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Scrounginscum · 13/08/2012 08:27

We spent a few days at my IL and I have been very lazy and lathargic since we got back. Although I'm in the wrong I feel DH has massively over reacted. He's been saying I never pull my weight which I feel is unfair because I usually do everything. He's also complaining I don't respect his opinion. This seems to be because of the argument we had about my driving but he was in the wrong AFAIC.

Thursday lunchtime he said he would get up with DS on Friday so that I could get an extra hour before the drive home. His friend called and invited him out. I said go and enjoy yourself but remember you're getting up early tomorrow. He went out at 7 saying he'd be a couple of hours. At 10 he called saying he'd be an hour. Just after 11 I sent him a text saying I was off to bed. He got back at 4am. He did get up with DS then went back to bed. I had to wake him so we could leave.

He slept a lot of the way home. When he wasn't he was getting irate about my driving wanting me to drive closer to the car in front is less than a car length so no one can get in 'and push us back'. This was when the traffic was moving, I wouldn't do it and told him why.

Bad traffic turned our 5.5hr journey into a 10hr one. I couldn't

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solidgoldbrass · 13/08/2012 11:10

I think you#'ve gone from one abuser to another; sadly this often happens as, after an abusive relationship, your boundaries and self-esteem are in a mess, so you think that not being hit is a 'good' relationship and don't always realise that a lazy selfish verbally abusive man is just as bad,

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