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Am I being unfair by holding onto this given my own behaviour?

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Evoung · 23/08/2022 16:38

DP wasn’t great in my pregnancy. He would visit (worked away) and clearly want to leave. I’d call when he was home and he’d be drunk…so left me to have a session alone. He was brutal to me when I had a virus in pregnancy, I struggled for a couple of days and he asked if he could pick me up rather than come to me (around an hour drive). I said I couldn’t move and felt awful. He begrudgingly got food from the local Tesco express and then announced he wanted to go back to his base as he had stuff to do. These are a few examples. I didn’t take it well and was verbally very awful to him, said he was shit a bastard and didn’t care about me or the baby. I also threw my sandwich across the room in anger (not at him I hasten to add).

i have apologised for all this quite a lot. But he doesn’t even acknowledge his part in any of it. He maintains I was out of order (I was) but that he doesn’t owe me an apology and I was just demanding.

I feel really uncomfortable about this. Wondering if maybe he’s correct and I’m remembering it wrongly. Or simply me sweating and getting angry cancels out anything he did. I’m finding it hard to be around him when he seems to act like he did nothing wrong. Am I being unfair by holding onto this given my own behaviour?

OP posts:
pinkyredrose · 24/08/2022 10:35

Evoung · 23/08/2022 17:16

He’s quite a vulnerable man though in the sense that he’s come from a dysfunctional background. He’s done really well for himself considering.

He’s said lovely things in the past but generally quite emotionally immature for his age (42). I have moments where I think oh gosh he’s lovely really, he means well. But then when things aren’t going his way he doesn’t cope well at all. He gets quite stressed I think so maybe it’s more than that he’s being unkind.

the virus thing just really hurt me. As did the way he seemed to think it was a huge inconvenience to see me. I couldn’t understand it.

Please stop making excuses for him.

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