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Pregnant and he's thrown me out

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Windmill1828 · 18/08/2018 22:28

Hi everyone - I'm turning to you lovely people to help me!

So it's a long story...

We met a few years ago, hit it off straight away. He was a gentleman, good job etc etc. Treated me like his best friend. We supported each other, we laughed like nothing before. It was just amazing. My family loved him and his did me.
He had a little boy and I have a little girl from previous marriages and they got on so well.
He began to stay over at mine more and more and before you knew it we were practically living together.
I saw him every night almost the whole time we were together and we had his little boy every other weekend.
We holidayed together and started to build a life together.
We decided to buy a house and move in together and that I would sell mine and put the equity in the bank for my little girl one day.
We chose a new house and it was being built.
On New Year's Eve he asked me to marry him! It was the most amazing time of our lives.
The house was supposed to be finished in Feb but kept getting delayed so we were living out of boxes which wasn't ideal but ok.
Then in March we found out I was pregnant! We were over the moon. But that turned into disaster when it turned out to be ectopic just before our engagement party.
He was by my side through the operation and was so sad afterwards. He was distraught!
We were told that to be on the safe side we would need to have ivf to bypass the use of my tubes but probably wouldn't have much trouble conceiving as we just had by ourselves albeit in the wrong place.
We left it three months and then decided to go to a clinic in London to discuss the details. The nurse said yep, we could go for it but as I was 36 and he was 38 to not waste any time.
We had a holiday planned in August but she said it would be fine to still go if we did get pregnant before as we would be over 12 weeks.
So we went home, discussed it and we both agreed to give it a shot!
Next thing you know we are booked in and ready to go. The drugs came and I started injections.
Now anyone who has had IVF will tell you it's not easy. All the travelling on its own was hard. The hormones. The weight gain. The tiredness. It was draining but so worth it that I didn't make a big fuss because I didn't want it to be a big thing if we needed to go through it again.
He even did the first injection with me and held my hand.
There were a few bumps along the way and at points thought we might have to cancel due to complications but to cut a long story short we got pregnant!!! I did about 500 tests!!!
You have to carry on taking hormones after the positive test and on top of the begins of pregnancy (morning sickness/ extreme tiredness etc) but we carried on.
Then my Nan who was so close to me died which was awful.
And then I started a new job as I was full time and we decided that I didn't need to do that anymore.
We moved into our new house when I was 6 weeks pregnant And were busy organising it for the first week.
Then we had our first scan. Another trip to London, all very scary to see if baby was in the right place. And it was! Lovely heathy heartbeat! We were made up. He even stopped on the way home to buy it a little outfit!

We picked his little boy up on the way home. I was so tired after such a draining day and 7 hours in the car that i asked if he could feed the kids while I had a little lie down, to which he said yes.
I went to sleep for about 10 mins and was woken up by the kids playing!
I was a bit miffed he could have kept them quiet but went downstairs and sat at the breakfast bar while the kids ate their dinner and I was sewing a blind.
He said to me that his little boy had done well in his school report to which i said "oh well done" and then thought oh crap where is my little girls report?!! And proceeded to ask her.
That was it.
He sent the kids across the road to the park and he said "I don't wanna make this into a big thing but why were you like that about the report?"
I was fed up anyway and said "what?!! What about it!?" And we blew up and has an argument about how I should've been more enthusiastic.
I just needed to get out of that house and that situation so I said I was going to go back to mine to continue to sort it out.
I was so upset that I decided to stay there and talk about it in the morning.
Well in the morning he was furious that I'd gone and taken My daughter. There was no talking to him.
He didn't have the best childhood in the world but certainly not the worst but he said that it triggered a memory of something that happened to him when he was a boy and he won't have his son feeling like that!!!
We spoke about it and sorted it that night. Had a nice evening together and took the kids out.
Then the next morning he said "I'm sorry but I still feel like I can't do this."
As you can imagine it went from bad to worse.
He spoke to his sister who obviously said he can't have that and then decided to block me on fb and told him to tell me and my daughter to leave. Which he did.
I had my first midwife appt that following day and by the time I came back to the house he had packed boxes.
He said some horrible things like:
He had doubts the week before he asked me to marry him
He wasn't in love with me
How could I treat his kid like that?
Very hurtful things

He then got a van and dumped all mine and my daughters things back at my sold (but not completed just yet) house.

