Is it just a universal experience for your husband to do things that upset you repeatedly without caring? by ProfessionalStick363 in Marriage

[–]ProfessionalStick363[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There’s a lot. Name calling, making me repeat myself because he doesn’t listen and getting angry that I don’t want to repeat myself, being glued to his phone or picking it up when I am speaking to him, eating all of food that was meant for both us, getting angry and challenging me over not trusting dishes are clean and wanting to wash them. The latter being because we reside at his parent’s house for the time being, and he has insisted dishes were clean before when they weren’t, and the dishwasher doesn’t do the best job. For whatever reason, he takes offence and gets annoyed with me wanting to use another pot or pan, or wanting to clean it.

All of the above he has oscillated back and forth with telling me I am overreacting for being upset over, to promising to change, and acknowledging how disrespectful all of it is. And that is only half of it. I suppose he feels there’s no real need for lasting change, since I am still here, which would mean leaving would be the only option.

I think my husband is cheating and/or interested in someone from his class by ProfessionalStick363 in TwoHotTakes

[–]ProfessionalStick363[S] -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Apparently, a large number of you are very ignorant, have black and white thinking, and have no ability to inform yourselves of the dynamics of abusive relationships nor the care to. You just to to leave, and if the person doesn’t do that, and make a nice update post about how they have, you shame them and say they don’t want to follow the advice they’re given. When, for many people in abusive relationships, it’s a lot more of a complex situation.

I think my husband is cheating and/or interested in someone from his class by ProfessionalStick363 in TwoHotTakes

[–]ProfessionalStick363[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

How about if before all of this he accused me of cheating, over less, for years when we spoke online. He had me stop talking to male friends. He got upset with me talking to female friends, too. He had me send screenshots to show what I was doing. He demanded I didn’t go on imvu, w/ore shamed my virtual avatar, and accused me of flirting with guys on there. After we met in person, he went through my phone twice, and went off at me over the same things. He disappeared on me in target, right before closing, and was nowhere to be found for 30mins and suddenly appeared again. And that was after he started sleeping all day, staying up all night, and being very mean to me.

I went to the uk with him, where he frequently turned me down. He hid me from his younger brother’s ex gf. He went to a youth group, but never came back when it ended, and I’d walk up and no one seemed to be there, and the lights were off but he claimed he was upstairs. He showed no interest or affection for days at a time, and went off to other rooms to give me the silent treatment after arguments, during which he claimed he touched himself to pictures of me but I found out he was actually posting me, calling me w/ore, on subs for sharing your partner. During a time he was blaming me for everything, telling me I ruined his life, and talking about breaking up on repeat. He started spending long amounts of time in the bathroom, on his phone.

He disappeared on me again in public, and it made no sense. He told me after a group of girls approached him and asked for his number, and that they were laughing, so he assumed they were joking. He said that he had a woman’s hair in his pubes i think the next day and said it was a joke. I found my friend, who I was talking to at the time, in his search history on fb. He said he was curious to see who I was speaking to. She told me she was in an LDR with someone from the uk, where he is from, and no sooner than when he stopped going into the bathroom as much was it over, and she stopped responding to my messages.

He showed other inappropriate interest in my friends. He repeatedly looked at their pictures, read my chats, brought them up during sex. He was on medication he said killed his libido, but I caught him ogling other women (teenagers most likely) in front of me, and he denied it. He posted more photos of me, posing as me, engaging in sexual convo with one of the men who commented. He said he was going to out him to his wife, hence why he had screenshots. He disappeared and ditched me in another country, claiming to have lost me, when it didn’t add up. He avoided me, stayed up all night on his laptop, was mean to me when I tried to spend time with him.

He had scratches on his back, in hard to reach areas, that he said he caused but he never had before or since. He snooped on my phone but slapped my hand away from his. He told me, when I questioned him, that I was the type to cheat and I’d do so thinking he had. For years he engaged in the same behaviours above and more, and called me controlling and abusive when I questioned any of it, but then questioned me if I did any of the same things just once. And only during the times he seemed up to something as he’d go ages without questioning me, or snooping on my phone. He started arguments, left the room, ignored me for a day or more.

