Hi all, I am coming on here for advice.
I am in my early twenties and have been married for just over a year. I am 12 weeks pregnant. Since September my marriage has been very awful and caused me loads of misery and distress. My husband shows me little to no comfort, constantly shouting at me, tells me its not his job to comfort me or be nice to me, ignores me when I am crying or visibly upset. He also gets annoyed every time I mention I am either upset or in pain as oppose to showing care or concern.
We live with his parents and i agreed to live with his parents before we got married. I did not know I was going to feel this uncomfortable at home. I feel like we have no privacy, we are in our room 95% of the time we are at home except eating and using the bathroom. I can't dress how I would like, can't cook what I can comfortable and just generally feel like I am trapped. I have expressed to him on multiple! occasions that I am beyond unhappy, constantly crying and want to move out as quickly as possible. I hate waking up, I hate going home after work and I am always avoiding being at home (so going to see my family whenever I can).
His father is very childish, stubborn and immensely controlling. He is also 'upset' at me for seeing my friend who gave birth after he told me to not go. I went anyways and he still doesn't speak to me, closes the door to whichever room he is in if I walk past and on one occasion refused to open the front door for me at night when the key was left in. My husband has convinced me that I am very emotional and have always been 'depressed' even before we got married and every time I cry or I am in pain, it is purely because of me. He has no ambition and no sense of showing any responsibility (just wants to play on his console and play football).
I have tired to talk to him and convince him to move out in multiple ways. His excuse is that his parents are old and need his care (they are both in their 50's and fighting fit and do more for him than he does for them). I told him we can find somewhere within a 5 minute drive, he can see them every evening and even stay over on the weekends, he doesn't need to pay any bills for our place because his is already paying all the household bills for his parents house (they are on benefits). but none of this has swayed him. Before I got pregnant he promised me that we would move out and he will start treating me better. If anything he has treated me worse.
On saturday, we went for a drive while upset and an argument started because i asked to say something nice to me when I was upset and he said he can't be nice to me when im like this (visibly upset) and that I am difficult and hard to be nice to. We started shouting at each other and I hit him first (like a backhand to the face) he reacted by punching, scratching and pulling my hair. It was all over in 30 seconds when he left the car. I went straight to my nans house who told me to report this as I am pregnant and yesterday I went to the house and collected all my items and have moved into my nans temporarily until I find a place. I have a good job, savings, a car etc so I have no issue relying on him or not being independent etc
I guess the question is, why does he treat me like this?
Am I in the wrong because I agreed to live with them?
Should I stop acting like the victim because I hit him first?
What can I do moving forward now that I am pregnant and not living with my partner?
Is there any way I should forgive him? (e.g. if he started apologising, buying gifts, showing love)