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I need to leave but I'm scared... please help

46 replies

Dreamless · 10/04/2012 23:17

A marriage doesn't get much worse than this.

This is what happened this evening:

I know h had sex with someone else last night. It is someone he has children with and he went there to see him. It is an event that happens around once every 2 months (the sex not the visiting, he sees them regularly). I am NOT ok with this arrangement and never have been. I make my feeling known and it makes no difference.

Don't ask me how I know when he has sex with her, I just do (I have evidence).

So today I couldn't speak to him normally. I felt sick and hurt. I was civil to him but I was quite obviously bothered by something. He asked what was wrong and I couldn't even find the strength in me to have the same conversation I've had so many times and which only ends in me being even more upset.

After a few hours, while I'm making him some food, he suddenly says, "You don't want to piss me off you know." I said "excuse me?"
He said "Dont fuck with me. You've been nobbing me off all day" etc. etc., about how I'm going to piss him off because I'm not talking to him properly.
I said "Are you really going to talk to me like that? I'm your wife not a piece of shit." Which makes him more mad, so I say "You don't even know why I'm upset" He asked why then and I said "I'm hurt because you fucked someone else last night." He said "So what, you fuck other people"
I replied "You CHOSE to! I don't have a choice, I don't want to! Its not fair to throw that in my face!" He just told me to shut the fuck up. I said "What, don't you want me to care? It hurts because I love you!"

He jumps up and storms over with that look on his face that promises violence. I said "What, are you really going to hit me for this? You're going to hurt me physically when im hurting emotionally??"

He starts punching me. I curl up into a ball. He's ripping my hair out, strangling me, jumping on my head with his trainers on, he lobs the steel bar stool at me, then the table. Then he pours a bottle of pop over my head.

I have scars on my body from other times. A recurring shoulder injury from the last time he hit me with the bar stool. My wrist has been fucked for months - I can't rotate it without intense pain.

I have to leave but I am terrified. Terrified of him finding me. Terrified of being away from my family and not being able to visit them. Terrified of being lonely.

OP posts:
Dreamless · 10/04/2012 23:18

Sorry typo 'he went there to see THEM not HIM.'

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Fairenuff · 10/04/2012 23:24

Dreamless call Womens Aid, they will get you into a refuge. But before you do that, call the police and report this assault. Where is he now?

AgnesBligg · 10/04/2012 23:24

Well yes you have to leave, that's a given.
Do you have children together?

You say you are terrified. Fear is something we use to stop us taking necessary steps to change our lives. Try and calm yourself to think about what you can do in this situation.

In the first instance you should report him to the police. You can get him removed from the house and you can ask them to help you leave this horror.

AgnesBligg · 10/04/2012 23:26

You had a thread recently didn't you?

Dreamless · 10/04/2012 23:27

He's still here. I'm worried he'll catch me on here... will be short comments tonight...

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ImperialBlether · 10/04/2012 23:27

Dreadful situation - you should call the police.

What did you mean that you don't choose to have sex with people?

Dreamless · 10/04/2012 23:28

I don't want to get police involved. I just want to disappear where he can never find me. Don't want to alert him that anuthings up.

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Fairenuff · 10/04/2012 23:29

You need to keep yourself safe tonight. Can you just leave the house and go and stay somewhere else? Why don't you want to involve police?

oikopolis · 10/04/2012 23:31

a refuge is the right place to disappear to, pet. Women's Aid are the people to call.

i am so sorry this is happening to you. i wish i were near you and i would come over and give you a hug Sad

Bogeyface · 10/04/2012 23:35

I understand why you dont want the police involved, it makes it all a bit too real. But getting the police and womens aid involved will help you to disappear.

You dont have to be alone with this. Go to Womens Aid first, they will help you find a place to go, food and clothes for you and the children and they will make sure he cant find you. The national helpline is 0808 2000 247.

