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Irreparable or how do I fix it?

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55BuBbLeS · 27/09/2019 22:28

Been with dh for 15years. Met when I was at uni and having a great time. Just prior to starting uni I was in a relationship that ended when I became pg and he asked me to marry him. I was young and panicked and ended relationship despite the baby. The baby was sadly still born. He wasn't there despite knowing the baby had died and I would have to deliver our son. We got back together for a bit a few months later, this time long distance as I moved away to start fresh at uni. I really struggled to process our baby's death and got close to one of my flat mates. He was much older than me but it was purely a FWB type thing. It was the justification/excuse for me to end with exDP. I moved out and met dh a year later. By then I was overweight, insecure and lacked a lot of confidence. He was lovely in the beginning (as all relationships are at the start) and we moved in quickly (mainly to solve a housing issue). I fell pg shortly before graduating. He didn't want the baby but I couldn't go through with a termination. I told him he could walk away, no pressure, but I was keeping the baby. He stayed but failed to attend most of my antenatal appointments and stood me up for all of our parenting sessions at the hospital (left me completely humiliated sitting there alone with all these other pg couples and the midwife asking if she should wait much longer) He never said where he had been except for lame excuses (had to work, i forgot, i couldn't find a parking space so I went home). Dd's birth was very traumatic. I ended up needing blood transfusion and emergency c-section. He didn't cope very well with her as a baby and had little patience, often coming home late and spending all his time and money on his car and motorbikes. I carried on working part time, finishing off my uni work, moving to a bigger house and eventually graduated when dd was 10months old. No family to help out. Fast forward many years I was always second best to said car and bikes and lots of arguments and resentment but despite coming very close to leaving, decided to stay. I don't know why. We eventually had ds and got married. He never proposed, just talked about one day and set a date and that was that. I was desperate for a proper proposal. We now have our own house. Our ds is autistic and very hard work. Dh doesn't understand him at all. I lost a lot of weight, confidence soared and then met a friend (A) at work a couple of years ago having been at uni with him when he was married to his first wife. We got on really well and flirted a lot. We messaged a lot at home. A few weeks before he remarried we had cyber sex. I regretted it straight away. He left the job for another area to avoid me and got married. We stayed in touch for a while. I lost my sister last year to a long cancer battle and ended up putting on a couple of stone. This year I had a very traumatic mc. Not a planned pg and dh had said he didn't want it initially but after nearly losing it early on he changed his mind. Obv I went on to lose it anyway a couple months later. He let my aunt to come to hospital with me and I ended up in ITU due to complications. I had to go through medical procedure for the mc and whilst i was trying to deliver it, he commented on my weight (not the first time. He had frequently told me my weight is off putting - I was never enormous) a week later he told me maybe I should address my weight. We've had lots of little arguments since. He won't talk about the mc. A just happened to reappear in my messages and the last couple of months we've had cyber sex a few times. He asked me to meet him for sex. Dh and I are now rarely having sex (dh not interested in me). I haven't met A but am starting to feel I want to. I don't want to wreck any families so I won't but I feel like this is becoming an emotional affair and I'm not sure i would say no again if he asked. I feel like he has highlighted all the flaws in my marriage. Dh will barely talk to me. Is this something that can be saved or do i cut my losses and give up now? I feel like we want different things and are on different pages. I have changed a lot since I met him and dh doesn't want to. I can't ask him to change either. I'm completely attracted to A and wish I had met him in a different life as we are on the same level but this is just distracting me from my shitty marriage and that is my priority to sort it for kids sake. Any help much appreciated

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AnneLovesGilbert · 27/09/2019 22:33

You’ve been through so much Flowers

You need to end your marriage. It sounds soul destroying. You need to be by yourself. End things with A, he’s not the answer.

You’re already having at least an emotional affair and it’s a distraction from how shit life is with your husband.

BubblesBuddy · 27/09/2019 22:34

You seem to make quite a few wrong turns. So A has married! So this is another relationship that won’t go anywhere. You have difficult pregnancies and even your deeply unattractive husband fathered another baby with you that you must have known he didn’t want. Are you not taking precautions.

Overall, get out. Not with A. Just leave your DH (well no D in this case). You deserve better and be discerning!

55BuBbLeS · 27/09/2019 22:49

Yes A married. It broke my heart at the time. But I know he's not the answer. Like I said, i am not in the habit of wrecking families, so I won't be going there. I just feel so lost. Me and dh had been in a good place the last 2 years until the mc. I have since been diagnosed with Crohns so the precautions I had been taking were subsequently not being absorbed properly.

