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Are these hidden signs he doesn’t want to be with me?

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Rspu3 · 14/06/2019 09:51

Me and my oh have been together for 9 years we are engaged and planning a wedding in the next couple of years.
We need ivf next year as my oh has infertility.
He is a genuinely lovely person and works very hard ( 2 jobs ). I feel like we don’t see each other much because of how much he works but we go to bed together every night and talk before sleep.
I do everything around the house cleaning cooking and washing which I don’t mind, I work part time now.
Sometimes I have a niggling feeling that my oh doesn’t love me I’m not sure if it’s just insecurity but sometimes deep down tell myself he doesn’t.
He has swore at me a few times over silly things for example we were put a few weeks ago after some shopping and we were having lunch he doesn’t like tomatoes so I joked putting it by his plate ( it didn’t touch it) he told me to stop it and I did it once more and just laughed but he told me to “just fuckoff”. He said it quite nastily and I had to hold in my tears. We didn’t speak until a few hours later and he said sorry and that he didn’t mean to say it so nastily. I told him he shouldn’t be saying it at all.
I’ve told him quite a few times I don’t want a relationship where we think it’s ok to swear at each other (his mom and her husband are like this with each other) and it’s awful.
We joke about sometimes and I’ve called him a dickhead but it’s not malicous, the way he told me to fuckoff was.
I think things like that are why I feel like he doesn’t love me, am I right?
I know sometimes the stress of the infertility gets to us both. We’ve wanted children for years. We hardly see his side of the family anymore because his siblings have recently had children and we found it hard to be around them. They also make nasty comments and I genuinely think they are toxic so I kept my distance. What do you think? Am I over thinking it?

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HennyPennyHorror · 14/06/2019 09:53

If it's one instance of him saying fuck off when you were behaving (in my opinion) quite poorly, I'd not be thinking of ending it.

But if you're thinking he's mean all the time...then end it.

How old are you both?

pinkyredrose · 14/06/2019 09:55

Maybe he does love you but he's frustrated with your childish behaviour.

Rspu3 · 14/06/2019 09:57

Your telling me you’ve never played about with your oh? Done anything silly try to be funny?, I don’t do shit like that all the time. He also does stupid things to try to make me laugh too.
But I wouldn’t tell him to fuckoff like the way he did.

We are both late 20s

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Rspu3 · 14/06/2019 09:57

Hes told me to fuckoff like that a few times over the years.

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BlueMerchant · 14/06/2019 09:59

I'd have been annoyed and told you to F off too. You sound really immature and full-on annoying. Sorry but true.

funnylittlefloozie · 14/06/2019 10:00

He works two jobs and you work part time? Is that entirely fair?

In the nicest possible way, you do sound like hard work. The tomato thing should have been a joke, but maybe you have form for pushing "jokes" a bit too far. Someone who is knackered from working two jobs and who is worried about health problems probably doesnt have the most robust sense of humour all the time.

Keeping away from his family because they have something you want seems terribly immature and spiteful. Will you start talking to them again if you get pregnant?

IAmAlwaysLikeThis · 14/06/2019 10:00

He told you to stop doing something and you continued doing it. I'd have been annoyed too.

Rspu3 · 14/06/2019 10:02

Why do I seem annoying?

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Rspu3 · 14/06/2019 10:02

@funnylittlefloozie have you been through infertility?

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Rspu3 · 14/06/2019 10:03

Do you know how heartbreaking and fucking isolating it is?

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NightScented · 14/06/2019 10:03

To be honest, I’d find your behaviour about the tomato juvenile and irritating. But if you have significant doubts about the relationship, now is the time to resolve them, before you plan a wedding and embark on IVF, which is a trial even for very strong, committed couples.

Princessfaffalot · 14/06/2019 10:03

I not only despise tomato but the smell of raw tomato makes me feel sick and I wouldn’t want my lunch after someone had put tomato on my plate. I’d have been pissed off and told you to fuck off too. It’s playground behaviour. Plus, all you’re focusing on is his behaviour. Not the fact that he realised he sounded harsh and apologised later on. Or the fact that you behaved like a twat.

Rspu3 · 14/06/2019 10:03

Because I worked full time and got very bad anxiety because of going through the infertility. Years of not being able to concieve.

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FetchezLaVache · 14/06/2019 10:04

You were being quite annoying IMO. Fine to do daft things trying to be funny, but he clearly wasn't amused as he asked you to stop, and you didn't, so...

Just out of interest, had you been taking a hilarious prank past the point of actually being funny the other times he swore at you too?

RandomMess · 14/06/2019 10:04

Perhaps you weren't being tuned into the fact that he wasn't up for silly antics. I would find it irritating not funny.

Rspu3 · 14/06/2019 10:04

It was childish and I said sorry aswell to him about it.

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Princessfaffalot · 14/06/2019 10:08

So you both apologised, drop it and move on. Jeez if you mope about after every little cross word no wonder he’s fed up.

NoOtherUsernameWasValid · 14/06/2019 10:09

I don't think you were childish as such. We all piss about sometimes with our OH and they might not always be in the mood for it. My DP has told me to fuck off before and I've told him to fuck off also... but I know we love each other 🤷🏼‍♀️

He said he was sorry. I don't understand why that isn't the end of it?

Bungalowblues · 14/06/2019 10:11

I've been through recurrent miscarriage but I wouldn't keep away from family members because they had a baby. That's just immature and silly tbh Confused

You do sound immature. You are allowed to called him a dickhead but if he says anything to you he's instantly in the wrong. Sounds quite controlling to me.

He works 2 jobs and you work part time. I suspect he's getting pissed off with carrying the load and being isolated from his family. Your childish behaviour could be the straw that breaks the camels back.

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Fleetheart · 14/06/2019 10:13

It does sound like you were annoying BUT that doesn’t mean that you are wrong about him. Think about his treatment of you, are there a lot of these kind of instances? I agree infertility is very very traumatising, so is he definitely the person you want to be with? You need to be able to keep supporting each other. It can be isolating but you need to ensure that you fight that; don’t allow yourself to avoid so much that you become isolated yourself. It’s just not healthy.

Rspu3 · 14/06/2019 10:14

@Bungalowblues no it’s not immature and silly. Like I said HE also finds it very hard.
I’m not explaining myself on the infertility and keeping away from them.

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Rspu3 · 14/06/2019 10:15

@Bungalowblues or your just a whole lot stronger than me? I’ve found it very very hard to sit there and look st little families while I’ve been trying years to have that.

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Fleetheart · 14/06/2019 10:16

If his family are toxic I also think that is a red flag for you - why are they being like this, do they know the problem is on his side? If so then definitely they are outrageous and you don’t want to see them; but bear in mind this will put more pressure on. Are you really ready for that?

Rspu3 · 14/06/2019 10:18

It’s been like this for about a year and a half now @Fleetheart I can’t face them at all, the last time I did they said we were getting older now and laughed about it. Then his brother made a joke about me being Barron and I’ve never been there since that was at Christmas. I get panic attacks just hearing there names.

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