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I feel like I've been raped

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CantStopThinkingAboutIt · 06/01/2019 20:45

Things haven't been great between me and dh for a while. I get no attention from him, it's like he doesn't want to be in a relationship and ignores me most of the time while going off with his mates. I've been questioning for some time if I want to stay and come to the conclusion that basically I don't, am working up the courage to leave while saving money for a deposit, etc for a house. Our sex life is non existent as I don't feel that I want to have sex with him when he treats me like this.

A few weeks ago I went out with a friend and got drunker than I intended to. I haven't drunk alcohol in ages and think it affected me more than it should have done. I drank the same as my friend who was fine. She walked me home so I know I got home ok.

I woke up the next morning on the kitchen floor. I felt awful and have no memory of anything that happened from the minute I walked in the house. But I could tell I'd had sex, and rough sex at that as I was badly cut/grazed inside.

I spent all morning throwing up I was so hungover.

I confronted dh saying that I knew I'd had sex with him. He denied it at first. But kind of laughingly denied it. He wanted to know how I knew I'd had sex and I said because it hurt so much. Then later on he admitted it but said I seemed up for it. I asked him if that was before I was throwing up, while I was throwing up, after I was throwing up.

He'd already said what a bad state I was in when I got home, that I'd been sick in the bath, staggering around, etc. That he was worried I was going to fall down the stairs.

I've been having some flashbacks to that night including a very brief flashback of having sex with him and from my snapshot recollection I was on the bed with my head hanging over the edge of the bed and couldn't move. That doesn't sound very "up for it" to me.

I even thought about going to the police the next day but just couldn't cope with the thought of it. If he got found guilty and sent to prison he's still the father of my dc. But now I'm kind of mad that he's got away with it and has probably just forgotten about it while it's eating me up.

I dunno what to do. I think I want to leave him anyway and feel like this has made me want to leave him even more. But I don't know if I'm just looking for excuses to justify leaving. If I told him this had upset me enough to make me want to leave I think he'd just laugh and say I was over reacting. Am I over reacting? Maybe he did genuinely think I was up for it? We've had sex (years ago) when I've been quite drunk. But at least those times I wasn't so off my face that I couldn't remember it, plus our relationship was in a better place. God, I sound like an alcoholic and I swear I'm not. It was the first time I'd drunk anything in over six months.

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TigerTooth · 06/01/2019 22:08

You don't need to tell your kids the gory details - just that you don't love each other anymore.

TigerTooth · 06/01/2019 22:10

If you're a single parent low income the kids will get a good loan amount - he should still help them financially and they can get a little job and live frugally - mine do and its fine.

Passing4Human · 06/01/2019 22:10

TigerTooth Sun 06-Jan-19 22:07:22
Call his bluff - tell him you went to the GP the next day and told her, that its all on record and that if he doesn't leave - you will contact the police.

^^ I think this is a really good idea. Sorry OP, I don't have anything useful to add. I'm just so sorry that this has happened to you.

TigerTooth · 06/01/2019 22:12

I can't get the leaving you on the kitchen floor out of my head...more than the sex...its just vile, please leave.

CantStopThinkingAboutIt · 06/01/2019 22:20

Right the whole mortgage and especially the stamp duty thing is upsetting and stressing me out.

Do I have to tell people I already have a mortgage? Can't I just say that this will be my first house? How would they know?

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CantStopThinkingAboutIt · 06/01/2019 22:20

It says the 3% extra stamp duty is in second homes. It wouldn't be a second home!

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MsLucyLastic · 06/01/2019 22:21

Hi OP. I am so very sorry to read what has happened to you. I was raped by an ex but knew that it would be my word against his, so I wasn't hopeful that there would be a conviction.

Rape Crisis advised me to make an anonymous statement through Crime stoppers. What this means, is that if anyone in the future accuses him of rape, the police would be able to use my statement as further evidence of his past behaviour.

The police could also contact me via the anonymous Crime stoppers email system and ask for more details.

I chose to do this. I held out no hope of a conviction for his actions towards me, but if he ever does it to another woman, I could be a witness for her by recounting what he did to me.

Please remember: He definitely raped you. There is no doubt about that.

Good luck and please leave this awful man. You can and will do so much better without him. I don't have the words to describe him. Feel free to PM me about the above if you want more information. Rape Crisis are very good and helped me a lot.

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NotANotMan · 06/01/2019 22:22

You can't lie about having a property. That's another reason why you should rent. Plus if you were to buy you would have to wait months to move out

GroovieGazelloo · 06/01/2019 22:23

Why not rent to start ? That way you can get away quickly. Also, you can take you're time to buy something you really want when you're ready.

