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Advice … I’m leaving him tomorrow

29 replies

Nisha1994 · 12/10/2025 18:00

After many many months of trying everything, including therapy, to save my relationship with the father of my child, I’m going to leave him tomorrow. I’m doing it in a therapy session, so that the therapist can help me to get him to understand that there may not be logical reasoning that he understands, but this is the situation and right now there’s nothing he can do to change it.
At first, I’m going for the ‘trial separation’ angle because it’s going to come as a complete and total shock to him despite consistent hints and warnings for almost a year.
I am a stay at home mum with a part time wellbeing business which doesn’t make me much money just yet, and up until this point I’ve been very reliant on my soon-to-be-ex as was the agreement when I decided to leave my job as a teacher.
I’m going to be staying at my parents for a short while, but then will need to find housing and look into what benefits I’m entitled to until I figure things out financially and decide what I want to do re childcare.
any advice? I’m sick to my stomach with anxiety over tomorrow and struggling to see how this is all going to pan out even though I know it’s what needs to happen and is the best thing for everyone involved as we absolutely cannot carry on like this

OP posts:
Nisha1994 · 13/10/2025 07:05

NewbieSM · 12/10/2025 23:07

I think this is a terrible idea actually. Ending a relationship in a therapy session is really poor form. It’s basically you and therapist telling him he is dumped, you are just giving him a witness to his humiliation because you are too weak to do it yourself. This is cruel behaviour, if you want to end the relationship have the balls to just tell him to his face without an audience. Also all the posters telling the OP to kick him out and get a court order to stay in his house are insane and not legally trained. She has zero chance of this happening, it’s not her house and she doesn’t even have a job to pay for it so a moot point.

Thank you for your POV but that isn’t at all how it’s going to be. It’s a case of me having someone to help me to explain in a way that he will understand because I don’t feel safe doing it alone.
While he isn’t abusive or physically violent, we’ve got here because he’s triggering my nervous system time and time again, and I’ve been in Freeze and Fawn for over six months now.
Just because I’m not experiencing DV doesn’t mean I don’t feel unsafe.
I’ve not been able to sleep for weeks, and being alone with him even in a relaxed situation is anxiety inducing right now.
I appreciate what you’re saying, but I have truly thought out all of the options and this is the only safe way I can do this without bringing in a third party that is a family member which would be even more intrusive, right?
Plus this way he will be able to talk to the therapist after I’ve broken the news to start to process things in a healthy way, rather than spiralling or becoming volatile. I’ve been emotionally manipulated and gaslit in the past and because I am Fawning I need to have someone to help me through this or I won’t do it at all.

OP posts:
3packspls · 13/10/2025 08:09

It seems like you are making this all very dramatic and something like out of a channel 5 day time soap by doing it like this OP

3packspls · 13/10/2025 08:10

because I don’t feel safe doing it alone.

Ah so there is the drip

You didn’t remotely even allude to this in your op

3packspls · 13/10/2025 08:11

because it’s going to come as a complete and total shock to him despite consistent hints and warnings for almost a year.

You are in marriage therapy so I doubt a complete shock.

It was reckless to give up your job when unmarried

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