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Can't do wrong or right

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SoFrustratedWithItAll · 29/02/2016 08:45

Sorry if this doesn't make sense. There is a lot of history that I don't really want to go into. However yesterday I joined the gym as they had a great offer on, no contract etc. I'd been speaking to my DH about this for a while now, and a few weeks ago said that I would be joining the early part of March. Anyway I got home yesterday and told DH that I had signed up and you'd have thought I'd never run it past him.

On and on he went, first because it was £5 more than what I'd said it should be (it includes swimming for the kids that will more than make up for it), then because I hadn't spoken to him about it - I had...around a week ago at most. Then because with our eldest DD's hobby we are spending £60 a month now on 'leisure activities' as he put it.

The gym is for my health, I am very over weight (about 4 stone) and suffer from anxiety and depression, which although I manage quiet well now, feel this will hep even more. I also suffer from an disordered eating, which have an physical outlet will help me with (sorry for all the detail)

We still have a large amount of our monthly income going into savings, so are in no way struggling. DH feels that every bit of money that is not being spent on a necessity should be being saved for a house. I feel that if we did that we would have no fun or quality of life. It also doesn't help that DH has no interest in hobbies or friends or anything that isn't work and being at home.

I just feel at a loss over this. I've discussed it with him, he agreed to it, and yet when I actually do it, he causes a massive fight over it...and I feel like crap.

Adding to this, I am off work ill this morning, and DH seems to have wanted to continue the fight. He first asked if I felt able to get the kids ready (he never gets them ready), then when I am proceeding to do so, he starts telling me to get the younger one ready, while getting cross at our eldest. This includes raising his voice and pulling her slippers etc. off instead of him asking her twice to do it herself.

He then claims that he would have done it himself, and that he never asked me to get them ready, which to be honest is bullshit. I'm left dealing with two confused crying children, while he has a go at me... I refuse to get dragged in to it in front of the kids, and then he's all nice as pie 10 mins later.

He's out doing the school run now, and tbh I'm dreading him coming home and wish I was well enough to go into work to get out of is way.

I'm just so sick of no matter what I do, he'll take issue with it if it's not what he wants, or done his way.

OP posts:
PhoenixReisling · 27/03/2016 16:48

Remember the cycle of abuse.

They are nice/apologetic sometimes to draw you in...please stay strong. Do this for your daughters.

Flowers
SoFrustratedWithItAll · 28/03/2016 10:11

Thank you...just feels like I'm going mad sometimes. ...or that I'm this horrible unreasonable person.

He claims I find fault in anything, that I have borderline personality disorder, that I won't be happy once leaving him as I always have to make myself miserable etc...

Ffs he's now shouting complaints up the stairs at me...because I'm ignoring his constant stream of complaints and grumbles to keep attention on himself.I think...

Just trying to disengage from it all atm

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rememberthetime · 28/03/2016 10:25

This is your chance. He is acting unreasonably with you and the kids and is on the down part of the cycle. Before he gets all nice again you need to act. Get the ball rolling while you are angry and seeing him for what he is. Now is the time to bring up him leaving. It can't be much worse than it is right now and you can point to recent examples of behaviour to justify yourself if you feel you have to.

SoFrustratedWithItAll · 28/03/2016 13:36

Ffs having lunch today...kids food I did...was making minew while they ate...dh made his...ate it, and then just left...With no word apart from to complain at me making a 'sarcastic' comment....how are the kids just my responsibility. ..

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SoFrustratedWithItAll · 30/03/2016 18:27

Just another post so I don't forget this.

My car is in for MOT tomorrow...so I'm working from home. We have a planned power cut for tomorrow so I'll actually be working at my mums. Also have a few things I need to do while out. DH asked if my mum new of this...she did the MOT but not the other stuff as I hadn't tales to her yet. Well eldest DD was at my mums today, so when he picked her up he only fucking checked with my mum if I had told her...who the fucking does that..?

Also when putting the kids to bed DH asked for a specific bit of paperwork that had been in a stack of other paperwork on the kitchen table. As we'd had people over for lunch on Sunday I'd just shoved it all away in a cupboard. ..apparently this is me hiding stuff that he had no knowledge of... ffs it'd been sitting on the table.for weeks...

All through dinner you could see him getting more and mo r e annoyed with the kids being kids (they were making each other laugh ffs)... oh and when eldest DD tried to 'scare' him by being a bunny he told her to get out they way....no interaction with them on their level....apparentlyhe'll be fine when they are older as he can't wait to be able to share interests then....

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LittleLegs25 · 31/03/2016 09:16

Omg please leave him!!! Your life with him sounds miserable.

OneFoxNoChickens · 31/03/2016 09:38

OP I have not read all of your posts, I have read the original post and scanned through but.....you come across as a bright and intelligent person. Added to that you oooze emotional intelligence. You have clearly been worked on for so long by your 'D' H that you can't see the wood for the trees. I have been there and done that so know what it's like. Please do the freedom program on line if necessary. A lot of this is you are 'seeing' him, planning to lose weight and change from within and he just can't stand that can he? Keep up with your plans but please lovely emotionally intelligent, bright OP. Make plans to leave him! The kids will not be heartbroken. He may say that but they won't. It's emotive language and has no place in your thinking now. You have to get brave and organised. Get some advice and make plans to get away from him while there is savings available to you but you are not saddled with a mortgage together with this awful bully. You can do this. Do it one step at a time but you can't look down the barrel of the next 30 years of a life like this. No wonder you have disordered eating and issues fucking hell! No wonder at all! If I said I was going on a diet my DH would be fucking delighted

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