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Panicking. Update for partner not being supportive when I moved out

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Tiredgrumpyhormones · 16/04/2024 21:26

I posted last week about my partner not being supportive when I moved out. For background I lived at his for around 8 months as I sold my house and bought off plan. My house was ready 3 weeks ago and I just moved in. It was planned I was only at his temporarily.

since I moved in he has not stayed a night or contacted me much. First night in my house he came round on way back from football. Said he wanted to go home and grab his overnight bag. He was tired as stressed with work and not really sleeping.

3 hours later and he hadn’t turned up. I called him no answer. He called back 20 mins later and said he fell asleep. He then video called me to prove he was at home. This was odd behaviour as we don’t really video call. Because he was shattered and not feeling well. He will come round if I wanted but wanted to sleep early. I said leave it. He said he will come the next day.

Next day I went round to collect my last things in the morning. He was quiet and had packed up my stuff and cleaned his house. He hadn’t lifted a finger when I live there. He said don’t forget your things. I gave him a hug and said don’t you forget me. He said not at all.

he then said without looking at me, I have my lovely house that I wanted, away from him. I hated his village and moaned about the distance from work and my friends. Go to your house be happy and I will see you later.

he came to mine and was very quiet. He hadn’t brought his overnight bag in and asked where it was. He said it was in his car and he will get it later. At bed time he went to get his things out the car and said he forgot his work clothes. It was too late to go back and then come back to mine due to distance. I got upset and he was really sorry, hugging me lots.

due to our plans we agreed to meet on Wednesday. He would come to mine. He has not been sleeping well for weeks and is having a freaky tough time at work. so when I lived with him he was moody, quiet when he was stressed.

Since Sunday he has not texted me or called me. Well he has replied once a day to my texts. He said he was on call and worked till 3am and was up at 6. I called him today and he said he was in the middle of gardening and the call lasted 1 minute. He has gone silent on me.

so I am not too sure if he is upset I have left and adjusting to change. He did say on Friday we were taking a backwards step. I agreed but said I had sold and nearly bought before he offered his place. I was going to rent. He said it made sense to live at his despite the long travel time as it was temporary. He understood it was the plan.

I am also wondering if he is forcing me to end it. I can’t seem to get an answer. I talked about it before I left and he said he wanted his own property and security which I understand as I do too. He said he would look into renting his house out to move to mine. But says he would be at mine for most of the week. Let’s see how it goes.

so give mind. Help me with strategies to approach this. Am I overthinking or am I out of sight and out of mind?

OP posts:
5128gap · 18/04/2024 16:22

Sounds to me as if he's giving thoughts to ending it. He wanted a relationship where you lived with him at his and he carried on his regular life with you to come home to. You didn't want that, understandably. So clearly, you want different things and he is thinking that what's now on offer isn't what he wants. I would anticipate 'the conversation' will come soon and in your shoes would probably instigate it to put you both out of the misery of this uncertainty.

southeastlady · 18/04/2024 16:30

How very dare you be an independent woman buying their own place, sounds like he's upset that your no longer there to wash the skid marks from his pants and have his dinner ready when he gets home from the boozer

Congratulations on your new home!

mathanxiety · 18/04/2024 17:34

You are giving him far too much headspace.

He only wanted you for cooking, cleaning, sex, and looking good in front of his loser friends.

He made zero effort to show any affection, respect, or sense of commitment to you or to a future together where you would both be happy. He has made it clear that he considers your dreams and your achievements don't matter at all to him.

You need to ask yourself why you are so invested in a relationship with someone who is fundamentally unavailable to you - I'll go so far as to say someone who was using you.

Your partner in life shouldn't be a project, a diamond in the rough, or any other terms commonly used to describe a loser.

AgentJohnson · 18/04/2024 18:27

The only question that needs answering is do you want to be with a man baby? If not, move on already. Don’t waste even more of your time handwringing and proclaiming, “if he would only tell me what he wants”. He won’t because he’s either a coward or not mature enough, either way, you can and should do better than prioritising a man who treats you like an option.

StrictlyAFemaleFemale · 18/04/2024 18:47

He sounds like an absolute selfish boring bellend.

OverheardInLidl · 05/08/2024 12:26

Haven't RTFT (I will do in a minute) but it seems as though he wants to break it off but hasn't quite got the guts to

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