13 years me and my partner have been together we have the most amazing relationship it really is we don’t have any trust issues of dramas nothing like that we have always bickered like mad but nothing to mad
But the past year I would say 6 months especially has been the hardest and most horrible our relationship has ever been we can’t get on for longer then a few days there’s always something we are arguing about
My partner has had really bad anxiety and was put on meds 2 years ago nearly and it’s been amazing for him but it’s like we constantly are battling I can’t see his side he can’t see mine her gets nasty in arguments and can say really horrible things then when I cry his like oh here we go play the victim like you always do telling me how I never see how I make him feel
For example tonight he texts me in his way home what times dinner I text him 4 minutes later that I was doing it early anyway comes in happy we all sit at the dinner table he then eats 2 mouthfuls doesn’t eat anymore
I then later in the evening say did you eat ? He was like yeah I went into McDonalds I was starving I said why would you do that when I text you saying what time dinner was he then said I took to long to reply and he just got food
I then said why did you when you got in not say no don’t do me dinner I’m not hungry
And he just kicks off saying I didn’t get back to him quick enough why does it matter blah blah blah
And it’s little things like this that’s petty that’s causing so much arguments we are so distant from each other it’s crazy we have a day or 2 days being us then the rest back to the arguments it breaks my heart because we actually both really love one another but this is so not us and I don’t want my daughter brought up in an unhappy relationship ( we never have been till recently)
Sometimes I wonder if it’s like a childhood trauma coming out his actually had therapy for his anxiety and I know they touched on his childhood but he never said much his absolutely obsessed with him mum the women can do no wrong in his eyes but all she did was put on him from a really small child even up till now I sometimes wonder if some things are his own insecurity’s that his just not dealt with
I’m not one for couples therapy I can’t lie I know it works for so many that’s not the root I want to go down I just need to figure a way to solve this and get us back it makes me so sad
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All I can say is there are a lot of parallels to my relationship and yours. Mamas boy, 13 years, constant bickering and arguing, can’t agree on anything anymore. What the heck is going on?!!