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Have you ever got an apology from ExP?

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MsBakingCakes · 05/04/2012 14:16

ExP and I have been separated for a year now and I was just wondering if anyone has got an apology from their ExP.

When we were together and after DD was born we both decided that I should give up my job to look after DD. Then he expected me to keep the house tidy, have dinner ready for when he arrived from work so he wouldn't have to do anything as well as his clothe clean and put away while looking after a baby.

At the moment he has DD for Easter and as it has happened for the last couple of times he has had DD he has gone to his parents straight away (which in a way I do preffer it Grin). Is it possible that he has realised how much work it is to be with a child? DD is 2.7 yeas old and since she was a baby he kept telling me that life was not about doing just activities with DD in children's centres. He got very angry with me when DD was just 6 weeks old and he came back from work and we were both sleeping, just example of too many. By the way I was breastfeeding and he never did any nights as he slept in another room for the fist four months because he needed a rest to go to work and used ear plugs to stop hearing DD when she woke up or a feed.

I know that he is a selfish person and that he never valued all the work I did in the house and with DD but I am still bitter and expecting an apology which deep in my heart I know it will never arrive.

So have any of you been lucky enough to get one? Should I stop waiting?

Thanks in advance

OP posts:
newhorizon · 10/04/2012 20:17

I was dumped over the phone while ex was at work. Two weeks later, he called me to tell me he was seeing someone else. Then he sent me text "sorry I let you down".

Six weeks later he advertised his engagement and subsequent marriage all over Facebook. Abandoned his 4 year old dd in the process and we have not seen him since. Sounds like a teenager instead of twat in his 40's. God knows what line he has spun the wife!

Andy6 · 14/04/2012 16:48

Abuse, abuse and more abuse yes (and that is just from the mother in law) but 4 years down the line never an appology and frankly I have never really been bothered if I got one anyway. I have just wanted my ex and her family to be civil, not demand everything on their extreme terms, to put the children 1st and do their bit but sadly all of these things have been too much to ask for.

ledkr · 14/04/2012 17:00

I think if you are the offended party (like me cheated on) it feels completely different to the partner who wants to end it.

My ex used to get quite irritated with me when i was angry and say stuff like "you need to get over it" He was with the woman he loved,in a nice childfree house,having a great social life without the need for sitters and looking forward to his future and having lovely holidays.
So for him he couldnt even contemplate how terrible i felt.

I was along with 4 dc,one a baby,big mortgage,debts,long late shifts job,school runs,activity runs,homework,chopsy teenagers no social life or chance of a break.I lost loads of weight and nearly had a breakdown.

Fast forward 7 yrs and i have paid the house off,remarried a gorgeous intelligent younger man,have a great job,lovely holidays,14 month old dd and a very nice life.

Ex is still with girl who has had 2 dc,put on about 4 stone,has yellow teeth from smoking and they have an old banger and live with her mother in a run down over crowded house.They never have any money or go on holiday and on mothers day she had nothing whilst i got diamond earings Grin

He can shove his apology where the sun dont shine Grin

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