I need help... Sorry this is LONG!!!
Before SGD moved out all DH and I ever fought about was her. Since she left I have actually seen him. And I'm not happy
4 different times in a 2 month time period DH breaks our budget agreement. And then get mad at me for calling him a liar. Long story short, he would get on Amazon first thing in the morning on either of our paydays and spend hundreds. Before any bill was pay. We agreed to set and budget and he was to wait until after all bills were paid. He broke the agreement 4 times. I told him breaking an agreement is the same as lieing. He got mad at me. One thing he bought he had promised my DD. I told him put it up for Christmas. After we talked everything out he gave it to her. Even though we had agreed it would be for Christmas. Then he took DD to the store and talked to her about our fight.
He took SGDs kindle away for unlocking the Internet and looking up porn. Told her she will never get it back. Now, he is going to give her his old one and a $25 kindle gift card he already bought. Actually told me, well she isn't getting hers back and she is at her moms. I'm just going to technically give it to her mom. WTF ever!!! Please.
We have had promblems with our landlord and the electrical in this house. Legal advice told us to stop paying rent send a certified notice to landlord. At the beginning of the month DH and I made an agreement (we split our rent into two payments) we would pay the beginning of the month and give the landlord 2 weeks to fix it. If not, we wouldn't pay. They came and did half.. After we went without heat for a week and made it clear they were violating our rights. When they came and fixed half of the issue, they got DH alone. All of a sudden DH is standing there with the landlords employee convincing me to pay the other half. He even started talking about how "you" (meaning me) really shouldn't do this. I straight out said, really DH?? It was us until the got you alone. So he paid even knowing I didn't want to until it's fixed. And he was going back on another agreement with me.
The issue with the house that isn't ours has now cost us $7500. I had to take a loan out for $2500 about a month ago to fix some of it. DH blew $778 of that in 2 days before I could get the problem paid for. Had to take another $800 loan. DH told me, me getting the loans is the same as him spending because I didn't ok it by him. I told him, I'm fixing a problem you have dragged your feet on and the landlord has dragged his feet on for 15 months. I'm done. Somehow I'm still wrong. He sees nothing wrong with all the money he has cost us, all the money he has blown, and turning on me when it comes time to stand up.
Tuesday I torn the muscle in my shoulder. Wednesday I went Thanksgiving shopping with Bs. DH stayed home. Thursday I did 98% of everything. DH stayed in bed. Friday DH made plans to go to OSDs knowing YSD and her BF were coming over and then we were going to a friends. He flaked on OSD. Then made plans with her (I'm the last to find out) to go over there Saturday. He flaked. I had to work with DD on a model of earths layers. Knowing I had a torn shoulder, I had to take her to get the supplies, and cut the section out of the foam balls for her. I couldn't sleep until 430am last night I was in so much pain. I was up, so I straighten the paper mâché on the ball. DH comes out "what are you doing" "fixing some of the bumps" "at 230 in the morning? Why don't you let DD do that?" I told him it will be dry by then and unfixable. I'm already up. So he storms off to bed. Spends all day in bed today only gets up to come find me to find out why BS was running the bath. I posted about that already. So maybe my response to him wasn't the greatest but damn it, figure it out yourself!!!!
So after all of this... I'm starting to really see DH differently and it's affecting how I feel about him and how much I respect him.
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Just part of the way through
Just part of the way through your story, I lost respect for your DH.
You are trying to keep the family afloat, care for the kids, deal with an apartment without utilities ---- although, you could always hire your own repair person, document, and subtract it from your rent ---- it sounds as if you are the one adult trying to hold the fort and your DH is actively working against you.
Passive-aggressive behavior ? Or, mean-spirited ignorance ? Or, stupidity ? Or, simply male "I-know-everything-and-you-don't" style of machismo? No clue. It's not you, it's him.
I'm not sure but his changing
I'm not sure but his changing is stories, breaking deals, and going behind my back has made me lose trust and respect for him.
Him actively looking for issues with BS while kissing up to DD, even talking to her about a fight we had has made me angry and lose respect for him.
Him not treating me as an equal partner has made me stop thinking of him as such.
The fact that he compares BS to SGD who was physically abusive to me and verbally to my kids makes me doubt who he truly is. If he thinks back talk and OCd/ADHD hyper/anxiety is the same as her defiance, rudeness, straight out telling me "no" is the same, then he is really either blind to SGD or wants my kid to fail so he will feel better.
Somehow he made me his enemy and is actively work at that goal.
Tonight when had an issue I blogged about. But basically he got out of bed to come ask me if I had showered. When I told him no BS did, he went to ask him why he was running the bathtub. I told him I was right outside that bathroom I never heard the bath. It wasn't meant as was pointed out on here as he is wrong, but as that wasn't the cause of whatever you heard. After when I tried to talk to him about his reaction, he tried to change how it went down. Try to say he was only asking about running water in the house. I told him 1, if that was the case why wouldn't you look for it yourself rather then come to me and 2, if it was really about running water you wouldn't have told me I needed to ask BS why he was running the bath. It was an over flowing toilet... You could have figured that at all on your own. He stomped off telling me " you caught me on a technicality, I was blaming BS, good job. Your right, I'm wrong. Before that he was telling me I wouldn't have know the toilet was over flowing if he hadn't come to me. Yeh, I would have BS told me as soon as he got out of the shower.
Clearly having joint accounts
Clearly having joint accounts isn't working. Time for separate accounts and split bills 50/50.
Not trusting a partner with
Not trusting a partner with money is a line in the sand for me. I nearly left my DH over this. He also lies over money, but not this often. I could not tolerate this, he is actively working to destroy you both financially. I could not stay with someone so irresponsible. You need to collect his paycheck and take the reins financially 100%, or get out. He can't be trusted with money.
What ADULT living in an apartment with no heat blows hundreds on Amazon the day they get paid???? That is insane.
It's not an apartment, it's a
It's not an apartment, it's a house. But yes, the house was getting down to 58 at night. I was lighting fires during the day. My kids were piling on clothes and robes and blankets. That is when I said enough is enough. And that made me "just as human as him" because I got a loan without asking him to fix this damn problem.
It doesn't matter if it is an
It doesn't matter if it is an apartment or a house. The point is, you agreed to a budget to pay the bills, and he spent hundreds of the budget the second he got paid. He is either the worst money manager in the world, or he is addicted to shopping/spending. Either way, if you stay (which is not the choice I would make) you need to have the financial reins 100%, because this guy will ruin you both.
Your right it doesn't
Your right it doesn't matter.
And yeh, he can't keep a budget. Blew $1950 in 7 weeks on Amazon, and then want to tell me I need to buy soda in the bottle not the can, and start limiting how much coffee I drink, because they are expensive.
At this point I have 1 pair of pants that fit be and they have a torn out knee. Anytime I bring up jeans, he talks about how expensive they are. The brands I like are expensive but I have a place I go that is direct wholesale, so half the price. It's okay that I have no close but he is going to register a car we don't drive for his mom, take his ex-step grandkids (all 4) to tr movies when he spent $70 taking one. He just spend $450 last paycheck on bullshit on Amazon. Absolutely had to have super Mario smash bros ($64). The more I really think this over, the more I see how little I matter.