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I've really upset dh and don't know if I can make it up to him :(

155 replies

TheRedSalamander · 20/05/2010 13:37

Dh and I had a row on Tuesday night and I don't know how to even begin to make things better. It was about the fact that I had to get up very early on weds morning to drive 5 hours to get to a meeting, and that I wanted him to help me get the childrens things ready for the morning (book bag, school lunch and nursery bags, uniform etc), he was doing the school run instead of me. I was upset that he wouldn't, when I had just done all the above (as usual) for the last two days plus two evenings of bath and bedtime as he was either playing golf or having drinks with friends after work.

None of that excuses how I behaved however.

When he refused to acknowledge the fact that I had a problem with this and basically ignored me, looking at the computer, I got more and more irate until he finally spat the words "ok I'll f*g do it just stop f*g going on about it" I guess I should have stopped there and be satisfied that he was at least going to help.

But I kept on wanting to talk about why (I felt) he was being so unkind- I even helped him get his golf kit together that morning before work ffs- blah blah blah blah snipe snipe etc. I was being rather controlled and reasonable about this however I didn't rant and rave. More of the same from dh, ie he continued totally ignoring me unless to say shut the f* up I am doing what you want fgs now go away.

Not proud of this but I was holding a towel and ds2's nursery bag and slapped his back with the towel a few times and chucked the bag at him, totally out of anger and frustration before storming off. So unlike me I don't know what happened.

He refused to come to bed that night, slept in the spare room and has refused to talk to me bar the odd text telling me how angry he is that I lashed out at him ever since

I feel so remorseful and ashamed about this, as he points out if the shoe was on the other foot (which it never has been- I trust him 100% not to be violent towards me) this would have been a hideous event. Although it didn't hurt him physically I've obviously really done some damage. What's nearly the worse thing is that I didn't even realise until he told me that it was the fact that I'd lashed out that was winding him up. "If you were a bloke you'd feel sorry for your wife" is what dh said and he's right.

He still doesn't want to talk to me or see me (we work fairly close by to each other and I wanted to see him at lunch time, plus I stayed in a hotel last might as planned because of my meeting on the other side of the country)

Am I able to make this up to him? I feel dirty and scared about this and don't know what to do next

OP posts:
WhatsAllThisThen · 20/05/2010 19:26

I once threw a lipstick at a very manipulative ex.

It was very wrong and I obviously apologised. It did, however really make me see what I had become in that relationship and I left him shortly afterwards.

themildmanneredjanitor · 20/05/2010 19:29

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OrmRenewed · 20/05/2010 19:33

OK I'm naive.

I can live with that.

Red - it sounds to me as if you have put up with a lot. And your DH needs to face the music about his behaviour - assuming this is how he behaves all the time. I can quite understand you losing your rag. But it seems to bother you that you threw something at him. What would you have done if it happened to have been something heavy that you had in your hand - would you have still thrown it? I guess that's what occurs to me - I've been mad at DH and I've done stuff like this too but I suspect if I had a brick in my hand I'd have still chucked it . I just wonder if it was the same for you?

yondan · 20/05/2010 19:42

I'm sorry but I cannot condone violence. If you posted that your husband had done this to you, then I would advise you to leave him immediately. Have you thought of anger management?

Unlikelyamazonian · 20/05/2010 19:48

"But I am not convinced he actually thinks I was violent, just wants to make me feel rubbish"

That is what you have written OP.

You are quite right and you know it.

I have been here. yaboo sucks to those who advise that a slap with a towel after being told to fuck-off repeatedly is violence and wrong.

I notice snorbs has slinked off. And foxy.

And who got one of my previous messages deleted??? good grief.

junglist1 · 20/05/2010 19:56

"Making a partner lose control can be emotional abuse"
I know that too now. My ex twat used to insult me for hours, I remember walking the streets at 6 am with my pregnant belly so I wouldn't have to listen to it. A couple of times I flipped and slapped him. Then I was the abuser, of course. What the OP has done is not domestic abuse

Unlikelyamazonian · 20/05/2010 19:57

orm she would not have had a heavy object in her hand. She is grovelling over a towel slap ffs.

Supposing the poor girl's post was this:

"I found my H has been searching sex sites and looking up local escorts. He has raided our bank accounts and disappeared abroad. Just before he went I hit him on the back in the laundry room with a towel. We have a six month old son and I feel terrible for becoming so violent and think that he is probably right to abandon us given my unforgiveable behaviour. He has now not spoken to me for two years and I wish there was a way I could get the message through to him that I should never have hit him with the towel and there is no excuse.

junglist1 · 20/05/2010 19:57

Oh and I'm not sorry for slapping him by the way. I should have torn his face off

Unlikelyamazonian · 20/05/2010 20:00

yondan, have you ever sat on an ant? wtf name is yondan anyway? Have you ever sought literary management? you need it.

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WombFrootShoot · 20/05/2010 20:01

My post looks all mystical and woo now that you got one deleted.

Unlikelyamazonian · 20/05/2010 20:03

bollocks to it. like Hully said, it's all made up anyway.

ItsGraceAgain · 20/05/2010 20:06

Is that the post that was deleted, UA? Gosh, it was shocking

@junglist - yeah, me too!

OrmRenewed · 20/05/2010 20:14

OK. I clearly have no place here.

I thought the OP was concerned about her reaction to her DH's provocation. You have all put me right.

TheRedSalamander · 20/05/2010 20:16

He's still not speaking to me.

Think I am just going to let him chill and hope that he will tell me when he is ready to talk.

OP posts:
yondan · 20/05/2010 20:17

yondan

This is reference to a grade that I received in 1992, whilst studying the art of Shotokan Karate, in Japan. It means that I am a fourth degree black belt in Karate. I know longer study.

Not sure why my post deserved such abuse. Is domestic violence ok then?

Unlikelyamazonian · 20/05/2010 20:18

nah, have no idea what I wrote. something that offended snorbs probably. fifty quid he supports Millwall.

MmeLindt · 20/05/2010 20:20

Red
your relationship does not sound healthy, tbh. That one or both of you have been in a position to feel justified in nor speaking to the other for a longer period of time. It is just not good.

I have no idea what happened, why you were so upset but if it were so bad that you tool so long to get over it then it does not sound good.

TheRedSalamander · 20/05/2010 20:20

I am bothered that I threw something at him if he sees that as violence.

OP posts:
WombFrootShoot · 20/05/2010 20:20

I think you wrote:

Shut the fuck up Snorbs I'm fucking doing something...

or summat along those lines.

yondan · 20/05/2010 20:20

NO not KNOW

Unlikelyamazonian · 20/05/2010 20:20

Od dear Sal...poor man still a bit hurt from the thrashing you gave him after him telling yoiu to fuck off ?

Unlikelyamazonian · 20/05/2010 20:23

thankx womb

It was just as vitriolic and god-awful as I remembered

yondan · 20/05/2010 20:24

Hi Sal

I have only just registered today. Are you normally so aggressive?

junglist1 · 20/05/2010 20:24

Yondan it wasn't violence. A lot of us on here have been in abusive relationships and I feel it belittles our experiences to call what the OP did violence

yondan · 20/05/2010 20:26

Sorry, that was meant for unlikely not Sal.

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