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Is this fair?

103 replies

Choccablock · 11/06/2018 21:58

Well today marks the day I start treating DH like he treats me.

I often feel invisible. He is glued to his phone/laptop/PC at all times. Breakfast is him sat on the sofa, laptop on lap, watching TV loudly, eating breakfast with one hand and often his phone in the other. (Yep, 3 screens at once...)
No interaction, I have to pretty much beg to have breakfast together at the table (and even that involves scrolling Reddit on his phone)

90% of evenings he spends in the office gaming loudly with his headset on. On the rare occasion he comes downstairs and Im watching TV myself, he walks in takes the TV remote, Huffs at the 'crap' I'm watching and changes the channel.

Twice this week he insisted we carried on with sex while the newborn baby cried and cried. I felt really horrible but wanted to believe he was right (he says if the baby has been fed/changed then baby needs to learn that it won't get attention everytime he cries)

So tonight he asked me for a sock so he could 'do his thing', expecting me to act all sexy and into his horny.... (Normally I absolutely would get into the mood. Even when I've had a shit day with our toddler/exhausted from pregnancy/ feeling fat andhideous post birth) But thought I just layed there and carried on ebay shopping. I kissed him back, but instead of getting 'into the moment' I held my phone behind his head. Kissed him with eyes open and continued to scroll through eBay.

Instead of working out what clothes left on the floor are dirty to be washed or clean enough to be worn for a second day (jeans, jumpers etc) I'll just shove them into his cupboard and he can work it out.

I don't know why I'm writing this. I just need a place to tell someone. I feel very lonely and sad. My husband is selfish, right? Or is it the postpartum hormones?

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FinallyHere · 15/06/2018 18:43

I've never not been in a relationship.

Oh dear, I'm feeling sorrier and sorrier for you. What you describe of your relationship really, really doesn't sound like any kind of prize to me, much more like some kind of punishment.

How would you feel if a friend, a daughter or a sister, anyone really, was leading anything like this sort of life? Wouldn't you do anything to help them? Imagine what it must be like for your mother, if she has any inkling of what your relationship is like and she may have some insight into what you are going through.

Zaphodsotherhead · 15/06/2018 19:57

He said that he thought you didn't want him to touch you, and that's his excuse for not cuddling? So how does he explain the (seemingly) constant demands for sex? Or does he not count that as 'touching'?

What a git.

Chapterandverse · 15/06/2018 20:31

He did not wake you for sex to say sorry.

He woke you for sex as he is a manipulative arse.

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