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To think when people ask 'why do you stay with him'

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PurelyOrnamental · 17/03/2026 12:58

The answer is usually money?
Obviously some women will be staying for a lavish lifestyle provided by a high earning husband but I believe that the majority will stay just so they don't have to bring their children up in poverty.
If a husband is lazy/thoughtless/untidy etc is that enough for the majority of women to give up a second full time wage in an unsteady economic climate? It wouldn't be enough for me to leave but the cries of LTB on here are always abundant.
I've seen it a lot on the mother's day threads...partners/husnds not doing much for the mother of their children and the obligatory LTB posts that follow....I just don't see anyone leaving over one day when it would make the other 364 days of the year such a struggle.
Obviously this does not relate to abusive relationships but aibu to think most of us will deal with 'good enough' but not spectacular partners to keep us in a certain lifestyle (ie not poverty rather than shopping at Tiffany's every weekend!)

OP posts:
Duffyuip · 17/03/2026 13:13

Sometimes. I think more often it’s fear of how it might impact kids and/or the fear a lot of people have of being “alone”. Some people are unable to function outside of a relationship, however shit it is.

Dweetfidilove · 17/03/2026 13:23

My ex was a classic workaholic for whom household tasks and child activities were am inconvenience. According to him, we just needed to work to our strengths; and his did not involve the above or the minutiae of school/life admin so all that was for me to do.
Naturally I grew resentful to the point he could say hello to me amd I'd bite his head off. When my daughter pointed out to me that I was always snapping at daddy, I knew it was time.
I left when she was 6 years old and life has been hard at times, but I survived, as I knew I would. A decade later I am happy, my home is peaceful, I'm free of snapping and resentment, my daughter is thriving and I even have a very good relationship with the ex (who still barely reads any of the vast amount of letters I get from school; except I'm now perfectly happy for him to work to his strength), as I no longer have to deal with the rest of his BS.

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