So basically, I'm pregnant
I soon have no home or anywhere to live
I have a temp/ part time job
No money
And I little girl who has no idea what's happened.

So that was 4 weeks ago.
Since then not much has happened. He has sent the wedding venue an email to cancel it even though it was only booked a matter of weeks ago.
Most of my messages get ignored.
Until I sent a nice one to which he replied "he was broken"

This guy was all about family: he treated my little girl like his own. Me like a queen. There wasn't a day went by that he didn't tell me how lucky he felt and how much he loved us.
How can you go from all that to nothing over night? To creating a life to walk away from it.

All over this.!

I am obviously heartbroken. Lost. I feel like I've had my whole life ripped apart and now I have nothing.
I miss him so much but I know I shouldn't.

Any ideas?

Xxx

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Windmill1828 · 23/08/2018 19:10

@Thebluedog thank you ☺️

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ohdeardeardear · 23/08/2018 19:57

What a woman you are! Absolutely amazing and handling this so well!

Don't put him on the cert whatever you do.

rosamundhopelovesdogs123 · 23/08/2018 20:03

I've followed this thread and am gutted at what this sadist has put you through.
You are a fantastic, strong and compassionate woman and mother who deserves the very best.
I am so pleased you are free of this abusive loser.

Windmill1828 · 23/08/2018 21:46

Thank you! ☺️☺️ I hope I can stay this strong! Xx

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Blarblarblar · 23/08/2018 22:10

Wow at those messages what a moron.

You are doing so well. You are going to be fine it’s heartbreaking and tough but look how much you have achieved. You are getting it sorted and making a new life bit by bit xx

Windmill1828 · 23/08/2018 22:51

@Blarblarblar it is tiny step by step but I am making progress and that's what counts! Xx

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PeachyKeenJellymonster · 23/08/2018 23:21

So sorry this is going on for you. You will get stronger and it will get easier Thanks

SquidgyBanana · 24/08/2018 00:54

How are you op? You’re a real inspiration, I’m so sorry for what you have been put through, it’s unimaginable and you wouldn’t have seen this coming.. no one would have.

What an absolute cunt he is. You have dodged a bullet!

Windmill1828 · 24/08/2018 09:18

@SquidgyBanana it's still raw but I'm definitely feeling less shocked all though I am still in disbelief.
I'm focussing all my energy on my girls now. 💗💗

I wish with everything I have that it wasn't happening but the realisation is sinking in!

Xx

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hellsbellsmelons · 24/08/2018 09:38

I'm starting to feel a bit sorry for this pathetic waste of space!
WHY?
He's treated you like you are nothing.
That the child you are carrying, HIS child, is nothing.
You owe him NOTHING.
And certainly should not be feeling any sympathy towards him.

You are doing all the right things.
You have a bit of breathing space.
You sound so much stronger and you sound like a fantastic mum.

Keep on, Keeping on (KOKO)
You got this!

SugarandVinegar · 24/08/2018 10:32

Good news about the extra month in your house, op, hopefully that will take some of the pressure off a bit. Your poor body must be wondering what the hell has hit it over the past few months. The stress ... Flowers

Take some time for yourself, treat yourself Kindly op.
One day in the not too distant future you'll be settled in your new home with your girls and wondering what you ever saw in the sick arsehole who isn't fit to lick your shoes.

Windmill1828 · 24/08/2018 13:29

@SugarandVinegar I hope so - I really do seems a long way off yet!

I honestly don't know how he sleeps at night! I really don't!

