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Stress/depression...is this normal?

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Jipjones · 18/02/2012 16:35

My dh has been very stressed at work he's been having angry outbursts at me telling Neots all my fault, swearing at me, telling me to leave that when my son grows up he will hate me too, and that he is willing to sacrifice the thing he loves most (ds) for he thing he hates least(me), I am a lazy bitch for still being home with the kids. Anything I do or don't do is a reason to be angry and proof that I am unsupportive. For example I have been doing all the cooking so he says I am doing that because I know he enjoys cooking so I am trying to take that away from him which just isn't true. If I ask how he is he tells me to stop going on and stop trying to start things but if I don't say anything about it I am unsupportive and don't care. I offered to go to the doctors with him for moral support bug he said its my fault he's stressed and he'll need to talk about me so I didn't go. When he came home I said I wanted to help and could he tell me if i'm contributing what I could do differently so he told me it has nothing to do with me and atop trying to make everything about me. So confusing! Is this normal behaviour for someone who is stressed depressed I feel like he shouldn't talk to me that way even if he is depressed and am still treading in eggshells around him.

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tropamo · 18/02/2012 23:50

He sounds like my XP; took it out on me because he was leading a double life with another woman! I was unaware and bent over backwards to support and please him!

Think that (in our case - not suggesting that your dh is not genuinely depressed!) it was classic hostile disengagement. I, too, could do nothing right and began to genuinely doubt myself - was constantly walking on eggshells and lost all self-confidence!!!

Best wishes, OP and hope that everything sorts out well for you!

OriginalJamie · 19/02/2012 08:36

Tropano

That occurred to me as well. "Good" man has done something which does not fit with his image of himself - that creates a lot of cognitive dissonance and stress which he then seeks to disperse by being nasty to the person he's hurting in order to "justify" his bad behaviour to himself.

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