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Obsession with my DP please help

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PinkTeletubby101 · 18/02/2018 02:30

Someone please help me. I know I will be judged but please just advise.

Been with DP since we were 16. Both now 26, 2 children (6&3 YO) and a mortgage. In the 10 years we have been together he has cheated on me twice. Once when we first bought our house (21 years old) and another time a year ago. The first time I could forgive as we were young and he left for 2 weeks and came crawling back. The second time was totally different. He had an emotional affair with a work colleague, I found out by him being emotionally distant so I checked his mobile phone bills, and he finished with me for 2 months. He come back but still spoke to her and dropped OW to work and took her out once behind my back. It has literally broken me. Now fast forward a year on, he has recently moved job to try and make us better but it hasn't. I feel it's made us worse as I feel like he is distant again yet he says it's because he doesn't like this new job.

Our arguments escalate really really bad. I am obsessed still with OW slightly, I even made a fake snapchat account & Instagram to stalk her. I even stalked my DP by tracking his phone for a few months after it all happened. I can't let him go and I really want to. I have panic attacks without him I am so dependant on him and I don't want to be at all. I STILL shamefully check his phone bills (I am so ashamed about this). I am not the same anymore I hate myself and I'm making myself sick. I think I have an obsessive personality. We have been arguing every day because he isn't giving me the affection I need. I know I have something wrong with me psychologically but I don't know what - when he is gone (as in moved back to his mums), I feel like I can't cope, I want to stay in bed and wallow, I uncontrollably cry.

Example - tonight has triggered me to post because I want help with how to get out of this/have strength to be a better parent and have rid of him. He went out tonight with a work friend at 5 o'clock, said he would get last train home at 12. He knows how uneasy I feel about him going out with his old work friends but did not reassure me. I text him at 8 asking how his night was going and I had no reply. He had been on his phone and had ignored me. It gets to 1am and still not home. So I stupidly panicked and text his work friend saying "tell DP to call me". He called me to say he stayed out for another drink and is now getting a taxi home and what is my problem. My problem is he never bothered to tell me wtf was going on despite my anxiety about the whole night out. HAD ENOUGH. Yet i don't cope without him? When he left last time I was on AD's, didn't sleep at all and just text him all the time asking him why he had done this too me and our sons. My mental health is shot and I have a full time job to hold down - I'm practically a stalker.

OP posts:
PinkTeletubby101 · 18/02/2018 19:10

I don't think he is speaking to anyone else anymore, but because he hates his new job he is taking i5 all out on me.

OP posts:
Babyblues052 · 18/02/2018 19:18

I'm in no way a doctor ect. But have you ever looked up on dependant personality disorder? I think you should and see if you identify with it. Might help you?

GUMBYMUMBY · 18/02/2018 19:32

I don't know if anyone has suggested this... but I think you will get support and advice if you ring Womens' Aid UK.
He's doing 'orrible things and then blaming you.
You are locked into the relationship and very dependent, this is not very healthy as he is not treating you with kindness or respect.
He's a bloody cheat. He is a drama queen. He has made you frightened.
Good Luckxxx

0ccamsRazor · 18/02/2018 19:33

Op there is no judgment from me, I just want to give you a big hug.

I would recommend that you have counselling (refered by your gp or hv), you may find things easier emotion wise if you have a safe space to work through your options and feelings.

You have spent all of your adult years being in a relationship, thinking about being on your own with two dc is going to be scary.

Just be kind to yourself and get a good support system around you.

You sound like an amazing woman, a good mother and you will find the strength to do what is needed.

I often say to women in your predicament to read 'women that runs with the wolves', it is empowering and insightful.

It may help you to do the freedom programme also, I feel that this would be very helpful to you.

You need to get a strong framework around you, to help you to move forwards without fear. So please talk to those around you that you trust, support can come from many places.

When my first marriage broke down I found it helpful to recite over and over the Litany Against Fear (the book dune!) until I mastered the fear of the unknown. In my case the fear of being on my own with two small dc, I too had spent my adult years in a relationship.

"I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

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