Joined: 28 Jan 2006 Posts: 6 Location: Superior wi
Lost And Feeling So Hopeless, New Here Posted: 01-28-06 11:47am
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i have been married to a man for 2.5 years
and now 6 month's pg. I am 34 years old
and have two daughters 13 and 15. I
devorced my first husband 13 years ago.
I had such high hopes for this marriage.
I married a man that is 10 years older
than myself. He has never had children
and his longest relationship was 6 months
when he was 28, he's now 44. That
should have been my first clue. We moved
into his house and all hell broke loose.
Everything is always wrong, nothing is
good enough for him. I don't make enough
money, even though I pay my share of the
bills, he is always saying how he has to
pay for my student loan, but I am the one
that makes the check out and it comes out
of my check book, not his. Everything I
do is done, stupid and I even hate to be
around other people with him, because he
always cuts me down, I am so un-easy when
he is around. I am un-organized, stupid,
un-educated, a bad mother and a all
screwed up, so he says. I graduated from
a two year program and currently working
in my field. He is an engineer and he's
very smart. My oldest daughter isn't
doing that hot in school. Ninth grade is
rough and I think I should let her work it
out, she's trying and that's good enough
for me. He's on her constantly and
refuses to let me handle it. He knows so
much more for someone that has never been
a parent. Things were getting better for
the last year and we went to couseling and
the couselor helped him, mostly he would
stick up for me and tell him he's wrong,
he even fusses if there isn't a towel out
for drying his hands. I am just so sick
of his drama, surely everything can't be
all the bad. I'm pretty laid back and my
goal was to create a stable, relaxed home
for these girls of mine. Little did I
know that I have been doing that for years
all by myself. Sometimes I just want him
gone. I think of ways to kill him, even
though I would never. I know that if I
leave him and take childsupport and part
of his land, he will kill me. I know
this to be true. It's like I have no
place to call my own because this is his
house, his rules, his life and I just can
take the verbal beatings anymore. I hate
him. I hate him, really. He thinks
he's my father, his sister thinks I should
leave him and she doesn't know how I made
it the two years, his entire family knows
how cruel and rotten he is too me. They
know that all he does is yell. I just
don't love him anymore. Now I have
another baby, to raise on my own, which
wouldn't be so bad. He thinks I had this
baby for him........... I can see it
now, I don't feel as if he would be an
good father for any child. I feel like
he drove me so over the edge that I went
crazy for the first year, drinking a lot
and acting crazy, no I feel that he
doesn't have much power over me anymore,
just that fact that if I leave, I will
die. He knows I have no family, no one
really to turn to, except his sister and I
can't really do that because than his poor
mother, who I adore will be so upset.
His mother thinks I should just get out of
his way when he acts up. Now, I get in
his face and want to rip his eyes out. I
also have my own little dog buisness, I
have four dogs now. I can't even rent a
place with dogs. My credit is getting
better and better, as I have been working
on that for a few years now. I almost
think that I could get my own home, a
place to call my own. No a place that is
his.
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auntiejo1999
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 26 Jan 2006 Posts: 4 Location: canada
Posted: 01-29-06 08:54am
Wow!! Thats quite a mouthful!
First let me say that I commend for being
sooo strong! You seem to be in a tough
spot.
I was going to reccomend more counselling
for you guys but, if you truly know that
deep down in her heart you no longer
"love" this man then maybe the option for
you is to leave. Maybe you need to work
towards that?
You need to think what is best for you,
your daughters and the unborn baby.
Hope this helps a little:)
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teach486
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 25 Aug 2005 Posts: 276 Location: US
Posted: 01-29-06 10:25am
I have been in a relationship where
nothing was ever good enough for him. He
always nagged about any of my faults,
throwing them in my face daily.
To top that off he would even drag my
daughter into it. She would then be in
the mind-frame that I was not a good
mother to her, because I never liked to
take her places and spend money that we
didn't have (he had a secret gambling
problem, spending any money we had). She
started to sound just like him, putting me
down all the time.
He never would admit that he had a
problem. He would always explain away his
behavior with something like, "well if you
hadn't done this," or "well if you would
do more things with me then maybe I would
feel like you care...," etc. Nothing from
me was ever enough, it was always my fault
he was acting like that, and he wasn't the
one with the problems.
After 13 years together we are now
divorced. I am now happily remarried to
the love of my life. He is always
respectful toward me, never afraid to help
me out in any way needed, tells me daily
how beautiful I am to him and how much he
loves me.
With his help we are rebuilding my
daughter's attitude towards me. She seems
much happier now, more respectful toward
me, but she still slips into that "mom is
a worthless loser" mode occasionally when
she is angry at me for not getting her
way. We are slowly trying to train her
that she must take responsibility for her
own actions, instead of trying to blame
everyone else for her problems. It is
starting to work.
In the 13 years I was with him, I tried to
kid myself into believing that I was truly
happy, just because he did always hold a
job and never cheated on me. I tricked my
mind into believeing that I could just
deal with his attitudes/behaviors, because
they were ok since he was faithful, and
kept a job, and because maybe I really
could try being a better person than I
was. That maybe it really was my fault he
acted like that.
I am just really glad that I woke up and
realized it really wasn't all my fault at
all. Sometimes, yes, it was, but not all
the time. No matter how much I tried to
please him, and tried to work things out
through talking, it would always end with
him blaming me for everything, and him not
having any faults at all.
I also believed that over the years he
would change. I did try very hard to talk
to him about how he made me feel, and to
make him realize how he was acting. That
what he was doing was in fact emotional
abuse. He would change for a week,
sometimes for even a month. However, he
would soon slip back into old habits.
So, for you own sake and happiness, I
would suggest you start planning on
leaving. Start putting money back in a
secret account, or hide the cash in a
secret place where he would never find it.
Try to endure it long enough to get a
good savings built up so you can find a
place of your own. It might also help to
tape record any conversations where he is
emotionally abusing you. Either tape
record them, write them down word for word
on paper, or both. This will help your
case in the divorce, etc.
Hope this helps.
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Lillyvan777
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 28 Jan 2006 Posts: 6 Location: Superior wi
Thanks! Posted: 01-29-06 17:19pm
I like that secret saving idea. I am
going to put up extra hours at work. He
would never know. I couldn' t amagine
him turning my daughters against me.
That's horrible. But he was probably
her dad right? Gee, I guess I am not
the only one. It's such a roller coaster
ride. Now today he is the sweetest
person, but I know that tomorrow he will
not be. If only I had a magic wand, I
would change him. Silly huh! Or if I
was be witched. I love that show. The
old ones. Anyway, thanks again girls.
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