Meet the Other Phone. Protection built in.

Meet the Other Phone.
Protection built in.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Relationships

Mumsnet has not checked the qualifications of anyone posting here. If you need help urgently or expert advice, please see our domestic violence webguide and/or relationships webguide. Many Mumsnetters experiencing domestic abuse have found this thread helpful: Listen up, everybody

Gut feeling husband is going to leave me soon.

622 replies

Blackcat88 · 31/03/2021 01:36

I feel somewhat silly for writing this as I’m genuinely not sure what to think and haven’t been in this situation with him before. For some months I’ve noticed my DH has distanced himself from me quite a bit and has missed big events (in our relationship) like valentines, Mother’s Day etc. I feel like he’s been avoiding me and not making any effort anymore. He’s locked down his social media too, as I called out the fact he had randomly started following A number of women on SM which generally wasn’t a problem but the amount in a short space of time was. I have the gut feeling it’s someone from work as he has stopped texting me on breaks etc (which he always did before) and I found pictures of me in his recently deleted folder in his phone so there are no pictures of me in there anymore.

I’ve found he’s blowing up over the silliest things. He makes minimal eye contact and often comes home from his night shift and instead of getting into bed for a cuddle like he used to (before the kids get me up) he’ll stay downstairs, and go up when we’re up and often be up there for some time awake etc. It feels almost like resentment.

He’s working an increasing amount of overtime and seems to have no time for me anymore.

OP posts:
Dee1975 · 01/04/2021 07:08

Hi op. I’m so sorry to read all this. This is just a horrible situation. But my one bit of advice - don’t leave the home. You are both on the tenancy, he is jointly responsible with you to pay it. Don’t make things easy for him by leaving. And by the sounds of it, there is no way this current situation can last until the tenancy ends in November. So if he wants out, he needs to be the one leaving whilst ensuring the rent is still paid.
Whatever you do, do not leave the family home.

Flipflopfoodle · 01/04/2021 07:32

You may not feel like this at the moment but I'd also make plans to tell the OW you are not separated. Not to get him back but to me it sounds like he is lying to her to, getting her round while you are out and a fully separate way to contact him. She may still want him, or she may be horrified at finding out she's the OW.she may believe he is a sad divorcee, who sees his kids a lot and is a stand up guy.
I'm sorry this is happening to you, but you sound like you're strong enough to do this, come out the other side, and look back and think you are well out of it. It just takes time, and it's shit while it's all happening.

billybagpuss · 01/04/2021 07:38

Hope you managed to get some sleep in the end last night 💐

CoconutQueen · 01/04/2021 07:53

Hope you did get some sleep. I'm glad you are finally finding the proof you need.

You can do this OP. You are stronger than you think, and we are all right behind you. Flowers

fearfulexchange · 01/04/2021 08:00

@dodiebantock
Here here! 100% agree. I am the same with my sons.
Men are only as good at the women who raise them.

Itlod1982 · 01/04/2021 08:02

So sorry to hear this OP!

As hard as this is you'll get through it Thanks

If you were preparing to leave due to his shitty behaviour, the prof of cheating will actually be helpful when he tried to convince everyone (including his mum) that you were the one in the wrong and he's the victim!

chocorabbit · 01/04/2021 08:08

@Blackcat88

I have definitely considered getting a camera, setting it up and going to my moms for the night ( when I know he’s off work).

He has a work friend who is apparently seeing the manager, and in the past my partner has told me that the manager often picks up a woman who works there and drops her home etc. He’s stopped communicating about this all together really, he’s also dropped another bombshell that he had seen a mortgage advisor a couple of weeks ago when he had only told me 4 days ago of his plans to get a mortgage on his own. I have obviously said that he’s unlikely to get a mortgage (big enough for our needs with the children) on his salary alone yet he seems certain and has been ‘advised’ he can.

Maybe he is bbuying with OW?
harknesswitch · 01/04/2021 08:11

I'd tell him that the bbq will be on his day off, leave as normal, spend an hour or two there and then go home, park the car down the road and walk to the house. One way of getting proof is to catch them at it.

MyOtherProfile · 01/04/2021 08:20

Sorry OP. What a mess. And what a bastard.

KarmaViolet · 01/04/2021 09:00

So sorry OP. Hope whatever you find there, it all works out. Flowers

babbaloushka · 01/04/2021 09:12

Did you find out what he was using the email for?

MotherofTerriers · 01/04/2021 09:34

OP if you find emails forward them to yourself, or screenshot or photo on your phone
He will delete them all and deny it, even though you have seen them.
If you forward to yourself you'll have to delete the sent emails, and empty the bin

WallaceinAnderland · 01/04/2021 09:38

@Blackcat88

Absolutely shocked! I know every email address he has and this one is completely different and quite formal too which makes me think work affair
How did you find out about this new email address @Blackcat88
TheWordWomanIsTaken · 01/04/2021 09:45

@Cowbells

I'd sit him down when he gets home from work tonight. Maybe, if you can, get family to care for DC, and say to him: Something very serious has happened. We need to talk. That will get his attention.