We will be here for you too, but please dont do this alone when there is help out there xx

AgnesBligg · 10/04/2012 23:37

A refuge is ideal. You will be surrounded by kindly professionals who can help you. You will be safe. It will be clean and comfortable. You can get back on your feet.

Bogeyface · 10/04/2012 23:42

And (to add to Agnes post) you will be with other women who are in the same position as you and can support and understand you.

There really is no other place better for you right now.

Thinking of you x

Selks · 10/04/2012 23:46

Dreamless, are you the lady who posted on here before who lives in the USA and who is being forced into the sex trade - and physically abused by her H?
Apologies if that is not you, but I think I remember your thread from before.
Am I right in remembering that there are no children involved?

Selks · 10/04/2012 23:47

Just wanting to clarify so that folks on here can give you the right support and advice.

gingerpig · 10/04/2012 23:53

I'm so sorry dreamless. The physical and emotional pain must be immense.

surely this has to be the end of the line for you and him. he's getting worse isn't he? beating you like that could kill you.

come on now, you are worth so much more than this awful man, hold your head up high and leave him.

carernotasaint · 10/04/2012 23:54

Please please please call the police and Womens Aid and get yourself out of there. They will help you. xx

NettleTea · 11/04/2012 00:02

I remember your previous posts. you do need to get out. It seems the scariest thing in the world when you are thinking about it, but every day you are away from him your strength comes back until you wonder why you thought you wouldnt cope. In a refuge you will be safe. no one can know where you are. They will keep you safe. They have people to help. Your family wouldnt want this on their concience, and his family dont deserve the help he takes from you for them - they made him into the animal he is, its impossible they dont know what kind of monster they created.
He is not right. really really not right.
I thought you were in the UK, but if you are in the US i am sure there are similar sevices. Please get out this time before he kills you.

AgnesBligg · 11/04/2012 00:04

Are you in the UK or the US?

Sorry for all the questions.

Dreamless · 11/04/2012 00:12

I'm in the UK. This will prob be last reply until he goes tomorrow.

I'm really scared he'll hurt my family when I leave, he really is that sick. How can I protect them??

He won't pay any attention to police/ court orders etc., he's beat police officers up before, he doesn't care about prison...

I will be scared every day of my life once I've gone... I want to change my name, get new documents etc., is this possible?? I want to disappear COMPLETELY.

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AwkwardMaryHadAnEasterLamb · 11/04/2012 00:12

I assume the OP is in the US...your speech OP....it's got US rhythms...and certain words.

Have you ANY friends to go to just for one night until a refuge can get you in? Or would he look for you?

AwkwardMaryHadAnEasterLamb · 11/04/2012 00:13

x posts OP

Can you go on the WOmans Aid website now?

oikopolis · 11/04/2012 00:15

Dreamless if you go to the refuge, they can help you get away. they have experience dealing with very violent men and they know what to do. they can help you disappear.

thinking of you tonight x i am so sorry this is happening. you can get out, and you will get out. i know you are afraid but things can get better if you ask for help

AgnesBligg · 11/04/2012 00:16

Do you have children to take with you? What family is in danger, mum, sister what? He sounds like a maniac!

izzyizin · 11/04/2012 00:16

Are his ex and dc part of the family members that are being supported by your earnings as a prostitute?

Are you in the USA? If so, it will be easy for you to disappear; he'll never be able to find you and you'll be able to live the kind of life that you deserve to have. If you pm me the US State you are currently living in, I'll send you details of an organisation that will help you vanish.

But whether you're in the USA or the UK or any other 'civilised' country, one call to the police will put an end to his abuse of you and will ensure that you can obtain a speedy divorce if you are, in fact, legally married to this pimp.

There is no need for you to be scared of him, but he has good reason to be scared of you telling your story to the police because he will be facing the prospect of a jail sentence if a prosecution ensues - please note that no such action will be taken against you.

Nyac · 11/04/2012 00:17

Women's Aid can help you disappear dreamless. They will do that for women.

I am so so sorry you are in this situation. You don't deserve any of it.

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