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Situation at home yesterday

329 replies

AdviceNeededForMe · 08/09/2023 13:29

Yesterday, H was raging. DD had borrowed his bike. He doesn’t like her using it but for no rational reason. She always looks after it and brings it home. He went ballistic. Im quite laid back, its not a problem to me. I said it was fine. H doesn’t use it.

Anyway all bloody night he was storming the house, he was drinking too. Such a bad mood. Told her off a couple of times, she mostly stayed out of his way. H swearing f-ing this and that. In front of all kids even the younger ones. I asked him to stop but he was in such a strop. Windows were open and all the village must have heard him.

when it came to bedtimes, i went to put younger kids to bed and he went to go downstairs. To watch TV. Still swearing and bumped into DD again. Typical teen interaction which wound him up. Anyway, she disappeared quickly and H slamming around with his dinner, could hear him swearing still as im in with the kid’s putting them to bed. Then he slams his empty dinner plate on the side, it smashes. Lots of noise. Then he grabs another beer and walks into the livingroom and slammed the door so hard, the whole house shook. What neighbourhood must have thought.

ive tried to talk to him today but i cant pin him down, he just walks off with air of hes done nothing wrong and its the rest of us.

its horrible living like this. Im trying to paper over the cracks, keeping the kids shielded from his moods but im seriously failing.

AIBU to be upset?

OP posts:
Totalwasteofpaper · 25/09/2023 04:40

Being nice only work with people who are also "nice".
My mum was "nice" to my dad it was a waste of time and made everything harder /longer /more fucked up.

He doesn't think you mean it and reckons he can fob you off.

Call his parents tell them what is happened.
Pack / move his stuff including the stupid fucking bike outside and take your key back or change the locks

If he kicks off threaten to phone the police.
If he keeps on... phone the police. Nothing serious will happen to him but it will show him you mean business.
And right now he does NOT think you mean business.

The sooner this abusive alcoholic is out the better.
Think about what a nice Christmas you and the kids wiil all have. 😁

Hibiscrubbed · 25/09/2023 14:07

It’s time to tell everyone what’s really going on. Before he has time to bandy around his bullshit version of events that paint you as the villain. Plus, it will harden your resolve.

To his parents: “H is an alcoholic. He’s out of control, he’s abusive to me and our children and he does precisely nothing to parent or contribute to our family life. Here are his bags. He is not going to be living with us anymore.”

Then shut down any conversation and change the locks.

Confide in your family and friends. Don’t ask them for advice, you work nonsense like your other friend said, deliver them a factual assessment as above and it as a fait accompli. You need their support for the next bit, not their opinions on his behaviour.

Stop endeavouring to be friends with this awful man. Being unnecessarily nice to a horrible, abusive alcoholic won’t make him magically feel like he’s going to be a better parent in the future, that’s entirely up to him. Sadly, I rather suspect he will repeatedly fail his children. If he does, that will not be because you weren’t nice enough to him at the breakdown of the relationship.

All of his behaviour is his fault. Not yours, not your children’s.

Time to bring this horrible situation to a close before the children are irreparably damaged or unable to see what a healthy boundary or relationship looks like.

MaryLea · 25/09/2023 14:42

OP, I really feel for your situation. Just checking in to wish you luck and courage. Hope you're OK.

krustykittens · 25/09/2023 16:02

I have to agree with PP, you cannot control his behaviour by being nice to him. That is what an abuser wants you to think, because that is how they keep control but you cannot make him or stop him from doing anything. If you could, you wouldn't be in this situation. So whatever way he behaves from this point on, whatever kind of relationship he has with your children, OP, is purely down to him. None of this is your responsibility and IT NEVER WAS! Be kind to yourself and put this impossible burden down. I wish you the very best of luck and hope you have a lovely Christmas without him. x

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