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19 replies

KiraChris · 31/05/2026 16:51

Boyfriend accuses me of ….

controlling him if I ask during the heatwave would he mind not frying so many foods, maybe use the air fryer or oven? Because I have an open plan kitchen and I’m aware I’m very house proud maybe too much, I never fried things due to smells but since I’ve met him I’ve wanted him to be happy so I say nothing but the day before with all the heat it lingered. He said ok no worries, then ten mins later he started doing it, and I said please can you not so he chucked the frying pan with oil in the sink

lying about being asleep earlier than I used to be (while he’s working away and finishes late shifts and I’m unable to talk due to being in bed)

lying about not being able to hear him on the phone due to bad signal, I was then told im insecure because I was testing to see if he wants to talk to me? I called him right back when I moved rooms as I get bad signal in living room

lying about falling asleep on the sofa… so basically we were together, I’ve been exercising a lot lately, it’s a hot summer night and before bed, it was all quiet, I lid on the sofa thinking I’d rub my sore legs, and before I knew it I dozed off. He came blasting in saying how dare you fall asleep, you should always tell me if u are going to sleep not in the bed together but I explained I didn’t mean to, it just happened. He said I’m avoiding him, going on and on at me until I snapped go away leave me alone then he said why can’t you just relax, by which point I was back in the bedroom but riled up un relaxed and yet by now he was totally relaxed, and asked why can’t I be normal and relax and I said I was very relaxed until u made me jump by screaming at me that I’m disrespecting you for falling asleep on the sofa. I tried explaining I wa tired and wasn’t intending to doze off but it just happened

lying about forgetting things. We were due to go out for the day a nice sunny day, I released I forgot a few things and went back up (I live in a second floor flat)… he went down the communal stairs, I went down the lift (no particular reason) just there’s a lift in the mirror and I like to check I look okay because he says if I wear leggings or certain things I look disrespectful so I make sure in this lift mirror I don’t look too revealing, and he refuses to be seen with me if I wear leggings and this day I had a little summer dress on and was a bit worried… anyway I realised gosh I’ve forgotten xyz. ( random things like sunscreen, and lip care etc, I love looking after my skin)… when I came down to the car park, all happy, my heart sunk and his face like thunder yelling how dare I make him wait and that I must have stood in the communial hallways for five mins just to make him wait, that I purposely waited for him to go downstairs but I truely didn’t, I simply forgot things. This day I shouted at him in the car that I’m exhausted from being accused of daily things. Also on this day he said I had made him wait three hours prior but the reality is it’s a Sunday morning, we had food, some breakfast, I put a lot of my clients records from the day before onto my app, I cleaned up, showered etc… I didn’t purposely make him wait

also on this morning, it’s been a heatwave, I’m always on top of hoysework and can be labelled as OCD even, but I said do u mind if I don’t do washing up this morning it’s so boiling hot (when he’s home not working and he doesn’t live with me btw, he uses soooo many cooking pans etc) and it’s soooo much washing up, it actually hurts my skin even with gloves on… so he shouted no you are not leaving until it’s done, washing up must always be done, that I’m purposely trying to be difficult but I wasn’t snapping, I just said in a light hearted way can I leave it until later hoping he’d say sure based on the fact he says I’m the cleanest woman he’s been with which he loves but he then started chucking food he brought in the bin shouting if you’re going to misbehave then so will I. I was just flabbergasted. And begged him to stop. In the end I did wash up (when he’s here I promise I’m washing up about 5 times a day he’s a chef so cooks loads which is fine but so much washing up)

for a while I wasn’t working for health reasons, I was and am still fat but trying, my sleep was bad so he told me to get back working, sleep earlier, excersise… so I have started all of this. Now I try to sleep sometimes as early as 9.30 and the gym etc tires me out, I’ve started self employed, built up my clients again, but he says that’s not like me to sleep earlier and that I must think I’m better than him now I’m working, I’ve lost 4 stone since I met him, and he says things like I’d be quiet if I were you, with all that weight…, says he doesn’t like I now have a personal trainer so I agree to train on my own and ask maybe he can come too because as well as the gym I do circuit training outside… but he said he doesn’t want to come and why should he because he doesn’t need to get fitter, that I should do it… but if I do do these things and get tired, he says I’m avoiding him…. I’m really drained from it

I’ve given him no reason to not trust me. I’m a boring homely girl, I love it. And when I do slip into sleeping late again he says I need to get my act together

for context he has fallen asleep many times on the sofa

why is he one thing but another? Is it bipolar? Am I just simply not loved? If I don’t do something I’m grilled for hours upon hours, but if I do do the things I’m told I don’t do, eventually IM told I’m trying too much and getting ahead of myself. WHY I CANT MAKE SENSE OF IT

OP posts:
TheCurious0range · 31/05/2026 16:55

He's horrible, he's controlling, judgemental and didn't seem to bring anything positive to your life. Well done for getting back into a routine and focusing on your health, he will undo all of that progress and leave you not knowing if you're coming or going. Get out while you can.