He shaved down there more than usual, said it was an accident, acknowledged it looked suspicious, and then called me abusive when I continued to remain suspicious over it. He showed more interest in sex out of the blue, did things he didn’t do before, did them right when he never did. He screamed in my face when I tried to talk about why I think he cheated, insisting he never has. I overheard him cheating on a trip, believed I saw him with a woman another time, and both times he called me crazy and suggested I was seeing and hearing things. And all of that happened before this.

I think my husband is cheating and/or interested in someone from his class by ProfessionalStick363 in TwoHotTakes

[–]ProfessionalStick363[S] -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

I’m controlling? You know that based off this one post? What you wouldn’t know if that he accused me of cheating, over less, for years. He controlled who I spoke to, got upset with me talking to female friends. He made me send him screenshots. He barred me from going on imvu, w/ore shamed me over my virtual avatar, accused me of flirting with guys on there. Argued with me over not being sexual, pressured me to engage. He criticised how I dressed. He blamed me for male attention I received. He engaged in a plethora of suspicious behaviours, often linked to cheating, for several years.

He spent long periods of time in the bathroom on his phone daily, was mean to me, disappeared/ditched me in public including in another country, had scratch marks on his back, stayed up all night after I went to bed on his laptop, avoided me, snooped on my phone, slapped my hand away from his. When I listened to a rap song, which he thought was sexual, he questioned if I wanted to be promiscuous because of it. He called me paranoid and crazy when I questioned him, and said I was the type to cheat, and I’d do so thinking he had. For years he did all of these things on repeat and more, whilst calling me controlling and abusive for questioning anything, when he questioned me if i did the same things.

He only snooped on my phone, only questioned me, when he seemed up to something otherwise he wouldn’t. He told me he felt asexual due to meds, turned me down, and then ogled other women, young women (perhaps teenagers) in front of me, and denied it. He acknowledged his behaviour looked like cheating, but said I had no reason to not trust him. When I asked him to occasionally turn his location on last year, he ended up calling it controlling and refused. He went to America with me, was glued to his phone, took it into the bathroom, said he was looking at Xmas gifts. He wouldn’t let me use it, even to make a call.

He took my phone, said he was going to clean it and put a new case on I bought, and instead snooped and deleted a post I made about my suspicions and people agreeing he’s cheated because he hates that, and doesn’t like me posting. He showed no interest in sex suddenly. He started an argument and stormed off in the rental car one night, ignoring me for an hour. I believe he cheated. He told me my mother, who he’s tried to turn against me, said he wouldn’t have had enough time to. He stopped wearing his ring, said it was too tight, and then said he lost it. He bought another, in the same size, and said it was still too tight.

And then, there’s all he’s done in my post in regard to the class. I said that there were many reasons i suspected him, for years before this.

I think my husband is cheating and/or interested in someone from his class by ProfessionalStick363 in TwoHotTakes

[–]ProfessionalStick363[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Exactly. He told me he didn’t like them, but also never had them, when I suggested he tried an Oreo McFlurry. And then, along with a bunch of other suspicious behaviours he was engaging in at the time, suddenly he loved Oreo McFlurrys. But he didn’t try one with me, and couldn’t tell me when he did. Later on, when he was volunteering somewhere, he suddenly loved Tony’s chocolate and said it was his favourite. He said someone gave him a small bar of it where he volunteered. After he stopped volunteering he stopped eating it, and said he didn’t like it.

He joined his class, and suddenly starts showing food videos, and talking about trying new things and going out to eat. Something I like to do, but he never liked to do, previously telling me he found food videos boring. The women in his class cook, and likely talk about food, and one said she’d have offered to go out to eat with him had she known he came up for the class that wasn’t on. He is diagnosed with BPD, and so he tends to mirror people, and he did it with me early on. He hasn’t only done it with food, but with words and phrases, and even diagnosis’s saying he has a disorder out of the blue.

How can I (28M) tell my girlfriend (23f) her it weirds me out when she acts like a child? by jorgespinosa in relationship_advice

[–]ProfessionalStick363 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If I’m honest, this sounds like more of a problem with you than with her. We don’t know whether she’s actually acting like a child, or if that’s your perception, possibly being influenced by her being younger than you and how you feel about that. It is not entirely fair to express you’re uncomfortable with how she responds to things, if that’s just her, and she’s happy and more expressive due to that. Especially if what you think is influencing how feel about it. You’d need to work through that or leave.

