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Is this really me overthinking and being sensitive or is it abuse

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23andttcx · 09/09/2020 13:07

LONG POST !!

Been with my boyfriend 2 years.
The beginning of the relationship was very fast moving. He swept me off my feet made me feel very special and beautiful, sent me long texts early on in the relationship saying how he had met the love of his life and how he was going to marry me. I did think it was abit soon but just thought I had met my soul mate.
I had also just come out of a very violent relationship with my ex partner so I was wary Of my new partner but he seemed genuine so I went for it..
A few months in I started to realise that my partner was very domineering and thought very highly of himself. He always wanted to be in control of everything. He would make me nice dinners and do romantic things for me but he always wanted me to show my family members and friends so that they knew he treated me well, it got very annoying after a while and I eventually told him ‘can we just enjoy this one meal with out having to take pictures to show my mum?!‘ he spent 5 minutes taking pictures of our meal and the candles he had lit to send to my mum to show her how romantic he had made it for me and by the time I got to eat it it was cold !!! He did this every time with everything just to show people on the outside he was good to me!
Another example is we had booked a holiday and a few days prior I had gone to the shops, I came back and he had packed my whole case and closed it for me ready to go with all my toiletries in his case closed tight that he had chosen? I was confused when I got back and told him that I did not want him to pack my case I’m a young girl and I was going to pack my own?! He said I was a horrible person and extremely ungrateful for his help , said we were over and he was going to take someone else instead of me and he left the house and didn’t come back for 8 hours !! He did come back and we forgot about it in fact I had to apologise ?

In every day life he acts like he knows absolutely everything ! When he speaks to me or tells me things he says They are FACTS never his opinion .
He re worded my whole essay when I asked him if it sounded ok before I submitted it because apparently it didn’t sound right and he could word it better than me because he’s more intelligent , he’s older than me so he knows more than me.

One day I was speaking to my mum on FaceTime And she asked me how I had slept, I said not well as my partner had been up scratching all night (he has bad eczema) . My partner absolutely flipped . He said i am a fat ugly useless wh* who can’t do anything I am dumb and am rubbish in bed apparently as stiff as ironing board hence why I can never make him ejaculate , I have so much rolls on my belly and that I have a beard ( I have polycystic ovary syndrome :( ) and I need to get myself checked out in the doctors because I can’t even do the most natural thing and get pregnant so I’m a waste of a life. I went to my mums as I was really upset only to come back and find that he had taken everything from my home the sofa the furniture even the knives and forks, my son had to sit on the floor! He even took my sons school bag. He took the underwear back that he bought me my perfume my makeup he smashed pictures of us in my room and left the glass there, he went onto my tv and logged out of the Netflix so that I couldn’t watch it. It’s like as if he really wanted my life to be shit without him, he left me And my son with nothing in our own home! He even sarcastically left me a ‘life with depression’ book on the side that was the only thing left downstairs.

We got back after this silly enough because I genuinely believed him that it was all my fault because apparently I should never of spoken that way about his eczema and made a fool out of him to my mum.

He promises he would never call me names again but it has not stopped. He calls me a ‘mong’ all the time I front of my son and when I say stop calling me that he tells me to stop acting like a MONG then again.

He asks me why I’m so miserable I told him I find it hard to be comfortable without clothes on in front of you because of the nasty names you call me fat etc.. he said I’m way too sensitive and I need to get off my high horse and into the real world I need to get over myself and stop letting him hurt my big ego!

He also never listens to me when I’m talking and he cuts across me 24/7 . This is not in arguments it’s in every day life. It’s like whatever I am saying is not interesting. If I’m telling him something he tells me to skip to the point because I take too long explaining .

