DP and I live together but we're seperating - that is that we're looking for seperate accomodation but supposedly staying together as a couple. This is because he have very different ideas on parenting and so until our kids have left home, we felt it would be easier on everyone if we just lived seperately for a few years.
So I am in the process of looking for somewhere else to live and ever since we decided on this, he has starting going out and buying new things for when I've left. He's bought a microwave, vacuum cleaner, a new pan set, a new iron and is now considering buying an xbox kinect but he makes it clear each time that none of this stuff will be used until I've gone. In other words, he wants to be the first to use it and he doesn't want me getting use out of anything he's bought himself.
This infuriated me earlier when I'm stood there ironing HIS work clothes with our old broken iron and he says "I'd let you use my new one but ... you know".
I said "no, I don't know ... why can't I??" so he said "well, I bought it with my own money, I don't want it getting all messed up! I bought it for when you've moved out". It was HIS clothes I was ironing!!!
He's getting like this with everything. He bought a book and was frightened to death I would have a read of it before he had. He's started to whinge when I ask to borrow his mp3 player. Its like he cant stand to see me getting use out of ANYTHING he's "Bought himself" yet he says he still wants a relationship with me once I've moved out??
Why would he be this petty if he genuinly cared for me or is he in the right here?