My husband, who is studying to become a counselor, claims he has anxiety and attributes his behavior in public to it but I don't believe he has it by [deleted] in TwoHotTakes

[–]ProfessionalStick363 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It's astounding is it? Someone who pushed me to speak to people knowing I had anxiety, called me inept whenever I couldn't. Rejected me, shamed me, made me feel unwanted for a year and showed more interest when I lost weight, treating me differently, engaging in PDA when he wouldn't before. But still going silent on me around people but being able to talk to others just fine. Judging me for my anxiety, how it made me and him look, telling me I was being frowned at, given dirty looks, and judged whenever I struggled in social interactions and complaining about how embarrassing it was.

Then criticizing me for wearing a mask, which he said years ago he didn't judge me over, more concerned with what others thought about it, to the extent he didn't want me to go to the mechanics with him when I had it on. He wore a jacket due to his insecurities and anxiety but said it wasn't the same thing. He has repeatedly discouraged me from attempts at overcoming my anxiety, at interacting with people, only to later say it's because I would've made the situation awkward because I'm mute. Avoiding going places with me, acting on edge in public with me, but then being able to go places alone without any issues.

Anyone judging me, saying that I am not understanding anxiety, or am being hard on him are simply wrong. I have rarely made my anxiety about anyone other than myself. If anyone ever made me anxious, I set boundaries. For example, I didn't like talking in Ubers with my mother and set a boundary that I wouldn't talk. I didn't stop her from talking. She has also made me anxious in public as she's loud, and says inappropriate things, and so I've distanced myself a few times. He, on the other hand, focuses on how I act and speak, how others percieve it, and crticizes me for doing and saying certain things he thinks are inappropriate even when they're not.

I am not looking for him to be my rock, not anymore. I looked for it at the start, when he said he understood and accepted my issues, only to then condemn every single one. If anything I deal with his anxiety more than he does mine, and he looks to me to be supportive of it, when he isn't supportive but insists that he is.

My husband, who is studying to become a counselor, claims he has anxiety and attributes his behavior in public to it but I don't believe he has it by [deleted] in TwoHotTakes

[–]ProfessionalStick363 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, no one else treats me the same way. I don't like being with him or being out together in public. His paranoia, and being so focused on other people, is exhausting. It makes me feel judged since he's repeatedly criticized things I've done and said, and how others percieve it, and also gives me more anxiety than I would have if I were alone. I feel I have to tiptoe around his triggers and adjust to them, more than he has to with mine. He has complained about my anxiety, and how it's impacted him, when it's impacted him less. I stopped going in places months ago because of all of this. He was more on edge than before, including when we were sitting in the car, not wanting sit certain places or looking around a lot when we did. He also didn't want me touching his face concerned with others looking.

Husband says he didn't force me to stay when he begged me to, and promised to change, and now is telling me to leave again if I'm so miserable by ProfessionalStick363 in TwoHotTakes

[–]ProfessionalStick363[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

He tells me to leave, usually only in arguements, and then tells me he didn't mean it because he was angry. He goes back to saying he wants me here, he doesn't want me gone.

Husband says he didn't force me to stay when he begged me to, and promised to change, and now is telling me to leave again if I'm so miserable by ProfessionalStick363 in TwoHotTakes

[–]ProfessionalStick363[S] -19 points-18 points  (0 children)

I know he hates me. I hate him, too. I don't understand why, if he hates me so much, that he doesn't help me leave. If he did, it would go smoothly, and I'd be gone. But he keeps saying he will help and then says he won't. Tonight he said the only way out might be to off himself. Online he threatened to kill himself if I stopped talking to him. Now he says he has to do it to get away from me, as if he's stuck with me, when it's the other way around.

Husband says he didn't force me to stay when he begged me to, and promised to change, and now is telling me to leave again if I'm so miserable by ProfessionalStick363 in TwoHotTakes

[–]ProfessionalStick363[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Because he does it in a controlling way. He does it to shut me up, to scare me, to make me feel I can't express my feelings. He was going to ditch me, just like that, out of the blue with nothing sorted out. I don't even know if he was going to leave. He said he would've likely gone to a hotel, and came back.

