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To feel so so sad

27 replies

inthedarkx · 23/07/2019 22:56

So am I unreasonable to feel so sad in this situation? I was left by my husband, he got with someone within 4 weeks of leaving me ( I didn't know for months) anyway it's a long story and it's been around a year now and he's Happy with her and I'm here with 5 of his kids and pregnant with his 6th. I feel so depressed and lonely. I feel like I'll never be happy again and I miss all the love and affection and I'll never get it again. I do feel
Quite lonely at the moment and had feelings of not wanting to be here anymore, they so pass but I'm really struggling. And it makes it worse being constantly reminded by him that I 'shouldn't have had all these kids' like he not the father ??? Im worried about how I will feel after the baby is born ect. 😢

OP posts:
FudgeBrownie2019 · 23/07/2019 22:59

Flowers So he's upped and left and now telling you you shouldn't have had so many of his DC? He's a piece of shit.

Have you got much support and many friends you're able to lean on? It sounds trite (it is trite) but time will help mend your heart, you just have to keep going for your DC and making them your sole focus. Post on here whenever you're struggling with feeling low, and be honest with your GP and MW that you've got so much to juggle. The more people know the more they can (hopefully) support you.

IVEgottheDECAF · 23/07/2019 23:06

Op i remember you. I think your due around the same time as me, Sept?

Im sorry your feeling so rubbish but not really surprised after how he has treated you. How are you doing for RL support? How are the dc coping now he has gone?

MaybeMaybeNotJ · 23/07/2019 23:15
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IAskTooManyQuestions · 24/07/2019 01:46

If he left you a year ago - how - or why are you pregnant with his 6th child?

DoneLikeAKipper · 24/07/2019 01:57

If he left you a year ago - how - or why are you pregnant with his 6th child?

I mean I guess it’s ultimately irrelevant, but this question cross my mind as well.

HeadintheiClouds · 24/07/2019 02:29

How many months gone are you?

FlamedToACrisp · 24/07/2019 02:40

It's not at all unreasonable for you to feel sad. You and your DH should be sharing cuddles and happily preparing to welcome your next baby, and instead he's acting as if you had produced 'all these kids' on your own, while he swans off with another woman. (4 weeks? my suspicious mind would guess she was already on the scene before he left...)

Six children is a LOT. A lot of work, a lot of expense, a lot of space, a lot of washing... but also a lot of love. You will find some comfort in the joy of your children, and make sure they never feel you blame them for their selfish rat of a father leaving. It's not their fault, it just didn't work out, he found somebody he liked better than Mummy.

Have you sorted out finances with your ex? And is there anyone who can help you with the childcare and housework, especially while your darling new baby is being born and the first few weeks afterwards? (I hope you are already making a list of names your DH always hated!)

Of course you feel depressed and lonely - you've been deeply hurt, treated unfairly, your body is flooded with pregnancy hormones and you must be knackered. These feelings are natural, but hang in there and they will pass gradually.

Good luck and eat lots of cake Cake because fuck him you need energy to keep your strength up xx

SmellbowSpaceBowl · 24/07/2019 02:46

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RubberTreePlant · 24/07/2019 02:54

Stop shagging him.

HeadintheiClouds · 24/07/2019 02:56

Does he know he’s got you pregnant again? Can only agree with RubberTree, really...

Pavlova31 · 24/07/2019 03:11

He sounds awful Op Flowers Cake

Pavlova31 · 24/07/2019 03:14

So he has been sleeping with both of you after he left from what you said ?Confused Sad

IVEgottheDECAF · 24/07/2019 07:33

If i remember rightly the OP found out she was pregnant around the time she found out he was cheating, i think she means him and OW have been at it a year or so.

DoneLikeAKipper · 24/07/2019 07:37

If i remember rightly the OP found out she was pregnant around the time she found out he was cheating, i think she means him and OW have been at it a year or so.

I read another of the OP’s threads where she claims her husband left her when she found out about this pregnancy and refused an abortion. That was at 13 weeks and they’re now 20+. So either the op has no idea what a year is, or something else is going on (or there’s option three of course....).

