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DH says he's doesn't love me anymore

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enfru · 25/04/2016 12:02

I've never posted before but need some perspective. Sorry this could be long.
For the last couple of weeks DH has been going out a lot- weekend at his friends, housewarming party, works do etc he said it was just a lot of invites all at once and that's just the way it goes sometimes. The trouble is he also started going to the pub to watch football as well. This means in the last 3 weeks he's spent 4 evenings at home while I've been alone with DS 8 and DD 1.
Last Tuesday he went out and didn't take his keys, again (he has a habit of not taking keys). It got to about 10pm and I started trying to get hold of him because I wanted to go to bed and couldn't because I couldn't lock the door with him not being able to get in (I could've done but then he would've gone mental). He eventually came home around half 11. I asked if he was going to apologise for yet again making it so that I couldn't go to sleep and he said he didn't care. He then went on to say he's been going out so much to get away from me, all I do is nag and he doesn't love me anymore. Oh and he's felt this way for the last 2 years.
Not once has he given any indication that this is how he's been feeling and not once has he tried to talk to me about my so called "nagging"
He's said he's leaving, but he's still here. Is now saying he's going to stay as long as possible because he knows it annoys me to have him here.
He's acting so cold and cruel I don't even recognise him.
The last 2 years have been tough, DD has been a challenge to say the least, she still wakes several times a night and is wild during the day. DH was diagnosed with depression and anxiety last year after months of him threatening suicide on an almost daily basis, but I stood by him without so much as a word of complaint.
Shortly before DD was born an old male friend got in touch with me and DH went through my phone and came up with the conclusion that at 37 weeks pregnant I was trying to start an affair. This has come up time and time again for the last 2 years and he won't even consider that it was the depression and anxiety disorder that made him come to that conclusion, not one message was even remotely romantic or sexual. If anything they were run of the mill how's your life going type messages.
I just don't know what to do, he's said all these things to me, hurtful, horrible things and yet then he's just here carrying on as normal. It's so confusing.
We have no joint bank accounts but do have a joint tenancy on our house. I'm so fearful for the future, I don't want to have to move but he's adamant I'm the one who should leave as he's the main tenant. My finances are a mess as I took out a loan to pay off both out credit cards when I was on maternity leave but then I couldn't go back to my well paying job as he wasn't well enough for me to be working 50 hour weeks and for him to have the kids. Chances are my credit score is now wrecked so wouldn't get approved for any sort of rental.
He holds all the power and knows there's nothing I can do. He seems so cut off from me all of a sudden and clearly doesn't care about me at all, in a way he seems almost amused by my anguish.
I just feel lost.

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Deardinah · 26/04/2016 19:10

Sorry to hear you're going through this hell. My ex husband changed to someone I didn't recognise, became cruel & cold. He was having an affair & trying to push me away to take the guilt off himself. It's fiendish. Feel for you, do you have close friends who can help you emotionally?

wannabestressfree · 26/04/2016 19:12

Don't you dare let him go this weekend to your family. Have some time out with People who .love and care for you....

enfru · 26/04/2016 19:26

I've told him he's not coming, he said that's disrespectful because he's her dad! I have a very close work colleague who went through pretty much the same thing last year- her husband was having an affair and has made her life hell for the last year even though he's supposedly completely loved up! I don't want to tell my other friends until something has actually happened, at the moment I'm in limbo

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pocketsaviour · 26/04/2016 19:30

If you know and get on with your landlord, call/see them and explain what's happening, basically throw yourself on their mercy and ask if they'd consider ending the tenancy for you both and keeping you and the DC on as tenants. If you have been a good tenant then you stand a good chance, as it means a cost saving for them of not having to advertise and do referencing for a new tenant who might not be as reliable as you.

I agree with PPs that there's another woman on the scene, so harden your heart in preparation for that coming out, I'm afraid. He sounds an utter, utter cunt.

enfru · 27/04/2016 08:40

He's flatly refusing to leave, he said he would never agree to ending the tenancy early. That if I don't like him being around then I should leave.
He said I don't do anything for him whereas he does loads for me. The only things he does are take our son to and from school 3 days a week and the food shop. Everything else I handle. Also he isn't doing me some favour by doing the little he does, it's just his responsibility as a father and husband is it not?
He laughed at my list of terms- all they had was that he'd have the kids every Friday night, he'd leave sooner rather than later, that he had 2 weeks to get something in place, that he could keep the car as long as he continued to do the school runs and that should either of us meet someone new that we wouldn't introduce the children to them for at least 6 months but preferably longer.
He said he's not going to live by my demands and I'm certainly not going to have everything me way. I pointed out that that simply wasn't true and he knew it because this is far from having things my way!
Then this morning as I was leaving he said I love you and went to kiss me!!!!!

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0palfruit · 27/04/2016 09:45

What a nob. Sounds like he's realised you will not put up with his shit behaviour and changed his mind.

Di11ligaf · 27/04/2016 10:29

If he wants to act like a lodger, then treat him like one. No affection, no sex, move into a separate bed if needs be. Don't cook for him, don't do his laundry. In fact just don't do anything at all for him. Converse only when absolutely necessary.
If he forgets his key and he isn't home prior to you going to bed, tough, he's locked out. Let him kick off if he wants, tell him you have better things to do than to argue with him and walk away. He will soon remember his bloody key in future.
Time to toughen up lass.
On the rare night he's at home, park the kids on him with a cheery ' I'm going out, don't wait up, I have a key, however if I'm not back its cos I'm staying at ( insert friends name ). Don't have a conversation about it, however much he has to say, just say that and go.
Keep it up and one of two things will happen, he will either crawl back to you or he will crawl under the nearest rock.
Put yourself and your little ones first and play him at his own bloody game.

Pearlmum1 · 27/04/2016 10:37

I like what Di11ligaf said, try that, it would shock him i think! Sorry to hear you are going through this.

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