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I don’t know what to do

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Batwoman1984 · 23/11/2019 23:40

I’m just so unhappy at the min. Dp and I are getting on but I just feel there’s no intimacy and it’s like we are friends living together. Due a baby soon and I just want him to leave but I feel awful asking him to go as I don’t have a reason. He’s got kids so he will need time to find a place to stay and get himself in order and just before Christmas it’s kind of a heartless thing to do.
We hardly spend any time together. He’s currently asleep on the sofa now, last night he didn’t come to bed until late and it’s the same thing every night he will get in bed and turn over and go to sleep. I asked him for a cuddle the other night and he made an excuse as to not do this and turned over and went to sleep (played on his phone until he was tired) I feel unloved unwanted and used.
I’m just so sad but I don’t even think I’d be that bothered if he upped and left I think I’d be happy but stressed in a way due to managing a house on maternity pay. We do not have sex, he never kisses or hugs me unless I initiate it. Can’t remember the last time he told me loved me and felt like he meant it. I asked him if he does love me he said yeah course I do but I feel he feels the same as me, cares for me but isn’t romantically in love with me.
Things have been good up until the last few weeks, we were so happy and although not having sex were intimate in other ways like kissing cuddles and talking to each other. These days I can’t even bare to be sat on the sofa with him I just feel like I can’t stand his presence and would rather be busying myself doing other things just so I don’t have to sit with him.
He treats me ok on a day to day basis I am kind of a mug as I do bend over backwards for him but don’t feel like he does the same for me. He’s been snappy with me last few days and creating arguments over petty stuff like him wanting to watch a programme and me asking if he wanted to watch another (purely for the reason that I would have gone upstairs to watch said programme) and it was an argument and he called me a joke. He also had a go at me over a fucking frozen pizza in the freezer he wanted to eat, I said yeah eat it not that he needs my permission to do so, but as he was taking it out I said oh I have changed the weekly meal planner bord and this was taken to mean I had told him he can’t have a pizza. It’s so immature I can’t even fathom how he can get in a boo over this?!
I told him I want an apology and mentioned he has been snippy the last few days and it’s not on so he came upstairs opened the bedroom door said sorry shut it and went back downstairs. No meaning or anything I just think if I was to do that it would be a kick off from him, but he’s maintaining he’s said sorry. But it’s not an apology.

I just want to be treated like a human and like I matter and my feelings matter. I’m just at a loss. I know I need to ask him to leave, the house is mine, not married, but I feel I need him around for the time being with a baby coming soon and Christmas coming up and I know his mum will worry like mad and I feel it’s all on my shoulders to keep it together despite how shit he makes me feel and I feel like he knows this is the case.

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BellyButto · 24/11/2019 09:09

Have you spoken to him about this and told him how you feel and that you dont want it to he this way?
Do you have romantic love feelings towards him?
Could you hormoanes be playing a part?

Hghyfffhj · 24/11/2019 09:25

Is this your first baby? Hormones play a massive part in emotions whilst pregnant and even more so for the first couple of years after the baby is born! I've written off the past couple of years and try not to worry too much because I have a toddler and am due my second soon. Relationships between partners can get so very very strained. My advice would be to ask him to be honest with you about his feelings for you, and have a sit down chat and decide if there is anything you can change together. Perhaps he is picking up on your indifference towards him and is feeling insecure (as happened with my partner). You are free to leave the relationship at any time so there is no rush to feel like you have to do it now. Take your time to decide what you want. You don't sound afraid to make it alone if you decide it's best for you all. I'll warn you though that things will more than likely get more strained after baby is born, just because your attention will be so diverter, so he will have to understand this xxxx

Batwoman1984 · 24/11/2019 09:36

Yeah it’s my first. I don’t think it is my hormones to be honest I think he’s just being a pillock. It’s always me who has to buckle and have a chat and ask if everything is ok and if there’s anything he wants to discuss or how I can change myself or do more for him to make him happy but it’s crippling. I do enough day to day to keep the house clean and tidy, do all the travelling and I don’t mind but it’s not appreciated. I woke up at 5am as he was snoring and I said can you please turn over all I got was ‘i can’t help it’ oh well best carry on then it’s 5am but I’ll stay awake so you can snore some more it’s just stuff like that and I’m just so fed up I’m actually nearly in tears writing this. He knows the relationship isn’t right at the minute but he doesn’t do anything to make it any better, he might help me up out of the bath or the sofa and that’s him being caring and generous I honestly feel like packing his bags and telling him to go coz I’m sick of being mugged off in my own home. He doesn’t appreciate what I do do but focuses on what hasn’t been done around the house and will make out I do nothing apart from sit on my arse which isn’t true. I feel like I hate him. He has one job which is to get up and go to work and I make his dinners, take him, pick him up and I do everything to make his life easier but I still get spoken to like shit over the smallest of things. Sick of it 😭

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AttilaTheMeerkat · 24/11/2019 09:43

What do you get out of this relationship now?.

Pack his stuff up and tell this person to leave your home. You do have reasons for him to go; he treats you like a servant and skivvy for a start and he is taking you for a ride. He can go back to his mother's; do not let the fact he has children and that its getting close to Christmas stop you from kicking him out.

What did you learn about relationships when you were growing up?.

I would seriously consider also giving this child your surname going forward too. This relationship is not going to improve any when this child is born either.

Timetobegood · 24/11/2019 09:46

To be fair you do say you have been very happy until the last few weeks. I wouldn’t make any major life decisions at the moment.

Batwoman1984 · 24/11/2019 09:51

I know. I have already decided the baby is having my surname and he’s not going on the birth certificate. I’ve got in the bath this morning as I have a bad back and he’s ot up tried to open the bathroom door but I’ve locked it he’s asked me if I want some breakfast I’ve said no and he’s gone downstairs and put sports back on. That will be him for the day. I’m staying upstairs for the day o just can’t be arsed with him at all I will end up screaming at him. To be honest my record of relationships hasn’t been great, always had my kind nature taken advantage of one way or another and let people get into my head and talk me round to their way of thinking even if it doesn’t sit right with me. I just want to be happy and feel secure and loved properly I’m sick of having this awful feeling in the pit of my stomach every day I feel like I’m backed into a corner and I’m trying my best to fight my way back out. I don’t even feel like myself anymore, once upon a time I’d never let anyone speak to me like shut over a pizza but nowerdays I do. I’m just too accommodating and I will go out of my way to help someone else out and sometimes it is reciprocated but more often it’s not. I saw a quote online a few days ago and it said if you can love the wrong one this much, just think how much you could love the right one. And it’s so true 😢 I just wish I could fast forward this part of my life and stop when I’ve met someone who is deserving of everything I do and makes me feel happy and secure and I can think back to now and think all the pain and suffering was worth it

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Hghyfffhj · 24/11/2019 17:08

I think if you feel strongly enough that your aren't going to put his name on the birth certificate your relationship is over anyway. It will either end then or now. You sound really down, I'm so sorry. But you are in such a strong position with having your own house etc that you are lucky you don't need to worry about that. Why don't you sit him down, have a massive chat, and if you aren't satisfied at the end of it ask him to move out, at least short term. He will either show you that he wants it to work ( and actions speak louder than words) or will continue with excuses and blaming, in which case you will know what to do. If you really feel this is so distressing it's already not good for the baby, and from now on you and baby come first xxxx

ChoochooMcGoo · 24/11/2019 19:46

Seriously you are not going to put him on the birth certificate because of this??? Think about your child for one second. He might be a lousy partner but you don't have a right to erase him from his child's life like that! That is just not fair at all.

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