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i am going to tell him i know...i would really appreciate some hand holding..

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kittycat5 · 15/06/2014 16:33

I was very very happy with my husband...We had been together 6 years although only married for 3...I adore him and he certainly had adored me until about December last year when he became cold and distant. In January he said he didn't love me anymore and the reasons were that I was too messy (I always have been); and that I didn't spend enough time with him -this is certainly true...In retrospect I was so certain of him I took him for granted...and I have children, grand children, an elderly mother (none of whom drive) a full on profession which meant working about 45-50 hours per week and was doing a doctorate..I also have pernicious anaemia which means I get Very tired and need to sleep a lot when I am coming up to my injections.......anyway he left and I suspected he was having a relationship with a colleague from work (he works as a carer with people with learning disabilities) as their work means being in each others company overnight and taking clients on nights out to concerts and the theatre (in short doing things with her we weren't doing together) prior to leaving he had stayed up after a night shift to give her a lift home after a weekend away and had done maintenance in her home whilst ignoring ours. He also went for long walk with her in local woods....He said they were just friends and was annoyed with me for feeling threatened. ..anyway in when he said he didn't love me (sorry if this is disjointed) I told him he had to leave and he went to his mother's then to a rented house. ..I told him that what I couldn't change I realised I had to accept (he was denying affair and saying he just didn't love me anymore) I said I would make separating as easy as possible. ...I became extra depressed and latterly got diagnosis of bipolar....He was so nice ...He took me out...took me shopping (holding my hand) did things in the house...I believed he might change his mind and come home...We were still having see. ...anyway my medication meant I couldn't drive....on Friday I was told I could do very short jjourneys if I felt up to it...I had something to give to him (a hand printed tee-shirt) so today i went round to give it to him and he was obviously getting ready to go out...i asked him where he was going (not in sleep threatening way) and he said he was going shopping...I said could I go with him and he said no and said he was going to see his mother too...I started to cry (I am really isolated because of the limitations to my driving) and he said he would call in to mine on way to work c tonight but I can't go with him now....anyway I went to my car and thought-he took his mother shopping yesterday so he doesn't need to go shopping today or to see her...so I followed him in my car. (He wouldn't have been able to tell) and he went neither to his mother's or to the shops...but to a residential area where I believe the woman I was wary of lives....I drove home really distraught. ..I had believed we could get back together ..that's what he was making me think....He is going to call in on his way to work tonight and my plan is to tell him I know of the relationship...then not see him again ...Please could you let me know this is right....I love him...

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AnyFucker · 16/06/2014 09:59

I am sorry love. Ending it with him is temporary shiteness at least. You will get over it. Everybody does, sooner or later. He's just one man, love, not even a nice one.

If you carry on demeaning yourself in an effort to hang onto him, you will just escalate the shiteness. He will treat you worse and worse and make it more blatant so that the people around you will feel pity for you, but also I am afraid think less of you for taking it. No man is worth that.

kittycat5 · 16/06/2014 10:01

Sorry we cross posted. ..i feel like shite.....Thanks i know what you all are saying is right...but jeez i feel so bad....This was the first relationship i have had where it wasn't DV ... my first husband broke my nose twice. The relationship before this was the most horrendously violent and cruel it made a broken nose look like a kiss on the cheek...I was so grateful to be with someone who was kind and gentle. ..I can't stand that I have lost that..

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LiberalLibertine · 16/06/2014 10:02

Don't choose death by a thousand cuts kitty

Tell him you've decided it's time for a clean break, you really will feel so much better about yourself in time if you take control now.

kittycat5 · 16/06/2014 10:04

I know liberallibertine....its what i would be telling someone else to do

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AnyFucker · 16/06/2014 10:05

Don't you deserve to take your own good advice ?

AnyFucker · 16/06/2014 10:06

A 5/10 bastard (as opposed to a 10/10 bastard) is still a bastard.

You will find someone who treats you well. Have you done the Freedom Programme, love ?

kittycat5 · 16/06/2014 10:15

No I haven't done that....I didn't think it was for me because he wasn't horrible to me

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kittycat5 · 16/06/2014 10:25

I meant I hadn't done the freedom project....not that I shouldn't take my own advixe

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hellsbellsmelons · 16/06/2014 10:28

You need to do the freedom programme as AF has suggested.
It's to help you with past relationships and see all red flags.
Contact Womens Aid and do that programme asap.

It's horrible but this, poor excuse, of a man is cheating on you and has been for some time now.

MN Special - stop doing the 'Pick Me' dance.
They deserve and can have each other!
Leave them to it and get on with your life without him.
He's an arse!

He can't know he's missing if you are there all the time anyway.
Because he's got you right where he wants you!

kittycat5 · 16/06/2014 10:32

We share pets....He will sometimes message me 20 plus times a day...Other times there is nothing..

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kittycat5 · 16/06/2014 10:33

I am ringing women's aid now...but i do feel a fraud doing that as he wasn't violent...although i think he was financially exploiting me.

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kittycat5 · 16/06/2014 10:39

The nearest women's aid to me is 15 miles away and i am not in their catchment area for their programmes

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kittycat5 · 16/06/2014 11:02

I have rang national women's aid and there is nothing near me

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hellsbellsmelons · 16/06/2014 11:07

You can do the Freedom Programme on line.
You can get phone support from Womens Aid.
or they may know of another organisation in your area that can help with 1-2-1 support.
You are not a fraud. You have been badly abused in past relationships.

So you were supporting him to some extent?? Not sure what you mean by financially exploiting you?

AnyFucker · 16/06/2014 11:34

the humiliating dance of "pick me"

Freedom programme online

The Chump Lady website is also a Godsend

kittycat5 · 16/06/2014 11:43

Hellsbells moved into my house. i continued to pay for everything apart from Sky (i didnt have or want a TV when he moved- i paid for tv licence) and he paid for phones.he paid for his own car and motor bike.he said he paid for our social life but actually he paid for himself to go places and not me (i stayed at home) because he said he couldnt afford to pay for 2 people. sometimes i would be really struggling and he would be buying new guitars and clothes.....that is what i meant by financial exploitation, although i hadnt minded at the time.

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kittycat5 · 16/06/2014 11:44

obviously i dont mean hellsbells moved into my house i mean He moved in

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kittycat5 · 16/06/2014 11:48

thank you anyfucker

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AnyFucker · 16/06/2014 11:57

Oh sweetie, this man has taken you for an absolute ride Sad

kittycat5 · 16/06/2014 12:04

i really didnt mind...i just wanted im to be happy...but when i became ill after he left and was overspending massively he was quite happy to receive extravagant presents...

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dollius · 16/06/2014 12:10

He's a cocklodger who has taken you for a complete ride. You thought this was a good relationship just because he wasn't breaking your nose. I could weep for you.

Please do the Freedom programme online - it could change everything for you.

kittycat5 · 16/06/2014 12:11

i have enrolled on line for the freedom roject

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dollius · 16/06/2014 12:13

Well done, that's fantastic! I really hope it helps you, I know it has helped lots of women who post on here.

You can get through this and you will be happier on the other side.

kittycat5 · 16/06/2014 12:20

i cant imagine being happy ever again...i keep bursting into tears....i cant eat...i cant sleep...everything is just so hard

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dollius · 16/06/2014 12:21

Do you think you could be a bit depressed as well? It would be completely understandable.

How about a visit to the GP and just tell them everything that is going on and how you are feeling?