Over the 2 years we have been together he has told me that I can’t drive he is better at driving than me even though Iv been driving for 6 years and passed my driving test with 0 minors first time . He’s been driving for 3 years and has had 2-3 crashes. But this was not his fault apparently.!
He has told me that my job as a dental nurse is for a ‘mong’ anybody can do it and it requires no skills or GCSE’s . He is a car sales man but his job takes so much more intelligence than mine lol
He’s told me that I have no friends At all because I am a horrible person and that my mum and dad wipe my arse for me
HeS told me multiple times over the 2 years that I act like the world owes me something and it does not!
He’s told me that I cannot clean my house.
He apparently does absolutely everything here, let me tell you he does not but In his head he genuinely thinks he does?
He tells me that we are living off his money and that I never pay for anything ? This is another lie
He makes out to my family that he is amazing to me but they really don’t see the truth as all they see is these fancy pictures !!!!
He watches teen porn on his phone all the time also step sister porn when he had a young step sister.
He tells me that no wonder my ex partner battered me because I ask for it because my mouth is too big for my own good and I’m lucky he’s not violent otherwise he would of killed me by now!
He tells me that his mum doesn’t like me because of the way I treat him
It’s like he plays mind games for example a couple of times we’ve been going out on date night and I come down the stairs dressed and ready to leave and he says ‘what are you going to wear?’ And i say this is what I’m wearing clearly I just said I’m ready and I’m ready to leave ? It makes me feel like my outfit is not nice and I need to get changed .. when I explained this he said I was absolutely crazy and he can’t deal with me anymore?
He denies absolutely everything even if Iv got proof of it for example texts to a girl on his phone he says the phone must of done it on his own!
In the end he’s turned me insane and I’m questioning my own insanity and he says I need to be sectioned.
The other day he said his dad bought a new car on finance £400 a month, I said that’s very nice but it’s different for your dad he can afford it as he’s a single man kids all grown up we’re a family with a young child.. he absolutely bit my head off and said ‘how dare you try and brainwash me I am no different to my father just because I am with you if I want a £400 a month car I will get one you’re trying to brainwash me that I will not be able to afford a car’ I was gobsmacked? I was genuinely just passing a comment on how his dad was more able to afford a car that costs the same as a mortgage because he’s older with no other responsibilities wether as we are a young couple starting out with a young child .... I just couldn’t even look at him after as it turned into a blazing argument
There is so many other things like these that go on and I just can’t cope anymore

I’m honestly at my wits end with this man he is honestly making me so depressed . I asked him to leave my home and he hasn’t left .
Don’t get me wrong we do have good times and he does call me beautiful and we do have sex and watch films together and go for nice walks and have good days. But am I really being this ‘overly sensitive pathetic person who needs to grow up and stop letting his insults hurt my ego by getting the fuck over them’ or is this true emotional abuse ?!?!


Thank you ever so much for taking time to read my post I did sit here and type is angrily as I remembered all these times . And it does make me sound so stupid but he is so adamant that I am a rubbish girlfriend and I won’t cope with out him and that I’m making all of this up

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Littleposh · 09/09/2020 13:32

You need the locks changing before he gets back. Leave his stuff outside. Do NOT let him in. Any threats or damage or attempts to enter, just call the police. If you let him in 100% he'll destroy the place, possibly hurt you and refuse to leave. How is your son going to handle witnessing that?? Please sort the locks and do not allow entry for ANY reason

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icelollycraving · 09/09/2020 13:32

And please tell someone the truth about this man. Thank god you haven’t got a child with him.

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JKRisagryff · 09/09/2020 13:33

Thank god he is infertile and hasn’t managed to get you pregnant OP. You need to cut and run now, this is despicable abuse.

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Coriandersucks · 09/09/2020 13:33

By staying with him you are showing your son the kind of man you think he should be. Don’t create another abuser.

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Spied · 09/09/2020 13:34

What a horrible man.
You owe it to your son and of course, yourself to get this abuser out your house. Your ds shouldn't have to grow up seeing his mum abused like this.
I'd tell those closest to me what it going on and let them support me and my son in getting rid of him.
Have someone with you when he's due home and have his bags packed.

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xbambi · 09/09/2020 13:34

This was a very hard read. I am so, so sorry that you are going through this. He is absolutely abusive but I suspect you already know this deep down. The post about the sperm analysis blew my mind a little and I think that goes to show that no matter what he will NEVER be wrong. I don’t know a lot about psychology sounds fairly sociopathic from what I understand.

I have seen you have said you are going to pack his bags and ask him to leave. Could you ask a friend or parent to maybe be there when this happens?

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RedRec · 09/09/2020 13:35

I hate this twat more than any other twat I have ever read about on Mumsnet - and there's no shortage of them on here.

