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I'm getting silent treatment

19 replies

Sweetpea143 · 23/11/2023 18:16

I posted on a I b u earlier and got slaughtered. Hoping to get better responses on here.

Partners been out of work 2 months. He's due surgery and is in extreme pain.. he has been in severe pain all year and its not stopped him wanting sex 3 or 4 times a week.

He has a history in previous relationships and in the first year of our relationship messaging other women. No idea why he did it. He lost his partner before me to it. He deleted social media 2 years back and it's help solve the issue. No issues since.

Anyway I'm not paranoid I've always been right in the past. When we were dating (not officially together but declared major feelings) he fell out with me for 6 weeks and was meeting up with someone from tinder!

Since August there's been a few weeks good and then a few weeks bad. Felt old habits may have been returning. His phone number was used to set up an instagram account and I got a notification. When I looked he was following 2 local women. He denied it was him and eventually I had to trust him.he had no instagram app on his phone and I had no proof. He claimed he'd never heard of either of them. 6 weeks later I saw he'd sent money to the older woman who looked around 60. He said he bought something from her son but didn't know her. He does know her son it turned out.

Anyway 2 weeks ago he kept going on his phone and his leg was tapping. He was over explaining checking his football scores and it looked obvious to me he was typing! That anxious feeling returned. When he was asleep I checked his phone. There were 12 pictures of a woman on there from his exes family. Even her heels! I don't think this woman is aware he's saved these from her fb. Anyway we had abit of a row over that. I told him if he wanted to look at other women he should be ending it. He wriggled out of it and me too exhausted to argue let it go.

A week later his phone was hidden when we went to bed. I heard it buzz in the wash basket! Why was he hiding it? This time when I looked a dating site was open. It started loading. He's made a profile with no pictures and a fake name but said the truth about location. I ended it amd left. A week later he begged me to believe him. Said it was a hacked email etc. I knew it wasn't true but I've been trying to reconnect with him.

I was away this weekend. I was going down his after I got back. At around 2pm he text saying I shouldn't go down as I'd be exhausted after my day out. He was right. But around 6pm he disappeared. He often falls asleep early since loosing his job. He didn't open my message until the next morning. Said he'd just got up. He had looked after my dog and said both dogs were up from 2am and he was shattered and been on sofa since 2am!

I went down and he randomly had a bath straight away. Whilst in the bath I saw one long blonde hair on his sofa. He said it must have come in on his clothes or my coat or the dogs. He then said loads of people keep talking to him about I'm a celebrity and asked Mr if I like it. When I asked him who as he's been in the flat and not spoke to anyone for weeks he had no names. I asked him if he'd had anyone in the flat

Today I came out with it..told him i had this awful feeling he was cheating or at least messaging someone. He has gone silent on me and accused me of constantly starting on him.

I was told on aibu I was abusive and sounded a nightmare.

I need more opinions

OP posts:
justalittlesnoel · 23/11/2023 18:26

Break up.

Bostonbakedbeans · 23/11/2023 18:37

How many opinions will you need? Based on your OP the answers on this thread will be the same as on the other thread you started. Whether he's unwell or not, hes a liar and a cheat and you need to ask him to leave and raise your standards for a relationship.

80s · 23/11/2023 18:39

So being with him means you are constantly looking out for clues as to his infidelity? Sounds a total circus, whoever it is that's at fault.
Even if he's an innocent lamb you can still break up with him.

Specso · 23/11/2023 18:43

It sounds more like hard work than a relationship. He sounds flaky and untrustworthy and you’re doing your own head in stressing about it. Just break up.

AgnesX · 23/11/2023 18:43

You don't trust him....what is there to say really.

Ffsnotaconference · 23/11/2023 18:49

What do you mean you got slaughtered?

because if you mean ‘everyone couldn’t believe I went back and keep putting up with this and told me to get some self esteem and dump him’, you will get similar here.

littlebirdieblu · 23/11/2023 18:57

You already know your relationship is over, please stop allowing this cheating prick back into your life.

Sweetpea143 · 23/11/2023 19:03

No I got told it reads like im abusive and corcieve control and I sound a nightmare. But what woman wouldn't be hurting with these things

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3sausagedogs · 23/11/2023 19:13

I think his behaviour is driving you crazy!! He’s lying to you you know that, his lies are ruining you! Trust your gut! End things now! And you’ll feel more like you again!

He shouldn’t be hiding his phone and taking pictures if other women and messaging them. He shouldn’t be on dating sites! And you shouldn’t be with someone who you check his phone!

You should trust the person you’re with enough that you don’t need to go through their phone. Him ignoring you is a punishment! My ex did this and it was awful and so painful!

turn up and get your stuff back!! Take back the power and stop letting a men abuse you by ignoring you!!

ZeppelinTits · 23/11/2023 19:14

Leave him. Problem solved. It's not you - it's him.

Tistheseasontobejollytrala · 23/11/2023 19:21

He’s not going to be the man you want. He’s always going to be untrustworthy and you are always going to be worrying.
So what do you want to do, carry on and hope for a different outcome? (This way lies madness.)
Or change direction, work on your self esteem and find someone who doesn’t walk all over you wiping his feet as he goes?

Marshmallowtoastie · 23/11/2023 19:28

He keeps showing you you can’t trust him
then he gives you the silent treatment
Why do you care that he’s giving you the silent treatment. Why don’t you leave.
even the way you talk about him ‘wanting’ sex, going to bed early, not working, losing exes, it doesn’t even sound like you like him that much.
he’s not going to change, so i know it’s harsh but deal with it or leave.

Gettingbysomehow · 23/11/2023 19:30

For God's sake just end this relationship. You don't need any more opinions.

gamerchick · 23/11/2023 19:34

Sweetpea143 · 23/11/2023 19:03

No I got told it reads like im abusive and corcieve control and I sound a nightmare. But what woman wouldn't be hurting with these things

You probably got a bunch of people who aren't here with good intentions OP, there's a ton of them on AIBU.

Your relationship is over. You need to get rid of this specimen who's messing with your head.

RedRobyn2021 · 23/11/2023 19:34

You don't trust him, so he's not right for you. You should end it.

TeenLifeMum · 23/11/2023 19:36

This is far too much effort. Is any of it fun? Just leave him. This is not a healthy or good relationship and you deserve better.

Watchkeys · 23/11/2023 19:39

What are you aiming to achieve by finding out other people's opinions on your relationship, @Sweetpea143 ?

Unexpectedlysinglemum · 23/11/2023 20:11

No you're not a psycho you checked because you had got reason not to trust him to be faithful.

But you are being unreasonable if you stay with him expecting he will change into someone capable of monogamy with you. He's clearly not. So your choices are either stay with him in an open Relationship where you both are free to date and flirt and maybe even get physical with other people (you'll probably have a lot more
Success with this than him!) or you break up and find peace in being single as there will be no worries or find someone new who values being faithful - plenty of people do.

TinkerTiger · 24/11/2023 11:15

Raise your standards, find some self worth and leave.

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