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DH won't communicate with me

34 replies

Todayfrustratingday · 08/01/2018 11:13

Our marriage has been rocky for at least a year. I've suggested counselling and he said 'no, it's a waste of money'. I've tried telling him I feel lonely and left out of things and he says I need to make plans to see friends and DO stuff on my own. I DO do stuff on my own but it feels like i do everything on my own. What's the point of my marriage if I do everything alone? I mostly eat alone. I wake up alone. He's decided to send me to Coventry because I said that he does not pull his weight in the house and he didn't like that. I food shop alone. I cook alone. I wash up alone. I go to college alone. I work full time. He works shifts and a lot of weekends. He does not make plans with me or anyone else from what I can tell. His work friend is in a relationship with a woman who has become a friend of mine. She sometimes asks me if my DH is going out with her OH on a particular night and I have to say I don't know (because my DH does not tell me anything). My DH is sulking beyond normal sulking. Tis ihas been happening for 5 days now. He shuts himself in the lounge with the door firmly closed. He does not visit the kitchen to get food or drink. He keeps a glass of water on the table next to the sofa and watches TV til all hours. He seems to be eating biscuits and crisps and occasionally makes a cup of tea if I am out. He stays out after his work shift ends and I'm confident he is visiting his DM who is housebound. If I were to ask him when he has been he'd likely say he's been at his mother's. I try to talk face to face and he shuts me down. I resort to texting him if he is out of the house and he ignores the texts. Is the problem ME or does HE have the problem? Sorry for rambling.

OP posts:
BagelGoesWalking · 08/01/2018 14:08

I would spend the next few days collating all the important documents relating to mortgage, bank accounts, savings, pension schemes etc

Take the originals and make him some copies. It will make things so much easier.

Todayfrustratingday · 08/01/2018 14:21

The solicitor I thought I was going to meet with soon has just advised me she is taking some time off ( months not weeks). I am very disappointed. I know her a bit already and assumed I'd be dealing with her. Now I need to find someone else. London/Essex Area. Does anyone know any solicitors they would recommend?

OP posts:
Todayfrustratingday · 08/01/2018 15:58

I've made the first step. I';ve emailed Solicitors asking for an appointment this week or next week. I feel sick to my stomach.

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Thebluedog · 08/01/2018 16:05

Well done OP Flowers he’s an abuser and you’re better off without him. I’d rather be alone when I’m alone, than lonely with someone

Granville72 · 09/01/2018 12:20

Well done, first step to a happier free future.

How about go and stay at a friends or your Mums for the a few days / weekend?

GreenFingersWouldBeHandy · 09/01/2018 12:25

Well done, OP. I know it's scary, but your life with that silent moody git sounds miserable. It will get better!!!

Honestly, there is nothing lonelier than being in a shit relationship. I'm single now and perfectly happy with my lot right now. Hope you find a solicitor soon and take another little step towards freedom and happiness.

Granville72 · 09/01/2018 12:36

Yep, I've been single coming up to 3 years in April and have a 5yr old child and I have never been happier.

hellsbellsmelons · 09/01/2018 12:58

It does make you feel sick.
And it's horrible.
It took me 5 years to get my divorce finalised.
I was living with (what I thought was) a lovely man, but I still cried when that decree absolute came through.
Still in the final stages of grief for the life I had lost. The one I thought I'd have. In fact I still have tear sometimes writing it down.
But things change and we move on.
You'll begin to find yourself again now and it's truly liberating.
Well done OP.
No-one should live like you are.

ravenmum · 09/01/2018 13:19

I had one a bit like this, too. It can be hard working out what is wrong if they are making everything out to be your fault, and to be about you being unreasonable etc: you are concentrating your energies and thoughts on not being unreasonable, or on showing that you are not unreasonable. That distracts you from thinking about his poor behaviour properly. I think that this is deliberate on some level.

But don't be drawn into playing the same game as him, the blame game, as it's not good for your mental health either. You don't have to find any other reasons why you are leaving him apart from "I want a different life". He can live that life if that's what he wants, but you want a different one so you're going your own separate way.

You're already on your own. This is just making it official and opening up chances for you to feel less lonely in future.

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