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HermioneRuby1 · 24/04/2024 22:01

I've posted on here a few times due to serious communication issues within my relationship and just when I think we've made progress we take two steps backwards.
Tonight getting in from work DD who is home earlier on a Weds had made some food and drinks for herself and left a load of mess in the kitchen and DH over heard me saying to her to step up and clear up after herself and said immediately to me I needed to stop being negative. So clearly not in the greatest of moods. I didn't comment despite feeling undermined and not like I was being unreasonable as knew it would escalate if I did so went into my little office room to do a little more work.
DH comes in to put something on the airer which is next to me and as he does he briskly pushes my empty coffee cup across my desk, I said please don't he said he hardly did anything and I stupidly said if you were working on here and I'd have done that you'd have said the same thing! He took exception to this I immediately said sorry.
He then proceeded to bang about and when I asked why was he banging he walks back in and does off on one at me.
Not the first time he has over reacted to the smallest of things but once in that space there is no coming back for hours.
He left for the gym and has since come home eaten dinner in silence and gone upstairs.
I'm just keeping low key out of the way but who knows how long he will be like this! I have in the past tried to talk but told him after last time how it effects me and is unreasonable and unless he is willing to talk about it and resolve it like adults I am not going to waste my breath.
Not sure why I came on here more to vent I think and help me stay strong. I'm sure it will work itself out and when he's ready to talk I will listen appreciate his perspective and apologise for my part but he has to accept responsibility for his over reaction and grow up.

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GerbilsForever24 · 27/04/2024 11:01

Aah, a little classic DARVO and gaslighting combined. OP, you don't deserve this and neither do your children.

neilyoungismyhero · 27/04/2024 11:04

I put up with this shit for years and still am as it's too late for either of us to do anything else but honestly think about this awful relationship. You shouldn't have to walk on egg shells in your own home. It sounds like neither your husband or child have got the slightest consideration for you. It will drag you under in the end, believe me. If you don't leave at least marshall your backbone and let them have it with both barrels everytime they treat you like this. It's sink or swim.

I started to assert myself a couple of years ago it's not pretty in all honesty but how dare people treat you so disrespectfully. You matter.

Ofcourseshecan · 27/04/2024 12:18

OP, please do make sure this ends today. It has to be you who ends it, by leaving him. He has no reason or motivation to stop tormenting you and DC. It’s normal behaviour to him, he probably enjoys it. You can’t fix someone like him. You and DC deserve better.

If you only threaten to leave him, he may shape up for a while, but it won’t last. That’s just another way of breadcrumbing you.

If you leave him and he got individual counselling, there’s a chance he might improve his behaviour. But I still wouldn’t want him back, to be honest. He’s got too much of a nasty streak.

Ofcourseshecan · 27/04/2024 12:28

JustRubySnake · 27/04/2024 11:00

Sorry I thought I was!! I can't remove it. IV never used this before. I'm so sorry

Have you got a downward arrow beside the heading Relationships, at the top right of this page? If you touch that, it should take you to a list of options including Start new thread.

AgentJohnson · 29/04/2024 06:36

This man keeps telling you who he is and what he thinks of you and for a reason only known to you, you aren’t listening. He isn’t a puzzle to solve and there’s no epiphany in his future, all there is, is a man getting increasingly annoyed that despite his best efforts his partner is not SHUTTING THE FUCK UP.

Theres no conversation you can have with this man that could do the heavy lifting you expect of it. The only conversation that needs to be had is with yourself. If this was happening to your child, best friend, mother etc. What would your advice be? Knowing that the most dangerous place for a woman to be is in her own home.

I hope you are safe or have taken physical steps to be safer.

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