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Am i being selfish??

23 replies

Loz123456 · 10/04/2018 12:35

Hi all,
I have been with my bf for 7 years now and we have a 10months baby together( baby wasnt planned). I have been with him since I was 13 years old (soon to be 21 in July) so I spent All my teenage years in a relationship. The first few years were great but when I moved in with him when I was 17 it was great and felt all gown up but I got to know what he was like properly. We don't communicate when we have issues and when we argue, I feel like were always point scoring with ecahother like its Compatition of who's had the hardest day. We argue over the most stupidest thing ever and the arguments can get nasty with him calling me names and making out everything my fault, I always feel like I am bad person. So I would always be the one to say sorry even if it was him that started it.

when I fell pregnant in 2016 we did become closer, and I thought this would sort him out and change him. It has in a way hes great dad but after a gave birth to baby, after a month everything was back to square one again. Just recently I have been starting to stick up for myself and he doesn't like it.

He got a job around two months ago now (it's only taken 3yrs) and I'm happy for him but I think he think he doesn't have to do any thing around the house and he always saying to me that I don't appreciate him working. I do everything for him, i: be his alarm clock, make him coffees, make him pack up, clean the house, wash/dry/put away his clothes, cook him tea, get his clothes ready for work, go to the shop for him, and everything else inbetween, as well as look after our daughter, all day everyday. He also make me feel guilty all the time, the other day I told him I was going into the main shopping centre and he said "it's alright for some init, am working All day". It made me feel so guilty I didn't go out. He does it almost all the time. Sometimes I don't even have to say anything for him to say I don't appreciate him. It make me so angry when he says that to me cause I just think wheres my appreciation after 3 years of doing everything for you.

A week ago yesterdsay I got the point where had enough and I lost it. He was looking for a jumper so he could go out. Over the weekend he had worn all of his jumpers once then put them in the wash pile. It was bank hiday weekend and I was really busy so didn't get chance to do much washing. So hes Looking for a jumper and then asks me to get him one. I asked him ifhe had worn them once an put them in wash pile and he Sed yes. I sed for god sake. He got stressed and then sed well you've had all weekend to washing and I told him I've been doing it for the past week, and I lost my head. I told him was over and that I was gonna move out he next day and he didn't take me seriously. He went and then later when he came back I told that was definitely over and that I was leaving him. He then realised I was being serious and he started to cry and begging for another chance say my he will change(heard it so many times) and make and effort. He kept asking if he could hug me and we can talk it through. But I didn't want to sort it out I got sick of the arguments. Later that night like a stupid cow and let him put his arm around me. So I gave him one more chance to try prove himself. I feel like I gotten no where in this past week, he been nicer to me and Cleand to the bathroom but still complaing about the cleaning am doing. I am so unhappy and have been since new year. I don't now if am being selfish if leave him because am unhappy.

Whats made me unhappy, is the name calling, arguments, never makes an effort with my family, I'm always cleaning up after him, doing everything for him, him stressing out at me when thing aren't right or going right, and feeling like am a skivvy.

Am not asking him to clean everything, just pick up after him when gets in from work like putting boots and bag away instead of dumping them in the middle of the hallway and put rubbish in the bin.

I feel like am a moaning about it but its not the way I want to live, I don't know who I am anymore cause am providing for his happiness that much am not happy anymore.

So am I being selfish and petty over this?? I just want to stop feeling like this, Its constantly on my mind all the time now and I feel like am going crazy!!
Sorry for ranting on and
Thanks for reading guys

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GreenFingersWouldBeHandy · 10/04/2018 13:04

Are you being selfish and petty!?

NO!!! You are living with a lazy, selfish man-child.

Oh God, that sounds like a life of drudgery. He won't change. You'll end up having more kids. More housework. More cleaning up after everyone. And your daughter will grow up thinking this is an acceptable way to treat women.

Can you move back in with your parents?

Run for the hills.

Loz123456 · 10/04/2018 14:43

Yeah my mum knows am unhappy and she sed I always have a room at hers. my mum told me to weight up the pros and cons and there are more cons than pros. I just feel selfish, I suppose it's because I love him. I don't have any friends really either so I deal with on my own. Sometimes I feel like am trying to win a losing battle.

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lattewith3shotsplease · 10/04/2018 14:51

OP,
You've learnt a valuable lesson here....Do not become anyones skivvy in life.

He sounds very immature, and you may have outgrown him ?

Ask yourself this : what future do I want for myself and my child ?

lattewith3shotsplease · 10/04/2018 14:53

OP,
Do not have any more Children....with one child most things are
"do-able" with two it becomes very, very difficult.

Good luck Flowers

Lunde · 10/04/2018 17:19

He sounds like a big baby!

Your child will learn about relationships by watching the two of you - is this what you want your child to learn?

Loz123456 · 10/04/2018 17:49

I have learnt a very big lesson being in this relationship. I know I don't need him, and trust me I won't be having any more children soon.
yes I think we've out grown each other. I feel like I sacrificed my own happiness at such and young age by loving him more than my self.

