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22 weeks pregnant, wedding, house, questioning relationship

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rosieflowers · 25/02/2020 23:56

Hello, I am 22 weeks pregnant with first baby, I'm 29. I've been with DP 4 years. Pregnancy was a shock/ surprise, I found out at 12 weeks, I have been on the pill for over four years.

We just bought a house together in Sept which needs a lot of work, we currently don't have a bathroom for example and baby's room is back to brick.

We decided when we found out that we would get married, this mostly came from me as it's 'the right thing to do' and my family were very keen.

I'd say it's been a stressful time for both of us but it's really only for me, all house renovations, wedding planning (to a very small budget) and budgeting for both have fallen to me. DP takes no interest, often with the get out that he doesn't have the money right now (he put all his savings into the house deposit to be fair) or it was me that wanted it. When it suits his argument he will say that there was nothing wrong with the house for example which is completely untrue especially now we have a baby on the way.

Really he is very lazy and if i let him he would spend all his spare time at the gym, playing or watching football or playing xbox. In the four years we've been together I've been clear this isn't acceptable and I need more from him and he does help around the house etc but I have to tell him to do everything, the mental load is 100% me. I am losing a lot of respect for him I feel when I see how much me, my mum and dad and other men are willing to do while he sits there with a face on him because I've asked him to help me with something.

With the wedding and the house I have about three times in the last month reached breaking point and got upset and asked for his help or wanted some emotional (at least) support. Like anyone who's stressed perhaps this doesn't always come out in the perfect way.

He has always been incapable of dealing with any negative emotions from me, he blows up, blames me, often for creating a fuss about nothing or a problem when there isn't one, and then goes completely silent which is so frustrating and upsetting. He will then just go to sleep without a further word and probably be in a mood the next day too. A lot of the time I don't want a solution I just want some emotional support and some kind words.

Well tonight after the third argument in about a month I am in the spare room again in tears wondering if I should go ahead with the wedding, have I made a huge mistake in falling pregnant to this man, and thinking that perhaps our relationship is only good when it's good. When things get hard we struggle.

I don't know what to do or how to handle this for the rest of my pregnancy and afterwards. It doesn't help that I have always been ambivalent about having kids so am not over the moon about the baby on its own in any case. I'm so scared about being tied to someone who perhaps I'm only now seeing for what/ who they are Sad if anyone has any advice or words of wisdom I would be so grateful

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rosieposies · 27/02/2020 22:02

Oh and also the last thing you need on your plate is a wedding, my DP is totally shit when it comes to anything to do with our wedding and unfortunately I think that might be a bit normal. Don't look at it as cancelling it, you're just putting it on the back burner whilst you grow and push out a human and do your house up!

Thisisworsethananticpated · 27/02/2020 22:17

Call the wedding off
Reason being if he isn’t Mr Right it’s a lot easier to split and run
And frankly you need to see how he behaves when the baby is born
Take a load of , cancel wedding and see what happens thereafter ?

SinkGirl · 27/02/2020 22:28

Say you’re postponing the wedding because right now your focus needs to be getting the house ready for the baby. Babies can come early, so focus on that first. You can’t postpone the baby so all energy and money needs to go into being ready for that.

It’s rare but some men do become more responsible when the baby arrives. It is possible but you will need to be upfront from the start about what he needs to do. He’s not used to the mental load and will need to learn to carry it.

If he’s doesn’t change you’ll know you’ve tried.

vegvegveg · 27/02/2020 22:44

Things might get better once baby is here, they might not but you're right you don't want to be making big life changing decisions now. I would just strongly advise you to postpone the wedding and take stock once baby has arrived and things have settled down. You don't HAVE to be married when you have the baby.

Dozer · 28/02/2020 07:38

That’s great that you can cancel the wedding with little financial cost - check the hotel’s cancellation policy.

Then you can crack on with the legal agreement about the property, if you don’t have one already. Keep evidence of everything you spend on it - photograph receipts as well as keeping the hard copies

Lazy men don’t tend to “step up” on becoming fathers, sadly. Possible, but not likely.

AttilaTheMeerkat · 28/02/2020 07:44

What Dozer wrote, such men do not step up as fathers either.

His silent treatment towards you is also an example of emotional abuse along with "punishing" you.

Do not ever embark on any joint counselling sessions with this man; joint counselling is never recommended where there is abuse of any type within the relationship.

timeisnotaline · 28/02/2020 11:12

You don’t have to decide on the whole relationship now op. Cancelling the wedding gives you time to do that. Im so glad it’s pretty low impact to cancel.

Quick reminder- if relationship very rocky there is no reason to give baby his name. If I were a single mum I would very very much want my baby to have my name.

gingerbreaddragon · 28/02/2020 20:09

I agree with just cancelling the wedding for now, put it down to being too busy and needing to take it easy. I think anything else is just adding pressure and stress to you right now. Give yourself time, you cannot do everything at once.

You might decide to call it a day but there is no rush. On the down low, look into whether you could buy him out if you seperated. If you couldn't have a rough idea of a budget for your own place. Keep for financial ducks in a row so to speak. Just keep that information there in case you need it in future.

By the way you sound lovely and I bet your family have noticed that they come round to help you out and he bogs off out doing his own thing.

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