I’ve been in a relationship for 7 years, 7 years of hell. Me and my partner have a daughter together she is 2 years old and since the day she was born I’ve done everything myself, her father is way too interested in gambling, pubs & clubbing, sometimes he goes out for 12 hours straight. He goes to work and comes back and doesn’t do anything, every day is the same, I feed our child, bath her, play with her, 24 hours a day she’s by my side and he does f*ck all, always excuses saying he’s tired, for 2 years I’ve never ever had a single break, he is a useless father, pays no attention to her whatsoever and walks all over me, he thinks going out for 12 hours at a time is acceptable, he allows himself to go out but if I mention that I’m going out he puts his guards up and becomes controlling. He is a complete narcissist. Every week we’re arguing over his actions and I’ve had so many conversations with him to be a dad. Also, I’ve had 7 years of hell from his family, constant drama, tension & stress, always wanting to cause problems in our relationship, they even went as low as wishing me a miscarriage and said I was too big to carry a healthy pregnancy. They don’t bother with our daughter either, they can’t spare 10 minutes of their time to see her but blame me that they have no bond with her. I’m utterly fed up with everything, I feel so stuck. If I end things my daughter will have to go to there’s but she doesn’t know them and not to mention my partners brother does drugs too so I can’t trust any of them and he’s useless so there’s no way he could care for her properly. But if I stay I’m gonna have a lifetime of unhappiness, feeling worthless, being walked all over, the only reason I’m with him now is to protect my daughter from having to go to that family. I just really don’t know what to do.
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Question why would she have to go anywhere? I completely understand when it comes to these men being useless when it comes to their kids mine uses work as an excuse and then he is on the phone 24/7 so I get it. I raised my first one pretty much solo and it looks like I am doing the same for the second one. The whole time I was pregnant with my second he said it would be different nope pretty much the same if not worse. My little one is about to be 2 next month. My suggestion is try getting a side hustle and start stacking and make plans to move on you deserve better than this and so does your baby.