, committed to the father. Mature, if you ask me. She's sensibly asked for advice from women who are old enough to know better and has been pilloried. You older women should be ashamed of yourselves for what you've put this woman through. She has shown more maturity than some of yous who think it is smart to sneer at her for her spelling and punctuation! She had asked a perfectly ordinary question and cut to the chase: basically, is it a deal breaker.

As I have already said, imo it is. You 'older women' should be ashamed of yourselves that you used her previous threads to sneer at her.

and fwiw it was a breath of fresh air to read CutOff's post, only for her to be battered half to death by Ms's spurious accusations (cod psychology) of 'projecting'. ffs, give me strength. Some of the responses on this thread have been a disgrace.

TubbyFunster · 18/07/2011 18:10

I agree with springydaffs, Cutoff's post was spot on. Very level headed.

Al0uiseG · 18/07/2011 19:02

I don't. Do a search and read what else the happy family get up to. It's not exactly The Waltons.

springydaffs · 18/07/2011 19:06

and you, Al0uise? Your family up to Walton level? Your previous post was foul. You input has been a disgrace, see above.

exoticfruits · 18/07/2011 19:19

I haven't seen her previous threads-I don't think it fair to bring them in. Her state of bereavement means that she shouldn't be making any decisions at the moment.

MsPlaced · 18/07/2011 20:12

Older women? You've no idea what age anyone is here, why assume we are all older women? And if you don't think age comes into it, you are as naive as the OP.

Give me a break. I don't personally give a flying shite if she has 20 children with a drug addict on/off partner, however it seems out of the two of them, he actually has more sense. And if thats somehow nasty and sneery to say so, I'm happy to be so. In the real world though, its just rather obvious common sense.

Mouseface · 18/07/2011 20:26

I agree again with you MsPlaced

If he is a drug addict then bringing another child into the world, al la Jezza Kyle, would be the wrong decision in my book.

Maybe baby no1 wasn't planned. Who knows but bliss (wherever she is) wants to plan baby no2.

I don't think it should be just yet until her DH is clean. The health risks to the baby are not worth the risk......

But given that bliss has vanished, we can only guess how she is planning to go with this.

Al0uiseG · 18/07/2011 20:49

Night Mary Ellen, night John boy, night Grandpa and most of all good night to those "older" women. :o

WhoseGotMyEyebrows · 19/07/2011 08:17

He's a drug addict? I thought he did the occassional spliff. Hardly the same thing.

Al0uiseG · 19/07/2011 08:51

"Now i need some advice my dh is addicted to drugs...our baby is now 1 and he still doesnt seem lke he wants to quit."

C&P from another of her threads.

MsPlaced · 19/07/2011 10:31

occasional spliff every hour maybe.

differentnameforthis · 19/07/2011 11:07

being a young mum is hard

No, being a mum at any age is hard! You don't have the monopoly on how difficult it is, just because you are 23!

WhoseGotMyEyebrows MN gives out lots of support, but it also does what hardly any other forum (at least any that I know of) does....it gives you the harsh truth. If you want sugar coated love ins, go elsewhere. The poster here are simply telling it how it is. Being truthful, to me, is preferable than lying & just telling an OP what they want to hear.

It isn't going to happen on MN, and quite rightly too.

WhoseGotMyEyebrows · 19/07/2011 12:30

Yes he smokes cannabis which long term can be bad, but they guy is not on heroine! Huge difference between the two.

differentnameforthis Of course it's good to be truthful, the problem that I keep seeing on MN is posters clinging to one little thing the OP said (such as when the OP said she would consider leaving her DH) and going on and on about it. Not even stopping to think that maybe the OP just said what she was feeling while upset, for example. This isn't helpful as then they don't get any help as they just get ripped to pieces. I think a lot of posters on MN these days get off on the power trip.

MsPlaced · 19/07/2011 12:34

well as long as its not smack, drugs are fine.

I'm sure she was feeling upset when she said she'd consider leaving him. And I'm sure she was upset when he already left her, and when he was using drugs so muc he couldn't look after his own child....

What do you want people to say? "Never mind hunni, your lovely man will sort it all out, big hugz!" Good luck with that. Hmm

Empusa · 19/07/2011 12:36

"clinging to one little thing the OP said (such as when the OP said she would consider leaving her DH) "

Ah yes.. you mean the title of the thread? The main question she asked? Wonder why people pick up on something as little as that. Silly people.

WhoseGotMyEyebrows · 19/07/2011 12:45

Yes the thread of a title when she was upset at being faced with the prospect of NEVER having another baby! Some would have said worse.

MsPlaced · 19/07/2011 13:03

No she wasn't. Dramatic much?

differentnameforthis · 19/07/2011 13:03

whosegot re the leaving her dh 'being jumped on'. That is teh question in the title of the thread.

So I can completely understand why people jumped on that! That wasn't 'one little thing' it was the whole bloody thing!

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