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Reasonsnottobeanidiot · 03/10/2015 00:54

Hiya, sorry this isn't in relationships but posting here for the traffic as I really need some help and encouragement to get out of this.
Been together two years, he is lazy and slovenly, goes to work every day (so do I for the same hours) but expects me to clean up after him and cook for him and even at my parents house leaves plates and beer around for them to pick up. In two years he has never once cooked me a meal, and last the six months mark never been romantic. He is obsessed with sports, and brings me along constantly to sports events, which I try my best to get involved with yet makes no effort to show interest in things which I care about. I am an academic at a university (he works in a trade based job which he enjoys and I am always interested about) and never has he asked about what I teach in my course or what I am covering that week, and if I talk about it his eyes glaze over.
He can be very sweet but then very aggressive, he swear at me calling me every name under the sun including c* etc for things as small as forgetting to mail something, and blocks me on whatsapp (I know he is mentally 10 YO) for pulling him up on this behaviour. He never calls me pretty or anything nice, and I find our conversation repetitive and boring. He doesn't stimulate me mentally, not because he can't but because he can't be bothered, and my female friends cannot stand him as they see him constantly walk over me.
In addition he pressurises me with sex, blackmailing me with things he's done over the day to make me have sex with him and if I don't keep up with his drive (we have sex most mornings and most evenings but he wants to have it 3-4 times a day despite me being busy with young DD) he gets moody and angry and sulks all evening refusing to acknowledge my presence, and if I say no I am busy he will start of please himself and then guilty trip me into "finishing him off"
I'm really not in love anymore but on the other hand, at times we are really close, and things can be very sweet, but this is 20% of the time (but obviously that is the time that guilt trips me into staying with him). My biggest worry is that I convince myself that this is normal in a relationship, but is it? If not please help me and tell me how to leave him as I feel so awkward breaking up with someone, and how to go about it. I just feel so so so trapped.

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TestingTestingWonTooFree · 03/10/2015 08:54

20% is not nearly good enough. 20% bad would be too much IMO.

arethereanyleftatall · 03/10/2015 08:57

Of course ltb.
No relationship is perfect 100% if the time, and other couples may have one or two of the problems on your checklist - but not all of them. I cannot imagine why you would think this is normal.

anothernumberone · 03/10/2015 09:00

No question from me, it sounds intolerable, LTB. It does not at all surprise me that you were quite young getting together because it sounds like he has the emotional maturity of a teen who has just left one mother only to land on his feet with another woman he can leave to pick up after him.

This is not a good role model for your daughter (although having come from a very traditional household myself in terms of work divide I can see that can be changed in the next generation).

Pedestriana · 03/10/2015 09:06

No it is not normal. If you stay, you reinforce to your DD that it is. He sounds awful.

pictish · 03/10/2015 09:06

Ugh. Just...ugh. So many unpleasant and disturbing things about this waste of space I don't know where to begin.

Yes for fuck's sake find that courage somewhere. This guy is bringing nothing positive to your life whatsoever! He's horrible!

if I say no I am busy he will start of please himself and then guilty trip me into "finishing him off"

Dear God...what is wrong with him? How revolting!

pictish · 03/10/2015 09:20

You won't be able to shield your daughter from the dynamic in your relationship, no matter how hard you try. It's your life - you can't hide your life! She will be able to see how he treats you, hear the things he says to you, know tension and see and feel that you are upset. She doesn't need to be in the room as a direct witness to be involved in it. It's in her home. It probably kicks off in front of her more often than you think too. Your fella there isn't reasonable...he doesn't care that she's there, does he? He just wants his meat pulled.
Get him to fuck.

molyholy · 03/10/2015 09:32

He sounds like a vile pig. You need to ltb as soon as possible.

AdjustableWench · 03/10/2015 14:37

It's up to you, but I agree with PP that you can't shield your DD from your partner's behaviour.

I would not stay in a relationship like that. I need to be in a relationship with someone who actively wants to share the domestic work (because it's fair) and who wouldn't consider pressuring me into sexual contact (because making love is about celebrating the relationship rather than just getting off).

I believe there are plenty of men in the world who think of women as people rather than objects. Leave the bastard and find a decent man who actually respects you. There are lots to choose from.

Nonnainglese · 03/10/2015 14:49

Ugh, he sounds like a seriously revolting individual.
I think you already know the answer OP.

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