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Very long, be patient.Fiance has begun lying to me. I don't know what to do :( Are we finished?

58 replies

luvlymummy · 14/08/2008 12:31

I am a regular but lately I have posted a couple of times under this name as I seem to be having problems with my fiance who I always maintain is the best man ever, and I thought he was.

Background info: I posted a while ago saying that he avoided taking me to gatherings and had gone to a christening that day where he was to be God father but he made me feel so unwelcome I ended up not going when me and DS had got all dolled up ready. He said he was very depressed and he'd only go and show his face then come home. 13 hours later he returned pissed.

He rang me at some point and said he loved me and all this nice stuff and then stayed out even longer. He always says how much he loves me when he's drunk and then he takes the piss and stays out too long.

The next week, I found out from a girl that he had been out afterwards with 3 of his mates, 1 of his mates girlfriends and this particular random girl who had turned up unexpectedly at our son's christening. I was furious about this as he'd told me no girls would be going out with them, no one was taking their girlfriends and I'd be out of place and sat with loads of lads.

DP has been a player in his past life, and I was a big flirt and dressed slutty in all honestly, but I was only 21 when we met, and |I settled down immediately and never flirted or dressed slutty again. He made it obvious straight away that he'de been cheated on and treated very badly by his ex fiance, and so he wouldn't tollerate me cheating or even being around other men. I sort of said this was ok as long as the same applied to him- he wasn't to associate with girls anymore. There were potentially a lot of people who could have caused problems as we both sort of had plenty of people on the go. But it all stopped immediately. My ex started txting me and DP went mad, even though I told my ex not to get in touch again, and that was the end of it.

We were totally in love and when we'd been together 4 months we got engaged. It was the right thing to do- we love each other very, very much and we get on well with each other's family's. We treat each other very well and my parents love him. I got pregnant at the same time we got engaged and we have a beautiful baby now, and we're a happy family.

However, since when I got pregnant, he stopped wanting sex despite having been practically a sex addict before, and since we've had the baby he doesn't often want it- I sort of get rejected a lot. He says this is due to working hard, being tired, and having the baby.

We've never lied to each other and things have never been tainted in any way. However, he gave up smoking after we'd been together a month and I HATE smoking. I also don't want him to be a smoking dad. Yet it turns out he has been smoking secretly at work. I caught him out last night. He has me run a bath for him for when he gets in from work- and now I know why! Something happened and he didn't end up having a bath straight away. We were sort of cuddling and play fighting and stuff when I smelt his hand and realised he'd been smoking. I was in a quiet mood all night and it was upsetting him. When we went to bed he kept trying to make conversation and he never usually does, he likes to sleep because he works early. So this morning, he seemed to want sex and I said no for the first time ever. He said that I obviously had someone else lined up and he said I'd gone off him. I said I was tired.

Then I said I'd been awake all night and upset. He said 'because I'm you're failure?'

When he went to work I txtd him and started asking questions about when he'd been out that night with the lasses and he went mad saying I don't trust him. I told him that my trust had been shaken because everytime I;ve mentioned him smoking he's gone off his head saying that I don't trust him and how could I think that about him and all this stuff. Which is exactly the same as if I asked if he'd cheated or anything else. So how am I meant to know what's lies and what's truth?

He told me to stay at my mum until I could trust him. I said ok. So he got even more upset.

In the end we sorted it all out and he's not going to smoke and he's not going to lie and keep things from me and he's going to stop being in a bad mood all the time and try to get things back on track.

But I'm worried that if he's lied to me about smoking when he was so adament he hadn't smoked and he made me feel so terrible and like I was a paranoid untrusting ridiculous woman, then when he makes me feel paranoid and stupid and nasty for not trusting him and asking if he's cheated, is he lying when he gets all shouty and defensive?

I'm just all lost.

OP posts:
Luvlymummy · 14/08/2008 16:19

heated i like that wording. holding baby as i type so sorry for errors. how could i say positive thing about the control?

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Dropdeadfred · 14/08/2008 16:33

I think perhaps tatif you tell him in previous relationships you would have had trust issues, but knowng how much you love esch other has given you more confidence with him - you hope he knows how much you love him and feels the same about you...?

Heated · 14/08/2008 17:07

Sorry luvlymummy, not ignoring you but have dinner & warring children on the go - will be back later.

Janos · 14/08/2008 17:40

Goodness me, just read your OP. You two really should not be getting married.

Controlling behaviour does not make for a good relationship!

Heated · 14/08/2008 20:10

All quiet on the home front now.

I don't think there can be a quick fix to issues surrounding trust which is why pre- marriage counselling is a such good idea. If you get married in church it's quite commonly offered as part of the 'package' and even some registry offices now offer it; given the divorce rates it's a shame it's not more widely available imo

find a counsellor

pre marriage counselling

It ironic that what presumably attracted him to you - your flirtiness and sexy clothes - he now has a problem with . You don't want to subsume your character for him, otherwise resentment will creep in, if it hasn't already.

I suppose the practical solution would be to go out more as a couple and to entertain more at home, once junior's gone to bed? And think about what you would want to hear in the same position: Yes I'm wearing a short skirt, you like my legs, now let's go out, I want to show you off.

But do investigate the counselling.

Heated · 14/08/2008 20:39

relate is the one to go for, couldn't link to it before.

bozza · 14/08/2008 20:48

I remember your other thread about the christening and his behaviour on that one sounded very undermining of you. Didn't he more or less tell you that a christening wasn't a family occasion? And he also told you that he would only show his face despite the fact that he was godfather. again.

I think he is treating you really badly and you should take some of the advice on this thread.

prettybird · 15/08/2008 11:53

Have you had any more thoughts about the way forward? For the sake of you, your ds and your dp, you need to thnk carefully about waht you are doing. You are all linked now for life through your ds - but if you (both) put in some work now, you can make it a more positive experience.

I am not going to predict whether your relationship survives short or long term - but without working at it, you don't have a chance.

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