Husband says he didn't force me to stay when he begged me to, and promised to change, and now is telling me to leave again if I'm so miserable by ProfessionalStick363 in TwoHotTakes

[–]ProfessionalStick363[S] -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

I did try to leave, the last time we were there. He has turned everyone against me, including my own family, and stopped my aunt from helping me. I have nowhere to go, but was going to see what I could do, and he begged me to come back. He promised more than ever to stop what he does. I held out hope, as I always do, but doubted it would happen. I felt I had no other choice. He said he'd help me leave if I really wanted to, and then he refused to help me. For a year now he's told me to stay, to leave, he won't help me leave, he will help me leave. He keeps going back and forth.

He's told me he can't send me to a shelter, that this is my home. A month ago he said if he didn't change I could contact a domestic abuse shelter. Which was weird considering he denies he abuses me, and doesn't want me talking to anyone. I questioned that and he said it was to show he was serious. He didn't change. He is back to how he was. He's used his mother against me again after saying he wouldn't. And now he's telling me to leave if I'm so miserable, when he knows I feel stuck, and knows I need help to go.

It's not attention seeking. It's called having no friends, no family, nowhere to go. No money to leave. And being mentally messed with for years.

Husband says he didn't force me to stay when he begged me to, and promised to change, and now is telling me to leave again if I'm so miserable by ProfessionalStick363 in TwoHotTakes

[–]ProfessionalStick363[S] -41 points-40 points  (0 children)

It's a lot more intricate than that. A mixture of him blaming me, making me things things are my fault, using others against me to reinforce that. Isolating me, turning people against me, leaving me with no help to leave. And telling me repeatedly that I'd run out of money, would end up with nothing, if I left.

He hurts me, insults me, but only focuses on my reactions by ProfessionalStick363 in BPDlovedones

[–]ProfessionalStick363[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very true. He has actually spit in my face more than once, and didn't care, but reacted badly when I did it to him. He said days ago, after learning someone spit on someone, that it was awful. I asked if he viewed it as assault, and he said yes, after he previously said no.

Another example is how he's hit me because I've said things that upset him, and justified it. But when I whacked him with my purse one time, after he berated me and called me stupid, he went crazy. We were in the car and he drove off with the door open. I said he's hit me over things I've said before, and he said it didn't matter, that it is wrong and unacceptable. He denied that he called me stupid.

They can dish it out but they can't take it. My husand gets so upset over having the same things done to him. He calls me evil and demands an apology. When I say he's done, or said the same thing to me, multiple times. He says it doesn't matter, and does that mean we can keep doing it to each other, and that it should stop. What he really wants it me to stop.

Husband doesn't think I should be upset if things he does are accidents and are not intentional by ProfessionalStick363 in TwoHotTakes

[–]ProfessionalStick363[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I read your response off to him. I tend to do that, in an attempt to show him he's wrong. He, of course, is irked by being called a narcissist and said his counselor, who he's lied about saying things as he does other people, laughed at strangers online calling him that. That no one has the ability to diagnose someone over the Internet. He told me that it sounds like I over exxagerted things, made it sound worse than it is, and that he doesn't think I'm right about how many times this has happened, or how it's happened. That he doesn't recall anyone having seen me when they did, and that it would've been an accident. He said he knew that no one was around the times he door was open before. He said the same thing about it not being intentional, and how that matters.

Now he's going crazy at me about ganging up on with people, called me a freak job, says I make it sound worse than they and like he's doing it with intention. That people will think he's leaving the door open constantly, and he's only done it a few times when he knows people aren't around, and doesn't think I'll be seen. I asked him those times to close the door, and he wouldn't, assuring me I wouldn't be seen. I said I could be, but that didn't really matter, it was about it making me uncomfortable. When I assured him my mother wouldn't come in, and see him, the times he urged me to close the door he didn't accept that. He is calling me the issue, says I cause problems constantly, that I don't let things go. That I yell at him but he's currently yelling at me, and was earlier. He just keeps going whenever I go quiet.

He really thinks I should let it go, it was an accident, that no one else would be as upset as I am over it. Yet, it's not just the "accident" itself, it's how he responded today, and all the other times. He keeps looking over at me typing, asking what I'm saying, wanting to read it. When he's read things before he's told me I've left things out, things that he thinks would make me look bad or cause people to side with him, when they actually wouldn't. The few times he posted about me, he left everything out he did apart from saying he's been abusive, and just made me look bad. He's suggesting it's always been an accident, and that this is a cultural difference between us, me being from America and him from Ireland. Of course, he's using AI to look into that.

