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Feel like my marriage is falling apart due to our families

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claudsmunro1987 · 10/09/2019 18:41

Do excuse the long post.
My husband and i have had a pretty up and down marriage. We've been together 12.5 years and married 5 years with two beautiful young children. Since we've been married my husband has shown a side of himself i dont like. He's confrontational, outspoken and gets angry at the drop of a hat. Over the years he's grown to dislike my parents ans my family in general. He thinks they are "stuck up their own arses" with too much money and that they're interfering "c*s" because they like to give advice, help financially with the kids etc. What he says breaks my heart and hurts my feelings. There was a huge row a few weeks before we got married which resulted in him telling my dad to f**k off and he nearly punched him which my mother tried to stop. Since then relations between my husband and my dad have been very bumpy. At the moment he doesn't want to speak to my parents because they had s falling out over brexit (differing opinions). I now have to do things separately with my parents and the kids as my husband hates being around them which puts enormous stress on me. We had a huge row tonight because he got pissed off that i spent the afternoon with my mum and dad rather tham him. Its now resulted in us not talking. I said I'd leave him some dinner and he said he wouldn't eat it so just tnrow it and he'd make himself something instead. His family aren't the easisst to get on with and they've caused problems in my family too but i try my best yo get along with them. My husband, on the other hand, just says what he thinks about my family and doesn't seem to care how that makes me feel. He said he wanted to "have a scrap" with my parents tonight just because he was pissed off i spent the afternoon with them. He thinks i should get a hobby instead of seeing them all the time. I only have a very small family so feel like i like to see them regularly to keep that connection. Am i in the wrong here? Advice would be gratefully received.

OP posts:
binkyclink · 11/09/2019 16:42

OP why do you need men's perspective on the situation? It sounds as if you are just unable to see what an utter twat your DP is & you are looking for some sort of explanation / suggestions as to why he acts the way he does???

Unless there is a huge drip feed here...there isn't any explanations except that you've married a controlling,angry, horrible prick. You would have know his character before you married him, which was clear with the alteration with your father.

I don't know what else to say really.

Belfield · 11/09/2019 18:36

Your story sounds somewhat like my brother and his former wife. What she saw as help, he saw as control. What she saw as advice, he saw as interference. He felt his wife was married to her parents, discussing everything, making all the decisions and he was just a bystander paying the bills. They could never agree so they separated. Similar with a friends brothers marriage. They separated too. It's for the best. I can't tell from your post if it's the same type of scenario though and maybe way off the mark.

BogglesGoggles · 11/09/2019 18:40

You’re marriage isn’t falling apart because of your families, it’s falling apart because your husband is an arsehole.

wheretonow123 · 12/09/2019 20:28

I am a man, I had commented earlier that his interaction with your dad should have been a real warning sign before the wedding but, it is probably difficult to cancel when the plans are in train.

He sounds like a right arsehole. And, in my opinion the fact that you are an only child any right thinking person would try and make an extra effort with the family and appreciate it as an advantage their willingness to lend you money and help out.

Perhaps you should give councilling a go but if he doesn't change then you should really consider ending it.

wheretonow123 · 12/09/2019 20:42

Also, it must be very worrying for your parents to see the behavior of the guy their only child has married.

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