Ontheboardwalk · 06/01/2019 22:23

I agree with Tiger and other posters, the waking up on the kitchen floor after flashbacks of the bed just feels really wrong. That’s not what a partner should do

If you were staggering about why on earth did he leave you passed out on the floor

SirVixofVixHall · 06/01/2019 22:24

The fact he denied it initially makes me think you weren’t conscious. Otherwise why deny ? The internal cuts and grazes !? How could he have done that with normal sex ? He raped you, and left you on a kitchen floor. He doesn’t love you, he doesn’t even like you.
I would get checked out as you may still have signs of damage, and then that gives you time to decide what to do.
None of this is your fault op.
Why would your children not believe you ? Why would they want to stay with him ?

CantStopThinkingAboutIt · 06/01/2019 22:29

I think I alerted him to the fact I couldn't remember by saying something like "did we have sex last night". So he would have realised then that I couldn't remember.

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Waddsup12 · 06/01/2019 22:30

Sorry, didn't mean to stress you out further.

However, it's best you know as it makes a substantial difference to buying costs.

And yes, they would know, mortgages come up on your credit checks.

I'd think you'd be able to get into a rental quite quickly. But first, I'd talk to a solicitor, as if you can stay home that would be best.

CantStopThinkingAboutIt · 06/01/2019 22:32

I just worry that renting is wasting money. And also if you rent and then see somewhere to buy how do you sort out getting your rent to end at the same time you want to move in to a house when you do buy one? I get stressed about stuff like that. I wouldn't be able to afford to be paying rent on a house while paying a mortgage on another.

If I bought and needed to live somewhere while waiting to move in a friend has said I can live with her. She means it.

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ZigZagIntoTheBlue · 06/01/2019 22:33

I'm so sorry this has happened to you. Re the house, definitely don't buy somewhere until you're divorced and financially separate as he can claim half otherwise. A friend of mine has been left by her husband, he's barrelled agreed and bought a massive house with his new girlfriend and was spitting feathers to realise that he has to now list it as an asset for the financial declaration!! Rent in the short term, it'll be quicker and easier to get away like that.

NotANotMan · 06/01/2019 22:34

When you rent you sign a 6 month assured shorthold tenancy and at the end of 6 months you just have to give one month notice to end the tenancy so it shouldn't be too tricky

ZigZagIntoTheBlue · 06/01/2019 22:34

Ahead, not agreed!

Loka123 · 06/01/2019 22:35

What an awful man. From your first paragraph, he just came across a bit absent minded, bit lacking in effort (fixable issues that often appear in long term relationships) but then what you've said about the rape was a shocker - I'd expect that more from people who were abusive, rude, controlling etc. but your main issue was lack of attention from him so it's very strange he has these two traits running in parallel..

Doesn't matter whether you've been with him 1 year or 20, a lot of people start to overstep boundaries and use partners as their personal property as they think they will stick around whereas with someone they're dating e.g. a few weeks, people are usually super polite and nice.

Better off out of it, esp as he left you on the kitchen floor until the morning.. did he "not realize" that was wrong either? I assume he was completely sober at the time....

AcrossthePond55 · 06/01/2019 22:36

The choice to report or not report is entirely up to you. But you should speak to Rape Crisis. They can help you work this through in your head.

See a marital solicitor ASAP, before he leaves on holiday. Find out your legal position regarding the home, re the likelihood of being able to stay in the house and him having to leave (not likely if there are no small children) or just leaving and forcing a sale or buy out. If it's better to leave; move out whilst he's gone. If you'd have a good chance of keeping the house; get the divorce papers filed the day he leaves. Not matter what you do, use the week he's gone to separate finances (if they're joint) and get important papers and your sentimental items out the house to a safe location (new rental, office, friend's house, etc).

SirVixofVixHall · 06/01/2019 22:37

But if you buy and then divorce your pig of a husband will get half your new property.

CantStopThinkingAboutIt · 06/01/2019 22:40

Ideally he'd agree to leave and I'd buy him out his share of this house. Get a bigger mortgage for here.

I'm also worried he's going to get half my pension. He doesn't have one, I have a good one.

We earn the same, have roughly the same in savings....he possibly has a bit more in savings. I'm going to get screwed financially.

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MotherOfDragonite · 06/01/2019 22:40

Don't tell him before he goes on holiday.

Use the time he's away to go through all of your joint papers, finances etc, and make copies of everything useful and that you will need.

CantStopThinkingAboutIt · 06/01/2019 22:42

I can go through the paperwork before he goes on holiday, can do that this week while he's at work and I'm off.

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Cherrysherbet · 06/01/2019 22:43

Sorry you are in this situation op. I really feel for you. Hope you can get out of the house soon. I think you really need to, so you are safe from this excuse for a man.

FangTasticBeast · 06/01/2019 22:44

I’ve had sex massively drunk because I’ve wanted to and because we had been together for a long time

There’s no way would he have left me drunk on the kitchen floor or cut and grazed through rough sex ever

He raped and abused you when you were vulnerable. Please leave him. I know it’s hard

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