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butterandbread · 28/09/2019 00:09

I’m so sorry, OP, you’ve had such a tough time.

You were in hospital being cared for whilst losing your baby and he made a comment about your weight in the middle of this? I don’t think I’d ever be able to get past that alone, to be honest.

lexiepuppy · 28/09/2019 08:38

Don't put up with anymore abuse from this man you call your husband.
Did you come from an abusive background? I agree with other MN Users, get rid of dh, don't have an affair. Love yourself more, increase your self confidence and self esteem.Flowers

55BuBbLeS · 28/09/2019 10:49

I've not been in an abusive relationship. I grew up in an abusive home though. My step dad was arrested on a number of occasions but we looked like a normal working family to the rest of the world. My ex dp was never abusive in any way but just lacked enthusiasm to do anything! My dh hasn't hit me but has pushed me a couple of times during an argument. We've been on a much better level the last few years but his moods do swing. He struggles to talk about things and how he's feeling. I suspect he may also be a little on the autistic spectrum like our son!! He's never stopped me going out or seeing friends or anything like that.
I don't know what to do. I want to make it work but I'm worried I will wake up in 10 years time and things always be the same. I just don't know how to fix this. I don't want to imagine that things will always be like this...

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AttilaTheMeerkat · 28/09/2019 11:10

We learn about relationships first and foremost from our parents, look at what yours taught you. Growing up in an abusive home taught you a shedload of damaging lessons, those continue to this day.

Stop flogging a dead horse that is your marriage here. Neither your H or A are the answers you seek. Love your own self for a change and be on your own. Seek therapy to unravel how it is you got here in the first place.

What do you want to teach your son about relationships and what is he learning here?. Do not stay in a marriage for the sake of the child; that is never a good idea and your son too is not going to say thanks mum to you for doing that to him. The child is not and cannot be used as the glue here to bind you and your H together.

A person is either autistic or they are not; I would actually think that your partner is nowhere on the ASD spectrum at all. He

AttilaTheMeerkat · 28/09/2019 11:13

Do you understand what ASD is?. Its seems not.

If your H struggles to talk about things and how he is feeling then he struggles to talk about things and how he is feeling. You cannot come to the conclusion from this that your H could be on the ASD spectrum, he may well not be.

AttilaTheMeerkat · 28/09/2019 11:29

It seems that you do not when it comes to your husband that is (I read that your son is autistic, I missed that one bit earlier in your post so apologies for that).

55BuBbLeS · 28/09/2019 12:16

Lol it's ok. My dh certainly does have lots of autistic traits; struggling with emotions and feelings being a very small part of that! I knew he had these traits when I met him but I've learnt to deal with them as I am with my son. That isn't really the issue here though. My issue is how I go about trying to repair some of the emotional damage. It's very hard to get across, on a site full of strangers, the whole picture. I don't think dh is 'abusive' as such. He has poor people skills and I've probably spent too many years being inwardly frustrated and held back. He loves me very much and I do him but I just feel I need more now. This may or may not be selfish on my part. I'm sure other people have reached this point in their long term relationships at some stage?? I'm not one to dwell on the past, i just want to move forward, I just don't know how! Walking away right now seems like the easy option. I'm not afraid of being on my own at all. I worry more that I will break up the kids home and break my dh by walking away when I don't feel I've tried everything yet.

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AttilaTheMeerkat · 28/09/2019 12:27

You cannot rescue and or save what is a failing/failed relationship on your own. He has to want to be fully committed too and it appears he is not. Emotional damage is not repairable in my view and the damage here has already been done.

What else can you realistically do here?. Without his support or imput nothing.

Do not keep falling into the sunken costs fallacy trap, this will only serve you to keep making poor relationship decisions.

AttilaTheMeerkat · 28/09/2019 12:29

What is your husband like with and around people in the outside world., do his poor people skills become apparent them also?. Or I should he like this with you solely?

55BuBbLeS · 28/09/2019 12:44

He's like this with everyone! He can be lovely but close family have learnt to take him for him. He has no filter or tact! He will say things as he sees them without any thought of how offensive he can be. He's had numerous falling outs with his boss (I'm surprised he's worked there as long as he has without getting sacked), has zero diplomacy skills, absolutely categorically hates any sort of change (from a new food to re-decorating/going on holiday/buying new clothes etc), he takes things literally, has very little imagination or vision, he cannot read people or emotions let alone talk about his own emotions and the list goes on...
I think a bit of soul searching and a cards on the table conversation is needed now.

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