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Loz123456 · 14/04/2018 12:13

So today, I almost had a complete beakdown becuase was causing me too much stress. It was horrible!! I will be referring my self too counseling on Monday as I think he has caused me to gain a few metal health issues.

We had a massive row this morning which is what made me nearly have a breakdown. And I told him it was over for good this time. I've started to pack my stuff. But it too hard to stay strong. He kept saying, I don't care about him, love him and he said I've got someone else too. One minute he was giving me shit telling me to go and calling me names then next he was saying sorry and begging me for another chance.

I may have over reacted but all of this has built up over time and I just can't take it any more. I told that my mental health is more important and he called me a selfish bitch.

I felt really bad for ending it but I just can't take no more stress I need to sort my head out, learn to love myself again and I find out who I am too.

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Ryder63 · 14/04/2018 12:41

I need to sort my head out, learn to love myself again and I find out who I am too

YES! to this. He has you as his skivvy. This is no way to live, OP. Go to your mums. Time he learned to look after himself. You look after your DC and YOURSELF Flowers

SandyY2K · 14/04/2018 13:01

If you keep threatening to leave and don't follow through, your word becomes worthless.

Follow through and leave. You've outgrown the relationship. He's using you like a dogsbody.

Loz123456 · 14/04/2018 13:11

Thank for the comments guys. I am leaving him!! For definite!! Am still at his flat ATM he's names on the tenancy. I've started to pack too! He's not here atm he's at his mates he keep texting me saying how much he loves and how heel be there for me and how sorry he is for everything. I told him that I need to sort my head out and that my mental health is more important.
It is Deffinetly over, my head and happiness needs sorting first before any relationship. This is so scary too as well and theres so much to sort. I just keep saying be strong you can do this and get through it!!

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mummmy2017 · 14/04/2018 13:19

You will find he makes so many promised once his slave leaves home...
You deserve better than this....
Good luck hun.
Don't weaken he won't Change ever.

Gemini69 · 14/04/2018 15:05

he's a manipulative bully.. very nasty OP... Hmm

you need breathing space lovely... even if it means you move to your Mums temporarily... you can get the head space you need to think clearly without him manipulating and pressuring you ... Flowers

Ijustwantabloodyusername · 14/04/2018 15:12

What a strong lady you are.

Well done on making that decision to end it.

Lots of luck to you and DD Flowers

Loz123456 · 14/04/2018 15:39

It been really really hard doing it but I need to for myself, even if it does mean being selfish! Thank you for comment ijustwantabloodyusername that made even more stronger tbh.

I know he won't change I've heard it to many times now, and not going to be weekend by this, it will make sronger.

Also does it make me a bad person if I haven't really cried since I ended it this morning??

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Orlandointhewilderness · 14/04/2018 15:51

Well done and good luck!

Drainedandconfused · 14/04/2018 16:00

Go home to your mum and get some tlc and rest, let your mum take over with the baby for a little while.
This man will never change and will get worse, you are so young and only have one child, the world is your oyster, change your life. I wish somebody had said that to me at your age when I was in a dead end marriage with a man not much different to yours. Flowers

NotTheFordType · 14/04/2018 17:21

Also does it make me a bad person if I haven't really cried since I ended it this morning??

Absolutely not. Your feelings are yours to own and express as YOU feel appropriate.

(I recognise this overthinking though. I had to take a beloved family pet to be put to sleep and I knew I could/would not cry in front of the vet and was worried she would think I was a heartless cow. Please don't waste your time thinking about what you "should" be feeling. Just allow yourself to feel.)

When could you get to your mum's, realistically? Is she close by? I think your best bet would be to move while he's out at work for the least amount of drama.

Drainedandconfused · 14/04/2018 17:31

Your running on adrenaline at the moment so won’t cry, in a couple of days you might and that will be when you are vulnerable to his sorry/love you text messages. Stay strong.

Loz123456 · 14/04/2018 17:39

I feel very vulnerable now, but am staying strong for me and my baby. Am not giving in he came back bout and hour ago, and tbh I he has realised there no going back and that we are over. He still keeps trying every now and then but I just keep thinking of myself. Somestimes you have to be cruel to be kind!
Since I ended it with him I so feel like a weight has been lifted of my shoulders, it just now I have to get everything Sorted. But thinking about it, am looking forward to having my own house I never had a place to call my own before 😊

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deadringer · 14/04/2018 17:49

Of course he doesn't want you to go, who will pick up after the selfish lazy-arse now? Well done, stay strong and start living your life on your terms.

Loz123456 · 14/04/2018 17:55

I will be doing! Starting fresh, no relationships for good few years. Time to move on and start living my life! Grin

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37KAT · 14/04/2018 18:03

Op, you're still so young and have many future years of happiness. Life seems to get better each decade Smile

You really shouldn't put up with this, it isn't a relationship and will get worse and previous posters have also said. Take your baby to your mums. I'm sure she will look after you both for a while, sounds like you need some TLC. Good luck!

silverbirches · 14/04/2018 18:09

You're not being selfish at all, he is. Look after yourself and your baby Flowers

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