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So fed up of being told to F**K OFF!

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colditz · 16/01/2006 19:36

I have hardly been able to open my mouth today without being told to F**k off by p. 2 year old ds has just been trashing bathroom, so I shouted upstairs "If you put him in his room while you fill the bath, he can't trash thing"

His reply?

"F**k off!"

Nice. Really nice. My son is learning that when mummy says something we don't agree with, we tell her to f**k off.

OP posts:
WideWebWitch · 17/01/2006 10:01

Colditz, I too think you should leave.

nutcracker · 17/01/2006 10:09

Colditz, give yourself a break, you are pregnant, have a toddler and a partner who acts like a 5 yr old, stop criticsing yourself for having a lie in and not making enough tea.

If you don't want to leave then don't, you know you own mind, and if it's not time then it's not time, but don't agonise over it, you'll drive yourself nuts.

It is hard being the one in financial control, cos like you said, it's like your his mother, but just remember, he mad you that way through what he did and so if thats how it has to be, so be it.

I've been where you are a few times, and it is crap. I was lucky cos i dedided to se it out and see if things improved and they did alot, and if thats what you feel you need to do then thats great but it may take dp a while to realise all of this.

Bugsy2 · 17/01/2006 11:03

Just to put a bit of perspective on this. My ex-H was a disaster with money. Mercifully, he didn't gamble but he was useless and it seemed to fall through his hands like water through a sieve. It took me 4 years to get him out of debt and even then I organised all our finances. I didn't give him an allowance as such, but I did ensure that a percentage of his wages went into the joint bank account every single month, so that the mortgage could be paid.
My ex-H never once brought me a cup of tea in bed, never ever let me lie in ever after the children were born & was very difficult to live with.
So Colditz, maybe your relationship isn't all bad & your partner will get a grip of himself. You have both been through alot lately and perhaps it will take a while for things to get back on an even keel.
Maybe at some calm moment, you could say to him that you think we should both agree not to swear in front of ds.
Hoping things get better for you. I don't actually think he sounds like an out and out arse, but I think that he is forcing you to be the "grown-up" in the relationship - which is very unfair.

wannaBe1974 · 17/01/2006 11:28

Colditz no-one deserves to be spoken to like that, there are no excuces for one human being to speak to another in that way, especially not when there are kids looking on. But I do understand the situation that you are in being six months pregnant and that leaving now is not necessarily the right thing.

I haven?t read all your posts re your DP, but I have read some of them, and I can appreciate what you?re going through. It?s very easy to see just one side of the argument and to advise someone to leave a particular situation, I think though that the fact your P has given you the bank cards and has allowed you to control the finances does show that he knows he has a problem with money and is happy to give control of the finances to you to resolve that particular situation. So I would say that it doesn?t seem that he is a controlling partner. By telling you to F* off though shows his total lack of disrespect for you, and the fact he is prepared to talk to you like that in front of your son just shows that he?s happy for his son to see that as the right way for women to be treated. Or could it be that when he says these things he just doesn?t think of the fact that your son is in the same room or in close proximity?

When you look back at your relationship, was there ever a time when things weren?t like this? If you thought that things could change, would you want to stay? Not for the sake of your DS, but for yourself? Do you still love him? Are there still times when things are good between you? If the answer to any of these questions is no, then the reality is that you?re staying in the relationship for the wrong reasons, and leaving will be inevitable at some point. Staying together for the sake of the children is never a good idea, especially not if the relationship is a very destructive one. I appreciate that your DS loves his daddy, most kids do, and if your DP has a big part in your DS? care, then it is natural that your DS will be very clingy to daddy when he leaves the house. But if you split, although things will be hard for your DS initially, as long as you don?t withdraw contact, your DS will still get to spend time with his father, maybe not as much as he currently does, but he will at least get time with both of you without the insuing arguments/insults.

If you do want to stay, if you do still love your DP and want to make the relationship work, then you need to sit down and have a serious talk about how things are now and how things just can?t continue like this any more. If you can?t talk without having an argument, then it might be worth putting things in writing. Tell your P that you don?t want to be spoken to like that any more, that you don?t want to be treated like that, especially not in front of your children, but not at all. Be honest with him, tell him that if things don?t improve between you then you don?t see a future for the relationship and you and the children will leave. I know it won?t be easy, but if you do decide to leave then there will never be an easy time to do so. So when you decide that you just don?t want to do this any more then you need to go at the time you have decided to go.

Good luck xx

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