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Unpleasant discovery.

99 replies

RoyalWelsh · 02/12/2011 17:35

I have just had a bit of an unpleasant discovery.

So here is the background -

I have been ranting about DP on an increasing number of threads recently, as a different name (Slightobsession) that I had to ask MN to change because I think I have been outed in RL.

We have been together for over five years now, living together for four and a half. We met when I was 18 on the very first night at university. He was 21 and a local. We never really spent much time apart, he would stay every night in my room at halls, I split up with my long term boyfriend for him and then at the end of the uni year we moved in together.

I have always paid half of everything, plus ran a car, paid insurance, MOT etc on my own - which is fine because it is my car - he doesn't drive.

I have had two miscarriages this year, which is also the year that I finished my degree. I worked really hard to find a job (teaching) and we were set to move to the other end of the country so I could start my career. I found out I was pregnant the day we were supposed to move and so didn't go, for a number of reasons. I then miscarried (second time.) DP was wholly unsupportive during the first miscarriage and only slightly better the second time.

As a consequence, I am in a job that earns about one third of what DP does. Now, this is the bit that I am really struggling with. We still pay half of everything but now because I am working I feel obliged to buy the food shopping. I did put my foot down and say that I don't want to also buy his alcohol - he doesn't believe me when I say he drinks too much. He thinks a bottle of wine plus beer and maybe a glass of whiskey isn't excessive. I do and I refuse to pay for it now. I also still pay for the car, which is fine because it is mine, but as DP doesn't drive, I ferry him around.

I work two days a week most of the time, and I don't mind taking DP to work when I go because that seems fair. What annoys me is I will say "I don't have to be at work till 9" and he replies, "oh but I have to be in at 8" like I am just supposed to hang around for an hour. Then for the other three days out of the working week I take him and pick him up, which I don't mind doing, but I am spending my money on petrol to ferry him around. I am starting to resent that A Lot. He also expected me to, for example, bring him home from work and then an hour and a half later take him to the shops because he fancies some wine. To rectify this I have said "I will do a weekly shop with a meal plan. After this I will not be taking you to the shop." But then he doesn't want to eat what's on the meal plan and whinges for a take away etc.

The other day, the bank told him someone had cloned his card, which obviously is not his fault. He then had to wait for a few days for a new card to be sent to him, which is fine. He said that there were some bills that needed payinh from his account that were bouncing because he wasn't allowed to access his account or something, so asked if he could put money in my account for them to draw it out. I said fine.

I have jsut come online to check my account and see that yes, he did put money in my account and yes, some one did take it out, but it was a payday loan company for £280.

Am I being unkind to be really fucking angry at this? He earns nearly £20k and I know that this isn't a lot but I earn about £6k. He only pays half of the bills and rent which comes to about £400 a month and then pays £80 a month off a credit, what the fuck can he possibly need a payday loan for????

Even when I was a student I lent him money - £200 here £50 there. This is coming close to a deal breaker isn't it? Tell me I am not being unreasonable for being angry about this and confronting him about his behaviour regarding money?

Sorry it is so long - and the payday loan website was the unpleasant discovery btw!

OP posts:
QuintessentialyFestive · 02/12/2011 17:39

Get rid.

What a loser!

RealityIsADistantMemory · 02/12/2011 17:46

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MigratingChestnutsOnAnOpenFire · 02/12/2011 17:47

sorry, I honestly don't see what you are getting out of this relationship. you have just listed a catalogue of negatives!

Do you actually like him at all?

I'm sensing a lot of resentment building up. You either have to lance the boil of resentment or leave.

Your choice really. Is he worth it?

GnomeDePlume · 02/12/2011 17:52

This doesnt sound like someone I would waste time on talking to in a queue let alone have a relationship with.

As Quint said, Get rid

MigratingChestnutsOnAnOpenFire · 02/12/2011 17:56

to be honest, I would consider time on your own as a really good idea. You've never spent any time as an independant adult and you have been through two traumatic losses.

RoyalWelsh · 02/12/2011 17:57

He just rang from work and I asked him about it. He said that it was because my birthday fell in the same week that all the rent came out and that it made sense for him 'just to move some money about.' But I could have lent him the money. Or he could have just planned things better.

I said to him about not earning as much as he does and he said that £1,000 comes out of his bank account every month - but that is rubbish because I pay in 450/500 a month for my share.

It really feels like a catalogue of negatives. I used to value his opinion and hero worship him a little bit. But now I find his drinking habits irritating, his inability to plan anything irritating. I find his angry upsetting. He even said to me "if it hadn't have been for the card cloning, I wouldn't have had to put it in your bank and you would never have known" which I think was meant to comfort me.

I don't want to think badly of him. I loved him so much and I think if he wasn't such a tool I still would. I have invested a lot of time and effort in to this relationship because I genuinely believed he is the one I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. What am I supposed to do?

OP posts:
MigratingChestnutsOnAnOpenFire · 02/12/2011 17:57

i meant to add that you need to find time to work out who you really are and also find the career you really want.

