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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:
Compey · 15/10/2020 11:53

@Whatisthisfuckery

Sorry, I only reacted to the OP and didn’t even bother to read OP’s posts. Tut tut.

OP he’s not even your husband. he never will be, he’s not interested in making your relationship secure for you and your DS and he’s a twat. Fuck him in the bin.

I agree it may be best if the OP leaves. May be better for both because then he wouldn't have to work such long hours to afford to keep her. Win-win. Except the OP won't have the same life style.
FabbyChix · 15/10/2020 12:01

You know if you split up right you walk away with fuck all? You need a full time job and he needs to take responsibility with childcare either paying for it or doing some.

Spinningdot · 15/10/2020 12:42

@Compey 'You mean it has the potential for abuse and maybe you also mean it is heading that way.'
No, I don't mean that. At all. It is already abuse. It is psychological and emotional abuse. What would it take for you to classify it as abuse?

Spinningdot · 15/10/2020 12:54

@Compey also, 'If the OP doesn't like the setup then she should get out'
Do you really think it's that easy? With a young child?

Compey · 15/10/2020 13:49

[quote Spinningdot]@Compey 'You mean it has the potential for abuse and maybe you also mean it is heading that way.'
No, I don't mean that. At all. It is already abuse. It is psychological and emotional abuse. What would it take for you to classify it as abuse?[/quote]
You can't turn every argument and tiff into a case of psychological and emotional abuse. To do that demeans the serious nature of those categories. This is not going to be a winnable abuse case just because the BF is snarky about the OP living in his property. It needs more than a few grumpy feelingds.

The OP is in a vulnerable position but that doesn't mean it is someone else's fault. The skew in this thread is that OP might think the yabber ("get CMS to deal with him" or "it's abuse") constitutes carefully balanced advice that she should use to change her life.

Spinningdot · 15/10/2020 14:22

'he knows he has power over me.'

'every time we argue he throws get out it’s my house in my face knowing I have no where else to go.'

'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?'

This is psychological abuse. The threats, the mind games. It would be a mistake to diminish the seriousness of this behaviour. Their baby is only 1 and this is how the OP's partner is behaving. She IS in a very vulnerable position. My contribution to the 'yabber', my advice, in this thread was to go and seek advice from those qualified and experienced enough to give it.
It took seeing a Women's Aid counsellor to help me to see that my ex was controlling and abusive. (& no, I don;t think that makes me an expert before that is levied my way) As she told me the vast majority or women who use their services haven't been physically abused.
I stand by what I said that I believe the boyfriend's behaviour is abusive.

Ravenesque · 15/10/2020 16:24

[quote Florencex]@Ravenesque

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4051077-help-do-i-stay-or-leave-controling-gf

It’s definitely the boyfriend, or quite possibly,, both made up.[/quote]
Ah, I see. Well, I don't see because the thread has been deleted which is a shame, or possibly not a shame because if it's the case that it's him or both are made up, who needs that shit.

Compey · 16/10/2020 10:56

[quote Florencex]@Ravenesque

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4051077-help-do-i-stay-or-leave-controling-gf

It’s definitely the boyfriend, or quite possibly,, both made up.[/quote]
Thanks for the link. He talks about working to pay for his GF's regular redecorating/refurnishing of the house and her weekly clothes shopping when they can't afford it.

She is emotionally and psychologically abusing him by asking for his opinion and then if it differs turns it into a punishment row. She sounds like she has too great a sense of entitlement and wants to live beyond her means. She seems quite toxic and there doesn’t seem any love on her side. Perhaps she will think about getting find a richer boyfriend if these things are more important to her than a partnership with the DS's father.

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