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I need help and fast!!! May be long!!

38 replies

mirandassofunny · 31/12/2012 14:24

Where to start, maybe last night when i went to a lovely friends house for dinner, i ended up ruining her perfect dinner party because i over reacted, at a comment my husband made. Then i I'd blame the drink but that just seem's a cope out although i may have been able to hold my tongue if i'd not had a drink! I feel resentment towards my husband and i'm not sure if it's justified or if it's because i'm unbalanced, he work's hard and pay's for the house and bill's, but he does nothing around the house and never can see what needs doing, ie damp needs sorting, sagging ceiling may be a problem, i think these things should be sorted to avoid them getting worse, he just ignores them! This drives me nut's. I'm always trying to get things done, always seem to be on the go, and he has a great ability to be able to do nothing for Hours and day's, We need help in our marriage but he cant / wont see that, he say's it's me i nag all the while. God i could go on forever, is that moaning. Where do you begin to make thing's better?? As a result of last night i've txt my friend to apologise and heard nothing, not that i blame her tbh, Hubby stayed in bed until 1pm and we've not spoken a word! What a great way to end the year!!

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Allergictoironing · 31/12/2012 15:52

So basically you do every single little thing for him, all he has to do is get up, go to work & come home, and enjoy himself, and in return you get abused?

Your comment earlier or take pills or just shut up and be a perfect wife suggests that maybe he's massively just a bit self centred. Believing that the "little woman" should minister to his every need while he can verbally abuse her isn't exactly how I would expect an equal partner to behave!

CogitOCrapNotMoreSprouts · 31/12/2012 15:59

Hey... as long as he's paying for the house and the bills, it's probably best if you just pointlessly moan, run around after him and blame yourself for getting cross without actually doing anything about the source of the problem. Big cold world out there once you ditch your meal-ticket. Hmm

mirandassofunny · 31/12/2012 16:01

We'll he has to pick up his breakfast and lunch bag's to take to work with him too!!! He can be lovely, and i have a very comfortable life, so
i have made it that way i guess, i have no issues (most of the time) being a mom, i find it natural to do these thing's and i'm obviously not the perfect wife, or i would know when to shut up without being told!!! How do you change a situation you've made? do i want to? i just want to be a little appreciated sometimes!!

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mirandassofunny · 31/12/2012 16:15

cogit, do you think i should?? hahaha, my meal ticket???
Serious
Believe you me i have only worked 3 day's in the last few months, never had maternity leave, and paid for most of the renovation we had done to the house, so resent that a tad!! But hear where your coming from, i know the grass is not always greener, and some day's yes i could bury him at the bottom of the garden ( today obviously been one!!) But feel better for moaning about him!!! And you've all been very entertaining!!

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CogitOCrapNotMoreSprouts · 31/12/2012 16:19

A detached house in the burbs with room for a pony, a fully-expensed hatchback and gym membership does not entitle someone to treat you like shit. You may feel like you have colluded in it but emotionally abusive/bullying men always engineer things so that it makes the victim feel like it's mostly their fault. 'If only I was a better wife.... ' they sigh... 'he wouldn't treat me this way'. Classic way to trap someone.

If the man's an arse, he's an arse. You saw that when he turned on your friend because it's how he treats you. It was like looking at yourself through a window, wasn't it? You stormed out of that party because you were hurt, embarrassed and shocked. I think you actually want to storm out of your own comfortable life but - because you blame yourself for being treated like a doormat - you believe you can't.

A man with golf-club membership and who provides a comfortable lifestyle has a hell of a lot to lose if a wife divorces him. You probably have more leverage than you think. Start objecting more, saying 'no' more and hold the threat of leaving ever so slightly over him if he doesn't shape up and stop bullying

mirandassofunny · 31/12/2012 16:21

COGit!!! Is that who i think it is???? Blush

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mirandassofunny · 31/12/2012 16:28

Maybe not!!!
so how do you
Start objecting more, saying 'no' more and hold the threat of leaving ever so slightly over him if he doesn't shape up and stop bullying
I need you in my life!!! ur a very wise person i feel!!! Xmas Smile

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senoritapoojita · 31/12/2012 16:47

Finally, a woman who feels the same like me!
My husband works hard at work and when he comes home he EXPECTS to be treated like a PRINCE! As a result no garden work is done, no car wash done, no paint work or minor repairs around the house gets done. so i quit asking and got a gardener to sort the garden, a window cleaner to sort the window, a handyman to sort the work around the house and i take the car to the carwash to get it cleaned every 6 weeks and top up the air in the tyres.

Got myself some part time job and went to work every weekend when he was home.
I have 2 young children aged 6. Besides, school work and taking them to their extra classes i do all the housework and manage to get some work within the hours of 9am-2pm on week days too.

As a result i was told since i manage soooo well without him maybe i should be without him forever and was served with a DIVORCE papers on the 1st of December!

Girl it is coming to you, you just have to be vigilant! I am sure he does not want to go to counselling either as it is always OUR fault!

I am sorry to break it to you but be prepared!

dequoisagitil · 31/12/2012 16:50

Tbh, I think you should be grateful for the divorce papers, Senorita. Your life with him sounds bloody awful, I'm sure once you're out of it you'll make a much better life for yourself and the dc.

mirandassofunny · 31/12/2012 16:52

I don't think he could afford to divorce me, I'm worth every ounce And he know's it all too well!!!!

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mirandassofunny · 31/12/2012 16:54

But believe you me, he's in for a very very serious talk, when we do talk,
( tomorrow!!), he can either shape up and pull his sock's up or I'm on strike!!!

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mirandassofunny · 31/12/2012 17:24

Well i don't believe it, after all that my poor friend didn't even get her txt of apology, for some reason it didn't send, ive just found it in my outbox, then whist trying to edit it, bloody deleted it... best i grovel again!!!!

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dequoisagitil · 31/12/2012 17:35

Phone the woman, don't text her. Apologies by text are crap.

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