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Mid life stuff?

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whatth · 01/09/2021 10:18

Hi all

I'm very down and confused at the moment. Please bear with the info coming up and I will try to make it short.

I'm in my mid 50s and living with my dp and 18 yo dc. I work full term time only. I have been divorced twice, first husband was serial cheater and second was abusive. My current partner and I had some problems to begin with but better now. However, he won't go out with me anywhere. We go on separate holidays and he goes to visit his dc abroad. I feel like I'm last on everyone's list of importance. No treat/surprise for my 50th, no being taken out ever. I hear and see women being treated and valued and I feel like I'm unimportant. His dc recently got married and I wasn't even invited and dp just said I would have moaned about the journey and the heat so nobody asked me.

Now I look at my life and think there is something wrong with me to make this happen. I don't know what to do anymore. I also have no sex drive at all which I know isn't great but I feel the only thing dp wants me for is sex.

I know I'm not perfect and I've been offish and pushing him away.

Just wondering if anyone else feels like this?

OP posts:
StarbucksQueen · 01/09/2021 16:57

There is no 'shame' in ending a relationship, if it's your 3rd, or your 33rd. What it does mean is that you've realised you don't need this relationship, it's making you unhappy, and you don't want to spend the rest of your life with someone who has no respect for you or your feelings... its your house, you don't have young children, so no need to maintain contact... rip the plaster off, tell him it's over (it sounds like he's not listening to your concerns anyway), and start the rest of your life..

MiaRoma · 01/09/2021 17:00

You have to treat yourself well not wait for others to treat you well

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