I have to end the relationship...
I just had a revelation...although the SK are a pain in my butt selfish, arrogant and disrespectful I think it's all the SO fault... he threw me under the bus when I needed his support trying to implement rules in the home for the well being of the house and for my sanity. I told him and spoke to the kids went as far as to buy dry erase boards to point out the obvious like please flush the toilet and put your dishes in the sink etc. Don't forget these kids are 13 and 16!! And instead of talking to them in the right setting to try to give them responsibilities around the house he called them to our room and said hey wash your dishes cuz she keeps bitching at me! My jaw dropped and I felt infuriated!! I feel like I devoted 9 years of my life to these people in vain...Im saddened and in awe of how little respect he gave our relationship by just outing me instead of him working towards a solution and perhaps growth in the family and relationship. Am I wrong am I just dramatic am I just a b$)&@ like they say I am...
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Grrr
I have a 9 month old who is crawling and I constantly have to be cleaning the floors and I went away for a few days to my moms to visit and when I came back they apparently didn't throw out the trash and didn't wash any dishes and had maggots crawling everywhere that eventually turned into dozens of flies! It was a complete nightmare!!!! I couldn't believe that me being gone for a week would turn my house into a trash can. These people would rot without me does that mean that I'm their "help" a fkn maid. OMG!! I don't know what to do anymore omg any advice I'm afraid of the truth, afraid that I know what I need to do but I'm not ready to let go of 9 years because I have a baby with him...
*big hugs to you*
Right now a lot of people can say that you've just had baby, you're stressed, you're overly emotional because your hormones are still all over the place, you shouldn't be making rash decisions. All that is true. But you're not being dramatic. Or a bitch. If after 9 years your partner can throw you under the bus when you're at your most vulnerable then what kind of a partner is he?! It's useless and too late to say "oh i should've never married him" or "oh I shouldn't have had a baby with him". But it's not too late to decide what to do next. Would he agree to counselling? If you left him would he even try to salvage the relationship or just not care? More importantly, what do you want to do? Have a long hard think about where you want to be this time next year. And then make the little steps to start to bring that plan into action.
Triple negative coming up but it is the truth.
You are not wrong, not being dramatic & you're not being a b$)&@. I have had faced the similar things. When reading it in your post, I realized that I have let myself become very unhappy for the second and last time/marriage. Divorce seems on reasonable & required for your happiness, peace, respect & sanity or at least, that is going to be my approach. I have been used & disrespected for far too long.
You need to get some rest and a cleaning person
First, all your instincts and feelings on this are all entirely valid. Most of us have lived this same scenario. But you just had a baby, and you are probably physically and emotionally drained. I believe you need to get more rest and help and try to work this out before you even think about leaving or divorce. If you get divorced now you will still have to deal with your DH for 18 plus more years (and maybe his Skids) and have the hard life of a single mom and joint custody with back and forth. It's easier to try to fix this situation now.
It sounds like you need some help at home. Can your mom come stay with you for awhile? Can you go back there to stay with your mom for more frequent visits to take a break from DH and Skids? Can you hire a cleaning person 2/3 times a month to help with all the big deep cleaning? Also, can you hire a college student-type babysitter and go out with your friends to get some "you" time. This will all help with your overall stress levels and let you have more patience.
Then I would immediately schedule a marriage counseling session with a recommended therapist. Have this therapist help you explain to your DH that you have reached a potential breaking point with him and your Skids and need professional help. Tell him you feel he's not being respectful or supportive with your concerns about his Skids and their not pulling their weight in the house. These kids should have a few daily household chores. (I always insisted my 3 boys take turns, unloading dishwasher every day, helping clean kitchen after dinner, and take out garbage and recycling, as well as make their bed (they didn't always do the beds). But now my kids are 17 and 20s and they are all 3 great at cleaning kitchen and helping with house because I required it as part of being in family. They also had to rake leaves, and shovel snow, etc. Kids will do what they are told if you ask nicely, explain that you are a family team and everyone needs to do their fair share Kids understand about fairness. But your DH needs to help with cleaning too or they won't. I also had my husband helping with cooking and dishes so my sons had a good role model. Everyone needs to have chores and work as team. Do not do everything like their maid OR they will let you! No one "likes" cleaning but it must be learned and done!
Remind DH that these are "HIS" kids - not yours and so he's actually the main one in charge of making sure they have a good role model, that they follow house rules, behave, and clean up after themselves. Remind him you are not their mom or their maid. Get him to rethink his job as their dad quickly. He brought them into Your life not vice versa so he needs to be more of a leader.
I really wish I had done this much earlier with my DH and my own SD (who only visited 3/4 times a year) because he also would "blame me" when he talked to my SD about needing her to follow house rules. She was older and treated much differently than my own 3 sons. She would ignore me unless he backed me up. Often he would also "throw me under the bus" like your husband did by blaming me for any requests -- so that he didn't look bad. He also didn't care as much as I did about all those household cleaning rules. I was the primary enforcer. Sounds like your DH is the same. That's obvious from how your house was when you returned from trip to your mom's. He didn't clean at all!
So you need to be very clear that you need a clean house and floor for your new baby to be happy -- and your Skids and DH better raise their cleaning game. Too bad if that inconviences them. Be the leader on this and ignore the balking. Type out and post a list of weekly chores for Skids (and yourself and DH).
