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Lillyvan777

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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

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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

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Joined: 25 Aug 2005
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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

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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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