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    • #173572
      Rainydays
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      I’ve been here before – which just makes me feel even more guilty bothering you all.  Just need a bit of support, I guess.  Some is much the same but since just before Christmas, he’s broken me – it’s like I’ve just lost the will – it’s constant now, I’ve ruined his life, any life we had was dull/boring and he wishes he’d never met me, (detail removed by moderator) so that he doesn’t have to work, it’s my fault he’s in a job he hates, I don’t care about him (I get up at 5am each morning to make him fresh coffee and lunch to take to work, do all the housework, clean, do his washing, ironing, do the garden, put the bins out, do all the shopping, ask nothing of him).  I put my life on hold for (time frame removed by moderator) holding down my own job so we had money coming in whilst caring for him/his personal hygiene etc etc after his major surgery – but he’s told me not to ever expect a ‘thank you’.  Seems I’m spineless, a loser, a waste of a life, miserable, frigid, don’t look after myself – (detail removed by moderator) He opens my post, I know he has put a tracker on my phone, creeps around the house and then suddenly appears in the room I am in.  He gets in from work before me, goes straight to bed, I get in, cook a meal, take it to him on a tray in the bedroom.  I go days, weeks and live in silence with him.  I can’t even cry anymore, have no fight when he starts verbally attacking me but then apparently that just shows how spineless I am.  Maybe he’s right, but I’ve lost the will.  People at work ask me if I’m okay because I’m quiet not my previously usual bouncy self and I just say ‘I’m fine’.  I know that bouncy self has gone, just a shell left now.  And I know I am afraid of him, scared of what comes next – best part of the day is when I eventually close my eyes and try to get a couple of hours sleep, but sleep doesn’t come to me easily anymore – just stare into the darkness, wondering what is the point ?  I used to be so scared of death but now, now it doesn’t hold any fear for me, it would just be an end to it all – and peace.

    • #173591
      Yesican
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      I’m so sorry to read this RainyDays. It sounds like he is treating you with contempt and that is really grinding you down. Is there anyone at all that you can say “I’m not doing too good” ? Just to say it aloud to someone else. I know it’s not easy.

      Please try to take care of yourself and remember that you are important and that you don’t deserve to be treated like this.

    • #173596
      Rainydays
      Participant

      Thank you Yesican.  Just feel so low and although I can write it here, don’t even know where to start to tell someone and I’m scared that he might find out that I have spoken to someone and then, he’d go beserk.  Feel so demoralised, as though I don’t exist, have no worth.

       

    • #173622
      Ontheroad
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      I can relate. It’s so very hard isn’t it. I know what this feels like on those dark days. Reach out if you can to a local DV organisation. They can help. You aren’t alone in this situation. You may feel it but it’s part of a lie they try to make you believe. But you are strong. You made it here!! You are stronger than you know and you can survive this. Sending love to you.

    • #173626
      Rainydays
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      Thank you ‘ontheroad’ – sometimes, usually in the night, I start to think, it is me?  is he right? am I this horrible, selfish, spineless person ? But then at other times, I remember me – I found some photos on my phone the other day – they were of me, probably (number removed by Moderator) years ago, I looked so healthy and happy with a huge smile -then I looked in the mirror – lost weight, skin is sallow, eyes have no life, just a sad excuse of a person.  (number removed by Moderator) years ago, so full of life – but he’s worn it all away ……………. now life is all about him, every text, every conversation telling me what a useless person I am.   Wanting me to cash in my pension so he doesn’t have to work – is that right ??? wanting me to chase my ex-husband for money ??? All so he doesn’t have to go to work.  Blaming me because he’s in a job he doesn’t like – is that my fault ??? Every little thing is my fault – we live in a rented cottage, my tenancy – he says he hates living in it – so wants to move – it’s my fault we haven’t moved – but the truth is, the rent is reasonable, everywhere around us is too expensive and I have no issue with the cottage.   A (object removed by Moderator) broke, it was removed but not replaced yet – and that’s my fault because I am not threatening the landlord if he doesn’t hurry up with replacing the (object removed by Moderator).  Granted it needs sorting and I am in touch with the landlord.  But he (my ‘partner’) tells me I am not doing enough, that’s typical of me, useless, being walked over, I should demand it’s sorted.  Won’t listen when I say I am talking to the landlord who is sorting out a new (object removed by Moderator).  All the other (object removed by Moderator) are working but it’s just another thing for him to yell at me about – am I useless ??  Is he right ??  It’s a (object removed by Moderator) for heaven’s sake – I’m in pieces, walking on eggshells, scared of my own shadow, and he’s latched onto this (object removed by Moderator) being another example of how useless I am.  Is he right ??  Am I a useless excuse for a person ??

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