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I'm being emotionally abused not sure how to deal with this

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tink870 · 04/01/2020 12:58

I've being watching eastenders the girl on there Chantelle is living my life on the tv. I am questioned when I wear makeup or dress up I'm questioned when I use my phone. Basically my whole life is controlled by my partner to some level.
I'm allowed to see family and go on certain nights out. I went on a work night out recently and was hounded all night and when I got up in the Morning.
I get blamed for everything that goes wrong. I am half a person walking around like a ghost. It's been this way a good few years now I watched the programme and it's very much like that dynamic he's in the better job and everyone around me thinks he's a nice guy expect a couple of friends and one family member everyone else thinks he's ace.
I don't hug him anymore or want to sleep with him I love him in my own way but he's ground me down so so much I've got no love left or emotions. When he's nice I don't trust it because I know the nastiness is a couple of days away.
I've got what I would say is clinical depression now like ptsd because I've lost all who I am as a person.
I'm holding down a job and looking after the kids that's about it.
He comes to bed with me he wakes up with me in the mornings I try to get up first so I have ten minutes alone time but if he catches me on my phone all hell breaks lose so I hide in the toilet.
Financially I will struggle massively without him sometimes it's ok but I never feel normal I always feel on edge and upset but I don't cry anymore now.
We don't go anywhere really and I'm an adventurer by heart he never wants to do anything like go on holidays I always book them but he makes them a living hell from start to finish I'm not going on holiday this year because I can't take the stress of him arguing on me.
The kids aren't his Met him when my little one was a baby and they don't see their real father anymore he has no interest.
He doesn't really interact with the kids much he does the basics if I'm at work and he's not in looking after them but he's not a dad or friend to them really he isn't interested he's only interested in me.
He wants my attention at all times he even cries saying I don't hug him or kiss him well he killed that when he suffocates me.
I feel dead inside I want to get out but have nowhere to go my oldest is a teenager I worry about up rooting him the most.
I can't breath I'm suffocated every day of my life.
I'm only able to write this now because he's giving me silent treatment because I was on my phone when he woke up but he's being giving me silent treatment for two days and I've done nothing wrong. I need help I feel like life is not worth living anymore

OP posts:
Charley50 · 20/01/2020 22:25

Hi OP. I have only read your first few and then the most recent posts. Well done for getting away from him. That is what is important.
I just wanted to say that my dad was coercively controlling towards my mum (plus violent). She left him when I was a baby. He begged and begged her to come back. He sent letters and got friends to write to her saying he would change, he had changed etc. Anyway, he wore her down and eventually she went back. He had NOT changed and continued to make her (and mine, and my siblings) life misery / hell for the next 16 years. I am just saying this as a warning in case you ever feel that he is beginning to 'talk you round.' These men don't change and it only gets worse.
Well done for getting rid, and good luck for your present and future without him in your life. Thanks

LexMitior · 20/01/2020 23:28

Well done for getting rid of him. I wish you more happy and free days. Ignore his bullshit apologies and flowers. His real character will show it itself.

Also ignore his mother. She’s probably a good part of the reason he’s like this in the first place. Either an enabler of her darling prince or she’s terrified she’s got to look after mr angry from now on. Mothers of abusive sons can rarely face that reality - they get pretty desperate to say it’s all you.

BumbleBeee69 · 20/01/2020 23:48

I've just read the entire Thread.. I hope you are okay OP.. did you have your telephone consult today.. Flowers

FoxOnABox · 21/01/2020 22:00

Just read all of your thread and wanted to say you come across as a strong and brave person Tink. I hope that today has gone well and that things are becoming clearer for you. Thinking of you and how much brighter and happier life is going to be for you and your DC, and hopefully Ddog staying with you Flowers

NettleTea · 22/01/2020 10:12

I hope it goes well today. You are right to press forward with the termination because you do not want to potentially be tied to him for the next 18 years, as a minimum. If you think the manipulation he used with his mum, the dog and your son was bad, he will ramp it 1000X if there is a genuine link, and you would need to see him for contact. Just unthinkable.
You deserve to be free.
It sounds as if your family are flourishing and growing and so much calmer and happier without him there, and this will only continue

as an aside, have you looked to see if you qualify for tax credits or even housing benefit? It may help financially

BumbleBeee69 · 23/01/2020 20:12

OP are you okay ? Flowers

FoxOnABox · 24/01/2020 10:36

Thinking of you OP, hope you are OK.

Dashel · 24/01/2020 11:27

Hope that you are ok.

It will take time for you and kids to decompress and feel safe.

Not to mention the emotional upheaval of the pregnancy. Stay strong but find some fun things for you to do as a family unit and do things that you couldn’t do before.

A previous poster bought a red toothbrush and mug because her ex wouldn’t let her have them and it made her very happy.

tink870 · 26/01/2020 10:33

Hi guys sorry I haven't replied been so busy and had a terrible week. Last night all was quiet I got a withheld call I ignored it twice but answered as I thought it might be something to do with my son he had stayed out and it wasn't it was him! He was speaking at first saying he left something and could he collect I said yes then he told me I'm a cold hearted bitch and since this pregnant I'm nothing but a cold bitch and no wonder my ex cheated on me because I deserved it. I put the phone down.
I've got my appointment this week to take the tablet scared is an understatement. Last night after the call I went the the toilet and had started bleeding a bit I think he stressed me out so much that it caused me to bleed I prayed as awful as it sounds for the bleeding to carry on but it didn't it stopped after thirty mins. I'm in two minds of whether I need to go the hospital or not I hoped Mother Nature was ending this for me so I didn't have to do it .
The bleeding stopped anyway and I had a fit full nights sleep.
Feel so crap right now just want this all over and that bastard out my life for good

OP posts:
BumbleBeee69 · 26/01/2020 10:37

get a new sim card OP

billy1966 · 26/01/2020 12:33

Definitely a new SIM card OP.
Best of luck this week.

Don't reflect on the nasty comments from your horrible ex. He's not worth anything.

Mind yourself.

tink870 · 26/01/2020 18:58

I am just so distressed that the termination is dragging on so long I jsjt wish I could press a button and make all this over with . Then I'm reading horror stories online where it hasn't worked what it thag happens to me terrified

OP posts:
Ogham · 26/01/2020 20:09

It all sounds extremely stressful and will be thinking of you this week. Don’t google any more about the treatment you’ll be undergoing as you will naturally zoom in on the horror stories.

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