I have a 13 month old. Third pregnancy, following one miscarriage, and one medical termination due to severe hyperemisis (no medication worked). Had hyperemisis with my son too but somehow pulled through. Traumatic birth, tongue tied baby, partner started a business which he took a big personal loan for.
I lost it when my son was 6 months old. Now left with severe postnatal anxiety and OCD. I’m under the perinatal team and find daily living so hard but I push on every day. Recently returned to work part time but only doing 13 hours with the rest holiday.
My partner had to close the business due to losses and errors and running out of money. I couldn’t be left alone after being under the crisis team due to mental health.
I’ve done a lot of this parenting thing on my own. All I ever get from my partner is he “works all day” and we’ve had countless countless conversations and arguments over this. He wants to have a more physical relationship but I just don’t have any libido at all. I honestly manage the mental load constantly and it’s so hard. Refused to take any time off work when my son fell off the sofa and hit the stone floor as he left him on there alone, and we were in A&E. So I had to sort out working from home with a baby and an 18 month old nephew and my mum here (nephew is under my mums care.)
Comments have been thrown at me about my mental health as any other man would have left apparently. You’ve probably heard this before but I am so shocked he’s behaved like this the last year. I never saw it coming.
We bought a house together, lived here almost 3 years. We’re now in debt due to his large loan, my loan and credit card I’m working part time to pay off however he has defaulted.
we had genuinely the loveliest relationship before all this but I am so tired of having to beg for his help. It’s the most tedious little things. Everyone around us has had conversations with him because they are sick of how he treats me and leaves it all to me.
I feel I resent him and I really want nothing more than my mental health problems to disappear and be back to where we were but I just feel it’s a lifetime away. Help. X