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Webcams, phone sex, escorts - any thoughts?

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NomNomNom · 05/06/2010 12:38

Found out recently that DH has been using the above for over a year.

Our history:
married after 5 years
DD born a few months after wedding
now been together 6 years and a bit

He first contacted an escort a month before our wedding and again early this year.

A lot of web cam contact with other women. He had favourites, there is one woman he did stuff with via webcam 8 times.

Most shocking is that he mostly did the webcam stuff at home while I was there and awake. No idea how he managed to hide it.

I found out by reading credit card statement, he gave me login for the website he used for all this. He spent a lot of money when we were struggling financially.

He has been staying in a hotel since I found out and will move into his own place next week.

I've been to CAB to sort out benefits and I have set up regular counselling for myself. He has set up counselling for himself, been to see GP who put him on ADs. We will see a joint counsellor next week or the week after hopefully.

Anything else I need to do? What am I supposed to think about this? He says he doesn't remember most of what he's done and thinks it's mostly porn, whereas I think it's cheating. He also thinks that as he's managed to cut down a lot this year, that's what matters most.

He's also doing the whole 'I'm ill, poor me' victim thing, in my opinion.

I need to keep a clear head and not be sucked in by him as I would give anything for everything to be normal again.

Any thoughts appreciated.

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ImSoNotTelling · 07/06/2010 10:23

if you have cut out a lot of your social contacts, albeit willingly, I suggest that you start getting back in contact with people, especially anyone who has been through a separation / divorce. Having someone else/others to talk to will be a huge help, especially if they know what you are going through. It would make you feel stronger I think (assuming that your friends are nice!).

Do what you need to do now, but also think in the long term, make the first steps towards putting together the sort of life you want for you and DD down the line IYSWIM.

Am still gobsmacked at what a bastard this bloke has been. I hope you are OK.

NomNomNom · 07/06/2010 21:35

Thanks all. Your comments have been very helpful. I will try to find people to spend time with, but none of our friends are even married yet, we're the first ones to have a baby.

I am looking forward to making a nice home for DD and me though, no one to leave stuff in the wrong place, no smelly socks everywhere.

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ImSoNotTelling · 08/06/2010 10:49

Good luck nomnom

Your friends might surprise you, put some feelers out. The fact that you are already looking forward to having your own place just you and DD is a good thing to focus on - I think you will be fine I am just so sorry that you got taken in by this twat of a man.

Really good luck with everything

Isanotherday · 13/06/2010 21:08

How are you getting on?

NomNomNom · 16/06/2010 13:21

Alright, thank you. Just getting used to everything. We've had a joint counselling session which went quite well, I think. Still don't know how much of what he says I can believe.

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Isanotherday · 18/06/2010 23:58

Hi
Glad you are okay. How is your individual counselling going, are you still having it?

What went well in the joint session? How is he acting now, are there specific things you don't believe? Have you managed to stop him moving back in with you?
Sorry for the barrage of questions just wondering if writing things down might help clarify some of your thoughts

NomNomNom · 20/06/2010 23:10

Hello,

I'm seeing my counsellor for the second time this week, she seems quite nice. Not sure what went well in the joint session exactly, I just felt slightly more calm afterwards, I think it allowed us both to feel listened to.

He has his own flat now, so that is sorted.

What I'm struggling with at the moment is his aggression towards me (never physical) as I sort of feel like he's not allowed to be angry with me because he has done everything wrong. But I suppose I will talk about that with my counsellor and see what happens over the next few weeks.

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Coolfonz · 21/06/2010 14:07

(I'm a bloke)

He's a fucking wrongun'.

Having a merchantbank to a bit of bumsex porn is one thing, but escorts and webcams (ewwwww some poor Romanian girl bashing something with something for €2.50) is just grim.

Then he whines about it like Bonny Langford.

Ewwww.

Grim.

Leave him behind. Why counselling? What for? Let him rot.

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