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AIBU to be extremely upset by this?

88 replies

elephantcuddles · 16/05/2017 19:46

I need some perspective. I recently had to rent a car while visiting my partner. He lives with his parents because he can't afford to live on his own. HE can't can't drive.

His mom drove us to the car rental place. I had a very rude person helping me who was answering my questions in a snide and condescending way. I was feeling apprehensive about the whole rental because when I would ask questions, they would dance around the subject. I was asking about how big a scratch or dent would need to be for me to be charged for it because I'm driving in an area I don't know well and I want to be safe. I'm in a foreign country. The person was so rude that I got rude back and told them I felt like he was not answering me directly. I tried to communicate the question in another way and he just kept getting worse so I gave up. Then when I got outside to talk to the person who looks over the car rental with you, he answered my questions easily and made me feel much better.

During the entire time the other person (who was the manager) was being rude to me, my partner just sat there and did nothing. Of course I had to pay for the whole thing and he's not even planning to help me with petrol money. His parents have no issues with me spending money here on top of my plane ticket and moan and complain whenever he has asked them to drive us somewhere (which I hate doing.. I'm 30 ffs!)

i was upgraded to a nicer car than I paid for and I have no idea why. I assumed that it was because of the rude person helping me. I asked my partner not to tell his parents what I paid for the car (it was still a lot). Maybe I'm odd but I'm a private person and I don't like discussing money etc. I have had to pay for everything since coming here and he owes me a lot of money.

First thing when we got back to the house, he tells his parents that I got into an argument with the person at the car rental place and that they gave me a nicer car and that I paid x amount for it. His mother asked how much I paid for it. And he told her. I got so upset by all this. He mostly volunteered the info. Then he called me bipolar. He said he "forgot" that I asked him not to tell them.

He's been absolutely horrible to me. I am so depressed.

I just want to know what you think. He's now saying we aren't compatible and all this. He's called me a f*ikg bitch in the past week but begged me desperately to come here and that he would make things right this time.

On the way to car rental place I sat in back seat while he and his mother discussed all these people that I don't know from their hometown and that x person sold drugs etc. they talk amongst one another like I'm not even there. He says he doesn't know what else to do when she talks to him about this stuff because he wants to "keep the peace."

I feel very alone in my life because I feel like no one is looking out for me including him. I'm beyond upset. I know these examples may seem petty but they're just small examples.

Later he also went on to say that "both parties were wrong" meaning me and the person working there at the car rental place but before that he said the guy was very rude with me and it was wrong of him. My partner has never even rented a car in his life and doesn't have a drivers license. He was trying to tell me how car rental places will charge for a ding in the car or whatever and I got so annoyed because he can't even legally drive!

He's totally disrespectful toward me and I just feel I'm at the end of my rope.

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Noodles4Me · 17/05/2017 11:22

I'm afraid the OP will not listen. She hasn't listened at all before and even went against everyone's advice (and her own judgement).

It's just thread after thread every couple of months about this bloody awful relationship that has zero benefits for her. Then she asks for the thread to be deleted.

Elephant, if you bring a child into this then its just cruel.

StiginaGrump · 17/05/2017 11:33

Get out get therapy and find your happiness. This is depressing and has so much that's wrong in it that you can't ever make it work.

StiginaGrump · 17/05/2017 11:34

Oh and if he is in the USA and you are in the U.K. - have kids and prepare to be sent home leaving them behind when the relationship hits the skids and the family band together against you. This story only has bad endings so change it

PreemptiveSalvageEngineer · 17/05/2017 12:19

Please look up "sunk costs fallacy" and "future faking".

Hissy · 17/05/2017 16:48

I do hope you listen love, we'd all want to hear that your happy, but this guy isn't ever going to give you that.

Please just take yourself off and do some airbnb or something and find an adventure on your own - without the waste of space bloke.

I know you say you're not desperate, but what would you think of a friend who was putting herself through this?

Be your own best friend love, end it with this guy today.

Delilah21D00LoT · 17/05/2017 17:08

To ElephantCuddles/OP

I think your Partner has got you exactly where he wants you. He sounds emotionally abusive and toxic.

  • You live 20 hrs away.
  • You do all the running.
  • You pay for everything.
  • You get nothing gratifying in return.
  • You are the only one bringing anything to this relationship.

This is not a Relationship where both People contribute - the longer you stay together the worse this will get.

Please get out (and go home!) for your Sanity!! You deserve better than this and the longer you stay with this lazy, using, good for nothing the less likely you are to find that.

Stormtreader · 17/05/2017 17:14

When you are dating someone, you get the best they will give you because they are still trying. He is showing you all the potential he has, dont expect more to appear at some future point.

Obsidian77 · 19/05/2017 19:44

You gave him the benefit of the doubt and flew half way across the world to give him another chance. He has now shown you, beyond any shadow of a doubt, what kind of person he is and how little respect or concern he and his family have for you.
There is no magic combination of circumstances which will make him be the nice guy you thought he was at the start of your relationship because he never actually was that guy.
I agree with pp's that the whole family seems to see you as a cash cow.
Pack your stuff and take yourself and your hire car away. Don't waste any more time on this man.
You are young, well-educated, you have a good job, you have dual US and UK passports, you don't need to settle for a situation that makes you so unhappy. Flowers Brew

HebeJeebie · 19/05/2017 20:44

OP are you mad?

Do you have any idea, any idea at all of how hideous it is to have kids with someone who is a jerk like the one you are attached to?

Do yourself a favour, kick him to the kerb and catch a flight home.

Ellisandra · 19/05/2017 22:12

Oh FFS.
I read your OP without looking at your name and thought "oh that's ElephantCuddles again then - why the fuck has she gone out to this waster again?"

Well, obviously because he's 20 hours away from your waste of space of a mother Hmm

I can save you $$$ on therapy: the reason why you're this desperate for love anywhere? It's because your mother failed you. Now you get to fast track and concentrate with a therapist on how to move forward.

He's not your boyfriend - he's a bloke online who is scamming you.

You only care about his mother knowing how much the car cost (and no, it's not remotely rude to ask that) because everything bone in your body is screaming at you that you have made a massive mistake and you have to push those feelings somewhere because it's easier than LISTENING to them.

This is your choice, all of this. You are the one making it happen, and you are the one that can make it all better.

Get the hell away from your mother and your scamming boyfriend and GET THERAPY.

Jux · 19/05/2017 23:54

Please stop spending moymn this twat and his family, and on plane tickets etc. Spend it on a good counsellor. Please. That is your way to happiness, please take it.

Creampastry · 20/05/2017 06:54

Go home and never speak to him again. Ltb. It will only get worse.

Mellifera · 20/05/2017 08:04

Why do you let yourself be treated like that?

Do you know what a good relationship looks like or have you always been drawn to people who aren't good for you?

It really is your choice to respect yourself and end this asap. No one is making you stay with him and you owe him nothing.

Go back home, find a good therapist, spend time finding out why you let yourself be walked over and treated like shit. Pick up self esteem, and you'll find a man who will treat you with respect.

You are 30. You deserve to be happy, but you will never be happy with this man. He doesn't have your happiness in mind.

Listen to what we are ALL saying, please. Before you get entangled with children and end up making yourself so so much more miserable.

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