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Things your DH/partner did that broke you it was so cruel and how you survived it

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TableTalks · 20/07/2020 11:13

Earlier this year my relatively new DP of a year and I moved in together. We were so happy. I won’t list the day to day stuff but everything was great, he’d talked about marriage and a future and that he wanted me sat on the same sofa with him in 40 years to come. Constantly said to me we were a good team and the best fit he’d ever had with someone. I had no reason to doubt him. Until I fell pregnant, unplanned, and he broke up with me while I was miscarrying (though this wasn’t confirmed until later on, I was mildly bleeding at the time and in pain). He said I had been ‘a mess’ for the week we knew it was happening and that I was someone who couldn’t cope with life’s challenges and that miscarriage wasn’t a big deal anyway. I felt like I had been hit in my stomach I was so shocked, I still feel that way now, it almost makes me lose my breath when I think about it. Luckily I had my own place that was about 4 weeks from being rented out when this happened, so I moved back there. I bled all the way home (two hour drive), with all my things in the car, after he told me I had to move out there and then.

I look back on it now and can’t believe it all happened. I can’t believe that was the same man I met and fell for and spent wonderful days with. It must have been fake. I never heard from him after I left his house, only a text in which he wanted to check that ‘it had gone.’ I never replied and the last thing he said to me was that if I hadn’t miscarried he wanted to be clear he wanted nothing to do with it.

I’ve moved on in the sense that time has passed and I don’t wake up in utter shock anymore. But god it makes me feel so so so hurt whenever I think of it.

Anyone out there to tell me you do get over these things fully and don’t have moments when you still feel in pain about it?

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TableTalks · 20/07/2020 13:04

FlowersFlowersFlowers for everyone

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amiascrazyastheysay · 20/07/2020 13:27

I'm not going to share my story as I don't want to distract from
What you've gone through. I just wanted to say that I'm
So sorry you lost your baby and you had to go through that and a breakup on your own. It makes me really sad that someone could be treated like that. I hope you find the love you deserve

coffeecroissant · 20/07/2020 13:32

@TableTalks

Coffee are you still with him now?

I just can’t believe some people can be so cruel!

We're staying with my parents for the moment (we live in a different country). After four days of silent treatment due to my behaviour (I honestly don't know what I did) his plan was to leave to go back home this morning, and for me to find another place to live! I was very worried as I really rely on him for everything in the other country.

Then my DF came home before P could leave in peace! So I am physically still with him... emotionally we couldn't be further apart.

What about you OP? From your post I understood that you have recently broken up with P?

TableTalks · 20/07/2020 13:32

Thank you. It has been so hard and I hate that I still have this sad sad feeling when I think of it all

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TableTalks · 20/07/2020 13:34

I’m sorry coffee. No I haven’t seen him since the day it happened and haven’t spoken for months now. He is an awful man.

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Faith50 · 20/07/2020 15:48

Tabletalks I am so sorry you went through this. Awful behaviour from someone you loved and you felt loved you. I wonder how he was able to present his nice side for one year then suddenly switch.

An abusive ex:
Kicked me
Verbally abused me
Gaslighted me
Questioned my choices
Threatened to end the relationship just as I was leaving his house which put me in a state of anxiety

Looking back I was ambitious and a go-getter. He liked having the power over me. It almost destroyed the little confidence I had. I am so pleased I left when I did.

feelingsomewhatlost · 20/07/2020 16:14

2 weeks after my mum died, my exDP went on a weekend bender with his mates, took class A drugs (which he had promised not to do), then came home on the Sunday evening and broke up with me because 'I was angry all the time and he was sick of it'. He moved all his stuff into the spare room and I stayed up all night crying and wishing I could call my mum. I had to go back to work the next day and we hadn't even had the funeral yet – I was 24 :( I was so miserable and frightened of being alone that I stayed with him, only for him to break up with me 6 months later.

I know I should let it go but I wish I could have hurt him back when I still had the chance by leaving there and then. Feel like I'll regret that forever, but then again I'm still in the early stages of the break-up.

I am so sorry you were treated so shittly OP, he sounds like a complete twat and you deserve so, so much more than him Flowers

TableTalks · 20/07/2020 16:28

Wow those last two posts - how awful. I am so sorry you met people like that.

How can someone say they are sick of you being angry all the time when you’ve just lost your mum. It is crazy, cruel, evil and at best completely insensitive.

I don’t want to be bitter but I sadly do hope something awful happens to my ex. I’ve never felt that way about anyone before and I wish I could let it go but I honestly think if I ever found out something bad had happened a part of me would be happy about it.

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feelingsomewhatlost · 20/07/2020 17:00

thank you @TableTalks ❤️ I didn't tell anyone at the time because I couldn't cope with being told to leave him, so it's nice to feel 'validated' by someone else, especially because I blamed myself for my behaviour and forgave him so quickly. My mum never liked him either.

I don't think hoping something bad will happen to them makes us bad people, it just makes us incredibly hurt. It feels like there should be some kind of balance or restoration of justice but I suppose we'll never know. Your post actually inspired me to sit down and write a letter to him just now. I kind of feel a bit better – there was LOTS of ranting and swearing, but it's made me realise that his behaviour was a reflection of him, it had nothing to do with me and there's nothing I could have done to make him behave differently – he's just shit, end of!! Maybe you could try writing one too? x

Lochie662 · 20/07/2020 18:01

I remember reading your initial post, I didn't comment as I didn't have an account then but I was shocked and stunned by the level of cruelty you had received.

I hope you don't get insulted but I remember hoping at the time that it wasn't real, that nobody could be that cruel. I'm so sorry that it was. You couldn't have imagined that happening in a hundred years. It wasn't naivete on your part not to see that coming, it was lack of understanding that people could be so cruel.

I'm so sorry, and I am glad you have moved on a little, and I am very, very glad that man is out of your life. I wish you everything good moving forward. Xxxx

TableTalks · 20/07/2020 18:12

Thanks for the kind messages. It shocked me to the core that he could be so awful. I’ve never felt so sick and scared and alone in my life. Sometimes I just sit and cry out of nowhere, I just don’t know how a person can do something like that. It was as if I didn’t know him. I don’t know how people can behave like that.

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Eesha · 20/07/2020 18:19

Telling me I wasn't letting him sleep, when I was having stomach pains/contractions and I had to go to another room and suffer there. The next morning my waters broke.

TableTalks · 20/07/2020 18:21

Eesha that is awful!!!

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MellowMelly · 21/07/2020 09:14

Driving with my daughter down a road on the wrong side at high speed because he was angry she was ill and wanted her to go into school rather than be off home as he had taken the day off.

She told me about a week later. I knew exactly what she meant as he had done that to me about two weeks prior because he was angry I took a Saturday morning shift.

I knew he was being emotionally abusive to me but hadn’t seen/realised he was being a twat to her when I wasn’t around.

That truly broke me but I survived by kicking him out in front of her so she could see that behaviour wasn’t acceptable.

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