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Boyfriend says I am controlling and lying over everyday things

190 replies

KiraChris · 01/06/2026 11:02

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

So 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:
dairydebris · 01/06/2026 11:07

Just LTB. That's all you need to do. You don't need to figure him out. Save yourself the time and just end it.

Ilikeanimalsmorethanpeople · 01/06/2026 11:07

Run and don't look back from this one!

watchingthishtread · 01/06/2026 11:08

So why is he one thing but another? Is it bipolar? Am I just simply not loved?

It doesn't matter what it is. You don't have to make sense of it. It's enough that you know is it's awful and you need to get away from it.

Ipsevenenabibas · 01/06/2026 11:09

This is your third thread I've read of exactly this. Are you OK?

SoScarletItWas · 01/06/2026 11:09

Noooo, fuck absolutely all of that. He’s awful. Why on earth are you with him?

eta just remembered you don’t even live with him. Get him gone, he brings nothing but drama and unhappiness.

Genuinely, what’s stopping you? If you tell us we might help you manage.

OotontheRandan · 01/06/2026 11:10

Bluntly, he sounds like a controlling cunt.

You can release this one back to the wild, he isn't good for you, your confidence or self esteem.

FictionalCharacter · 01/06/2026 11:10

I made it halfway through, that was enough. Please get rid of him very very soon, otherwise he’ll destroy every last shred of your confidence and self esteem. This is abusive, controlling treatment, you’re not seeing how bad it is, and it will get worse.

Stop trying to analyse him and work out why he does it. That’s fruitless. The important thing is to not subject yourself to this any longer.

aWeeCornishPastie · 01/06/2026 11:11

He sounds absolutely awful as someone said above don’t try and figure it out. ITS NOT YOU! It’s him. LTB and don’t look back

ToadRage · 01/06/2026 11:12

Get out while you have a shred of sanity left, he sounds like a right nightmare.

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Panchero · 01/06/2026 11:12

Life is too short for this bullshit, please leave him and don't look back. He is a nightmare!

TomatoSandwiches · 01/06/2026 11:14

Jesus christ just leave.

Hotupnorth · 01/06/2026 11:15

What does this lump of whinge and criticism bring to your life. Dump, you might have flaws but he's the biggest one. Moving on will be the best thing you can do for your health and wellbeing.

KiraChris · 01/06/2026 11:17

How am I controlling? If I am I can learn from what I’m doing wrong

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PrizedPickledPopcorn · 01/06/2026 11:17

Halfway down I stopped reading in favour of saying, ‘Thank God he doesn’t live with you!’. Get his key back, if he has one, change the locks, get rid of this man!’.

However, he sounds really volatile and I’m afraid for your safety. Have you stayed in touch with friends and family? You may need support to get out of this.

SockQueen · 01/06/2026 11:18

KiraChris · 01/06/2026 11:17

How am I controlling? If I am I can learn from what I’m doing wrong

You aren't. The only thing that doesn't make sense in this situation is why on earth you are still putting up with his abusive bullshit and thinking you are to blame.

KiraChris · 01/06/2026 11:21

@Balloonhearts how am I controlling I’d like to know where I can improve as I walls want to improve myself but sometimes you can’t always see in yourself where you go wrong

OP posts:
fairmaidofutopia · 01/06/2026 11:24

You are not controlling. He is a cunt. Get rid

dairydebris · 01/06/2026 11:24

KiraChris · 01/06/2026 11:21

@Balloonhearts how am I controlling I’d like to know where I can improve as I walls want to improve myself but sometimes you can’t always see in yourself where you go wrong

You can improve yourself by not putting up with this prick and take pride in telling him to get lost.

StripyCarpets · 01/06/2026 11:24

Do you have friends or family to talk to? You need to tell those close to you and ask them for support and protection, then you need to leave him. If you need to collect some evidence of his coercive control and bullying and then if necessary tell the police.
Do not be a person who devotes decades of your precious life to a terrible man like this.
Tell people then get rid.

lunar1 · 01/06/2026 11:25

Oh dear god leave him! Sounds like the house you’re in is yours alone? Please walk away from this controlling bully.

WhyamIinahandcartandwherearewegoing · 01/06/2026 11:27

TomatoSandwiches · 01/06/2026 11:14

Jesus christ just leave.

This is all the reply you need.

thesugarbumfairy · 01/06/2026 11:27

You aren't listening to what people are telling you OP.

You are not controlling. You do not need to work on yourself other than to get your blinkers off right now and see that this is HIM NOT YOU

He is the controlling one. And he is a nasty piece of work. He is a bully.
I did not read beyond a few paragraphs - it wasn't necessary.

You need to LEAVE HIM RIGHT NOW

MegMortimer · 01/06/2026 11:29

You are not controlling but he is vile and nasty. You need to leave. Get him out of your life because things will only get worse.

Inmyuggs · 01/06/2026 11:33

Send him on his way
Throwing the dishes as he goes.
What a dickhead