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new here new some help, long rant.

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susiedaisy · 27/07/2010 15:55

Hi this is my first post, i have been lurking reading other posts and would value your view on my situation. Not sure on all the abbreveations,so here goes,

my husband and i have been married for 17 years and have two children aged 9 and 12, i am 40 this year he is a couple of years older,there are several probs in our marriage, one is that he has a huge problem with porn, always has had, i foolishly thought it would pass once we became a proper item and he had a real women, but it has become more and more of a problem, he tries to hide it from me and the kids, but we keep stumbling across it, well me mostly but the kids have found stuff that he tried to hide in their room thinking no one would find it,
to date i have found mags, real pics of a women, dont know who it was, dirty pants and stockings, a letter wrote to someone from someone i dont know , telephone bills ran up,dvds of anal sex, photos from someones house of their knickers on a bed, he has a works pc, so who knows whats on that, i have asked him about it on many occasions and asked him to stop and he just gets in a strop and walks out refusing to discuss it any further, he works away a couple of nights a week and god only knows what he does when hes there?

he has also over this last couple of years started going out to the pub until the early hours of the morning mixing with people i have never heard of, and spending lots of money we dont really have, or that could of been used on the house/family etc, i dont mind him going out for a few beers and catching up with friends but its every week once or twice a week until 2am and spending way too much, we are overdrawn in bank and have several thousand on c/c as a result of this, he has also over this last year started taking money out of the atm and denying he did it or pretending he only took a smaller amount out than he did when it is so obvious that it was him??? for the last year he has started drinking every day with out fail usually 2/3 pints a night and then more when he goes out to the pub, and i am sure its more on the nights he works away. i think this is what he is taking the money out of the atm for,

he has hit me several times over the course of our marriage, not beaten me but lashed out when i have answered him back or he is drunk or hungover, he is becoming more bad tempered and a bit unpredictable and i am havin to modify my behaviour to make sure i dont inflame a situation, he spends less and less time at home with us always finding somewhere to be or something to do that doesnt include us, this has been a prob for all of our marriage, he has always found being at home doing a bit of diy or family stuff or chilling out boring he seems to need to be doing something more, but it has usually ended up with him being in the pub, he seems to live as if he is a batchelor who happens to have a family, i have recently told both sets of parents mine will stand by me whatever i deciede and his want me and hubby to go to relate to try and sort it out, but really i just want out now, i could go on with more but i dont want to bore you all, the upshot is i am really fed up with all of this, he shows no signs of stopping its as if my opinion counts for nothing, i am hurt, tired, worried to death about money, and sick of asking him to stop his behaviour and getting told to f off, he has a few good points but at the mo i cant seem to recall many of them, and i just dont love him anymore,

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susiedaisy · 27/07/2010 15:57

sorry meant to say new here need some help.

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primrose22 · 27/07/2010 16:02

I'm no expert but this sounds an utterly miserable situation for you all : ( He's violent, seems to have no respect for you and is getting his family into financial difficulties because of his selfish behaviour. The deal breaker for me (personally) would be the fact that your children have been exposed to his 'stash'.
If you don't love him, whats to save? It sounds very much like you and your dc would be better off without him? I hope your ok? x

suecy · 27/07/2010 16:03

loads of people with experience of similar will be along with grteat advice.

All I'll say is you're putting up with a hell of a lot here and then at the end you say you don't even love him......

leave him now

ninah · 27/07/2010 16:07

I think you are right to want out this has been no life for you for the last few years and I think dc will be better off if they can see you are happy
You deserve better go and find it (and I don't mean another man necessarily - a better life, whatever than entails)

gettingeasier · 27/07/2010 16:14

Susie I am so sorry to read your post as you have been lurking you will know there are so many of us who have had or have husbands with the different issues you list in your post.

I was wondering what to respond with until I got to

"he has hit me several times over the course of our marriage,not beaten me but lashed out "

I am not keen on the speed at which I think its sometimes advised to end marriages on here but sorry I do think that is where this is going.

My exh went out drinking every single night for years as well and withdrew from family life but I didnt have any of the other stuff to deal with. You sound strong to me and I think you should ask him to leave if nothing else to get some space to think what to do - would his parents let him move in as a starting point.

Susie my exh left 7 months ago and its still hard at times but I am happier and it sounds like you couldnt fail to be to. Sorry

WhenwillIfeelnormal · 27/07/2010 16:50

Okay susie (and welcome by the way!) you can probably guess what we're going to say.

You need to leave him. What is preventing you doing that?

The usual reasons giving for staying when a marriage is this bad are the DCs, money and a fear of failure. The first one we can diminish because those DCs are seeing a rotten role model of a marriage and they are being exposed to nasty porn. Any sons you have will think it's perfectly normal for a man to live in the pub and use porn. I also assume you've realised by now that your H is in all probability, serially unfaithful with goodness knows who?

So you can forge a co-parenting relationship. You are doing those DCs no favours by staying, that's for sure.

Can you sell your house and use some equity to pay off those debts?

As for fear of failure, he started failing you years ago. This marriage is a failure and that's not your fault. You will actually improve your self-esteem and the esteem in which others hold you if you say "enough" and get out of this miserable marriage.

Since you don't love him, emotionally detaching from him is going to be easier than if you did.

Don't stay in this marriage. No-one's going to hand out any prizes when you die, for being a martyr. You could be so happy on your own with the DCs - and by giving yourself the chance to meet someone else who will treat you with dignity and respect.

susiedaisy · 27/07/2010 18:09

hi thanks for your replies, it really means alot to me, i suppose i have stayed for several reasons, i loved him, i thought the children were better in a two parent family, fear of managing financially on my own, the stigma and embarresment of everyone knowing about his porn habit, but now apart from the financial side of things the rest dont seem to matter to me now, sometimes you just need to hear from someone else, although i have known for along time that i need to sort this out, it seems clearer now that i know i dont love him anymore, i have spent several months greiving for the end of my marriage, but havent quite plucked up the courage to end it and go to a solicitor, but i know this is def what i need to do, when i write it all down what he has done it seems madness that i have put up with it for so long. thanks once again.

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msboogie · 27/07/2010 18:44

"he spends less and less time at home with us always finding somewhere to be or something to do that doesn't include us"

this is to be encouraged - I suggest you encourage him to spend ALL his time away from the home FOR EVER.

I'm sorry, you sound lovely but very downtrodden - take back your life and get rid of him. You only get ne short life - please don't waste another day of it with this waste of skin.

I don't want to make it worse but I think it sounds like he is using prostitutes as well as everything else. I hope you are protecting your sexual health?

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