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will you please answer these 2 question. would you leave and why?

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pollyanna0702 · 26/05/2014 19:48

Hi there, I have NC. I have posted before about my marriage but only in bits, usually whats bothering me the most at the time. I want to explain the full sad story and ask you to give me your advice on what you would do if you were me and what bits would bother you the most. I ask because I feel like I don't know my own mind anymore. Things are so ingrained. Thank you in advance for reading. This will be long.
Been with dh 22 years. 2 dc 7 and 16.
I will try and start with the early behaviour and work forward. Its a list I'm afraid as a story would be a book.

Met h mid teens, no other relationship. He is 6 years older than me.

He would squeeze my hands till they hurt then laugh and say it was a joke.

He would ring and say im coming now and expect me to drop everything and be readyIin minutes.

He expected me to clean him up after being intimate.

He would constantly ask if I had done something he asked over and over again. If I hadn't he asks why not so I have to make excuses.

After dc he never once got up in the night to feed or change because I was on ml.

He hates it when im ill and mocks that I'm putting it on.

Doesn't have any empathy for anyone ever.

Never says sorry

Moans about the mess. Even if I've cleaned he will find something to pick on.

Doesn't tell me he loves me.

Blocks my nose and flicks my lips when im going to sleep because he liles to fiddle with me.

I fell down the stairs into the living room, he was sat on the sofa just feet away and he didn't move or say anything.

If im asleep and my foot is hanging out of the bed he will scrape his nail dpwn the sole of my foot and make me wake up in shock.

If hes giving me a taste of something he has made he puts the spoon to my mouth gently but then rams it in against my teeth.

Criticises my driving

Asks me to get something say from the kitchen, if grumble whilst doing it, I hand him it and he says "it wasn't hard was it"

Cant stand it if im asleep. He has woken me up by grabbing my feet. I roused and he rubbed my face with his bare hands. I said I could hit you, he went upstairs and told our dc did you hear that, mum wants to hit me, thats abusive that is.

Lifts the end of my nose as he walks past me and says, hey piggy.

There's more but I think you get the idea. Is he autistic or just not very nice. Are any of these things normal? Would you stay and try and sort or would you go? Ive left before for a week but came back. He said it was daft to split up over something so stupid.

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BertieBotts · 03/06/2014 14:37

So I thought if that was me how horrible that feeling is.

But he is not you, and he isn't giving you a choice. Plus, he's saying this to guilt trip you. It's working, isn't it?! I know that the very worst thing my ex could do when the relationship was breaking down was cry. I could deal with his anger, that didn't scare me any more, I could see through his empty promises, I wasn't swayed by his threats, but when he cried he got me every time, because (I thought) I was seeing the lost, broken little boy who I had always loved and always wanted to help and make better. I thought if maybe he just stayed in touch with his emotions we could get through this.

Looking back I can see the truth of it - they were total crocodile tears!! He turned them on at exactly the right emotional manipulation moments. I never saw him cry at any other time. He used to boast that he didn't even cry as a child when he fell over and adults used to comment on it. It was so unusual for him to cry that I took it as a sign that he was really broken, really upset, really changing this time. It never happened, and looking back he could turn on the tears at the most convenient time for him, but never when it might have embarrassed him or been inconvenient no matter what happened.

And after I left - guess what, his actions never matched up to what he claimed his deep and hurt feelings were. He had a problem with alcohol and I was worried that he would go off on a drinking spiral so I went totally non contact for the first few days. My mum screened my emails, texts and phone calls. He didn't have facebook then. But actually he didn't - he went off to his mate's house because he claimed he couldn't pay the rent on the house we lived in, two weeks later he was shagging his mate's sister, having the time of his life Confused I just laughed about it - it just proved to me that I'd done the right thing if he was moving on so quickly. Even after they split up it didn't take him long to find a new girlfriend, play "Daddy" to her kid and slowly ditch DS by making excuses about contact as often as possible. He hasn't seen him now for almost three years.

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marthabear · 10/06/2014 11:21

Hope you are okay OP and feeling strong enough to keep to your plan.

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