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WeakandWobbly · 09/09/2020 13:36

Get. Out. Now Flowers

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lyingwanker · 09/09/2020 13:36

My horrible narcissistic abusive husband has done most of the same things you've listed here. As soon as I read your first paragraph I knew where this was going because that is how it ALWAYS starts. They bombard you with love so you don't have time to step back and think.

PLEASE LEAVE. I know it's hard because you often doubt yourself and doubt reality but it's 100% not you, it's him.

Because it's your house you can call the police and have him removed if he is refusing to leave. I would hide important items and documents somewhere he can't steal them if you do let him in to get his stuff or whatever. Hide chargers, all important documents, phones, tablets and every single key or lock.

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Lunalady21 · 09/09/2020 13:37

You need to get your family or friends on side .. get them round to help you pack his shit and throw it outside then make someone stay with you for when he comes back! What an evil horrible person!!! I can't believe there's men out there that really do this kind of stuff!!!

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FippertyGibbett · 09/09/2020 13:39

Please tell your family, you need some support.

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Onlythepoets · 09/09/2020 13:43

That is shockingly bad.

It sounds as if you will need strong support to get rid of him as he will either refuse to leave or put you in danger.

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dottiedodah · 09/09/2020 13:44

Should you even need to ask? He is a useless ,selfish waste of space LTB now!!

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updownroundandround · 09/09/2020 13:49

@ 23andttcx

If you're packing his stuff now, I'd strongly advise you to get a locksmith to come asap and change the locks.
Put his stuff outside your front door and do not open the door for him or let him in
Also have someone with you tonight when he's due back so you have a witness and support. (preferably someone who's opinion matters to him e.g your family)

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Singlemum31 · 09/09/2020 13:51

Wait till he leaves tomorrow, pack his stuff drop to one of his family members, and if you can stay with your family for a few days. Do not let this bloke rule your life. Your 23, sooo young, u will regret being stuck with this man if u fall pregnant. You got this girl ❤️

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Covidsecure · 09/09/2020 13:53

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Tootletum · 09/09/2020 13:54

I don't often think this but if everything you have written is absolutely factually correct, then i would say it's abuse that meets the bar for criminal behaviour. I would talk to the police.

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23andttcx · 09/09/2020 13:54

Not too sure who in the right mind would read my post about domestic abuse to a 4 year old but ok it’s really not a laughing matter .

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SantaIsReal · 09/09/2020 13:58

How would you feel if you found out you son treated his partner like this or he was being treated like it??

Get out for the sake of you and your son! He is not a man. He is pathetic and preys on the vulnerable IMO.

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icelollycraving · 09/09/2020 13:59

Covidsecure, WTF? Shock

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TooTrueToBeGood · 09/09/2020 13:59

Some of the responses are extremely unhelpfully. If you cannot post without victim blaming or challenging the OP's honesty then do everyone a favour and keep your thoughts to yourself.

OP, I'm concerned for you as not only does this man tick every single box for being abusive but he clearly has the capacity to be a physical danger to you. I wish I had more time but for now can you think about what support you can call on to help you? I really worry about you trying to deal with him on your own.

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Itsrainingnotmen · 09/09/2020 14:01

Have his stuff outside op. Lock yourself in and pretend you aren't home..
Ring the police if necessary.
Do not engage with him.

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23andttcx · 09/09/2020 14:03

Thank you for your lovely comment. I have family that live super close to me. I can call my mum and dad any time ! I’m honestly ashamed to even tell anyone these things but I will be leaving with my son before my son starts to recognise this behaviour. I am sat here crying my eyes out at how dumb Iv been. Thank you for the support everyone

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bananabob · 09/09/2020 14:03

OP I have been in a relationship with someone who sounded exactly like this. Please leave I promise you it won't get any better for you if you stay it will only get worse please please get away from this man your post made me feel ill remembering what it was like to live with a man like that. My life is a million times better without him and I am so much happier.

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Bippertyboo2 · 09/09/2020 14:04

Please tell your parents everything you have said here and as others have said pack up his shit and leave it outside tomorrow, phone the police and tell them what you have said here and change the locks, then go to your parents. Please stay strong and go through with it all, you deserve so much more.

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