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I don't know what to do

981 replies

lollipop7 · 25/07/2017 23:34

I gave up a career and a good life miles away when I feel pregnant with a man I thought I was in love with.
He asked me to marry him, told me he would always ta,e care upon us, encouraged me to take redundancy and plough it into our life together.
I'm now pregnant with our third child and si trapped and unhappy.

I have no job, no money and apart from my mum nowhere to go.
He has decided I'm good enough to have children with but not in his exact words "good enough to marry"
My credit rating has been ruined by a case of mistaken identity delisted notes of satisfaction. He's had all my money as I believed him all these years.
Last year when out second child was six months old I left before we moved house. I discovered a series of message to his drinking friends and parents that I had PND and was mentally ill. None of which is true.
He begged Me for a final chance, promised me he'd get therapy and set up a Trust Deed to acknowledge my contribution,
A year on and nothing. He is worse than ever and thanks to being pressured for sex one night I am six months pregnant.
He was out mountain biking with a friend tonight and our son managed to open two safety gates and fall halfway down the stairs. When he Came back home he was sulking and said he was obviously fine. Then two hours later he accused me of actually throwing himself down the stairs to get him home early because I am unwell and jealous of him having a life.
There are so many things I could write here but I can't face committing them all to paper, suffice to say they revolve around emotional abuse such as disdain, lies, provocation, undermining and general nastiness. He is a control freak, he cuts of my housekeeping to pay for holidays he wants. He says there is no money for luxuries but buys himself cds and booze and clothes all the time. His family are blind to his faults and I frequently come across nasty little message so where I am described as grumpy and arrogant. He is disningeous and provocative in front of my friends and family. In short he is a total bastard.
It has got so bad now that I am actually prepared to leave with nothing apart from my children in my car. The only asset I have left. He has said he holds all the cards and that he now wants to contact my midwife to tell, her I am unfit. This is because I slapped his face tonight when he accused me of injuring our son.

I just need to get something down as it is let and I don't want him to hear me on the phone to friends or my mother or sister.

I have thought about women's aid but I don't know.
I have left four times and always have to come back for immunisations, antenatal appointments, school terms etc. I feel as though all the pressure is on me. I am brimming out resentment at the uphheaval and turmoil in mine and especially my children's lives and on top of it have to get ready to give birth in three months.

He hasn't been interviewed under caution for assaulting me one night, but acts as though I think never happened and told the police commiserated with him and laughed about my desperate behaviour.
I feel as though he is trying to drive me to suicide or madness.

Just some words of advice or reassurance or comfort would be appreciated.

I feel incredibly stupid, vulnerable and lost right now.

OP posts:
Gemini69 · 31/08/2017 22:35

Fight him x

lollipop7 · 31/08/2017 22:39

I have every intention
I have made criminal charges. I left under the advice of a Women's Aid and a MARAC form scoring me as high risk. He is an unstable individual.

I can meet His dreadful assertions head on. In the same week he issued these papers he emailed me telling me I was a wonderful mother and he wanted us home that he was a different person. My main approach is to assert he is mentally unstable.

I will be eight and half months pregnant when I have to stand up in court.
How he can live with himself i will never know

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Jakc · 31/08/2017 22:51

you know something you should be so proud of yourself, you are an amazing role model to those kids of yours. x

C0untDucku1a · 31/08/2017 23:08

Youre doing well op x

SpiritedLondon · 01/09/2017 00:00

He may have got a friend prepared to lie for him but you have got pages and pages of emails in which he shows his true colours.....written evidence. It's so powerful and so valuable. The courts will see right through him. Keep your head up....you're awesome.

NewStartNow · 01/09/2017 07:54

Don't worry. The courts really have seen it all before and are well and used to men like him. I know it's really difficult but at least you don't have a long wait before court.
You have done the right thing.

MairzyDoats · 01/09/2017 08:11

I don't usually comment on threads like these but I just wanted to add my voice to the chorus of people saying how wonderfully strong, brave and inspiring you are. Keep going, you will beat the bastard.

springydaffs · 01/09/2017 08:28

How he can live with himself i will never know

You have to stop taking this stuff personally. He is very, very sick. You can't afford to let yourself get emotionally dragged around by this shit. Think of the baby, keep yourself steady. See all this stuff washing over you, not touching you Flowers


Devers17 · 01/09/2017 08:45

Its a mans world isnt it?
Your describing my life right now.
I have a son and due to get married in 3 months.
My partner is controling and drinks alot and leaves me alone while he enjoys his social life all the time and never bothers with the child. i had a c section and the day i brought the child gome he had to go out that night. I wasnt fit to move.

WE can do this together and leave them!

lollipop7 · 01/09/2017 22:38

@Devers17 sorry to read what you have been through. This man sounds very dangerous and,self absorbed. Drink is a big problem with my ex. Drink, his ego and his never ending quest for a social life as if he was a single childless bloke. Don't marry him. I am thanking the fucking Lord right now I never married my ex's sorry arse.

I feel a lot brighter today. Y solicitor actually laughed at the things that had bee written on the forms and said don't you worry about them it will all be fine.

