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To leave because my husband is being aggressive

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Playdoughy · 12/08/2025 23:20

...towards other people (for now).
He is going through a difficult period - but it has been almost 2 years now since that's been his excuse.
We've been together for a decade and this is not the same guy I knew.
He used to have and like his friends, used to be ambitious at work, patient and gentle.

He hates his job now (and his last job too), he abandoned friends, I think there is noone he genuinely likes at this point (myself included I sometimes think), but at least up untill few months ago he was keeping this to himself. Or was talking to me about injustice he sees, incompetence he encounters - all the things that trigger him.
He has recently started confronting random people everywhere. He'd shout at a guy for cutting the queue - calling him horrible names. He started kicking a guys bike in the middle of the street because the guy went through red (as most cyclists unfortunately do), he literally pulled him off a bike and started shouting at him and pushing him saying - wtf is wrong with y'all etc...
Then he shouted at a guy in tesco, almost got into a fight with a reckless driver the other day, every occurrence is getting more and more loud and physical.
Mind that the other person was always in the wrong - not obeying some sort of law or defeated common sense - but still its not his job to action this - he is putting himself and myself and our child in danger by causing scenes..It is now every single time we are out and about.

Now, while I could potentially sit still and hope this is a phase, he is slowly starting to move this behaviour into our home. Today our DS made a mess at dinner (as all kids his age do) and he shouted at him like a maniac. He never ever hit him or me or anything remotely close.
But he also never shouted at him like this - yet has just started.
I don't want to wait for another escalation, I am seriously thinking of just leaving....

OP posts:
anyolddinosaur · 13/08/2025 15:20

Havent seen the film, just finished the book. The author's mother left her husband and that inspired the book. There is a lot in the book about loving your abuser and how hard it is to leave/ how easy it would be to be sucked back in.

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