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Windmill1828 · 24/08/2018 13:30

@hellsbellsmelons

KOKO that's my new mantra! 😘

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MrsBobDylan · 24/08/2018 13:45

Yy to not wasting precious energy on feeling sorry for him. He has shown himself to be completely unpredictable and you should focus your energies in keeping him away.

There doesn't seem to be a word he says which isn't fantasy or fabricationSad.

Onecutefox · 24/08/2018 16:01

I'm starting to feel a bit sorry for this pathetic waste of space!
OP, my mum wanted to leave my dad when she wasn't even pregnant with her first DC. She said she felt sorry for him etc. She has never been happy with him. He didn't respect her then and doesn't now. For her at that time it was For better for worse but she regrets it so much and she cannot turn the clock back. :(

InkyToesies · 24/08/2018 16:14

I agree with previous posters that there’s something seriously awry with him psychologically, that you’ve dodged a bullet, and that your strategy of NC for yourself is a good one. I’d go so far as to say that your plan to not deprive your expected baby of having her father in her life is simply buying into your ex’s deluded persona of himself as a great dad. He isn’t a good dad and he’s not a good person.

He appears to have no remorse for what he’s done to you and your daughter, but nonetheless knows what noises to make in order to dupe others and rewrite what actually happened. I think he planned it and you won’t ever understand why, because to do so you would need to understand his warped reasoning and that just can’t happen. It would be like understanding why a shark behaves as it does. The time you had with him that you remember as happy was a lie. He didn’t mean it. As to why he ended it is anyone’s guess - it certainly wasn’t about the report. The reason why I’m inclined to think it was planned, and that your relationship was simply a piece of live theatre that he could act in as well as direct, is the ‘unreal’ quality to his pre-breakup messages and texts and behaviour towards you. The ‘abandonment’ of his ex-wife and child speaks volumes.

You sound like you’ve got your head screwed on and you’ll be just fine. I’m sorry that you’re hurting, but the pain will pass. I think you’ve had an extremely lucky escape from a very bad man. A saying from growing up in Scotland springs to mind: “There’s mair walkin’ aboot than there are locked up.”

I also thought of this YouTube video (at c.8.55) when I read your account.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=6dv8zJiggBs#fauxfullscreen

Shivery stuff!

Best wishes.

Windmill1828 · 24/08/2018 16:36

@InkyToesies wow! Thanks for your reply that sums it up beautifully.

That video is incredible and makes so much sense!

Weirdly I came across some things in his Pinterest the other day that I hadn't even bothered to look at before.
Things like "how to make a relationship successful" and "the dos and donts of successful marriages"

If I'd seen that prior to ww3 i probably would've thought it was sweet, like he valued our relationship and wanted to work on it.
Now however, I'm wondering if he was following these guidelines because he either didn't know how to behave or was just doing what was expected in a relationship?!
Either way, it seemed very strange.

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InkyToesies · 24/08/2018 16:56

I had to read that twice. It was his Pinterest history that showed those sites? Christ on a bike. Shock

IdahoJones · 24/08/2018 17:06

Don't feel sorry for him out of some misplaced sense of getting your power back through it.

Be wary of him.

Windmill1828 · 24/08/2018 17:11

@InkyToesies yep - I've screen shot some he put under "my name.. love"

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Onecutefox · 24/08/2018 17:30

Last message, haha. Tells a lot about him.

Fannybaws52 · 24/08/2018 18:11

Will custody and access be an issue if he decides he wants to see and be a parent to the baby later? Or did your solicitor nail that down so you know your rights and can tell him to suck your big ladyballs?

ohfourfoxache · 24/08/2018 18:30

What a precious little fucking flower Grin

Actually no - weed, not flower...

SquidgyBanana · 24/08/2018 19:06

My god that’s weird (his Pinterest)

SandyY2K · 24/08/2018 19:19

This man has some psychological issues going on.

His Pinterest and messages come across as someone who has unresolved issues and trying so hard to be the perfect partner...but it seems creepy. Like he was obsessed with you and has to have lots of motivational quotes to keep him on track.

You're a strong woman and you'll be just fine.

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