RoyalWelsh · 02/12/2011 18:00

Sometimes Migrating I do just want to be on my own. Sometimes I think he doesn't like me having my own ideas, I have been reading up and joining in ever so slightly with the 'frothing berserkers' and he laughs at me when I talk about some of the stuff I have read. I don't understand it. I don't understand if he has always been like this and I am finally realising or if it is something I am doing that makes him defensive or if he has changed.

My dad was appalling with money, we were always fending off bailiffs and my mother had to remortgage the house twice. I don't know if this is colouring my judgement of the money thing.

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LIZS · 02/12/2011 18:02

Please don't waste any more energy on him. Focus on getting a teaching job, move if needs be - his choice to come along or not as I assume you are still local to the university/his "home". On that wage he could learn to drive and share more costs but he chooses not too Hmm and I can't imagine you really live anywhere with no public transport or local offie.

ATruthUniversallyAcknowledged · 02/12/2011 18:02

I don't know how payday loans work... They're not going to take money out of your accounts every month now are they?

NotMostPeople · 02/12/2011 18:03

You are supposed to knock it up to experience and move on, expect to feel torn but know that things will only get worse if you stay. You are still very young and you can still follow your dream of being a teacher, apply for jobs and go we're the work is. Start a new life, learn to live alone and. It be scared of it and you will then be much stronger in any relationship you have in the future.

TheOriginalFAB · 02/12/2011 18:04

You may have invested 5 years in this relationship but you have longer than 5 years left to live. Do you want the next 50 years like this?

MigratingChestnutsOnAnOpenFire · 02/12/2011 18:06

you love him but you don't seem to like him.

That really isn't enough.

I've been exactly where you are right now. Don't settle for what you think is ok. Especially when you don't yet know what it is you really want in life.

izzywhizzysmincepies · 02/12/2011 18:09

I hope to god you're not still ttc with this knob. Doesn't like you having your own ideas? If you've been reading these pages on a regular basis you know what that means, don't you?

The relationship has run its course. The rose tinted glasses have finally - at long bloody last - dropped off and you're seeing him for what he is, and for what he's always been and always will be, which is absolutely no good for you.

You're not married to him. All you need to do is leave him. Do it - NOW and have yourself a merry little Christmas without this piece of crap in your life.

Ungratefulchild · 02/12/2011 18:11

The relationship and how you feel has changed. You thought he was the one and now you don't. Thats life, move on, you have so much in front of you and life reall is too short to waste in a relationship you are not happy with.

CrosswordAddict · 02/12/2011 18:11

You sound like someone who has a lot of things going for her.
He sounds immature and rather callow.
Move on.

Conflugenglugen · 02/12/2011 18:11

RoyalWelsh - I think you're the one who is changing, and it might be that you're outgrowing him, or at least moving away from him, and finding yourself a bit in the process.

Also, look at the pattern that you're perpetuating being involved with yet another man who cannot manage his finances.

I'd spend some more time getting to know and understand yourself better. Things might become far clearer as a result. All the best!

MigratingChestnutsOnAnOpenFire · 02/12/2011 18:13

I don't understand if he has always been like this and I am finally realising or if it is something I am doing that makes him defensive or if he has changed.

I suspect that he has always been like this but you are no longer that 18 year old girl but becoming a woman with your own ideas and opinions

He ain't likin' it!!

Tinselitis · 02/12/2011 18:16

He sounds like a total leech.

thunderboltsandlightning · 02/12/2011 18:20

"He thinks a bottle of wine plus beer and maybe a glass of whiskey isn't excessive."

How often does he drink this amount. If it's every night or nearly every night then alcoholic bells are ringing.

Get rid and try living on your own for a while.

CrosswordAddict · 02/12/2011 18:23

He might be one of those people who are difficult to get rid of.
Might be worth moving away, as you say he is a "local" in your area.
Time to look for new pastures I think. Good luck. Xmas Smile

DaydreamDolly · 02/12/2011 18:25

Urgh what a nightmare. I can't see what you are getting out of the marriage. Can you? Time for action.

NotTheBlinkingGruffaloAgain · 02/12/2011 18:41

Look you have a good qualification, everything going for you- you haven't got children with him maybe this is a good opportunity to start a new chapter-good luck Smile

ImperialBlether · 02/12/2011 20:13

You are 23 or 24 now, then? My daughter is a similar age and if she was with someone like that, I'd be staging an intervention, swooping through the window in the middle of the night, picking her up and taking her to a place of emotional and financial safety.

For god's sake, you liked him at 18. Think how much you've changed since then! He's changed too, but he's got worse. Your mind has expanded and your horizons have expanded, too. Of course you are unhappy living with a drunk selfish idiot - anyone would be!

Find yourself a teaching job in a place that has a lot of young people and where there's plenty of things going on. You can ask the bank for a graduate loan to help you pay your first rent etc. Then go - just like that! Tell him it was nice knowing him, but that you two have grown apart.

On the other hand, I'm not sure if I want to see you waiting for a job. Do you know anyone from university who's now living somewhere else and who might put you up for a month whilst you look for work in that area? The sooner you get out, the quicker you can start a lovely new life without him.

ImperialBlether · 02/12/2011 20:14

DayDreamDolly, they are not married.

Thank god.

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