Meet the Other Phone. Only the apps you allow.

Meet the Other Phone.
Only the apps you allow.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To be pissed off with partner about this?!

109 replies

babayjane67 · 04/04/2016 17:41

Our car broke down on is few days ago&is gonna cost too much to repair.
We've been very lucky a close relative has offered to help us out with some money to get one.'dp' wants to use it as a deposit to get a more expensive one.
He won't let me have any say on which car we get or help in finding one.refuses to go thru the papers etc has to be just from a garage.insists on doing it all himself cuz in his words 'I know more about cars than u do!'
I found out today that he's gone behind my back&registered online to get finamce&has been accepted.we have money probs&already have debts we're paying off&he hasn't discussed any if this with me!the person helping us out has done so cuz they don't want us to be going to any loan places!!
It isn't the first time he hasn't discussed things with me.it happens a lot.
We've been together 9yrs known him for 11& have a child together
Aibu??

OP posts:
MiscellaneousAssortment · 05/04/2016 15:35

What do you actually feel about all this?

Your posts are quite passive, mostly lists of what your DP does or doesn't do, without much opinion or sense of how it's effecting you. And I'm wondering why that is?

Are you just flattened by it all? Do you want help leaving or help thinking through how that might happen? (Because you definitely could leave him, even with the debt there will be a way).

Or do you think it's a situation you can or should live with? Is this what you expect a relationship to be like? Is this situation better than having no partner for you? It can be very scary to think about living without being dependent on someone, even if that someone isn't very nice.

MiscellaneousAssortment · 05/04/2016 16:03

I'd be very careful how you handle this private loan situation.

I don't know what kind of relationship you have with this relative, and how much they understand about the way your DP treats you, but this could easily cause a rift that cannot be repaired. It could also go beyond that one relative, with sides being taken. And tbh, it sounds like you need family support, with the kind of partner you have.

People can hold you responsible for choosing to let your partner spend the money in a way it wasn't intended, and could assume you also want to take the piss, as if you didn't, you'd have stopped it from happening.

I hope you've told your relative how your partner is planning to misuse the money. It would be very wrong to just stand by and let this man take the money under false pretenses. To let him disrespect your relative just like he disrespects you.

It doesn't sound like you have any control over him, so telling the relative is the best option ethically, and also practically, to stop him alienating a source of support and driving you into more debt.

I had an abusiveness partner and lost close friends because of it. They weren't in this abusive relationship with me, and yet I exposed them to my partners bad behavior, the lying, money 'borrowing', unreliability, and the basic lack of respect, and the anger. And as I let the situation continue, although I was repaying the money he 'borrowed', apologizing for his bad behavior etc etc, but, at the basic level, by continuing to be with him, I was letting him treat my closest friends like shit. So eventually, after a long time, they left me to it, me and my shitty relationship.

babayjane67 · 05/04/2016 21:24

I haven't told the relative yet no but am going to when I see them tomorrow.
I do feel flat&pissed off with it all!I'm fed up with him disregarding my opinion all the time on everything! But I'm also feeling guilty&bit scared of taking that step of actually saying ok it's over I don't think this is working I can't live like this anymore!
I'm gonna try spk in to him again tonite&see what response i get this time but I'm. Not really holding out much hope as it'll prob just be hiw it always is when I try spwaking to him bout our relationship. He will go on the defensive straight away&deflect it bk on me&nothing will get resolved as usual.then he'll expect us to just start talking again (which we're not at mo)&gloss things ober&it'll all just go bk to normal

OP posts:
babayjane67 · 05/04/2016 21:31

He doesn't behave same way with my friends/family as he does with me

OP posts:
babayjane67 · 05/04/2016 21:53

He's gone to bed without us talking bout anything!!he's avoiding it all hoping i'll give up wanting to have 'the talk'
This is something else he does ffs!!

OP posts:
DontMindMe1 · 05/04/2016 22:05

remember - YOU are the one who allows him to treat you like this. you can stop it anytime.

The fear of how you will cope on your own - well it's just fear talking. There is help out there and as regards debt, well on a low income you only pay the minimum, when i was on jsa my utility had to accept a £12 payment every fortnight instead of usual £50

Feel the fear and then do it anyway. Once you take charge of your life and don't allow others to walk all over you then you'll start feeling more confident. You did it last time and you can do it again.

Cleo81 · 05/04/2016 22:13

My dh did this and I was livid. We had discussed getting a car on finance and worked out we could afford it, after a few months. We had test drove a car and he took all this to mean I had yes to this car on finance. He was being ages dropping the car back and I rung him to find he had signed a finance deal for it! He had committed to a few hundred pounds a month for this car without consulting me properly.

His reasoning was he works hard and earns most of the money and should be able to choose how the money is spent and have something nice for his hard work. He is much more focused on material goods than me. I was livid and begrudge the money coming out of our account every month but accepted it. He's signed the deal now and I know cars are his one passion. He does work hard.

We agreed he would never go behind my back again. Even more frustrating is that he later admitted he had done the wrong thing as our circumstances changed a few months later and we could have got a much better car.

babayjane67 · 06/04/2016 09:05

The key thing there tho Cleo is that u must have bin able to sit down together&talk about it to come to the agreement that he won't ever go behind yr back again!!
My partner won't talk to me/discuss anything properly&doesn't value my opinion!
I'm gonna try one last time tonite to talk to him&if he either does the same avoiding tactic as last nite or goes straight on the defensive&turns it bk on me I'm gonna tell him I want a trial separation.he can go stay at his Bros fro a while.

OP posts:
babayjane67 · 06/04/2016 14:04

MNHQ can I move this thread to Relationships please?
I don't know how to do it
Many thanks to everyone on here for their help :)

OP posts:
New posts on this thread. Refresh page
Swipe left for the next trending thread