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How did you know your marriage was over... Describe in three words...

484 replies

LondonGrimmer · 28/12/2021 00:39

Or maybe a short sentence. I have massive doubts. Just wondering how others knew...

OP posts:
Silverchamber · 29/12/2021 20:31

Get an abortion

(Planned second child, I was crying as I'd felt ill)

Harmonypuss · 29/12/2021 20:34

Divorced twice, so here goes...
1st .... He got intimate with a neighbour's 8yr old
2nd .... He threw a chair at my son.

Americano75 · 29/12/2021 20:39

@Merryweather80

1 grabbed me by the throat and slammed me into the cupboard so hard the knob hit my spine so hard it dislocated four vertebrae and fractured one disc which pinched my spinal cord, whilst I was holding our very small newborn baby.

The second I was raped.
I have to see one of the fathers regularly. I hate my life. If it wasn’t for my children I wouldn’t be here.

My God, this broke my heart. Have you ever had any kind of help for what happened? What you've said about only being here because of your children has really worried me.
AngelinaFibres · 29/12/2021 20:45

He moved when I sat next to him.
He stayed out late.
He told me I was physically repulsive and made his flesh crawl.
He was shagging a 17year old colleague.

Mxflamingnoravera · 29/12/2021 20:45

OW was pregnant.

Americano75 · 29/12/2021 20:48

Jesus Christ, some of these are making me question my faith in humanity.

kazlau · 29/12/2021 20:50

He gave me an STI

AngelinaFibres · 29/12/2021 20:50

He said he wanted to do what he wanted when he wanted. He couldn't do that because we had 2 tiny children, so apparently he had to leave. He left.

AngelinaFibres · 29/12/2021 20:51

@AngelinaFibres

He moved when I sat next to him. He stayed out late. He told me I was physically repulsive and made his flesh crawl. He was shagging a 17year old colleague.
He was shagging a 17 year old colleague. He was a married father of 2 and 32 at the time.
Wineisrequired · 29/12/2021 20:52

He slept with our next door neighbour
Stopped talking about important stuff
I hated army life

Shehasadiamondinthesky · 29/12/2021 20:55

I couldn't stand the sight of him or his stupid face any more.

AngelinaFibres · 29/12/2021 20:55

He wanted to leave. I held his arm and begged him not to go. He took hold of the lapels of my jacket and threw me onto the sofa. I banged my head on the wall. It was my fault apparently.

inmyslippers · 29/12/2021 20:55

He walked out

^^ had done this multiple times with silent treatment. When he tried to creep back I didn't let him

Weemovitchski · 29/12/2021 20:56

First black eye when pregnant.

Jewel52 · 29/12/2021 20:56

Being around him made me feel bored, lonely, unattractive and sad

AngelinaFibres · 29/12/2021 20:56

@AngelinaFibres

He wanted to leave. I held his arm and begged him not to go. He took hold of the lapels of my jacket and threw me onto the sofa. I banged my head on the wall. It was my fault apparently.
I weighed 7 1/2 stone. He was 6' and weighed at least 13 stone.
BlowDryRat · 29/12/2021 20:58

He was lazy and abusive and I hated him.

Ohhohohono · 29/12/2021 21:02

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THEDEACON · 29/12/2021 21:04

He believed ex wife's lies

Alcemeg · 29/12/2021 21:04

Stopped prioritising him

Merryweather80 · 29/12/2021 21:08

@Americano75 no I haven’t had help emotionally. Only two people close to me know about the second. I’m fine though, honestly. They are all I need and want. I just wish I could do more physical things with them, I’m now I’m a wheelchair- because of the first, I just wish I could run in the park or play football with them. They don’t care though-about me not being physically as able as most. They both said they are happy and have had a wonderful childhood and that I’m the best mum ever, I can’t ask for more than that and I’m so happy that somehow I’ve managed to make them happy and let them know how much I love them. They are everything to me.
Thank you though.

AngelinaFibres · 29/12/2021 21:10

He left. He decided at Christmas that he wanted to come back. Stupidly I let him, but on condition that we went to Relate. He cried when the counsellor asked him about something. I expect I was supposed to feel like leaning forward and hugging him to offer comfort . I realised in that moment that I felt absolutely nothing for him. I sat in the horrible chair and looked at the floor until it stopped . I don't think we went back after that. I reactivated the divorce.

laloue · 29/12/2021 21:13

He thumped me

GoodnightGrandma · 29/12/2021 21:14

I realised that he wasn’t going to even try to do the things he needed to do, he didn’t listen, and then I realised that I disconnected from him. It was a self-preservation thing.

Uberstar · 29/12/2021 21:19

He chose her