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To want to call the Police on DH??

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NoPatienceNow · 29/09/2019 12:19

I am feeling so down. I have had a really tough year, DH is emotionally abusive. I am pre-menstrual and therefore a bit emotional etc anyway. DH cannot discuss anything without getting and get and losing his temper. Today he had wanted to use my car. I just said no as I need it. Of course he didn’t accept this so went on and on, which is what often happens, but he won’t usually take the car unless I say it is ok. Today he just took the car. I told him I will call the police. He said “If you call the Police, you will have taken this relationship to another level”. I said he already had done that by taking the car. I then hung up and didn’t answer when he called back.

I don’t think I even have the guts to call the police but I am tempted. I don’t think they would do anything as he is my husband and he is on the insurance, although I now plan to take him off. I’m not sure I would even go through with doing that! He comes home and is nice to me for half an hour and somehow convinces me everything is ok! I’m such an idiot.

The car thing is a long running argument and has been going on for about two years. He won’t buy a car and if I don’t let him take mine then he tells me I’m being an unreasonable bitch. Today while he was carrying on, before taking the car, he was stomping around downstairs saying “You look like a witch, you smell like a witch and you act like a witch”. I missed much of what he said as I put my fingers in my ears when he is shouting and swearing at me but he happily confirmed to me after that this what he’d said.

I have pointed out that if I am so U about car then surely he would just make other arrangements. He said he is sick of having to “beg” for it. I said discussing it isn’t the same as him begging. But he also doesn’t get to just announce he is taking it without considering me.

I am so fed up.

OP posts:
happycamper11 · 29/09/2019 15:39

Ugh my ex was like this, he didn't even have a driving licence. I ended up losing a job because he so often took the car and didn't return it so I couldn't get there. You need to leave him OP, he'll only get worse.

Mydogmylife · 29/09/2019 15:40

Gosh, everyone seems fixated on the ins and outs of the car , including the op. Surely this is merely a symptom of a dysfunctional relationship, and that's where your attention should be focussed.

From what you've said he seems pretty unpleasant to you in other ways - do you want to spend the rest of your life this way? Or do you think there's enough there still to fight for?

Figgygal · 29/09/2019 15:42

Leave him
WHat an awful environment to be in fit both of you

PepePig · 29/09/2019 16:23

The car is a non-issue. Sharing a car shouldn't be a problem. However, your DH's attitude clearly is a problem. Stop trying to justify or understand his behaviour. It doesn't make sense, nor will it ever make sense. He doesn't want to solve problems. He wants to create problems, to put you out, so he can control more of your life.

You have very little tying you to this man. Leave before you end up trapped with multiple children and a custody battle on your hands. Leave before he manipulates you so much before you can no longer see the wood for the trees. You know exactly what is going on right now, so don't wait. In 5 years time you'll be considerably more broken, he'll have upped his abusive ante and you won't have the willpower, or means, to go.

Coyoacan · 29/09/2019 18:14

You both sound like you don’t like each other and are making each other miserable

This.

One of the reasons I had for ending my relationship with my abusive ex is when I found that I was talking about the way you are talking about your husband. You should be the first to defend him, not talking about him the way you are. I'm not saying you are wrong in referring to him like that, but I am saying you are wrong in staying with someone you dislike so much.

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