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Youknowme1 · 21/03/2019 06:19

Hiya plz am I right for wanting awnsers my wife is telling our friends and family that I am going mad but to me she says she understands why I’m worried but that I am wrong about the reasons for recent changes in actions. Firstly I agree that these things on there own is nothing but there’s so many I just can’t except the awnser here goes
FIND ADDRESS WRITEN ON FOLDED UP PAPER WITH NO NAME AND NO HOUSE NUMBER IN RANDOM PLACE
*STARTED COMING HOME ALOT LATE FROM WORK AND WONT AWNSER BUT TXT STRAIGHT BACK ENDLESSLY
*REALY DRESSING UP FOR WORK SHE IS SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHER AND WORE A FULL LENGH ZIP DRESS WITH NO STRAPS
*DIDNT CARE ABOUT HAVING A PHONE AND NOW IT WONT LEAVE HER HAND IF SHE REALISES SHE HASNT PICKED IT UP TO CHANGE OUR DAUGHTER SHE AWILL GO BACK FOR IT BEFORE CHANGING
*STARTED SLEEPING ON SOFA OFTEN WHEN IT DIDNT HAPPEN once FOR THE FIRST 15 YEARS
*I CAME HOME AND SHE WAS IN SOME VERY NICE NIGHT WEAR AND LOOKED AMAZING I ASKED HER TO KEEP IT ON BECAUSE SHE LOOKED GOOD SHE TOOK IT STRAIGHT OFF I NEVER SAW IT AGAIN UNTILL 6 MONTHS LATER WHEN SHE WAS PUTTING IN WASH
*SPENDING LOTS OF MONEY AND HAS NO IDEA WHAT SHE DID WITH IT
*CAR MILES NOWHERE NEAR ADDING UO TO WHAT SHE SAYS SHES DOING

Untill all this we have had a good relationship we are early to mid 30,s been together for 18 years we have are problems like anyone we have to kids together our youngest is nearly 3 and we have gone through the worry of not noting if she has some kind of disability or to what extent but she’s such a happy child so will take what comes, but that has put a mental strain on my wife and my wife also has very rare but sever anxiety attacks to the extend she was convinced she way img October through till Xmas , but she has come out of that great and in some ways she’s better than ever, because she was ill we stopped being intimate but after she got better we started getting on realy well but hadn’t become intimate so I brought it up and it seems to have pushed her away and then since these things have happened I’ve starting questioning to the point it’s driving us crazy but she just doesn’t try to explain , I started going out alot last year with her brother till all hours to the point I was told if I kept it up I would push her to the point of no return so I stoped and then all she does when we stay in and put something on she just picks phone/I pad up till she falls asleep. I just want her to tell me something if I did push her to far can she just say so we can move on, in my head it must be something even if it’s just a group of friends male/female I just don’t know I have moved out as I can’t get it out my to the point she will end up hating me,one minute she says I’m mad the next she says she understands why I would be questioning I am quite low at the moment and got myself in a rut but I just feel I need her help me get out of it but she’s making it worse at best it is all just random coincidences that she is messing my all ready fragile brain, my mum had an affair and left when I was 11 the same age as my wife now, and my kids, I am terrified of ending it for good in case I am wrong but at the same time I know if something isn’t said I will resent her and become horrible, what you all think if this was happening to your selves she is saying doesn’t want us to break up but I havnt been in the home for 3days and not one message saying she loves me I think I should take the hint but I’m hoping she tells me whatever it is

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StealthPolarBear · 21/03/2019 06:25

Is marriage counselling an option. You sound like you've both been under a lot of strain.

Youknowme1 · 21/03/2019 06:30

That is realy not me but I would do anything at this point as it’s turning me verbally horrible to her and we have a 13ry old and a 3yr old, I’ve moved in to my mums for the foreseeable, which on that note I am just about to take my mum to work least I can do, thank you

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StealthPolarBear · 21/03/2019 06:38

If you are being verbally horrible you need to take action. Her actions may be bad and you have the right to be angry and upset but it doesn't allow you to verbally abuse her.

Youknowme1 · 21/03/2019 07:01

i agree that is why I have moved out, I need to see if this can be resolved and I find it easier to process away from the pressure of it all,and it better for the kids and partner also, which I am finding easier and we have in this small sample size have stoped arguing but that is because we’re treating as a break / split up I don’t know , I just thing if there isn’t some sort of movement on what she says is happening then it will probably stay this way, we are due to go to Disneyland next month I would like to think one way or the other we could at least do that amicably but no good if it’s just going to be arguments which I don’t think will be a problem In a strange way we get on realy well when we’re doing the family thing and then struggling when just us

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Frenchmontana · 21/03/2019 07:05

Honestly, the list of 'trangressions' you have wrote is pretty much the same list my exh said about me.

