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Accusing me of cheating.

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Pondlife22 · 27/03/2021 20:04

My partner keeps accusing me of cheating and it’s really starting to wear me down.
First time he implied I was cheating was when I fell pregnant unexpectedly with dc3. It was a massive shock for both of us as we hadn’t had unprotected sex. I had been away from the weekend with a friend around the same time and oh put 2 + 2 together and made 5. Although he didn’t make a big deal of it at the time I knew he suspected and after our dc was born with unmistakable resemblance to oh and other Dcs he told me that he was relieved that dc was obviously his after all!

When dc3 was still a baby I had a day out with my friends Oh was angry allegedly because I left him with ebf baby, even though I had spent a week persuading dc to take a bottle oh refused to try so I had to keep going home to bf. We ended up having a falling out it turned out he didn’t want me to go out because he thought I was cheating on him because I had been for 6 nights/days out and a weekend away the last 2 years which he thought was excessive. He even told me the person he thought I was cheating with, some guy i vaguely know though the kids school, apparently I once told oh he seemed a ‘nice guy’. I ended up stopping going out at all as it wasn’t worth the hassle.

Over lockdown I’ve not been anywhere socially so oh has been happy but I have been thinking a lot about our relationship and whether I want to continue it, even though things were fine for a while. I know after lockdown I would be back to choosing whether to turn down invitations from friends or living with oh in a huff because I've gone out and he thinks I’m cheating on him.

Anyway it turned out I wasn’t safe from having imaginary affairs in lockdown because he has become suspicious that I am cheating in him when I go out for a run. I have changed the patterns of times that I run recently to fit around other things, I had noticed that oh seemed over interested in my runs when he usually doesn’t show much interest. Then a few days ago I was telling him about something that happened in my run and I said ‘we’ instead of ‘I’. I was really just including the dog in the conversation as she had been with me at the time so seemed rude not to Grin. He instantly jumped on it and questioned me about it. Later he sent me a text saying that he was sure I was cheating while I was running because I had been unhappy with him recently and changed times of my runs etc and then when I realised I said ‘we’ I blushed. I probably did blush as I panicked I knowing what he would think.

Im so sick of feeling like I have to justify my whole life to him. I lost all respect for him when he accused me of cheating with a random dad from school and as a result I’m not really emotionally attached to him any more. I’m not sure I can take my Dcs away from their dad over this though. My family also love my OH and wouldn’t be supportive of me leaving him either so I feel quite trapped.

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Seraphinesupport · 23/04/2022 13:08

eh? isnt not loving someone enough of a reason to leave :S

NeverDropYourMooncup · 23/04/2022 13:14

sheepinfur · 23/04/2022 12:46

I think it would be a rash decision to leave over this without getting counselling. There will be a root cause of this, something going on in his thought processes/ his own anxieties or insecurity, and you should get help to talk through it rationally together before making big decisions. X

Yeah. Usually the thought process goes something along the lines of

She's a whore.
She'll open her legs for anybody.
She can't be trusted. Snakes with tits, these creatures.
I'd fuck anything that moves if it made itself available in the street, so she's going to be exactly the same.
I really, really hate women.

Pinkbonbon · 23/04/2022 13:55

98% of the time you will see people on here suggest insecurity as a reason for a partners shitty behaviour - it's actually abuse.

A good rule of thumb is that any insecurity in a decent person - tends to make us worry about the way we are presenting to others. It makes us look INWARDS and ask what we can do better. It doesn't present as accusing the other person of things and trying to make them feel bad about themselves. Because that's not insecurity - that's someone who wants YOU to be insecure. That's not insecurity, it's control.

MarbleQueen · 23/04/2022 16:14

This bloke is Pretending to think you’re cheating. If he actually thought you really were, he would have fucked off a long time ago.

Mumoblue · 23/04/2022 16:19

He’s being controlling. You need to get away.
I wish I’d run when my ex showed his ridiculous insecurities. He once accused me of cheating on him with his brother because I changed my shirt on the hottest day of the year (after noticing I had pit stains!) because his brother was also upstairs. In a different room. And I was out of his sight for less than a minute. 🙄

Just because he’s insecure doesn’t make it okay. It’s HIS problem, and he’s taking it out on you and contriving situations so you can’t possibly be away from him. You should run.

littlerayofsunshine0 · 30/06/2022 10:12

@BensonStabler wow! I don't think I've ever came across a post online that absolutely resonates the life I've been living all these years. Wow just wow. Mine has just reached the violent stage the last few months and I've a fear what happened to u on your final night will be similar to my own. Sorry I see this is a post from last year but wow.... Thankyou for showing me I'm not crazy firstly and secondly that I'm not the one to blame like he says I am.

suchasadcliche · 30/06/2022 10:26

Hugely controlling and probably means he is up to something himself.

My DH was exactly like this - years and years of accusing me of all sorts. He deleted years old photos of my ex boyfriend off of my facebook profile.

In the end it was him seeing prostitutes with a huge drug addiction to boot.

I dont think you necessarily have to ltb. I wish we had gone into therapy years ago before his behaviour escalated. These things don't come from nowhere. My dh had an emotionally neglectful childhood in an affluent middle class house (so very well hidden and problems swept under the carpet) and im now bearing the brunt of that neglect. I can see that my outwardly confident and seemingly kind husband was actually crippled with low self esteem and negative thoughts which led to his odd behaviour towards me which eventually escalated to drug use and then sex workers. I cant forgive him for that but i do wish he had sought real help much earlier when the signals were first there as his actions have been life ruining for all of us.

suchasadcliche · 30/06/2022 10:29

Ive just read your updates - obviosuly if you feel you want to leave, just go. Don't live a life of heartache.

OrlandointheWilderness · 30/06/2022 10:32

Not loving someone is the most valid reason you can have to leave! The fact he is also controlling is a bonus

SlouchingTowardsBethlehemAgain · 30/06/2022 11:59

This cunt does not believe you are cheating, he is using it as a stick to beat you with and his sulking is to control you. He controls you because he likes the power. As I said, he is a cunt, leave him.

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