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Is this emotional abuse or am I over reacting

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Charlotte5267 · 10/01/2019 13:54

I'm currently 25 weeks pregnant and living with my DH.
Before I was pregnant we both used to drink rather too much (I'd get through 2 large glasses of wine a night easily some of the time even more). Obviously I stopped as soon as I found out I was pregnant and I know that this level of drinking was by no means ok.
We've been married for four years and have rowed on on off but since I have become pregnant my DH has totally changed.
He disagrees with everything I say/ suggest and tells me how wrong I am.
He won't have sex with me anymore.
He's still going out drinking and lies about where he has been and how much he has had.

If I try and argue he just walks away muttering how stupid I am under his breath and laughing.
We've had a few of blazing rows recently and they have always started the same way. I come home and find him drunk which he denies. Last night I confronted him and stupidly provoked him by saying I was worried about leaving a child alone with him if he's going to drink this much. He followed me into the bedroom and threw the TV remote at me and started on the usual arguments all screamed in my face -
My family are horrible and money obsessed (They are not and have always supported him and taken him on big holidays)
I'm horrible to his mother and she is a kind person. He then switched to calling both me and his mother c**ts.
None of our friends like me and they have all complained to him about how horrible I am.
I'm weak and pathetic like my mother.
Our son is going to end up mad like me. (I'm not mad but I have been crying at the slightest thing since about 10 weeks)
I will never cope with having this baby.
I treat him like a lodger (I own the property and he contributes towards bills etc)
All the things I'm interested in/ projects I'm working on get referred to as shitty and crappy.
I'm lazy.
My job is crap and I'm crap at it.
All the time he is yelling in my face and I can't get a word in. I try and get to the front door but he blocks the way saying that I'm making him out to be a monster.
I packed a bag last night and begged him to let me out but he just got even more upset and said I was being stupid and weak.
We've had about 6 of these big rows since I found out I was pregnant (we had planned to have a baby) and everything I end up hysterical and terrified and I'm worried it will hurt the baby.
I don't have any friends anymore as I don't see anyone. I'm always worried I will say the wrong thing to people. Most of my friends are his friends too.
Hes constantly on his phone and carries it everywhere with him and gets aggressive if I ask what he's doing on it.
It was our wedding anniversary the day of his works Christmas lunch. He promised he would come home straight after. We had agreed to stay in as I'm always so tired which I appreciate can be very dull for him. Last year we went to Rules for a beautiful £200 meal that I treated us to. This year he came back an hour later than he said he would be. He was drunk and stinking of fags. I went to lie down and he followed me into the bedroom and passed out next to me. He woke up long enough to eat the pizza I'd ordered and then passed out again. When hes been drinking he takes up lots of space in the bed and I worry about him kneeing me in the bump so I sleep on the very edge of the bed.
He was supposed to learn to drive (we live in London so have never needed to) before the baby arrived. He booked his theory but only went over the revision the night before so failed and has done nothing since. If I ask him when he's planning to take the test again he get cross and says hes doing everything else (he did re paint the kitchen as we are looking to move to a bigger place).
He doesn't think that we should get a joint mortgage when we move and that everything should stay in my name which seems odd.
I feel like I can't do anything right anymore and I'm so lonely. I don't want to tell my parents as my nan is on end of life care and they have enough to worry about and they live in the Midlands. Plus its probably not as bad as I'm thinking it is and its just my hormones. I'm hoping that the baby will cheer him up and he won't want to drink.
When he wakes up the morning after a fight hes so lovely and kind and sweet. He explains that we both get stressed and need to let off steam and that he loves me. I've let myself go and I am quite dull now that I'm so tired and not drinking so I get that it can't be an easy adjustment for him.
I've offered to leave and for us to go our separate ways but he just keeps saying 'You're being silly' over and over again.
Sorry for the rant.

OP posts:
Daisybuttons · 11/01/2019 19:09

Please don't listen to him. None of this is your fault, he is just trying to make it feel like it is. Please speak to your midwife if you do not want to disclose to your family.