Address - he used my mobjlebto stalk me....I was a home visit to longer term sick employee

Coming home late - I was miserable at home, work gave me my confidence back and I knew I needed that job because my marriage wasnt going to last

Not texting back immediately - I was busy. Exh treat me like ibdidnt matter for years then expected me to jump when he wanted me. One of the reasons my marriage was going south. The less quickly I responded the more intense he got, pushing me further away

Dressing up for work - because I wanted to make something of myself. All senior staff dressed up. Dressing up for work was like an amour. Exh destroyed my confidence and I had to fight to put a front on. It made me feel different to dress up for work

On my phone more - people at work (women) became my friends and gave a shit about me as a person. So yes, I was happy to talk to them outside work. Exh saw that as a sign of an affair, so started going through it and stripped me of all my privacy. He hacked my Facebook etc. So yes I kept my phone close by

Sleeping on the sofa - the more I realised my exh didn't give a shit really, just liked to control me and only wanted me around when he wanted me, made me not want to sleep in the same bed

Nice underwear - I always like nice underwear. Exh didn't. He didn't see the point. The more I came out of the abusive fog the more I thought 'fuck this'I will do what I want. If I want nice underwear, I am having it.

Spending money - I didn't need to justify how I spent my money. The Jill's were paid, what was left over was mine. He kept his left overs, I didn't need to explain to him.

Car miles - he probably checked that too. But never asked. He did check receipts he found in my pocket etc. So that not out of the realms of possibility.

My exh was an abusive cunt and when he realised I wasnt having it anymore, wasn't making him a priority anymore and making myself independent. He became verbally abusive, then he attacked me.

My point is, that yes, lots of your points suggest an affair. Many mners will tell you it must be an affair. But to me, it's also a huge sign that someone has realised their worth. They have started thinking about themseleves more, after realising their spouse doesnt. It's about becoming their own person, not just 'Mrs or Mr X'.

I also understood that I was changing. I tried to reassure him, never lied, never hid anything. But he was so convinced i must be having an affair. The truth is, he knew he had been treating me like shit. He knew he had been trying to control me and couldnt cope when he couldnt control me any longer. I was honest I told him I thought he was abusing me. He still wouldn't do anything to change. I told him I had lost myself trying to keep him happy, he didn't see the issue.

Your wife might be upto something. Or she may just be finding herself, gaining confidence and making her life her own. She may know the marriage is dead and starting to be her own person now.

No one here knows whether you, like my exh, are losing your mind. Or if she is cheating and your concerns and upset are justified. Only you and her know the answers.

Youknowme1 · 21/03/2019 07:29

I have just read your post , and in away feels like my wife talking except I’m not controlling we both go on holidays apart and it’s not the she is spending money my problem is I am self employed and get paid cash we are saving for extension but keeps taking (my)money and then still at the end of moth when we both work out everything I am supposed to still pay half when has taken at least £100 a week yet I don’t have her bank account so I’m not aloud a penny of hers.on that note it sounds like im making out she doesn’t contribute she does in fact puts nearly all in but is living well beyond means we’re supposed to be our own people but we’re a team and parents too.she was going on a spa weekend this Saturday, and if this is what is going then at least she would of opened up to me I could then we could take a course of action as it stands I’m here and she is saying that it’s all in my head and doesn’t want us to split in the long run if it’s me making her unhappy then it’s better sorted now than wait 10/15 years till kids are grown up to realise what are we doing here. If she’s happy my kids are happy and I’m happy,.. I’m not realy good at this social media thing I stay away from all of it but I’ve come out of my comfort zone just st hoping something is going work and I actually love that she dresses up she’s beautifull but my point was a full lengh zip dress with no shoulders she teaches 15 yr old boys , and f she said she was at work I’d believe her but she told her mum she left 2 hours ago and 5 mins away but took her another 2hours to get home. I just want answers even if they were what you put

Thank you

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Youknowme1 · 21/03/2019 07:34

I don’t know if I made this bit clear it’s not when she doesn’t txt back it’s when I ring won’t answer but then txts immediately, everyone’s situations are different I know that no one on here can tell me what to do, I thought the point of this was to get advice and do with it as you see fit,

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Youknowme1 · 21/03/2019 07:41

And my post is it’s go to be something not an affair it might just be what u said but not one of those things i do, I happened to of drove the car b4 her and knew there was 90 miles of fuel and it was a 70 mile roun£ trip yet there was 60 miles still in there and she says she didn’t put any in it sounds like you had a hard time but this is not that actualynwish I didn’t try it now, have a nice day

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