YoBetty · 31/05/2026 17:01

Wow, he is seriously nasty. You are not being the slightest bit unreasonable at all. Who the hell does he think he is?

You need to dump the bastard.

UpDownAllAround1 · 31/05/2026 17:03

You posted in April about this guy on a v long thread. You know the answer

Endofyear · 31/05/2026 17:05

Hmm he sounds like a complete arsehole. You can do do much better, why would stay with someone who treats you so badly?

AgnesX · 31/05/2026 17:07

What on earth do you want with this man. He sounds horrible and treats you badly. Get rid, you're much better off without him.

Fatiguedwithlife · 31/05/2026 17:08

I think you know the answer…

LadyLooo · 31/05/2026 17:09

Get him gone.

I only got halfway through and didn't bother reading any more.

However, if this is the way you enjoy being treated and the life you've always longed for, then crack on.

But you don't need anyone to tell you this.

user293948849167 · 31/05/2026 17:09

Didn't finish reading but I read enough to know you should dump him asap

Arlanymor · 31/05/2026 17:10

You posted only a month ago about him, you’ve not done anything about it then?

category12 · 31/05/2026 17:13

You can't understand it because it's irrational and abusive.

Tillow4ever · 31/05/2026 17:20

He’s an abusive cunt. I can’t believe he instructed you to wash up the pans from the mess he made in your own home when he doesn’t live there and you followed his instructions! Why? It sounds like you’re afraid of him.

He doesn’t live with you, he doesn’t get to te you what to do or not do in your own home.

How long have you been together? You’d be well within your rights to dump him for any one of the things you’ve mentioned never mind all combined. You can do so much better, no-one deserves to be abused this way.

KiraChris · 31/05/2026 17:22

Hello all

thankyou strangers for support. Previous thread was very long too

hes broken up with me thousands of times. Sometimes because I don’t do enough sexual things, or no personality when I get upset being called a fat c u next Tuesday while eating a plain Greek yogurt

normally I’m crying and asking to work it out

but the last time I saw him 5 days ago once again he said in one sentence how he cares for me and can only sleep well if I’m next to him, that he loves me to bits, and would want a child with me etc, but then says he feels he can’t break up with me as I get upset and that he’d leave me in a heartbeat… so now I’ve sud nothing until he emailed me asking if his book is at mine (he has most of his clothes and things still at mine)… and I’ve simply said “collect your things”

im trying so hard to be strong about him.

since 2019 I’ve had a drug bf, hit a lot, money taken, home and car smashed, stopped working due to broken jaw, lost confidence, became distant from friends, became close with biding our who she has become a good friend but since this ex which ended 2022 has asked for things daily, we go out places and do things but she’s a big drinker, snaps a lot, is the person I see the most to this day, knocks loads a day, asks for toiletries a lot, but also helps me out and i do love her as my friend but she can switch and then I met someone finally who seemed nice and didn’t love bomb me, but is a gambler and drinker but hates drugs, hasn’t hit me, just shoved me, not put me in debt like my ex did., but has asked for money loads and always paid back and sometimes broke up with me for saying no

ive tried to now get my health and work back, I comfort ate after the original ex who used to call me a fat pig etc making pig noises, and now this current one calls me a fat moose if

all of this has basically been my thirties, I’m now late thirties, no children yet, before this I just had a normal working life, normal friends not into drugs or anything, just lived a normal life. I don5 do drugs or smoke, rarely drink, I’m just tired of how im getting this as my life

when I catch up with my original friends, I get emotional because I feel like I lost myself somewhere.

I need support. I’m going to be strong.

OP posts:
KiraChris · 31/05/2026 17:23

Became close with neighbour *

OP posts:
GreyCarpet · 31/05/2026 17:30

Jesus, don't have a child with him!

Even if you are worried time is running out. You will only live to regret it.

LadyLooo · 31/05/2026 17:32

No-one fit to be a parent would inflict him on a child.

allthingsinmoderation · 31/05/2026 17:37

If someone you cared about said this is how they were being treated what would your advice to them be?
Seriously you know hes a controlling,gaslighting,abusive man.
Get rid of him.

AMurderofMurderingCrows · 31/05/2026 18:02

You need to be strong and stay away from this horrible, abusive arsehole. Stay single, get therapy if you can and work on yourself.

Do NOT let another man treat you like this.

Purplecatshopaholic · 31/05/2026 18:03

Jeezo, op. Just dump him already! This is not a nice man.

Catlover465 · 31/05/2026 19:45

This is abuse.

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