But important to Talk about all this in marriage counseling and have a neutral 3rd party therapist help you explain all this to DH why it's so important. Sometimes spouses listen more to a therapist saying it.
I would do all this for at least 1-2 years before I even thought about leaving. You owe this to your sweet new baby. I promise you can change your household if you have the confidence that you are the real leader in the house. But be kind and polite with your requests - just VERY firm. Everyone will end up respecting you even more if there is order, clean, and calm in the house! Good luck and big hug!!
She has already given it 9 years
She has already given it 9 years, and you want her to give it 1 or 2 more? If she did everything you suggested and didn't see a huge change in 1 or 2 months, that might be reasonable - but 1 or 2 years? That would be insane.
And in no way is this statement true, "Kids will do what they are told if you ask nicely, explain that you are a family team and everyone needs to do their fair share" Some kids, sure - all kids? No way.
Did you even read the OP's previous blogs? She has been firm with her DH about other matters and it got her precisely no where.
I see you are a new registered user, so I am not sure how much you have read around this site. If you do, you will see many, posters who have essentially done what you have suggested and it did not work. Be careful promising that if someone does what you did that they will see the changes that happened for you - because it is not going to work for everyone.
Thanks
Thanks for mentioning the difficulties of being a single mom. It seems like, in our sincere effort to help the posters, we often urge them to leave without a consideration of the realities that will face them if they do. Someday, our society will be better as far as women's pay, child care and other factors but it's not there yet.
You've give it NINE years.
You've given it NINE years. That's plenty. Your SO clearly doesn't care about your feelings or needs.
Agree with tog redux. I'm
Agree with tog redux. I'm not agreeing with this other posters comment that sounds a lot like advice from a user that is no longer here and has me very CURIOUS as to why they would give advice to stay and "hire a maid or have your mom come clean"...yeah NO...YOUR HUSBAND AND HIS LAZY A$$ ENTITLED brats can clean. Or the advice of being "nice and firm"....again HELL NO!!!! He threw you under a bus in front of his kids and undermined you completely. He has zero respect and you are supposed to give him 1-2 more years to figure it out! OMG, NO!
You are not wrong to want to leave after this treatment. I understand you have a baby and it is hard and scary but do you want your baby to grow up thinking the way your DH and his children are treating you is ok!?!?
Ugh, this is so wrong!
Seriously, NINE YEARS. He
Seriously, NINE YEARS. He clearly thinks it's her job to clean the maggots (barf) in the house. He doesn't even care that his infant daughter is coming home to a house full of garbage and maggots. Therapy isn't the answer here.
I dunno, maybe electrotherapy
I dunno, maybe electrotherapy. Y'know, a couple of electrodes strategically applied every time he's about to disrespect her ... like every time he opens his mouth.
Exactly and no way in HELL
Exactly and no way in HELL should the poster be responsible for hiring/paying for a made or making her mom come help clean!!!! WTF?!?! NO!!!! DH and his children can clean up after themselves and OP should not be cleaning up maggots b/c she was gone for a week. This is disgusting and so disrespectful!
Agreed, electrotherapy or maybe a lobotomy.....
Yes
Same 'ol' gaslighting.
When we first get with a
When we first get with a divorced person they usually gibe us a reason for their divorce. However the longer we spend with them the more we begin to understand what that real reason was. Your husband has not grown beyond playing the blame game. He's so afraid of being the bad guy that he would throw you under the bus for completely reasonable requests. I don't understand what goes through some people's heads when their partners ask and then begin to nag and bitch about normal household tasks. These things need to be done so what makes them immune from doing it especially if you have a 9 month old that you need to watch. I'm pregnant and I have a 10 month old so I know what it feels like to be exhausted but have to give all of your focus to a baby. My husband jokes that I have become lazy but he steps up to make dinner do dishes and other chores. Basically one of us has to watch the baby while the other get something done. One person can't do everything and it is ridiculously selfish of your husband 2 at like you are being unreasonable for wanting the dishes cleaned.
I'm not sure why but these types of men seem to think that their relationships with their children are conditional and they need to walk on eggshells to constantly please them and never asked anything difficult of them. Meanwhile they treat their wives like their love is unconditional even though they've been divorced already so they should know it isn't.
Thank you so much!
Let me also add insult to injury I've had these Skids since they were 7 and 4 but it seems they were already exposed to and unsafe unclean home so they grew up to inking those living situations were normal and my SO was apparently ok with BM being filthy. However I've shown them the complete opposite and it seems like it doesn't register in their brain the difference between and clean comfortable healthy environment and chaos, like they prefer chaos so they're not held accountable for anything like always look the other way. I'm not unreasonable and I don't feel I'm a monster SM, I should remind you he never wanted to remarry but that's another story and another resentment for another day. For now I feel really depressed and frustrated I feel like he feels entitled because he works and I'm currently unemployed but his job ends in 8 hours mine doesn't, form the second I wake up till I put my baby to sleep and all throughout the night when he wakes up, my job never ends. So to top things off I still have to babysit the big Kids, I'm exhausted! They come home and throw everything on the floor after endless times of asking to keep the floor clear for the baby. I don't know how to get through to the SO wihh the out exploding anymore and I predicted I would turn resentful if he didn't address my needs and that's where we are now.
Not to put too fine a point
Not to put too fine a point on it but this is pearls before swine. He's a pig who doesn't mind living in squalor and has reverted to type. Don't waste your time trying to drag him out of the gutter. You deserve a real partner.