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Can't bear this stalemate

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knackeredandsome · 09/01/2019 19:33

I recently posted about DH and I falling out at NY (I don't drink. Feeling isolated. www.mumsnet.com/Talk/relationships/3466641-i-don-t-drink-feeling-isolated)

but we are now in a hideous stalemate and I don't know what to do.

He seems genuinely content to continue the excruciating silence between us rather than talk/try to make amends (this is a trait I am always amazed by, but he is king of sweeping things under the carpet and pretending all is fine). I told him that we need to be civil/act normal in front of DC because DD was really picking up on toxic atmosphere. And amazingly it has continued for a good week or so in this weird false limbo, and I'm exhausted by it. I can't bear the evenings, so just go to bed as early as poss.

I know he's waiting for me to cave in and things can go back to 'normal' but I'm just so hurt and can't move on from his nasty comments at NY. I feel like we live on different planets most of the time (we got together very young) and although our lives are so intertwined (2DC/ joint business/ home/ history/ families/ etc), we are strangely more and more different as time passes. I don't feel like I can talk to friends (small rural community where everyone knows e/o). Just feel shit and alone.

OP posts:
Huskylover1 · 11/01/2019 08:50

"DH, I've been having a think about what you said, and maybe you're right, maybe I should let my hair down more often and have a drink. Obviously, there's no way I'll be capable of settling DS and getting up 6 times in the night when I'm drunk, so on the nights that I drink, you will need to stay sober and put DS to bed, and do the night wakings"

Watch him suddenly change his tune.

knackeredandsome · 11/01/2019 10:20

@Huskylover1 😂 well there's one I haven't tried yet.

Although I did tell him on NYD that in the evening (when friends were due to come over) I'd have a drink for every one he had. He cancelled the evening... 🤔

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