He's sent me,some stuff that makes him actually look gaga and that the things he wrote on the court papers are not even his real feelings. Proper off his head stuff.
Gong to try and get some sleep and stay positive.
@springydaffs I loved your analogy. I a trying to adopt these more mindful coping strategies, ironically I am ultra calm and detached with him now it's like he can't hurt me anymore. I have also made peace with the fact this is a problem I can't cure or that I caused and he has to deal with things for himself or face the consequences.

All the matters to me is keeping a happy, healthy and peaceful future for me and my children.

I will be glad when the next fees weeks are done and dusted with though

OP posts:
lollipop7 · 02/09/2017 07:59

Actually got some sleep.

Woke up to more weird emails, drink related I suspect 🙄
I am going to push for some sort of mental health assessment as his behaviour is really worrying - in terms of him not being mentally up to caring for our children.

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LavenderDoll · 02/09/2017 08:09

Just read this thread
You are amazing and the strength you have shown is incredible.

lollipop7 · 02/09/2017 19:18

Thank You

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flutterby12 · 02/09/2017 20:39

I read this when you first posted and caught up now. Big well done, you are so strong. Keep going. How long now til baby comes?

lollipop7 · 04/09/2017 10:46

@flutterby12 thank you and it's about seven weeks, will find out this week re my induction.

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lollipop7 · 04/09/2017 10:49

Getting ready for my solicitor's appointment tomorrow.
Reading through all the forms and preparing y own repose to the terrible lies he's told to get this urgent papers served. Hoping it might land him in hot water as I have emails sent the same week and a month earlier form him stating he thinks I am an amazing mother. Not the child abuser he has made out in these papers.

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Teabay · 04/09/2017 11:26

You can do this. BiscuitBrew

flutterby12 · 04/09/2017 13:02

You can do it. Good luck x

verbaIkint · 04/09/2017 16:02

Firstly you're amazing and strong. Even during them wobbles you're doing great.

In regards to the household items you need; police can accompany you. Explain the situation and he's refusing vital equipment and refusing to leave. They will take you there and keep him well away while you get what you need.

These type of men are so manipulative. Mine would carry knives in his pocket and his excuse was so I didn't self harm !? See. They all have warped excuses. All he ever did with them knives was hold them to my throat if I'd dare confront his behaviour.

Professionals understand how charming these men are, so seek comfort in that. Show no signs of struggling (which I doubt you are) and keep that beautiful, strong head high.

Groovee · 04/09/2017 22:38

You are doing amazingly x

lollipop7 · 05/09/2017 20:07

Filed my response to his inconceivably deluded and malicious papers today.
Am hoping the hearing will be over soon.

I find myself waking up in the middle of the night raging at the audacity of him. I am just hoping the counselling I have been referred for will help me start to deal with all of this unresolved trauma and shocking sense of how used and damaged I am. It's awful.

He's finally got a solicitor though and they seem to have knocked a bit of sense into him insofar as he has told me he'll get some of the baby things to me. The mock conciliatory tones are too little too late, like everything else.

OP posts:
springydaffs · 06/09/2017 08:01

You're doing GOOD girl. Keep going. Thankfully, the courts recognise a nutter Flowers

preemiestruggles · 06/09/2017 08:15

You are amazing. I've been lurking and just needed to say good luck with everything. You are possibly the strongest woman I have read a thread from. Coping with this while you are heavily pregnant and remaining so calm and focuses truly shows your strength and what an amazing mother you are. Your kids have come first through this thread every step. You are incredible!!!

NettleTea · 06/09/2017 08:53

its amazing how things often change when they realise that you have the power of the law behind you. They are so used to their bullying ways getting results it comes as a shock to their system. You need to remember that the solicitor may not be advising him to be a twat, but they will send letters under instruction that contain all kinds of stuff. Doesnt make it any more real or likely to stand up in court than if he sent it himself. The solicitor WILL advise him though, as to how to act to not look like a complete cockbandit if he actually wants to get anywhere at all. My ex went through about 6 different solicitors because they didnt tell him what he wanted to hear, or back up his dillusions. They have their integrity to think of too!

You are doing amazingly, but I can understand the feelings of rage. Once this is all dusted and he is put sharply in his place by the legal process, and you are free of his hold over you (which you are making amazing strides towards) you will feel an amazing sense of validation because they wont allow him to keep treating you like this, and he WILL have to do what the law says.

Rescuepuppydaft2 · 06/09/2017 09:06

Wow op, I have read this thread from start to finish and you are amazing! Your ex is a very sick, manipulative and evil man! I only pray that his lunacy is as transparent to the court as it is in your posts! You have saved yourself and your children from an absolutely dreadful existence! Are you still in contact with social services? I would ask your social worker if there are any grants available for purchasing baby items. Explain that your ex will not allow you any access to your, your children and your new babies things. This will only add to their assessment that he is unfit to look after his children. Please if he does offer for you to collect your children's things, don't go alone! Please make sure that you have the police there to supervise the collection.