I don’t even know why I’m writing this but reading a thread last night about a DH shouting has just sort of triggered something in my mind...
I have been with my DH 13 years, married for 7 with two DC. My DH sometimes really shouts at me he treats me like a child, just last night he called me ‘stupid’ ‘seriously mental’ and ‘a fucking blackmailer’. This is about every six months so not that often.
DH cheated on me two years before we got married but only told me seven weeks before we got married, for years I knew something had happened but he kept denying it making me feel crazy and ‘mental’ for even asking him. He played mind games and lied and used to shout at me and be really aggressive slamming doors and just made me feel like I was loosing my mind, he eventually came clean. He came clean so close to the wedding I believe because he knew I would still go through with the wedding as my parents had spent thousands and family from all over the world were coming to celebrate with us, I couldn’t let anybody down I didn’t tell anybody about his affair, I still haven’t.
When DH gets angry he says horrible things to me but will always apologise after and say he doesn’t mean it, but I still remember and it really hurts. He says other hurtful things too but I don’t know if they are ok or not, ‘where’s “bobs” Mum not seen her for ages I like having a flirt with her’ or ‘you are not the best looking woman in world you know’.
If DH doesn’t get to go running he’s in a mood and all sulky, I had a bad back and couldn’t lift DS2 but I still had to take him to the park with DS1 whilst Daddy had a run. DH has friends over often and has a weekend away with his friends yearly plus lots of nights out/nights away with work. I have never been away from the children if I say I’m going to go out or do something Dh will say I’m being childish and it’s not ‘Tit for tat’, though another time he may suggest I get my hair done or something but I think this just to play with my mind. I do all the cooking and all the cleaning/ washing/ washing clothes and I’m the one to get up in the night with the children, I do everything! DH has to paint airfix for an hour and a half every weekend afternoon or gets annoyed i have to take the baby during this time, if the baby won’t sleep or gets up early he’s pissed off with me.
DH is a good Dad the kids love him to bits, he plays and messes with them and they love it! He can get a bit moody with them when they play up but nothing to much as long as I take the children and sort them out....e.g. during our eldest child’s sports day our two year old wouldn’t sit still (because he’s two and was bored watching other children have fun) I had to take him off husband and try to appease him and when I couldn’t DH got annoyed and started getting huffy saying things such as ‘omg you’re going to have to sort him out’ I’m scared of DH even though he’s never physically hurt me.
Me and DH were both really sick one weekend recently but he wouldn’t help at all, I had to take the children out so he could rest, I was throwing up and had to wear a adult nappy pad as I had diarrhoea. I felt awful sat in a soft play but I had no choice. The one and only time I asked DH to work from home or take a day off because I was so poorly he really refused. A few years back he sent me out with the dog on a dog walk even though I was being sick because he was working.
When I first started dating DH he locked me in a room and stood in the doorway during an argument so I couldn’t leave, I wish I had left him after that event, I replay this night in my mind so often and think how different things could of been for me. I don’t know what to do, I have no friends left I have never told anybody about my home life and I have no job I’m a SAHM.
DH can be lovely too he will pop to the shops near work and buy the kids a book or something, this is why it’s so hard and I’m not really sure if anything is really wrong. I feel a shell of the woman I once was, I’m not strong enough to leave I need him more than anything and I love him so much.
Sorry this is so jumbled I just wanted to write down what I have been feeling. I’m not sure what I want people to say, I just wanted to tell somebody. There’s lots more but feel like I have rambled on enough.