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have I done the right thing? I feel so guilty

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em1234 · 25/03/2010 09:25

I have just changed the locks on my home so that my partner can't come back. He agreed to us having a break and is out of London but I know I can't have him back. We have 3 month old triplets and a six year old and the last 6-9 months have been horrendous between us. He has just lost his latest job for being 'intoxicated and extrememly aggressive and abusive on the premises'..has been staying out all night coming in drunk at 8 am and I found out he'd spent just under two thousand pounds in a lap dancing club - this is after he lost his job! He has no money at all and I know if I let him back in next week (he's requested three days here to sort out his stuff) he won't go...and I'll be back to square one. Why do I feel so terrible?? I've done everything for him for the last 8 years, found him every job, organised every aspect of our lives...I think I'm so used to mothering him. there have been so many awful scenes that have led me to this point, he has never hit me but throws things around and screams and shouts..gets in a total fury - it's all the stress of three tiny babies and us living in a small flat but he takes none of the responsibility and is furious with me for putting him in this situation. I guess I did push him into ivf - my mum paid for it and he's still staying he wishes he'd never agreed. It's just that classic thing of when he's lovely he's so lovely and is a very loving dad to our son. I know when he sees the email telling him that Ive changed the locks he's going to go ballistic and will make me feel like the biggest bitch on the planet. Am I?? I'd appreciate your thoughts....

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maltesers · 29/03/2010 09:18

You are legally entitiled to have the POLICE there when he comes to get his stuff if thats what you want...otherwise toss the whole CRAP of his belonging into bin liners.. and outside for him to collect.

em1234 · 01/04/2010 17:04

I let him back in . I feel SO stupid. I emailed him again last friday saying he couldn't have access to the flat and I would put his stuff in storage or send it to him. He called saying he was coming with his dad to pack his stuff up. So, I let him back in on Monday night and sure enough he said his dad wasn't coming.
Tanga, your email has given me goose bumps...all of your words are so true. I have had three very peaceful weeks without him and now he's back...I have given him the new keys - what an idiot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He's still saying he will go..but when?? Yesterday after hysteria and sobbing from him about not wanting to leave the children he agreed to move out for a few months while I find us somewhere bigger to live(Can you believe it??!!)...it's my flat and he has not job..I think he thinks he can waltz back to us when we're somewhere bigger. I kind of gave him hope that could happen only as a way of getting him to agree to go again. Today he's saying he'll stick to that plan but I just don't know what to believe anymore. I swear, if I get another chance that will be it. My six year old and I have had such lovely times over the last few weeks and just a couple of hours ago DP was very very stressed about a problem with a cheque chlearing and was shouting down the phone to the poor woman...My little one said he was going to bed and went into his bedroom. I could see in his face he was upset.he' has just come back in. I'll write later.
thank you all of you....god I'm a fool

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mrsboogie · 01/04/2010 17:21

How did he get from coming to pick up his stuff to staying there again? He knew this would happen once he got a foot in he door and so did you. Hell, even I knew it when I started reading the thread.

It is clear that you can't stand up to him. You allow him to wear you down. Are you afraid of him?

If and when you manage to get him out again you must have NO DIRECT CONTACT AGAIN. Tell him to correspond through your solicitor. Change your phone numbers and email and do not respond to him until you are able to withstand being worn down by him.

How in God's name are you able to cope with triplets with this screeching fuckwit in the house??

A woman who is strong enough to carry and care for triplets on her own should have no problem in dumping this waste of space from her life.

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