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Why does he bring up my past?

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Purplerain067 · 29/02/2016 14:05

I just need some advice really.
I have been in a relationship with my DP for 2 years and got engaged just before Christmas. We have a great relationship, we work so well together, our children are getting on great and things are really looking up. I cannot wait to be his wife and to carry on our lives together.

But there's this one issue that happens every 6 months or so. When my DP has a few too many drinks or a bit of a bad day he will bring up my past. He will make me feel small for how many sexual partners I've had and often asks very personal questions and can be quite nasty about it.

I've told him it needs to stop and that my past is behind me and I'm not that person anymore. However it doesn't seem to make any difference. We will talk. He will say it's difficult to leave it in the past, I will get upset, he then feels bad and all will be forgotten the following day until the next time he brings it up.

After a not so great weekend with him I've told him today that it is his problem not mine and he needs to either get over it or leave- he didn't reply. I feel like I've been so hasty, I don't want him to leave because 99% of the time things are great but I can't take anymore of this Sad

I'm dreading him not coming home but I really feel I don't deserve this either. I don't know what to do.

OP posts:
DarlingBuds19 · 14/10/2019 07:58

By all means get married to improve the legal position of yourself and your kids, but keep in mind that he'll probably never change and you may want to divorce sooner or later.

DarlingBuds19 · 14/10/2019 08:01

I have a feeling if you look at his behaviour in general, you'll find this is far from the only issue and it's part of a wider picture. Have you read the lundy Bancroft book esp the "abuser profiles"?

www.docdroid.net/py03/why-does-he-do-that.pdf

DarlingBuds19 · 14/10/2019 08:03

Of FFS Zombie thread - maybe the poster who revived it in the early hours of this morning can get help from advice though.

TellItLikeItReallyIs · 14/10/2019 13:26

His ex wife was also a virgin when they met- he seems proud of that also, if that makes any sense.

Sounds like a whore/Madonna complex. Either way its not good.

What would you say if a friend who was once overweight and had lost weight said to you
"every few months my partner gets drunk and tells me how despicable he finds fat people and he hopes that I don't get fat again".?

TellItLikeItReallyIs · 14/10/2019 13:26

Whoops! BIG ZOMBIE THREAD

Sorry.

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