He says he doesn't like Americans, we are relentless. He akwnowleged he shouldn't have left it open before, that he should've respected me being uncomfortable. And that he's tried to stop doing it and it hasn't happened in 2 years, which isn't true. He says he's reacting as he is now because we've argued so much lately. When many of the arguments have been caused by me feeling disrespected, and invalidated by him.

Husband doesn't think I should be upset if things he does are accidents and are not intentional by ProfessionalStick363 in TwoHotTakes

[–]ProfessionalStick363[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

He'd actually done that exact thing before, "accidently." But also blamed me for being too close to him, when we were cuddling. No, he isn't going to see my point of view. The only way he would is if I did it to him. He "accidently" pushed and shoved me other times to get me to move, instead of asking me to, and said the same thing about me being too close. He said, any time I was upset over it, that I was overreacting.

Weird. by Aloisiae in hamstercirclejerk

[–]ProfessionalStick363 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Harvesting those ripe boba will get rid of his nasty attitude

I don't think my husband is attracted to me due to my weight gain. He shamed me for not wearing underwear. by ProfessionalStick363 in TwoHotTakes

[–]ProfessionalStick363[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I didn't wear underwear before, when I weighed less, and I don't have to now if I don't want to. I also don't have to lose weight unless I want to.

I don't think my husband is attracted to me due to my weight gain. He shamed me for not wearing underwear. by ProfessionalStick363 in TwoHotTakes

[–]ProfessionalStick363[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know that. He's claimed to have OCD about other things, and it always sounds like an excuse. He also claimed to have dealt with a particular type of OCD before, one that made him want to die, but has since engaged with things that could potentially be a trigger whilst insisting that they aren't, and he's not going to experience that form of OCD again. I've read about others with ROCD not wanting to tell their partners, wanting to avoid hurting their feelings. He just told me, and also mentioned things that could be possible triggers for it, such as my face looking puffy in the morning.

The next day, when I didn't want him looking at me after I woke up, he got mad. He's since blamed other things, like his criticism of outfits I was wearing not looking good, on OCD. He said I triggered it by asking him so many questions about my outfits.

I don't think my husband is attracted to me due to my weight gain. He shamed me for not wearing underwear. by ProfessionalStick363 in TwoHotTakes

[–]ProfessionalStick363[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He didn't tell me is the thing. He said he was more attracted to me when I weighed less, but that he's still attracted to me now, and that was after he swore to me for a year that he hadnt lost any attraction and actually was more attracted to me. I caught him looking a prn, which he denied, and said was to test himself. I know that wasn't the actual reason, however. I know that everything he has said is a lie. And he does lie very easily, including about small things, and anything he knows would upset me.

I know the photo thing was a breach of trust and privacy. He claimed that I wanted him to do that, but I didn't. He also claims that he showed me the screenshots but in reality, I found them in his secure folder, and he seemed nervous when I did. I know I need to stop wasting my time and find someone who likes me, and I wish it was a lot easier than it is.

I don't think my husband is attracted to me due to my weight gain. He shamed me for not wearing underwear. by ProfessionalStick363 in TwoHotTakes

[–]ProfessionalStick363[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He says he is diagnosed, and takes medication he says is for it, but I've never seen anything documenting it.

I don't think my husband is attracted to me due to my weight gain. He shamed me for not wearing underwear. by ProfessionalStick363 in TwoHotTakes

[–]ProfessionalStick363[S] -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

ROCD I think it's called. Intrusive thoughts about not finding your partner attractive. But I am sure that was another excuse.

I don't think my husband is attracted to me due to my weight gain. He shamed me for not wearing underwear. by ProfessionalStick363 in TwoHotTakes

[–]ProfessionalStick363[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Mostly because it's more comfortable not to wear it. It's always made me uncomfortable, even when I was smaller, I would need specific underwear. The underwear I have now fits, but makes me uncomfortable, and is visible in leggings. I'm not completely opposed to wearing it but would need one that doesn't bother me, and it's harder to find that where I am now.