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I think my marriage is over.

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LuckyCharm9 · 30/07/2022 11:35

To be honest i think it has for a while but things have definitely come to a head.
For context my H has always liked a drink, in the early stages it was a lot, to the point I wouldn’t come home from work and instead stay with a friend as to avoid him.

Over the last 3 years I have found him messaging two women, the first being someone I know very well and the second a woman with whom he is online friends with due to a mutual hobby. Each time I have taken him back and he has done/said all the right things and every time it just goes back to the same old routine and he makes no effort whatsoever.

we both work ft, me days, him nights. We have DS (10) who he takes to school 2 days and does pickup everyday. He says he is tired all the time and I get that, I’ve asked him to consider working days (he’s been offered a great shift pattern). I’ve offered to change my hours at work so I can do pick up, offered to pay for after school club and/or my mum has offered to collect him so he can have more sleep and each time he refuses. I’m not sure what else I can do.

we have had some issues with him saying he didn’t want to have sex for 2 years as I’d put on weight (size 16 for context) to which I was obviously very hurt, I’ve always been curvy 12-14 so not an huge difference. He always seems to find a way to put me down.

yesterday I was at work, DS was with my mum for the day and H came home from work at 7am and started drinking. He text me around 10am asking where an item was in the house. I replied that I didn’t know and it had been mislaid. He then told me that he was fed up of not being able to find anything, I was a slob and didn’t put anything away properly. He went onto say that I didn’t clean and cook and he did everything around the house and childcare etc. he was fed up with me rejecting him for sex (bearing in mind he is pawing at me while I’m trying to cook dinner) etc etc.
for context I do all the cooking m/f for us and the weekend, he seems to think by ordering takeaway that he’s cooked a meal! Every night when I get home from work I clean the bathrooms, put a wash on, general tidying. Sometimes like most of us I don’t sit down until gone 8pm.

he also text me the other week, calling me a c*nt as I hadn’t put the washing machine on for him before work.

I know I have enabled his behaviour by staying with him, I know in my heart this isn’t what I want and I know I deserve better. He won’t change I know that.

not sure what I’m asking here but thank-you if you have read it all.

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ExtraOnion · 30/07/2022 11:42

What are you getting from this relationship ?

Fairislefandango · 30/07/2022 11:43

If you're asking for confirmation that his faults are enough to justify you ending the marriage, then yes, I'd say they definitely are (not that you need any justification beyond the fact that you are clearly unhappy). He sounds like an unkind, hypocritical, possibly alcoholic potential cheat who's only interested in the services you provide, rather than in you or your actual relationship. You've put up with this for more than long enough.

SquirrelSoShiny · 30/07/2022 11:44

I think the sooner you get out the better x

AttilaTheMeerkat · 30/07/2022 11:46

How can you be helped here into leaving your abuser in the shape of this drunkard cheating lazy arse sex pest?. That is what he is.

What are you asking of us here; for you to have permission to leave him once and for all?. To not fall yet again for his weaselly words and or promises of change?. You know now this is who he is and such people do not change.

You have a choice re this man, your child does not.

You're going to have to ask yourself why you have chosen to stay with such a man up until now. Have you stayed with him mainly because of your son?. Staying with him has really done both you and your child no favours whatsoever. Your son too is seeing all this at first hand and these damaging relationship lessons from you both are no legacy to leave him.

I would also seek legal advice re separation and divorce asap.

raintoes · 30/07/2022 11:48

Life is so much sweeter on the other side. One day in a few years time you will wake up, in charge of your own life, with peace and calm surrounding you and you will not believe what you let yourself put up with.
The leaving is hard, the getting used to single parenting takes an adjustment. But once through that - life is so so much better.
Good luck OP. Go get the life you dreamed of and deserve. For you and your children.

LuckyCharm9 · 30/07/2022 12:13

Thank you all for your posts. I think I just wanted to write it all down and get it out.
yes to whomever asked if I was staying for my son, mainly yes but also the willing to keep my family together. My parents separated when I was young and I wanted it to be different for my child.
I also know we will be better off. I don’t want my son thinking that it’s ok to have those kinds of relationships/be that kind of man.
Thankfully he hasn’t witnessed any arguing or anything like that.

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