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To feel very got at lately by inlaws

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AnonCrazyBabes · 28/10/2024 21:17

Just how I feel. I feel very pushed out and that my personality e.g. loudness and hyperness is not good enough. That my kids aren’t mine etc. it’s a long story and I don’t mean any hate but I’m feeling very picked on at the minute and it’s turning me into an angry person. I love my hubby and in laws but I feel something bad is gonna happen and I’ll lose everything. As much as I love my own family they don’t get me and can be worse. Hubby has his family whereas it feels I don’t really have anyone fighting my corner. I can’t really come to my hubby about this so I feel I’ll need my emotional needs met elsewhere. This past couple of months has exacerbated my feeling of not really belonging and there no place for me. Sometimes I feel I just want a do over. Anyone else felt like this? Does it get better?

OP posts:
Dearg · 02/11/2024 15:17

Op, I have very little direct experience, but as I read your posts , I too thought ‘Bipolar?’

It does sound like you need some help, possibly, but not necessarily meds, but very definitely , talking things through with a professional who understands your difficulties.

Your family are telling you they are worried about you, and about the wider impact on them of your issues. Please look for professional help.

PensionedCruiser · 02/11/2024 18:59

AnonCrazyBabes · 28/10/2024 21:17

Just how I feel. I feel very pushed out and that my personality e.g. loudness and hyperness is not good enough. That my kids aren’t mine etc. it’s a long story and I don’t mean any hate but I’m feeling very picked on at the minute and it’s turning me into an angry person. I love my hubby and in laws but I feel something bad is gonna happen and I’ll lose everything. As much as I love my own family they don’t get me and can be worse. Hubby has his family whereas it feels I don’t really have anyone fighting my corner. I can’t really come to my hubby about this so I feel I’ll need my emotional needs met elsewhere. This past couple of months has exacerbated my feeling of not really belonging and there no place for me. Sometimes I feel I just want a do over. Anyone else felt like this? Does it get better?

I haven't read other replies yet because what you say has resounded so much with me. My life sounds very similar to yours.

I told my husband, but he never really did anything about it for years - because he worked away from home and wasn't around to see it. (He has since admitted that he felt guilty and powerless at the time because I had no other source of support while he was away).

Anyhow, I sucked it up for years and kept my feelings to myself. Until finally, children fully grown adults, FIL died a few years before and MIL started rapidly declining, I couldn't cope. DH was retired, his siblings - living miles from us - spent a great deal of time telling DH how to provide care (mostly taking it all on and not spending money), I just broke. I could not go near MIL - I didn't even go to the funeral or meet the family when they all descended - I could not be at home so took my tiny caravan 2 miles away and lived there for about 2 months until it was all over.

DH visited daily and we were OK because he understood that I needed to get away from his stress. By leaving him to it, he only had himself to deal with and didn't need to feel that he was neglecting me. I was as supportive of him as I could be - actually better, removed from, rather than being directly involved in, the situation.

I saw a counsellor and worked through my feelings but it took a long time. The whole experience has changed me for the better, I think, but I have come to realise that things were left to fester for too long. I gave so much over the years, with little return so I eventually had nothing left.

So this is something of a cautionary tale. Find a source of support, please. A therapist would probably be best, and these days even in the UK it is very difficult to find free counselling - but not impossible. Don't let it go on as long as I did.

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