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Just broken up with long-term partner

13 replies

OrangesAndLemurs · 02/02/2020 18:44

And I'm already wavering even though I (think) it was the right thing to do.

We've been together for a while and moved in together in November. Everything was really good before then. I thought we worked well as a team, we had our own lives with friends etc. but spent a lot of time together, we did an equal amount of life-admin. We both have very stressful jobs and that would occasionally cause friction, but nothing dramatic. We'd met each other's families and got on well with them.

But ever since moving in, it's like he's become a different person. He won't clean, or tidy. He does no life-admin at all (I'm talking I sort literally everything from the food to the bills to the general organisation of social life to the dog etc.) But when I do more to pick up the slack, he says I'm "mothering" him .

He picks arguments over tiny things and has made me cry multiple times with things he's said. He stays out two or three times during mid-week drinking until 4/5am, never letting me know where he is or when he's coming home (if at all). It's been horrible waking up in the middle of the night and realising I don't know where he is. I've asked him repeatedly to text me just to say he'll be out late or give a rough idea of when he'll be back, but nothing. He says he's miserable and low but he won't get help (either meds, or counselling, or just drinking less and exercising more. Nothing).

I feel so sad because I love him: but that's not enough if they're making you miserable, is it?

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SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 02/02/2020 18:47

You are right - if this is making you unhappy, you need to make the break. I hope you feel happier soon.

{{{hugs}}}

user14928465 · 02/02/2020 18:48

You did the right thing.

You loved the person you thought he was, not the person he revealed himself to be. It's natural and ok to grieve for the loss. Doesn't mean it was the wrong decision.

SunOnAll · 02/02/2020 18:49

You did the right thing. He sounds awful.

MommytoA · 02/02/2020 18:49

Sounds like you've made the best decision. Your happiness comes first and from what you've said it sounds like he was draining that from you. Onwards and upwards.

recrudescence · 02/02/2020 18:59

You are to be congratulated for calling a stop to this so quickly. Many people slog on pointlessly in the hope things will get better and get utterly destroyed in the process. Better luck with the next one!

Foslady · 02/02/2020 19:00

Definitely the right decision. I let someone fuck me over 20 years prior and then went back and it took another 10 years wasted to say ‘enough’.
Stay strong

Oomph · 02/02/2020 19:04

You’ve escaped a situation that was only going to get worse. Well done for listening to your gut and having self respect. It took me 4 years to leave a very miserable relationship that sounds exactly like yours, with the added bonus of cocklodgery. Flowers

LatentPhase · 02/02/2020 19:09

Another one congratulating you for calling time nice and swiftly on this. Lick your wounds and move on. You’ll be grand Flowers

OrangesAndLemurs · 02/02/2020 19:16

Thanks everyone, I really appreciate the support.

I'm now talking to my best friend and have some wine and nice food. I don't feel happy yet, but I will do. Thanks again all.

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OffTheShelfElf · 02/02/2020 19:20

Give yourself a bit of time to mope and grieve. This stuff is hard. But you've done the right thing. Imagine if someone else had written this OP - would you tell them to get back together with this guy??

cakeandchampagne · 02/02/2020 19:21

Sounds like you’ve made a quick & good decision.

Marbu · 02/02/2020 20:00

Good decision. Don't go back on it.
He wouldn't improve - hell, it's only been a couple of months and he's behaving like that. Normally people at least make a bit of an effort at the beginning.
My ex was like this but even he was ok at the beginning. But I had to put up with 5 years of shit - the worst was the staying out drinking and not letting me know where he was and getting aggressive when I asked him to at least let me know.
Believe me, 5 years of broken sleep thanks to some fuckwit rolling in drunk whenever the fuck he feels like it, takes it out of you. It's taken my body a whole year to recover.

Stick to your decision.

WhenPushComesToShove · 03/02/2020 00:05

Well done OP. Why tie your life to a cock like that when you need to be free to find happiness with someone who truly appreciates you.

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