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To be upset partner left at midnight after we were in bed?

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Kione · 26/02/2022 07:48

We have been seeing each other for about 6 months, usually everything is great and we are getting to know each other's quirks.
What I love about him is that he is really sociable, friendly and does the same job as me which involves caring which I live.

He is impulsive tho, at work, for example he will hand his notice if there are decisions affecting him that he doesn't like, instead of talking through things, he then takes it back after things are discussed.

He told me he is dispraxic, diagnosed. I have learnt that when he gets focused on something it's like the only thing he "sees" like tunnel vision. I don't know how to explain this. So when this was me at the start, it was amazing. Then that stopped and he has done that with other things, a trip away, jobs, moving house... and I feel kind of left to a side.

I am trying to give as much info as I can to describe his personality.

I am moving now, have a puppy, kids, it's been HARD. He is suddenly (3 days ago) obsessed with going to the gym, and has not been there to help at times when I really needed it with the move.

He planned a trip on a whim last weekend, asked me to join him but I declined as I was very likely going to get my new house keys. The trip got canceled due to the storm and he was very "distant" after. Then he decided to join the gym and the vibe has changed a lot. I imagine I am not the recipient of his focus anymore and tried to understand this positively.

I really tried to understand his mind and tunnel vision sort of thing. Yesterday he came to mine at 8pm after work and gym and I was shattered so left move things undone. We went to bed at ten, I was watching something on tv and he woke up at 12, said he was going home to put a washing on because he had 2 days worth of gym things in the car. I told him not to put a washing so late because it's noisy. He agreed, but still left "to sort things out". I was not happy, I really still don't understand... leaving at midnight on a Friday just like that. He has told me earlier he was going to stay at mine.

I know it's difficult to form an opinion without a lot of context but I wonder if there is other people like this out there and I should know him more or call bullshit and leave him to it. I find it very confusing.

Please be kind! Thanks

OP posts:
Jessicabrassica · 26/02/2022 20:06

The evidence suggests that 50% of people with DCD also have ADHD. Don't assume that because he has one neuro- divergent diagnosis that he doesn't have another ND condition.

Kione · 26/02/2022 21:11

Well tonight was a bit of a disaster again... so I think I know where this is going...

OP posts:
Desolate2nite · 26/02/2022 22:12

Oh no, what happened tonight?

OrlandointheWilderness · 26/02/2022 22:15

Oh has it got worse? I'm sorry to hear that.

Kione · 26/02/2022 23:59

It has not got worse, he watched the rugby and had a few pints. We had a bit of an argument about feeding the dog and going to the shop, which one first, silly really; and he crashed on the sofa, so I went to bed on my first night in the new house. That's when I wrote the message.
Now, he woke up at 9.30, made us both gin and tonics, he was in a really good mood, ordered take away... and he is back to the jokey and fun from 2 weeks ago.
I can see how this can be exhausting.

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XelaM · 27/02/2022 00:07

YES! I wasted 5 years if my life on a guy like this because I loved him SO MUCH and was prepared to understand all his (very hurtful and damn rude) "quirks", because when things were good they were absolutely amazing and we were perfect together. But over time the more understanding I was the worse his odd behaviour became. At the end, I had to get out for my own sanity. It definitely did not get better, only worse.

daisychain01 · 27/02/2022 03:39

I can see how this can be exhausting

OP you're talking about your own life and your choice of who you want to be in a relationship with. So, yes it's clear you can see how it's exhausting because that's how you wasted your evening while this bloke is up and down like a yo-yo, but remember that it's also your choice whether or not to you want to put up with all that crap.

TracyMosby · 27/02/2022 09:41

I can see how this can be exhausting

Yes. Youll always be the adult. Youll always be managing a situation.

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