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My boyfriend is an absolute cock! Agree or disagree?

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Lavender55555 · 14/10/2020 19:45

This is going to be long so please bare with me. Basically we have been together for 3 years and have a DS who is 1 and things are just so miserable lately. DH never seems to want to spend anytime together as a family and it’s really hurtful.
The row started this morning because we were going to go to my MIL’s, and DH said he couldn’t be bothered to go and for me and DS to just go. I simply said don’t you want to spend time with us today? It was his first and only day off this week, he hasn’t seen our DS for 5 days as he has been on late shifts apart from the odd 10 minutes before he leaves etc, so I would have thought he’d want to spend time together as a family, but clearly I was wrong.

Started off a big argument about how he never gets time to himself, he said he works all week and I get 5 days off a week, I have gone back to work for 2 days and I get to do whatever I want in those 5 days. He seems to think being a mother full time is easy. I tried to explain I don’t have any time off at all, 5 days a week I have DS and the other 2 days I’m at work myself. But no that’s not good enough. I get 5 days off a week. It was what we agreed after my maternity would happen otherwise I’d be working full time to put DS in nursery and that’s not something we wanted. But now it’s being thrown back in my face. If I made more money in my role full time then I’d happily switch but no that’s not good enough either.

He’s just so frustrating, he knows he has power over me. He owns the house. He bought it with his ex long before I moved in. He’s never put me on the mortgage because he’s always told me it costs 3k (which is something we haven’t had spare) so every time we argue he throws get out it’s my house in my face knowing I have no where else to go. I just don’t know what to do anymore.

Find it so infuriating how he never lets me cool off after an argument, he’s straight there saying it’s not fair to leave him hanging after I said I wanted a night to think about things, I said I was going to go to my sisters for the night, but he was in my face saying so what’s happening I deserve to know etc. Apparently if I said we are over he said I’ll have a timeline to get my stuff or he’ll throw it on the garden? I said to him what the fuck is wrong with you? I just don’t understand. Why can’t I have a night to just breathe, it’s always on his terms even though he said I’m always the one in control because I wouldn’t tell him what I wanted to do right this second.

It’s hard because I don’t want to upset DS or break his family but sometimes I really don’t like the way he is, and speaks to me. Especially how he throws the house in my face. Am I in the wrong?

OP posts:
Ginkypig · 14/10/2020 20:32

@Lavender55555

Sorry! He's my boyfriend, just easier to write DH than boyfriend each time. We are not married.
But to get the relevant advice people need to know the facts because being married is a lawful contract that gives you certain rights that not being married you don’t have. I’m not having a dig @Lavender55555 but it is important so you don’t have your time wasted with completely irrelevant advice.

For what its worth you deserve way way better than this. He is treating you awfully.

MasksGlovesSoapScrubs · 14/10/2020 20:37

Aww bless his cottons. 5 days off a week to yourself but you have a one year old? I have a 15 month old and didn't you know he can entertain himself, change himself, feed himself etc? Grin he has a cheek saying you have 5 days to yourself.
His name might be ok the property but it's both of yours it's a family home.
If someone said to me get out of MY house who I was with and shared a child with I'd be leaving. You sound done with it all. Don't blame you.
For the sake of your own happiness please leave. What he is doing is not acceptable.
When he wants to step up and be the parent he should be then he can let you know. 👋🏼

Gobbycop · 14/10/2020 20:39

Cock

Peachy1381 · 14/10/2020 20:39

Total cock

Lavender55555 · 14/10/2020 20:40

It was always we will sort the mortgage and it just never materialised. Looking back I should have pushed harder before our baby. Just feel so stuck. I don't make enough to be able to afford to private rent, and then I'm stuck waiting for benefits and a place if/when the council can provide me with one. And then I feel super guilty because of DS. But I know I don't deserve to be treated like this, he always uses the house when we argue, it's always get the fuck out of my house knowing I have nowhere else to go so I will always stay.

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MasksGlovesSoapScrubs · 14/10/2020 20:40

Also, if you're on planning to leave this twat got be worth trying to go on your local council housing list if you're eligible.

LagunaBubbles · 14/10/2020 20:45

Why are you putting up with this?

Mrsdoubtfireswig · 14/10/2020 20:50

Similar position my ex (no DC though) he threw the house back in my face at every opportunity - even though I worked full time and contributed half to all bills, food etc. A few times he did go as far as chucking my stuff out or actually destroying it.

