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27yo and husband says he no longer loves me

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Sazzyg1000 · 24/02/2019 23:02

Hi,
so ive been married to my husband for 2 1/2 years and have been together for 7 years. We are both 27. about a month ago now, an argument that stemmed from husband coming home late from being at the pub (couldn't get hold of him for 3 hours and didn't know that was what he was doing) ended up in him telling me he loved me but isn't 'in love with me' anymore. We were also actively trying to start a family for the past 4 months. he's had a lot of disappointments recently career-wise and has a history of mental health issues, but what started as a statement followed by lots of sorrow and guilt on husband part, has become him acting like he absolutely hates me. The other day is had enough and told him that if he wants to work on this we have to work together (currently he's booked himself to see a counsellor alone, and while that is great, I am concerned it won't help our marriage as I'm involved in that and should have a voice!)

am am I being a push over allowing him to continue living with me? We don't have any children. I'm trying to act normal and say goodnight- love you etc and he never reciprocates. It hurts but I can't bare to push him away by asking him to leave, but I don't know how much longer I can cope with such resentment. Also important to add that before this argument I genuinely thought we had a great marriage and we were both happy. He certainly acted it! Any help and advice would be so appreciated!

OP posts:
SuspiciousMind007 · 24/02/2019 23:24

He should be allowed to get counselling by himself without you insisting on being part of that. Him sortingnout his own mental health problems will benefit your marriage.

You could ask him to get joint counselling seperately. You can also get counselling by yourself and should if you want to.

However, him being resentful and treating you like he hates you is absolutely not OK.

Is there more to this OP? Was the trigger you are talking about the only thing? A 27 year old bloke with no kids should be ok to stay out late and be out of contact for 3 hours without getting into trouble. On the other hand, his reaction to your reaction, if it was a one off, is very over the top.

Mental health problems are not an excuse to treat someone badly. You're not being a pushover but if he is treating you like he hates you, you should ask him to leave, you deserve better.

Singlenotsingle · 24/02/2019 23:27

If he really doesn't love you any more, there's no point carrying on with it, is there? You got together very young.

Sazzyg1000 · 24/02/2019 23:30

Thanks for your advice, just to clarify- he won't do the joint counselling at all- maybe I need to wait to see how his own stuff goes first.
Also, I absolutely agree that we both have evenings/nights with friends apart from each other with no repercussions. The difference here was he didn't tell me he wouldn't be coming home from work, and basically I had no idea where he was/if he was ok/what was going on for over 3 hours which made me incredibly worried. When he did get back he didn't seem to care that I was so worried, and that's what turned it into an argument

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Ella2103 · 25/02/2019 00:35

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