Marriage struggles

Can someone who has had bad marriage problems before and gotten through it message me? I feel so alone in the situation I'm in and can't talk to my family about it and my unmarried friends are no help. Saying "just leave" is not helpful. If you can relate please comment so I can message you. I just really need either advice or just someone to talk to. Thanks 🩵

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My dear the best thing to do if u haven’t had kid yet , not do it because is going to a long run ā¤ļø

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I’ve had some minor bumps in my marriage about invisible labor, the mental and emotional load I felt as if I carried alone. The real struggle of how much us mothers do that go unrecognized and sometimes unappreciated. I don’t know your problems but if they are similar to mine you can message me :) My husband has also always been very emotionally reserved and we’ve never had any big issues at all but definitely some hiccups that we have and are still working through!

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Together 15 years married nearly 5. Of course there has been ups and downs. Feel free to message me.

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In the case of physical, mental, or verbal abuse… you really should leave. In the case of cheating. Emotional or physical. Please leave. You should want better for yourself. They don’t love you if they do all that BS.

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I’m sorry. So many people are quick to say leave because it’s easy. They never even have to know the full story to be quick to say it. That’s why things don’t last nowadays. No one is willing to stay & fix things.
I try to live my life according to the word & he only gives us 1 free get away from a marriage. I’ve been in a place where God has told me to stay when I was ready to walk away. Things got better after that.

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You can message me if you want. Basically grew up with my husband. We’ve been with each other since we were teenagers so you can imagine it’s been a bumpy ride šŸ˜‚

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we met when I was 16šŸ’•

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So my MIL has been weird with me from day 1. My partner and I fell pregnant within months of seeing each other so we understood her reaction to me being pregnant was never going to be positive.

She then started going through a divorce when I hit the 12 week mark and we moved out, she didn’t reach out for a couple of weeks but we assumed she was just busy with lawyer stuff so didn’t pester. However weeks then turned into months etc. my partner would text his mum and she’d ignore the texts.

I was 8.5 months pregnant when she decided she wanted to come back. She apologised to us both directly for being absent my entire pregnancy and explained she was depressed, struggling etc. we decided to forgive her and let it go.

Our son was born August 2023 and the first year of his life she was present and a great grandmother to him, don’t get me wrong she was still ā€œoffā€ with me like whenever I would speak about my son she wouldn’t respond to me, she would come over and not really engage much with me, make snidely comments about me going back to work at 5 months PP despite the fact I’m providing for her son to be a stay at home dad etc but I just thought I’d be civil for my son. We got engaged in October 2023, she didn’t congratulate us.

January 2025 she started being VERY OFF. She deleted me off all social media’s for no reason, blocked my number. My partner asked why and she said she didn’t like me as a person. So I decided from then on if she wanted to see our son my partner would take him to her.

The rest of 2025, she was very inconsistent. We would ask her to take our son as she usually would and she’d say ā€œcan’t I’m dying my hair todayā€ and silly excuses. We then had 4 miscarriages that year and not once did she send condolences or offer to support. It got to August, our sons bday and she got him 2 of the same gifts we did - she came to our house and I said aw it’s okay these things happen no big deal. Her mood changed and when my parents arrived my son got really excited and she left. She then text my partner that night saying my parents were rude to her and turning our son against her? šŸ˜‚ he’s 2!!!!!

My partner had enough and had a go at her, saying no wonder my son was excited to see my parents when he sees them every 2 weeks. Since then she went in a mood and stopped speaking to us and visiting or allowing my partner to visit.

We fell pregnant in August 2025 and this baby has stuck. We shared our pregnancy with family and she hasn’t contacted us. From August to Feb 2026 she was radio silent, hasn’t asked for our sons at all. Ignoring texts.

Today, she has contacted my partner to try apologise and worm her way back in, I told my partner I’m having none of it and she won’t be seeing our son or new baby as she yet again has disappeared for over 6 months for no reason which isn’t fair on us or our son as he’s getting older and more aware!

Am I being reasonable? The way I see it is if this was a parent acting this inconsistent and being deadbeat they wouldn’t be allowed to run back in.

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Chicken

How did you introduce chicken?? TERRIFIED of choking!! Or introduced any meat yet

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Marriage fizzled out

I never thought my marriage would fizzle out so soon. Could it be because we’re just recently married and it could be a small temporary bump in the road? I just feel like my husband changed and it’s getting worse. It feels like he doesn’t want me anymore. He’s leaving for 5 days and I thought we’d get to spend some time together at night but he rejected me. Thinking of going another week with feeling unwanted kills me now. Remembering the days he was crazy about me hurts. How could it have stopped so abruptly… Anyone with advice on what I can do? I already brought it up straight to him and he said he hasn’t noticed him being distant and I’m just left speechless because is he being for real or is just trying to shut the conversation down???

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Alone

Welp. I expressed negative feelings to my husband and he responded with ā€œI don’t feel comfortable talking when you’re angryā€. Now we’re sleeping separately and I’m along for the night with the baby.
Trying not cry too loud- baby’s asleep (thank goodness). But I feel so unheard, so alone, so frustrated. My baby doesn’t like riding in the car, so I can’t even get out for a drive.
I’m a recovering stoner (over a year) and don’t want to turn to alcohol, so I’m alone with my thoughts and anxieties.
Feeling raw/vulnerable. May delete this later

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Bi curious

I’ve been with my partner 3 years, when we have sec i always orgasm, he makes the effort to make sure I do, but it’s probably cause I’m always thinking about a woman šŸ¤¦šŸ»ā€ā™€ļø since having a our baby 8mo I feel it’s become less maybe once a week and more of a chore to him, I just don’t feel desired or wanted enough, feels laboured and boring, I buy sexy outfits, toys to spice things up, and never say no to his advances but they very few and far between, it’s mainly me making the moves, I do love him but I can’t get the thought of having sec with another woman out of my mind 😫 helppppp, UK W.Yorkshire

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Besides being a mom
What do you guys do for living ?

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