It never got any better. In the end it ground me down, my confidence and I was like a shadow of my former self. I borrowed money and left and rented a flat for years actually until I scraped enough to get a mortgage.

He begged me to come back but I didn’t and that really was the start of getting my life back on track and having a happy life.

I know it’s difficult to think and plan how you can leave but you must for you and your child’s sake - no one deserves what you are being put through, and if you don’t leave your DS not only will be unhappy like you but think that that behaviour is normal Flowers

YoBeaches · 14/10/2020 20:51

Can you actually go to your sisters for a few days with the baby? You do need some space from each other and work out if this can be saved. If it can be then you must change the mortgage situation etc ASAP.

Sadly though he just doesn't sound that into family life. He needs to grow up, and might be best doing that by himself.

willowmelangell · 14/10/2020 20:51

This bully boy threat of 'get out of MY house.' is it you or you and dc he is threatening to make homeless?

Qwertywerty3 · 14/10/2020 20:52

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LookItsMeAgain · 14/10/2020 20:54

Leave.

Get your own place - get emergency accommodation if you need to in the meantime but don't stay. He doesn't consider either your or your son worthy of spending time with.
Stay with your mum if you can even in the immediate term but whatever you do, don't have any more children with this man. Oh, and leave!

jwpetal · 14/10/2020 20:54

If you cannot get out for yourself, do it for your DS. Is this how you want your child to learn to treat women or other people? What do you owe to his family? Start your paperwork and get out while you can. Could your sister help? There are options. I am curious about the childcare as surely the childcare is both or your responsibilities. Could you start upping your hours?

Daphnise · 14/10/2020 20:55

I could say a lot- but it has been said above.

I am sorry you have to put up with all this.

Think hard about how you may get to a position where you can leave.

LookItsMeAgain · 14/10/2020 20:57

Sorry, I read the opening post as you were going to visit YOUR mum but you were actually going to see HIS mum and he didn't want to go. I'd be bold enough to go to her (if you get along with her) and say that you can't stay with your OH and could you stay with her ( have your son with you too) and you will do your best to find alternative accommodation in the meantime.

HollowTalk · 14/10/2020 21:02

Leave. You can't live with such insecurity. He's completely unfair and frankly sounds horrible. Anyone who can tell his partner that he's going to chuck all her stuff into the garden when she hasn't done anything wrong isn't worth having.

Fruitsaladjelly · 14/10/2020 21:03

Sorry to sound old fashioned but marriage first then kids was a status quo for a reason. You wouldn’t have to be in this position re the mortgage if you hadn’t skipped the first bit. You also prob wouldn’t be in this position because you’d likely not have been pregnant in a new ish relationship and chances are you’d have binned this one long before you got down the isle.

He sounds like a complete tool. His ex let him go for a reason.

Arthersleep · 14/10/2020 21:05

Tbh, yes, he's a cock, but you also don't seem to be helping matters by arguing with him and going off to spend the night with family. It sounds that you are not a good match. Arguing like this is not healthy for you and certainly not for your son. If he's working night shifts six nights a week he is undoubtedly tired and it's understandable that he doesn't want to go to his mum's. However, you're also tired and working hard. He shouldn't undermine that.

Fruitsaladjelly · 14/10/2020 21:05

On a practical note can you prove you’ve been paying towards the home?

blackcurrantjam · 14/10/2020 21:09

Knob.
Ducks in a row and new life.
Maybe do it quietly to start with as he sounds like a proper arsehole.

sunshinesheila · 14/10/2020 21:12

Wanker alert op.... fairly sure you will have realised that by now. Make plans to get shut

blackcurrantjam · 14/10/2020 21:15

Can you take you and your baby stay elsewhere get UC then get a council house and then work more? Flowers OP. Remember women are awesome. You've clocked that he's a cock or you wouldn't have started this thread. You will be better off without him.

Coffeecak3 · 14/10/2020 21:18

When you do finally decide to leave his house be sure to put a few dead fish in well hidden places.

user128472578267 · 14/10/2020 21:22

This is abusive.

Wheytaminute · 14/10/2020 21:24

Cock.

I'd leave.

Get your name on the council housing list and work out what you can afford to do? Increased hours at work and UC or whatever.

If he loved you and wanted to stay with you he would treat you kindly - not tell you to get out of his house?

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