Bee1992 · 12/01/2019 00:43

Charlotte5267 are you ok?
Let us know please

Ribbonsonabox · 12/01/2019 00:51

You are under reacting. Please leave this horrendous man you dont deserve to be treated like this no one does Flowers

Pinkybutterfly · 12/01/2019 10:20

How are you doing?

Frouby · 12/01/2019 10:24

Hope you are ok, he sounds like my ex and dds father. He is a vile, bitter, twisted little man. The abuse ramped up when I was pg and when dd was a baby. I left when she waa 4 months old and my biggest regret is that I didn't leave when I was pg and enjoy the first 4 months of her life, because he was horrendous.

Please leave or make him leave you. Flowers

Missingstreetlife · 12/01/2019 19:06

Hope you are ok op.
All this stress is not good for your baby, cortisol in your blood is going through baby too, and may sensitise them causing anxiety longer term.
Violence in early childhood is v damaging, even if you don't remember it.
You have been conditioned to accept this behaviour but you can escape. Please tell your midwife or gp what is happening.

Clairaloulou · 12/01/2019 19:26

Please update us @Charlotte5267, this radio silence is worrying.

Gina2012 · 12/01/2019 19:31

I just feel like I've failed if I leave him.

You won't be failing your child if you kick the ARSEHOLE out

You will be championing your child

KICK YOUR PARTNER OUT NOW

Margomini · 14/01/2019 14:52

Charlotte5267 Really hope you are ok? Please let us know... Flowers

Bee1992 · 15/01/2019 06:18

@Charlotte5267
I hope your ok?
Please let everyone no that you are ok u havent been on here for a while
Starting to get worried

ThisWayDown · 15/01/2019 09:03

@Charlotte5267 please don’t feel you can’t come back and post even if you’ve decided to stay with your partner. We (well most of us) get that obviously it’s very easy to say leave him but much more difficult and complicated to do, and you love your partner and understandably don’t want to split up your family. We just want to know you’re ok and you’ll find support here no matter what you do. Cone back and talk to us please Flowers

Clairaloulou · 15/01/2019 09:13

@ThisWayDown

Second your comment!

KeiTeNgeNge · 15/01/2019 09:27

I’d chuck him

Ladymacmuff · 15/01/2019 09:38

You've offered to leave?

No. If anyone goes anywhere it's him. Yes this is abusive behaviour. Emotionally, psychologically and if he's throwing things at you it's not long before it's physically.

Very damaging - he's got to stop / get help or you've got to kick him out. You are pregnant. You deserve support. You deserve better. You do not have to put up with this.

Adversecamber22 · 15/01/2019 10:29

I may be wrong but hoping someone else can look at the joint mortgage issue. You said he doesn’t want a joint mortgage and it to be in your name only .I think it means he would not be chased for money even though your married if the mortgage went in to arrears.

When my DH and I got our mortgage it was only in his name but it was because I was buying another property but as married it meant in the event of divorce the property value would still be split. This is however many years ago.

Greenglassteacup · 15/01/2019 14:00

I don’t think Charlotte is coming back Sad

Clairaloulou · 15/01/2019 14:23

@Greenglassteacup I wish she would just to let us know she's ok. No more needed, just that 😐

user1486250399 · 15/01/2019 14:31

I know I'm going to get flamed for this but I don't care.

It's so easy to say LTB - this is 3 people's lives.

The problem with posting this stuff on mumsnet is that it becomes an echo chamber for your own feelings and anger and upset that everyone feels after a row. None of us know you or your partner and your partner has not given his side of events.

OP, you and your partner are going through a rough patch and things need to change. I urge you to contact Relate and seek relationship counselling. If he won't go with you, go alone. After counselling if you decide to split, go for it. But don't let a load of faceless strangers who comment, knowing very little about the situation, coloured by their own experience, then move on to the next thread persuade you that there is abuse when there probably isn't.

Greenglassteacup · 15/01/2019 16:33

Err ok!!

Clairaloulou · 15/01/2019 18:23

@user1486250399 have you actually read OPs post?!

HisBetterHalf · 15/01/2019 18:52

why have you offered to leave when you own the property????

MaybeMaybeNotJ · 15/01/2019 19:06

I hope you’re ok OP? Xx

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