Then ask if he really wants to be one of the cliched statistic of marriages that collapse shortly after the second baby is born because temporarily the wife is distracted and has baby weight, and domestic life is temporarily tough.

Is he really that weak person who puts his willy before his children? Because you know he's checked out of the marriage and you are giving him one chance to check back in, because you believe he is better than that. You believe he is not so weak or selfish or stupid that he'd chuck away everything during the well-known most difficult year in all marriages - the year the second child is born.

If he starts blustering, just look him in the eye and say: I know what's going on. If he tries to question you, just repeat calmly, I know what's going on. Are you sure you want to put your aching balls before your newborn baby?

I might even hand him the baby and say: Look at this person. You made them. They are your responsibility and you have One Chance to step up, be a man and take proper responsibility. We love each other, we might have lost sight of that because I'm covered in baby puke and baby fat for now, but I thought you were man enough to see beyond that, to know that's a very short period of time. You can be strong or spineless. You can choose your penis or your children. But don't lie and muck about. We both know that is the choice. You choose tonight. Which has priority - the young children you brought into the world or the aching balls that want to sink into some woman at work who currently doesn't have baby fat and baby puke all over her, both of which are products of you bringing a child into the world.

Pre-empt him saying he's fallen in love, by telling him it's a cliche that men run off in the year the second child is born with the first woman who pays them attention. She seems so desirable in contrast with the domestic harridan looking after his children. But in reality it's just an escape route because any woman not covered in baby puke and looking sleep deprived is more attractive. But if he actually makes an effort to connect with his children, to love them and raise them and be a proper dad, and to love you and have fun and adventures along the way in his marriage to you, he will have a far happier more rewarding life than if he just focuses on scratching his current itch.

One chance: babies or balls. Choose tonight.

And don't give him a second chance.

I so despise men who think their willies are more valid than their children.

Sorry for this essay but I truly think too many men are allowed to scuttle off at this tough point in a marriage these days. We have become so morally spineless and I think whatever he chooses to do he should do it from a point of absolute clarity. If he does scuttle off it's because he loves his willy more than he loves his kids. He should acknowledge this. Don't make it easy by just silently gathering the children and coping with the pain. Make it as uncomfortably honest as you can.

What the actual fuck have I just read?
Mylovelyhorsee · 01/04/2021 09:49

@TheWordWomanIsTaken yeah aching balls was a bummer to read 😂

SheenMcQueen · 01/04/2021 09:59

@Cowbells

There is no choice 'to make'. He has already made it.

Sicario · 01/04/2021 10:03

Perhaps tomorrow, Friday, you could pack an overnight bag and go to your Mum's, leaving him alone with the kids. Tell him that this is what his life is going to look like every other weekend.

Starlightstarbright1 · 01/04/2021 10:31

Just know you deserve better.

pilotsprincess · 01/04/2021 10:39

So many bastard men that follow this script to a T. Your on the ball OP good luck x

Mif4 · 01/04/2021 10:59

This reply has been withdrawn

This has been withdrawn by MNHQ at the poster's request.

Cowbells · 01/04/2021 11:04

Quite a lot of people have criticised that long post I wrote and I totally understand why. My intention was not that OP should take him back or try to win him over, but to let him know 100% that he was prioritising his willy over his children. I think men get off way too lightly when women follow the get-out method most approved on MN. They are allowed to kid themselves that it was an overwhelming love that they had never felt before and should not ignore, combined with a loveless marriage to a joyless drudge etc etc. Then the woman is stuck, often in a financially extremely precarious position and the man forgets he had children already who deserve his money, his time, attention, love and respect. It is made too easy for these men, in the name of the woman preserving her self-respect. I think he should squirm and admit to himself what a lowlife he really is.

MrsHastingslikethebattle · 01/04/2021 11:06

What an absolutely cunt.

How people like him look in the mirror each day is beyond me.

Make sure you get screen shots, emails sent to you. He'll probably try and lie his way out of it.
If it was me, I would put the screen shots off his messages on Socisl Media and let the whole world and his wife know what a lying scum bag he is.

RabbiTouch · 01/04/2021 11:08

I think he should squirm and admit to himself what a lowlife he really is

He won't.

Blackcat88 · 01/04/2021 11:13

Waiting for DH to go to sleep and I’m going to snoop through his phone and get on that email and Instagram.

Weird turn of events too. Today he’s brought back flowers and Asked me to stay in bed with him this morning. It’s been over 4 months since

OP posts:
Blackcat88 · 01/04/2021 11:14

We’ve even slept properly in the same bed. I’m
thinking he’s cottoning on and is trying to sway my snooping by flowers etc.

OP posts:
Swipe left for the next trending thread