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Think I'm having a breakdown

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daybydaybdbdbd · 18/09/2018 12:06

DH and I have 2 DCs aged 8 and 6.

DH hasn't worked in years and says he can't find a job. To be fair, he trained in a sector that more or less collapsed in the financial crisis. But the financial crisis was a decade ago. He seems to do little during the day. The house is always a mess and it's far more than I can keep up with on top of quite a demanding job.

I can no longer cope and have given him his marching orders after what I think was some sort of a breakdown at the dinner table last night. DC aged 6 was being difficult and just sort of got up and started screaming, I don't even know what I was saying, just going on about how I couldn't cope and I was sick of it and I don't even know what. It was like I was listening to myself saying things and not doing it myself if you see what I mean?

DC aged 8 was in tears because, well, it was an ugly scene. (I've talked to both children since and apologised and reassured them, obviously I still feel like shit though.)

DH is trying to get some things in order today to go and stay somewhere else for a bit to give me some space. I'm from abroad and don't have any family here so it's not so easy for me to go elsewhere. We only have my income so renting somewhere else is out of the question.

Over the summer DH told me that he doesn't love me any more but wants to stay together for the sake of the children. I emphatically don't want to stay together for the sake of the children. What good does it do for them to live with two unhappy parents? Confused But DH has no income and I don't make enough to run two households. Who on earth does?

Obviously I've missed out a mountain of back story but that's where I am today. I feel terrible. About everything. I don't even know where to start. I'm trying to get through some work to meet a deadline that's coming up this week. What should I do? Who should I speak to? Please be kind, I don't know what to do.

OP posts:
Daybydaybdbdbd · 07/10/2018 19:53

So now the DCs are in bed and I’m sitting here with the cats and a pot of tea and I just feel like I’ve let everyone down.

I know that’s not logical but I feel like I’ve failed in some way.

Last week I was talking to a colleague about this and she asked me how much I earn (we are on very friendly terms) and she was rather shocked, she said “that’s really not much to support four people on”. She didn’t mean to be critical of me at all but I can’t help feeling like I don’t earn enough and if I could afford to run two houses then all this would never have happened. I just feel so pathetic, like at my age and with two children I can’t even afford to house myself as well as support them.

I tried really, really hard to keep everyone happy and I feel like a failure as a mother, a partner and a businessperson because everything is so fucking shit and I’m not even happy.

OP posts:
Daybydaybdbdbd · 07/10/2018 19:59

In addition, this is probably not rational but I’m also scared that I’ll be considered an unfit parent because of the breakdown, I really feel like I’m losing my grip on reality now and I’m not a good mother. And I still have my usual fears about running into financial problems if business doesn’t go well. Which is no different to before of course but.......

OP posts:
ShizeItsWeegie · 07/10/2018 20:19

No right thinking person would see you as unfit OP. You have been pushed beyond human endurance. It will get sorted out. It will. Keep going, you are actually doing well by posting on here.

tenredthings · 08/10/2018 01:38

So sorry to read this Op. he is an adult and should be sharing the responsibility, he's not your child. It's you who's been paying the rent the last ten years. Who's name is the tenancy in ? Tell him to stay with his parents and get a job !

MO2x · 08/10/2018 01:44

By the sounds of it he's staying with you, not for the children's sake, but because you carry him pretty much in every aspect of his life an he's never had to do anything for himself or the kids. I feel for you but you know what's best and you'll figure it out you seem a smart woman xx

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