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Dh ditched me at a party did I even do anything ?

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cannonlc · 11/12/2023 08:07

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Had a joint birthday party today with DH
Lots of friends , dancing drinking having fun. Genuinely felt like it was one of the loveliest days I’ve had in ages - warm and fuzzy feelings etc. checked in with DH throughout although we weren’t (and usually are not at social events) glued together we were both making sure we socialized with everyone that had showed up to celebrate with us.
Things started to wind down about 7pm and about half the people left but some of us stayed around. I went to the bar at the venue about 50 feet from where we’d all been sitting for the majority of the day. Got caught up in long drunky conversations with a couple of mutual friends and realized I hadn’t seen DH in a while so went looking for him. Couldn’t find him anywhere and expressed to those still around that I was a bit worried!
Called DH and he answered and he was at home - had left and was being really mean and hostile saying he’d looked for me and “who knows where I was and with who cos he couldn’t find me “ (reminder that I’d been at the bar about 50 feet away with a bar full of only people who knew us so absolutely not hard to find !)
I was absolutely bemused and confused by this !! It was also only about 9pm not like 4am either !!
Out home has a security gate only accessible by a fob which since I was stranded I didn’t have and asked him to pls make sure I could get in and his reply was basically “good luck you can’t sort yourself out” - really hostile !!
I was angry embarrassed and confused/ we had had such a lovely day as far as I was concerned and couldn’t work out why he would leave without me
I had no way of getting home - not cabs where we were and friends all too drunk to drive!
Ended up coming back to stay at mutual couple friends cos had no other option
Lots of messages from dh about
“I left at the time we agreed” and “you were too fucked to leave” both of which things were totally made up because we had never agreed a time to leave and he had never come to tell em he was leaving and I definitely did not refuse to leave with him !!
It’s like I’ve entered a parallel universe and he’s had an experience I wasn’t there for - he’s adamant I’ve done something wrong - even said I had a call and saw photos- like what ? He’s absolutely furious with me and I have absolutely no idea why because as far as I was concerned we were having a great time with mutual friends and I didn’t go anywhere or do anything and he just left me there - I’m so gutted that my lovely day has ended like this !!
What has happened?
I’ve messaged him to say one of two things needs to happen
1 he tells me exactly what I did and when and backs it up with actual evidence and witnesses (all friends with me thought him leaving was mental so he deffo won’t have any)
Or
2- he admits he was totally wasted and went a bit weird and apologizes profusely for being a total twat

From experience I don’t think either of the above will happen so now what ?

Usually I’d brush this kind of thing under the carpet for a peaceful life but this one is too much and I don’t think I can
If he can’t tell me what i did then he’s making it up but why would he do that and ruin what’s been a lovely day ?

OP posts:
floraflo · 03/02/2024 22:49

Reading this has made me feel quite uneasy. It has so many similarities with my previous relationship. I tried on many occasion to talk it through but he would never see things from my point of view, would never take accountability. It got to the point where I was anxious about how my actions would make him feel. Overthinking everything I did or said before I said it. He also used to give me the silent treatment for days.
I really hope you find the strength to leave OP, he will only grind you down if you stay and you sound like a lovely person with lots going for you. Yes, it might be messy in the short term but I promise you it feels AMAZING to be out of that control.
Wishing you all the very best OP.

hellsBells246 · 03/02/2024 23:29

His punishment was to go out at 2pm, read and not reply to any messages and come home at 2am having broken our gate down to get in.

God. He sounds like such a narc - one rule for you but no rules at all for him and don't you dare challenge him!

Good luck with leaving him.

Flamme · 14/02/2024 09:48

Your list could be useful, in that every time he claims that you have done something wrong you can throw five different instances at him of his own worse behaviour. It might just make him think a bit about the wisdom of throwing accusations around.

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