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I'm 35 today I've realised my marriage is over

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mammymammyIRL · 27/02/2018 14:30

Dh emotionally abuses me.
He shouted at me & shoved me in front of our four year old ds for the last time on Sunday morning.
I don't want my 7 year old dd growing up seeing her parents not getting along
I don't want them to think Daddy's getting cross with Mammy is normal or ok

I can't do the rest of my life living like this.

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shammy1b · 13/05/2018 15:17

Babes....hugs....your better than THIS xx

iwillgetout · 13/05/2018 21:54

There will be many moments going forward where you will wonder whether he is manipulating the children into saying something. I think for your mental heath it's important not to engage so when the kids bring something up be honest (not brutal!!) and don't let it phase you as this will lead to it reoccurring. You need to stamp out any behaviour you won't tolerate early on so it doesn't drag out and wear you down xx

mammynowanauntyIRL · 13/05/2018 21:58

Kids don't know yet, I don't want them to until there's a timeline on when we'll move and when they'll spend time with daddy and when with me etc

Tiddleypops · 14/05/2018 06:29

@mammynowanauntyIRL Oh what a huge turnaround from your peaceful evening the day before. Sounds like he well and truly has his head buried in the sand. I had a similar weird denial/all nicey incident this weekend with my H. It sent me into an internal rage and I'm sure it's to deflect responsibility from themselves - how could be possibly, reasonably, end our marriages when these men pretend to be so 'wonderful' for a nano-second?

What are your next steps? Flowers

mammynowanauntyIRL · 14/05/2018 08:53

tiddleypops I've got a meeting tues night and getting my hair done wed night after work so I think I'm going to come out with it bluntly tonight.
WHO have you told our marriage is over
and when I get the answer no one
WHEN are you going to start telling people

Will ring again today to find out where we stand with mediation too
I was thinking what I will say when people say 'oh what happened' and it's no-one's business but ours but to those who are close to me I'll say I've been a single mother for years it's just official now.

It's been ten weeks now and I feel that I've made absolutely no progress at all, except that I don't have the pressure of pretending to like him or be happy with him or make conversation with him or be intimate with him or care about how he feels about something.

Tiddleypops · 14/05/2018 10:34

Good luck tonight Flowers

Good idea to have a plan for what to say to people - they don't need to know anything other than what you choose to tell them.

The no progress thing is frustrating isn't it.

mammynowanauntyIRL · 14/05/2018 11:25

Rang mediation we're now #6 on list, we were #8 so it's getting very close, and my mind is put at rest that he hasn't removed his name from the list.

I'm normally so honest that I need to have an answer in place because I could blurt out the truth otherwise and once words are out they can't be taken back.

mammynowanauntyIRL · 14/05/2018 19:20

@Tiddleypops that's exactly why! They want to be the victim and for people to think they didn't deserve it. Mine thinks he's the best husband because he doesn't spend his evenings in the pub Hmm
He's acting so caring towards me in front of dc setting me a dinner place, taking away my empty plate etc

I heard him talking to dc about building a playhouse for them, what planet is he on?

mammynowanauntyIRL · 21/05/2018 21:02

First family event over with
Travelled separately, hung out with different people unfortunately it's glaringly obvious he's not told a single soul Sad

Another event next Saturday night, I'm going to draw it down this week. It's been ten weeks now

MissingMo · 21/05/2018 22:19

Good luck @Mammy, he needs to accept this now.

mammynowanauntyIRL · 21/05/2018 22:36

For sure

mammynowanauntyIRL · 22/05/2018 07:30

He put ds crying over something so simple and completely undeserved on Sunday, my heart just breaks when this happens. And ds looked to me for comfort but didn't come over for cuddles because he knew this would make it even worse. So wrong Sad

Fluffycloudland77 · 23/05/2018 19:54

Did his first wife divorce him as well?.

It’s a bit embarrassing if she did, you can’t both be wrong.

mammynowanauntyIRL · 24/05/2018 08:21

Fluffy they had two children, then separated for about ten years, got back together briefly and had another child and separated within in a few months of him being born, and ten years after that I met him.

That's what my sisters bf said, whose father is on his second marriage also. The first marriage ended for a reason!

There's a common denominator.

I confronted him on Tues eve about not telling anyone we're separating and his reply was 'what do I say' Confused I said 'you tell them that your marriage is over, it hasn't worked out' In my head I was thinking, well you've been here already, what did you tell them that time Wink

Then he came out with what am I going to live on when I'm on my own, how am I going to survive - eh, not my problem! So he sees me as meal ticket, not once did he mention love, or living without me. It's like a competition, he suggests that he will have children 100% of the time Confused
Then he raved about me taking what his parents worked so hard for, our house. His parents were dead before house was even started Confused and at the end of it said if I take away everything his parents worked for he'd kill me.

So classic emotional blackmail and trying to frighten me and guilt me into staying for sake of children.

I was cool, calm and rational. Stated clearly that I didn't want to take the house, I was quite happy to move on from it, and for him to take it on himself. All I want is to have my own home with my children and put our marriage behind me.

Last night, he said he owed me an apology. But that was all he said, he never actually said sorry. Damn right he did, doesn't make it right, doesn't take back the words he said and won't make me forget them.

Fluffycloudland77 · 24/05/2018 18:16

It’s chilling that he’s issuing death threats. Aren’t you worried about that?.

mammynowanauntyIRL · 24/05/2018 19:34

No fluffy because I don't believe he'd follow through on them. He's already seen the effect the death of his ex wife had on his youngest ds from first family

mammynowanauntyIRL · 26/05/2018 14:23

H claims he's told his adult children but that he told them not to treat me any differently, why did he ask during the week then what does he say when I asked when he was planning on telling them Confused can't keep up with with his fins methinks!

Fluffycloudland77 · 26/05/2018 14:38

Sounds like bollocks to me.

mammynowanauntyIRL · 27/05/2018 05:11

Just home from a party & heard H telling a friend of a friend that we aren't together anymore Grin which is brilliant because he's facing up to it, not so good because people who we are genuinely close to don't even know.

MissingMo · 27/05/2018 08:11

Seems to be a silly order in which to tell people. Perhaps he's doing it this way as he doesn't mind telling friends but not family in case you change your mind.

mammynowanauntyIRL · 27/05/2018 09:18

I think he wants the drama

MrsMozart · 27/05/2018 09:25

Sounds like he's playing it out. The drama the Thing. As when it's done, what then for him.

You'll be well rid lass.

mammynowanauntyIRL · 27/05/2018 11:20

Definitely but at least now he's said it to some people it's isn't just something I'm pushing through oblivious to others

Fluffycloudland77 · 27/05/2018 14:53

His kids could find out from someone else now.

mammynowanauntyIRL · 27/05/2018 21:41

My friend told me she overheard dss2 referring to his ex stepmother so he's them told I'd say.

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