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To wonder if you ever really loved your partner?

53 replies

Chionia · 23/02/2020 21:53

That's about the size of it. MN is now stuffed full of threads about: useless/drunkard/twattish manchild husbands (or abusive gits); crap in-laws with whom they are NC; OPs who either hate sex with their partners, or are pissed off because they don't get enough of it; people who are generally miserable in their relationships; people who live with nagging, demands, arguments about putting the bins out, etc, etc.

But these same people presumably once loved their DP/DH enough to live with them/marry them, shag them, and have children with them.

I'm not criticising anyone for that (am divorced myself).

But I do wonder why anyone bothers entering into a relationship, given that the end result seems to be unpleasant in one way or another.

Did you never love your partner, or did your loathing of your partner just turn from love into hatred?

OP posts:
fastliving · 24/02/2020 18:32

Looking back I didn't love the guy I married.
I didn't have kids with him, I wasn't that stupid as I knew that would tie me to him forever.
I think I just told myself to grin and bear it when I was with him...I wouldn't do that now, I would never have got together with him in the first place if I had my time again, but that's the advantage of hindsight.

BumbleBree · 24/02/2020 19:09

I adore my husband. We are so happy together after many years and I have absolutely nothing to complain about. This is not a boast! This is to say, I have never moaned about him on here or anywhere else and most happy couples will probably stay quiet on these husband shaming threads as they don’t relate. So while you’re only reading negative ones there are many positive stories out there.

Thisisworsethananticpated · 24/02/2020 19:21

aspoonfulofyourownmedicine

That’s lovely , really . I’m off men after the Freedom programme - it
Puts you off men a bit !

But I have two sons and I want them to be good men and I love hearing they exist

There are many good
Men

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