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Abuse I watched murdered by my boyfriend I'm in it

114 replies

broken16 · 11/07/2016 20:57

I sat and watched this the other night ironically with my boyfriend and he talked through it saying how much of a nutcase the man in it was and I watched it thinking how much he is like him.
When he's happy I'm allowed to be when he's unhappy I have to be unhappy too.
I have to send evidence of my where abouts answer my phone on the first ring or I get questioned over and over .
He doesn't hit me but the emotional abuse is draining day after day. I left him some months ago and he did the exact same routine the man on the programme did even proposing to me promising he would change blah blah it's worse than before nothing's changed.
I feel so stupid three years for me now I feel I will never break away.
He calls me stupid and tells me I don't think accused me of stealing from him out of his wallet and stares at me waiting for me to confess to something I didn't do.
Nothing I say nothing I do matters I do everything but it's never enough I try to be like him and be nasty and stand up to him nothing works.
I can't leave again it took all my strength last time silly silly me :-(

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broken16 · 13/07/2016 08:58

If he ever knew I had posted on here and told people what he is doing I don't know what he would do. He would defo smash my things up .
He hates me speaking about him to anyone ever as he puts on an amazing act when we were out with people so no one would ever think he is like this. I'm amazed sometimes how he switches from ranting at me one minute and then a charmer two seconds later infront of people.
A few weeks ago he was screaming at me when we were driving down the motorway and his child was in the car and she was going dad stop now you sound like a child do you know.

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notapizzaeater · 13/07/2016 09:07

It sounds horrific. You can't live walking on eggshells.

Can't you get out sooner ?

Friendofsadgirl · 13/07/2016 09:08

PLEASE tell your family what is going on. They will want to help you.

Zumbarunswim · 13/07/2016 09:35

My mindset when I was trying to leave was "omg if he knew I was betraying him in this way he would go mental/WHY does he do this?/does he know what he is doing?/nobody will beleive me" that's how you stay so long cos they condition you to be thinking about them all the time and worrying no one will beleive you. We beleive you! The similarities are huge! My ex said I had snidey eyes too, it's like their is a course they all do or something! Now I look back and think I was mad not to leave sooner. Please just get out as soon as possible.

Step 1 - tell your mum or best friend-someone you can trust-just do that first

DiddlySqeak · 13/07/2016 09:50

He sounds like a horrible man. I really think you should tell your parents if you can.

Zumbarunswim · 13/07/2016 10:12

PS (and I don't recommend you do this) I sent my abuser a link to my posting on mumsnet after I left and he just criticised me for listening to "internet ghouls" he conveniently ignored the excellent advice (every single person said to leave and my abuse was also not physical) and the fact that strangers on the internet were warmer and more caring towards my suffering than my own "partner" in itself was shocking. What I'm saying is don't waste your energy trying to convince him and see the light-he won't even if all the evidence is there. Channel all your energy into being safe and getting out.

Zumbarunswim · 13/07/2016 10:16

And smashing your stuff up is physical abuse so that's escalation of abuse-heed your fears and be safe

willconcern · 13/07/2016 10:34

Please leave OP. Also if it hasn't been reconmended already, please read 'why does he do that?' by Lundy Bancroft. It changed my life.

Like Zumba, my abusive ex also read my threads in MN, and all my emails after I threw him out by hacking my accounts. He also blamed me for talking to 'poisonous' women on the internet.

You can do it OP.

FreakinScaryCaaw · 13/07/2016 13:21

He's horrific. Get help NOW!!

ohtheholidays · 13/07/2016 13:46

He sounds like his behaviour is spiraling OP you really do need to get away from him.

The messages you have from him are they voice mail or texts?
If they're texts you can share them on here if you want to but if you do make sure you cover any names up(yours and his)any phone numbers ect.

broken16 · 13/07/2016 14:17

I have voice recordings of him if anyone on here who has been through this would like to msg me privately and send me their number I can text them next wk when I'm alone I will send them via text msg it has to be iPhone to iPhone though and then someone could tell me if I could use it as evidence if I ever needed to. I also have text msgs etc but I wouldn't put them up here on a public forum just incase I was recognised. But I would be happy to send them privately to anyone who wanted to see.

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broken16 · 13/07/2016 14:19

No one else has ever said I'm snidey I don't think I am. He doesn't think it's abuse what he does because if he did he would stop and when he saw that programme he would of seen himself in that person but he didn't.
It's like the phrase mad people don't know their mad.

