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Urgent advice needed about abusive ex

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Charlie09 · 07/07/2019 14:35

Hi, I desperately need advice as I’m going out my mind. My ex has been with someone else for ten months and throughout that time he’s been playing me too. It’s an ongoing cycle of him wanting sex with me, me saying no until finally I give in and he carries on until I’m then emotionally attached again, beg for us to be back as a family and then he texts saying ‘never contact me again’. This cycle has been repeated over and over. I stop contact and after a month he breaks it and the cycle goes on.
He’s so vile to me saying he doesn’t want to be with me and he loves her but won’t explsin why he keeps coming back to me and cheating on her. He’s gone so far as contact the police to stop me ever contacting her to tell him what he’s been doing. I’ve told her in the past and she’s not believed me and believes his lies.

Last week was what sent my head spinning. He kissed me and met up with me mid week and tried it on about three times in one week. He kept calling me etc but as I then said I think we need to chat and sort out what’s really going on he went mental. I opened up to him about how I was feeling and he threw it all back in my face. Up until then he had given me hope saying ‘I don’t know how he’s feeling about everything and it’s none of your business’ but he seems to do everything to protect his relationship with her and says if he wanted me he’d come back but he doesn’t and would never come back. I said his actions speak differently to his words as he makes out he loves her but lies and cheats on her. Says he hates me and doesn’t think about me or us and yet constantly tries it on with me. He’s miserable like me when we do no contact but when we have contact he gets stressed and anxious as he thinks I’ll tell his girlfriend! He’ll even text me ‘I don’t want you to contact me agsin’ If I’ve text and then he’ll call me to talk?! (So he can show people the text that looks like he’s asking me to leave him alone).
I’m getting to the point where it’s unfair his smug girlfriend thinks she living a fairytale with him (their words) yet he’s abusing the mother of his children behind her back and living another life! He’s made it so I hate her and she hates me. I just wish someone would tell the woman what’s going on or she found out. He’s one of those people who get out of everything and it’s not fair.
I’d want to know if I had a boyfriend doing what he’s doing behind my back! I have so much anxiety and feel so low by his abuse. He even called 101 on me after a week of him trying it on with me! My head feels like it’s going to explode and I don’t know what to do. He doesn’t deserve to pretend to be happy whilst I’m drowning and confused. It’s sick he’s doing it to both of us. I’ve told him he needs to tell her the truth but he won’t. He’s too scared of losing her but clearly thinks I’m nothing. I miss the man I thought he was. I never thought he’d treat me like this and go so far as to tell lies to the police to protect his relationship with her.
I’ve got myself in to do much of a mess a part of me feels so self destructive that I feel like telling her anyways despite the fact they’d both go running to the police.
It just also hurts that he’s so immature that he’s involving our kids in this relationship which I can’t see us sustainsbme enough to involve them. If he had a normal relationship with her and wasn’t lying and cheating it would be fine but how can this man think he loves a woman he’s cheated on so much and lied to so much??!
Ugh what should I do? I’m so full of anger and sadness and I want him to finally get what’s coming to him and be found out, otherwise I think katy will carrying on thinking he’s this perfect man whilst he carries on screwing with my head. I feel like I’m barely living at the moment. Just existing. The things he does and says to me

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TwentyEight12 · 07/07/2019 17:20

@Charlie09

I think you need to start with the counselling. As someone previously suggested, a counsellor who has experience of working with codependency or emotional instability or domestic abuse might be a good place to start. If you can afford to find one privately, then this evening you can start getting in touch with ones in your area. If you can’t afford to go privately, perhaps going to your GP and speaking to them about wanting counselling is your next step. There could well be a waiting list through your GP, so bear that in mind.

If you feel you are unable to go no contact right now, then with the help of a counsellor you may well feel that having that person on your side to talk to will give you the added strength in order to do what deep down you know you need to do.

Recovery is a process and not a quick fix. I wouldn’t expect yourself to magically wake up next week and believe you’ll be over the entire thing. It takes time. It takes resolve. But you will get better if you want to.

This is no way in which to continue spending your precious life.

RLEOM · 07/07/2019 17:56

I think people are being a bit harsh to you, OP. You were with him for 14 years, you have children, you still love him (or the person you thought he was), and he's playing you - I feel for you. Of course you still have some attachment, especially if he keeps coming back for sex. It must be a very confusing time.

I suggest you stop having sex with him. I also suggest you get a security camera of some sort, especially as he has involved the police. If he continues to pester you for sex and you're forcefully saying no, I'd consider reporting him for sexual harassment. But that will only work if you stick to your guns and stop being drawn in by what was.

Remember it's you who is allowing him to pester you and to have sex with you. If you didn't give in he would more than likely leave you alone. And let his gf thinks she's got her prize man, because you know that he's really a prize pig. Just please, please stop going back to that manipulative creep and cover your back just in case he takes things further with the police.

Charlie09 · 07/07/2019 18:03

Thank you. I’ll look into cameras but he ransacked my bedroom not long ago because I said I had a camera and he’s so lucky he’d find it. He just gets away with everything! I’ve teckrded conversations and then he’s found out and made me delete them. I hate he’s so lucky In not being caught! He’ll keave me alone now for a month or two and then he’ll try all over again. What people are missing too is that it’s not just sex. For a while he’d call me loads like I was his friend and the other day he just kissed me... no sex. He now wants no conversations as he wants to leave his phone out with his gf as he pretends he’s mr faithful but if I text and she sees it she’ll go nuts. He’s just obsessed with her now .. it’s not love as he wouldn’t cheat! I think he wants us both there as I know I sound mad but I know he’d hate for me to not be in his life no matter what he says.

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readitandwept · 07/07/2019 18:07

Get a camera and don't tell him? Change the locks so he can't be in your house, ransacking your bedroom?

You'll clearly find excuses whatever people advise you.

Charlie09 · 07/07/2019 18:24

No as soon as I can afford to I’ll chsmge the locks and I will get cameras sorted but it’s finding ones he can’t see. I am taking everything on board and I’m determined to concentrate on me and get this mess to stop!

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