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Pregnant and don't want to be with partner anymore...

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Rainydays101 · 22/09/2019 20:35

I've recently discovered I'm pregnant with my second child, currently about 8 weeks. DP and I have been together a couple of years and have a son just under 1.
As happy as I am about expecting a second child, I have the strongest urge to leave my partner, having absolutely no desire to be with him anymore.
There has been some really quite rocky moments in our relationship over the past year/year and a half. I like to think it's things we've moved on from but part of me thinks I only kept relationship going for DS sake.
Now finding out I'm pregnant again I really want out the relationship.
I don't enjoy spending time with him, dread him coming home from work and generally seem to argue 24/7. It's like I just don't get along with him anymore.
Part of me things it's just pregnancy hormones making me irrational, though the other part of me thinks that getting pregnant is the boot up the arse I need to get out of the relationship, as daunting as that currently seems.

Can anyone relate, either having these feelings during pregnancy, or leaving a relationship with a young child and another on the way?

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Littlepeak34 · 22/09/2019 20:45

Did you feel the same before you got pregnant? At least you can then rule out hormones.

Personally I couldn’t imagine feeling like that when a baby is on the way. Surely it should bring you closer together, the excitement etc.

If that’s how you feel, I would get out sooner rather than later. The longer you have to adjust before baby arrives, the better.

RLEOM · 22/09/2019 22:31

I felt like this on and off during my pregnancy. Did you feel like it before you were pregnant?

meccacos2 · 23/09/2019 06:40

Sometimes, when I’m ironing my partners shirts I daydream about being single.... however, I still love him - I still enjoy being with him and he does so much for me.

I think that (for me) it’s the pregnancy hormones.

I also like ironing his shirts, it’s something he hates doing and I enjoy the time to myself.

I just feel like it’s my escape 😝

Rainydays101 · 23/09/2019 09:02

I find it hard to say if I felt like this before pregnancy or otherwise as I feel like the past year I've been so wrapped up in taking care of DS. There has been times I've felt unhappy but mostly due to exhaustion with LO Confused

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