IVEgottheDECAF · 24/07/2019 07:46

I think OP is due very soon. I feel like i suggested she join the antenatal thread i am on for support with the pregnancy

Aprillygirl · 24/07/2019 08:04

Omg you poor thing! I am a single mum of 5 kids and with their Dad deciding he couldn't be arsed with them anymore a couple of years after splitting it's been hard, but at least in my case the decision to split was mine and I wasn't left whilst pregnant with his child. I do hope you have supportive people around you and please please talk to some one about your feelings because you are obviously a fantastic mum and your kids need you. Also I hope you are not letting your ex have his cake and eat it by still having sex with him, you are both more than that OP Flowers

inthedarkx · 24/07/2019 13:14

Thanks everyone
I have another thread
I'll just summarise
He left me, for with another woman within 4 week, introduced her to my kids at 4 weeks. Came back as wanted to make a go of it with me but failed to tell me that the other woman was Someone he was seeing after he left me and when I got pregnant he left me again and 'went back to her' but I don't think he ever left her. Me I'm pregnant and I am struggling to cope
With it all. Because he's saying I 'had all these kids' and should just deal with it so I don't expect much from him. And I'm not sleeping with him anymore for posters who said I should stop.

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Hugtheduggee · 24/07/2019 22:25

I remember him and what he did to you

Remember how he tried to bully you into an abortion? Chow utterly vile he has been to you?

He's not a nice guy, and you are honestly better off without him. He has been breathtakingly cruel to you and your children and. I wish that all you felt for him was anger. He doesn't deserve the love and consideration thst you've given him.

Am I right in thinking he got (or at least claimed to) got the OW pregnant also, and and wanted to set up home with her at the same time as demanding you abort your baby?

inthedarkx · 25/07/2019 12:41

@Hugtheduggee yes he did, made plans to buy a house with me and everything but refused to come home at the time. I knew nothing about her whilst living apart. She was pregnant after all, she just had a boy, he's about 6 weeks old now I think. I'm due in 6 weeks. He lied to me all them months. And he wanted me to abort this baby. And she's so smug she gave him a boy coz he's 'already got 4 daughters and I'm pregnant with his 5th daughter'

We have a son together tho but she seems to think she's given him a prize because he used to tell me how he wanted loads of boys because it carries on his surname which makes me feel like crap all the time. And it turns out that she knew he was still living with me and the kids whilst still seeing him!

I just feel at my lowest point of my life. I've been blamed for everything and even she said I shouldn't be having another child, he said I should have 'got rid'

Im just so low and I wish he would just disappear

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picklemepopcorn · 25/07/2019 12:49

But...

All the reasons you feel low are because of his perspective. He's saying crappy things, but his opinion is worth nothing- he's worth nothing! Don't value yourself by the things they say, they are awful!

Ellisandra · 25/07/2019 12:54

It’s bound to be overwhelming. What a shit!

Shame he didn’t buy some condoms, if he didn’t want so many kids Hmm

Let your midwife know hope you’re feeling.
Speak to a friend or family member.
Make sure you’ve but in your CMS claim.
Sort out access with him so you get a break.
Keep the Samaritans number handy so you know you always have someone to talk to.
Enjoy your 5 fabulous kids.
Remember that as well as scary, it’s also exciting to have a new baby. You’ve done it 5x, you’ve got this!

Mischone · 25/07/2019 13:04

I'm so sorry OP, you're well rid of him Flowers

The OW sounds like a spiteful woman, just remember her karma is the cheating git she's shacked up with and she will reap what she has sewn.

If he can betray his wife and mother of his 5 children then she's got bob hope of him being faithful to her, at the moment she feels like she's won some sort of prize but what she's really done is taken a useless deadbeat dad off your hands. That man is not a prize.

In a year or so from now you will be in a different place, healing and getting on with your life without him and the likelihood is she will soon be where you are at. I think you could be forgiven for feeling a bit smug about it when she is.

Retake control of your life and laugh at them, when you're able to.

Men like this should get themselves sterilized and stop mass producing children they then wash their hands of. How dare he imply that you shouldn't have had all of his children.

In your darker moments look at your children and remember they need you, they're not at a loss by not having that man around but they'd lose everything if they lost you. You are their entire world.

I probably sound very bitter in my post and that's because I have gone through something very similar, so i can tell you that things will get better I can promise you that.

He may try to test the waters with you in the future when things go tits up with OW (which they will) and when that happens you need to stay strong and remember he has shown you and the DC exactly who he is.

Sending you strength Flowers

Mischone · 25/07/2019 13:06

I forgot to add (and echo a PP) make sure you're claiming maintenance, he doesn't get to shirk financial responsibility even if he does wash his hands of his children. Bastard.

IVEgottheDECAF · 25/07/2019 13:07

Well wont he have fun explaining to his youngest two children how they were born 10 weeks apart!

IVEgottheDECAF · 25/07/2019 13:08

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