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I'm just going to write this down

99 replies

uselesslife · 29/06/2012 16:18

he's not very good with DS, he's getting better, but doesn't do much in the way of actual "care"

he's very impatient
he's very short tempered

he does not make me feel loved
he does not make me feel special
he makes me feel useless a lot of the time
i never feel he is actually interested when I tell him a story
he talks about nothing but work
he never actually does anything for me, we have nice holidays and go to nice restaurants, but he never actually does anything to make my life easier.

he thinks its ok to wake me up at 1am to tell me he has a really snotty nose
he thinks its ok to wake me up at 5am to ask me where his jeans/boots are

he sends me texts like "out with work tonight"

I know he will avoid emptying the bin, unloading the dishwasher. to my knowledge he has never ever emptied the dishwasher in the 5 years in this house. he was most put out when I told him recently to put his dishes in the dishwasher, not on top of it

He never does any cleaning, tidying, nothing

He expects to find his stuff where he left it. e.g the clothes that he left in a pile in the middle of the room, the letters that he leaves in the middle of the kitchen worktop. So I should actually work, cook, live around his mess.

he moans and moans to me about how much pain he is in, but hasn't taken any painkillers(toothache, cold etc)

if I start to discuss anything important, ie finances, he just says he can't deal with it. Hence he ows 1000's to the taxman

In his defence, re the stuff at home, he works long hours, is stressed and has to catch up with a lot of sleep at the weekend

will be back with more

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AnyFucker · 29/06/2012 19:24

Get rid of the waste of space

BibiBlocksberg · 29/06/2012 20:01

OP I lived with someone not dissimilar to your partner and I can vouch for the fact that life really IS easier and more fun when its just your own things to keep track of (for one)

Also so much more relaxing never having to wonder when the next shitty mood will hit and why (constant low level whining, simmering anger,etc with my ex)

Caused by dope in my case but the cause is immetial.

Now when I come home I know i only have to manage my own moods and being without that constant dread of what incarnation of crappiness will hove into view today is very relaxing (to name just one benefit)

BibiBlocksberg · 29/06/2012 20:02

What the actual jeff is immetial when it's at home Angry @ own typing. Immaterial of course, tsk!

Bluebelly · 29/06/2012 20:14

So...you've convinced us that you would be far, far better of without him. Our job is to confirm that you're right. Well, you are!

Do you know why you are hesitating? Perhaps if you examined the reasons for that you could find a way forward? Good luck.

MissFaversam · 29/06/2012 20:39

Blimey.

Time to get shot ay.

MrsSutherland · 29/06/2012 20:41

uselesslife I am really sorry but this will be no help probably but I felt pretty much the same with XH. One day me and 2 work colleagues were staying over at work conference and after a few drinks the others were talking about the things they loved about their husbands - I was mortified when I couldn't think of one thing I even liked.

We split up 6 weeks later - I knew I couldn't spend my life like that but it took one tiny conversation to make me realise how awful my life with him was.

I made a decision never to stay in a relationship that I wasn't 100% happy in and have stuck to that!

mathanxiety · 29/06/2012 21:01

I was supposed to read 'Don't Sweat the Small Stuff in Love' with a book group and I realised that nothing I was dealing with with exH was Small Stuff.

uselesslife · 29/06/2012 21:15

We have jnt medical insurance through his work
I am having physio for a knee injury
He said, "does that mean if I have an operation, you will have used up all the physio appts?"
There is no operation
Who thinks like that?

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foolonthehill · 29/06/2012 22:25

useless, self absorbed entitled wats think like that.

You are not really a person to him, and he is showing you that daily.

What do you want uselesslife?? How about apurposedrivenlife?...how can you get there?? We can help work thru' the practical stuff....

Inadeeptrance · 29/06/2012 23:10

It sounds like your life would be SO much better without him!

glastocat · 30/06/2012 07:33

How I wish there was an I agree with AF button. Because I would be pressing it right now. This man is a dick,don't waste any more of your precious life on him.

lolaflores · 30/06/2012 08:27

What is stopping you leaving him?

uselesslife · 30/06/2012 11:56

He seems to be having some kind of meltdown/breakdown this morning

Crying, saying nothing is worth it, doesn't want to do anything, everything is too hard

Oh dear

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JustFabulous · 30/06/2012 12:00

Script follower! Script follower!!

uselesslife · 30/06/2012 12:07

What me or him?

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AnyFucker · 30/06/2012 12:26

I think JustFab means him

But the same thing could apply to you if you let him emotionally manipulate you in this way

He's having a "crisis" is he ? Tell him to sling his hook and do it somewhere else, you've had enough of his petty dramarama

JustFabulous · 30/06/2012 12:28

Oh, definitely him.

WandaDoff · 30/06/2012 12:37

I let ExP do this kind of shit to me, for 7 years.

Then his replacement did the same & worse.

Then I had some time to myself, learned a few things about myself, eventually I got self-respect.

Is he really what you deserve out of life, my love?

I have a lovely DP now, he respects me as a person & we support each other.

Don't waste your life on someone that doesn't give a fuck about you. You are worth more. x

wannabedomesticgoddess · 30/06/2012 13:06

It really sounds like he has serious mental health issues and I think first and foremost you need to make him an appointment with his GP and drive him there.

Then I think you need to take a break. He is depressed and he will start to bring you down too. If you are still with him because you want your son to have both parents together then please rethink. If you are miserable your son is too.

Maybe if your DH gets help with his issues and has time away from you to realise how much you have been doing then he may change. But hopefully by then you will have moved on and be happy to be alone.

You are coping with a young child and an immature prick at the minute, that shows that you are ready for whatever life throws at you.

I have been in your position and ending it was the best decision I have ever made. I hope it works out for you.

uselesslife · 30/06/2012 17:05

He's been asleep since about 11

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uselesslife · 30/06/2012 17:42

We were supposed to be going out tonight. I've cancelled the babysitter, cos he said he wasn't going.
But I'm supposed to be going!

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foolonthehill · 30/06/2012 22:07

hope you went.
hope you enjoyed yourself
hope it cleared your head
hope your future can be better than this......

uselesslife · 01/07/2012 00:03

Well he came down from bedroom, and was stable, so I put DS to bed and legged it!
I had a nice evening
With friends who know him very well, both good and bad.
But friends who know the ups and downs of marriage, which made me think about how mine is really not so normal.

Practically I have a lot to figure out. DS's new school was chosen because I could drive him there. If I go back to work, it means a nanny. Which is a huge change. But obviously do-able

I an going to insist he sees the GP, but I can't see him through it. I think he should leave

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uselesslife · 01/07/2012 15:55

Well I've asked him to leave, and he's being an absolute wanker
Think it's called emotional blackmail

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Wheezo · 01/07/2012 16:20

What's he said OP? It sounds like you'd both be much happier apart so maybe he will come round to this (actually he won't be happier without a domestic slave but I'd pretend to him that if he is this unhappy with you it might be better for him without you)