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To be sick of DH's faraway job?

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AverageContents · 12/12/2020 20:29

DH works in London, but we live about two to two and a half hours drive North.

He is therefore either knackered or stays overnight.

It's more often than not over the weekends as well.

I work regular office hours locally. We have two DC.

DC and I haven't seen him since Thursday night. He'll be home later tonight, than will leave early tomorrow morning.

Sick of it. AIBU?

OP posts:
hettie · 12/12/2020 21:53

The "other woman" doesn't have to be an actual other woman. What another relationship does is stop you being emotionally available and connected to the person you are actually in a relationship with. So the "other woman" can be drink, gambling, an all consuming hobby.. or work. They all have the same function, they allow you to withdraw from family/ marital life and to not not connect with your partner.....
You could try relationship counseling op?

RuthW · 12/12/2020 22:08

Sounds like my ex. He wasn't working away as often as he said. He was with his girlfriend.

PrincessNutNutRoast · 12/12/2020 22:13

Did he want to move in order to opt out of family life?

Respectabitch · 12/12/2020 22:21

It sounds like you've made up your mind tbh, and I don't blame you. Best of luck with changing things; I agree that you might as well tell him you're going to have a proper separation and see how you feel.

Ohthatsgreat · 12/12/2020 22:25

What happens when he takes annual leave, does he return home then? Do things improve when he engages in family life again?

MaskingForIt · 12/12/2020 22:27

He has a woman in London. I’d put my house on it.

IToldYouIWantedTheUnicorn · 12/12/2020 22:28

@MaskingForIt

He has a woman in London. I’d put my house on it.
I agree! Definitely another woman!
HeelsHandbagPerfumeCoffee · 12/12/2020 22:47

Just get rid. Change the locks.⬅️sigh usual mn dross advice
If he’s on the mortgage he’s a co-owner.If you lock him out his house he should rightly call police

MessAllOver · 12/12/2020 22:55

If he’s on the mortgage he’s a co-owner.If you lock him out his house he should rightly call police

Actually, it's not a criminal offence - he'd have to apply to the court for an occupation order.

But I wasn't being serious with that suggestion...although he might just suck it up since he clearly prefers the travelodge to his family's company.

HeelsHandbagPerfumeCoffee · 12/12/2020 23:03

As a joint owner he cannot be restricted from access or residency without a court order. As a joint owner he could rightly use reasonable force to re-enter a property he had been excluded from eg He can ask a locksmith to change the locks again

Change the locks It’s bandied about in mn all the time as if it is just the thing

HeelsHandbagPerfumeCoffee · 12/12/2020 23:04

Posted too soon, I’d report to the police to get a cad number and establish the wife unreasonable behaviour if it got messy

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