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DH acts like a kid

11 replies

mrsheartburn · 11/01/2007 14:17

Changed my name for this.

I went away for a few days on Monday, just got back today.

DH cannot be trusted with access to money as he would just waste it all (he doesn't work, I do) so all money goes into my bank account to pay bills etc and he has to ask when he wants something (he ran up £k's worth of debt before and this is the only way to control his spending).

He was very "babied" by his mum, didn't leave home until he was 30, has never had to cook/clean or work and just spends most of his time on his playstation or computer.

So anyway I told him that I was going away for a few days to London, I filled the fridge and cupboards and left him with £50 for emergencies.

Got to London on Monday night, yesterday he phoned me begging me to go back home, he said he couldn't cope on his own, had ran out of food etc, I asked him about the £50 and he'd aparantly spent it on a computer game! I asked how he'd managed to eat everything I had bought in two days and he said he hadn't, there just wasnt anything he liked and the only things he did like were too hard for him too cook .

I told him I would not be coming home and he would have to sort himself out, anyway got back today and found out he'd only gone and put a microwave meal in the washing machine and a load of clothes in the microwave . He's done it for attention yet he expects me to believe it was an accident.

How can I get him to grow up??

OP posts:
HappyDaddy · 11/01/2007 14:36

This has to be a wind up. Surely no bloke is this childish?

Unless he's trying some controlling idea, to stop you having a life away from him.

BecauseImWorthIt · 11/01/2007 17:41

I can't believe this is really serious!

Get him to get out of the house and get a job. Unless he operates in the grown up world he will never grow up.

God help you if you have children - this is absolutely not how they should see a parent behave.

Saturn74 · 11/01/2007 17:44

I hope this is a wind up!
If not, I think it's time your DH started pulling his weight in your relationship.

Bucketsofdynomite · 11/01/2007 17:50

So manipulative, you must stand your ground MrsHeartburn and show him what he is risking by testing you to these extremes.
And throw out the playstation - you would if he were a snotty 16yr old.
Oh BecauseI'mworthit you're right, this is awful for kids to have to see.

jalopy · 11/01/2007 20:25

HmmHmmHmmHmm

madamez · 11/01/2007 21:23

If this is a serious thread this man has some kind of mental health problem. Sane people don't behave like this. And what was happening to the children over these few days? SUrely they weren't left with someone who sounds subnormal.

WanderingTrolley · 11/01/2007 21:39

Just shoot him.

themildmanneredjanitor · 11/01/2007 21:43

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ShinyHappyPeopleHoldingHands · 12/01/2007 13:57

PMSL.. food in washer/clothes in in the microwave... are you Marge Simpson perchance?

Saturn74 · 13/01/2007 19:09

LOL at Marge Simpson!

CountessDracula · 13/01/2007 19:10

yes I had that goat thought

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