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foolonthehill · 13/07/2016 14:28

No he does not know wghat he is and if he's like my ex even if he went on a perpetrators course it would just be him coming home saying "that's you that is, you are abusing me"

The recordings:really whether it is admissable evidence or not (probably not as he won;t have been warned he was being recorded and I doubt he identified himself and you with names) is irrelevant...your word is enough. You can have a restraining order, somewhere else to live and a new life.

Leaving and staying gone won;t be without challenges but you CAN do it.

AcrossthePond55 · 13/07/2016 15:03

Please, please call your parents. Tell them that the abuse has not stopped but has gotten worse. Tell them that you wish you had never taken him back and that you need their help.

They know what he is despite his trying to be all palsy-walsy with them. They are just being nice to him to make life easier for you and to keep communications with you open.

Don't wait. Even if you can't leave today you can get a plan together to leave as soon as possible.

broken16 · 13/07/2016 15:20

The recordings were for my benefit I haven't done them in a while as I can't use the phone really and he would prob know this was from months ago.
It was because I was walking away from his bashings wondering if things were my fault because he's very good at turning things around so it was for me to hear what he was doing because I would forget after and feel confused as to what had just happened.

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CharlotteCollins · 13/07/2016 15:57

Sounds like they could also be helpful once you've left if you're doubting yourself?

While you're still there, act (as if your life depends on it) as if you'll never leave and as if you don't think he's doing anything wrong.

But get out as quick as you can because it is tough keeping up an act like that and not losing your resolve.

DollyTwat · 13/07/2016 18:41

Broken is it his house you're living in?
I think you need to get away as soon as you can, nothing anywhere could be worse than what you're living with

broken16 · 14/07/2016 08:46

It's both of ours were both on the tenancy agreement.
He said to me last night that it's his job making him miserable and he said I take it out on you and it's wrong I hadn't said anything he just came out with it. I just went along with it I don't think that's true whatever job he did he would be the same. He was ok last night but I had had an argument on my sister yesterday so I was in an awful mood and wasn't speaking so that's probably why he didn't start on me yesterday.

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Zumbarunswim · 14/07/2016 10:42

Can you tell your mum what he is doing? Do you have a good relationship with your mum? Is this just a blip with your sister?

I fell out with my sister too over my ex which made me more isolated. Once I told her what was going on she was happy to lend me her house and that's where I escaped to.

Zumbarunswim · 14/07/2016 10:42

Is it a private or local authority rental? Would you be happy to move elsewhere?

CharlotteCollins · 14/07/2016 23:10

Interesting how he appeared to say sorry for his behaviour while actually putting the blame on work.

PurpleThursday · 14/07/2016 23:11

I think he didn't start on you because he knows he is going away and is trying to keep you sweet. The apology was for that reason too. Keep going with your plan please. Your kids need their mum.

AcrossthePond55 · 15/07/2016 01:46

Typical abusive behaviour. An 'apology' that's not an apology at all, but a justification and an excuse. Don't think for a hot minute that he's really sorry for what he did. He's just 'sorry' that he may have actually put that last straw on the proverbial camel's back and that you will finally leave for good.

Talk to your parents. Make a plan. Keep quiet about it and play along as you get things together. Then get the hell out of Dodge.

Sorry you had a spat with your sister. Hopefully the two of you will be able to make it up after a cool down period.

LadyCassandra · 15/07/2016 04:34

I'd also be weary that he might be reading this. He suddenly "apologises" (ie blames his job for the abuse) out of the blue?

Please try and leave. I am currently moving house and realised today how difficult it actually is to leave. We don't have much stuff but its taken us ages to pack and I suddenly had a realisation that when people on MN say "just leave" its probably not that easy. But please try and make plans, you say he hasn't hit you, but reading your descriptions of him checking your phone and being verbally abusive, it could be just around the corner, and you owe it to yourself and your kids to get away from that Flowers

GlitteryFluff · 15/07/2016 07:18

Is there anyway he has tracking on your phone to know your whereabouts? The guy helping you when you were broken down he said he was called about it. Could he have seen you were in a single place for a long time and then questioned you?

You really need to get away as soon as you can. Things can escalate quickly, especially if he found out about this post and that you want to leave.

Find as much of your paperwork as you can, get as much money as possible together, and go.

Can you declare your passport stolen if you can't find it?