Today I messaged my husband my feelings emotional abandonment by him for many years. He never makes any effort to check in on me when events are happening in life and on top of that he makes zero effort to make me feel appreciated for key dates like my birthday anniversary Valentine’s Day etc. I’ve told him I’m just done settling for the minimum from him and I’ve been around long enough to give him a leg up on all the things he wants to do in life. I poured in a lot because face to face I just cry and he hugs me and I just can’t put my real words across in true form. Anyway after I said basically my desire to be married to him is gone and that I realise he’s incapable of loving me truly his response was that everything I said was correct as in he accepts his faults. He’s made no follow ups or what this means for us. I don’t want to argue or put him under interrogation. What do I do? We have done couples therapy. It didn’t work take effect.
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Maybe he’s waiting for a face to face talk? Or maybe he’s took it as there’s nothing he can do as you’ve already gave him by putting the ‘no desire to be married to you’ part.
I’d say conversations like this need to be had in person, and if you love him I think it’s important you give him time to correct some of his wrongs/shortfalls. They won’t be done over night or even over a space of months but you should start to see improvements in places and it’s up to you wether your willing to allow him and yourself the space to be able to right your marriage x

I don’t know what advice to give in this moment, but you have done a lot and you laid it on the line for him. If that is his response, I would just simply sit with it for now. The land at this moment has to be hard. If you have a therapist or someone you can talk this through with, they may not be able to guide you per se, but they can give you some degree of support. If this is his position in a few days then check in with yourself see where you are and just start putting one foot in front of the other. You don’t need to make any big sweeping movements today. That text that you wrote him was big. And I understand about the use of texts. Believe me.

Well if he accepts his faults and has done nothing to change then even after therapy that tells you everything you need to know right there.

Also, has he ever been or done the things you say you need? If so, ask yourself what the relationship was like then/what’s changed and see if you can both somewhat make efforts to get back there x

I think if he doesn’t care and you told him you have no desire to be married to him, you should divorce. He’s made it clear he doesn’t want to change, and you don’t want to be with him if he doesn’t. Honestly, your options are to stay in the marriage and “hope” that something changes (it likely won’t) or split. You’ve already stated you’re done settling. I think you already know the answer to the question you asked.

Well depends you should have another conversation is he wanna work is this marriage or is he prefer finish because depending on his future actions Ist better sometimes Ist better escape them wait until somebody wanna finally change is a a time when he is trial period … don’t thanks the change just two weeks see his efforts and you need to be patient if you really wanna workout this too second if you tired of the situation and you deep down know he no Ist going to change don’t waste your time

Takes two to tango, he has to put in the work too. Does he still want the marriage. Some time people aren't initiaters and us women have to be the planner or the ones who say let's do an activitie, etc

Ask him does he want to work it out

I’m sorry 😞 this is a tough situation for sure, no advice but knowing you deserve more is step one❤️
It’s my baby girls first Christmas coming up and I don’t want her to have a chocolate advent calendar as I don’t think she will need chocolate everyday at 6mo but because my partner wants her to have one as it’s tradition I said we can meet in the middle and get her a toy one or something similar he then said that I was weird and controlling only because I don’t want her to have chocolate everyday he says it’s not a big deal and that it’s his child too I can’t make all the decisions
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My husband has gone away for the weekend on a buck’s which is in theory fine.
Our toddler is sick and sh slept poorly for 2 nights prior to his leaving - so badly I almost called in sick to work one day because I’ve had so little sleep. So my husband definitely knew she was sick. Went anyway. We also have 2 other daughters. (4 and 6)
I sent him a text to be like toddler vomited and has a small rash and he was like oh that sucks hope the weekend isn’t horrible for you! This pissed me off so much because he didn’t even pretend to care about her or my stress levels. I feel like if the roles were reversed he’d be pissed that I left him alone for a whole weekend with a sick child plus 2 others. He didn’t even do anything to help me get ready for the weekend (we don’t have groceries, I just had to push a heavy queen sized mattress into one of my daughter’s bedrooms on my own so we could all sleep together tonight.
He has also periodically picked fights with me about “not being supportive enough” I.e. pissy because I don’t act enough like his mummy. But then he’ll leave me with sick kids?
I get that we all are in need and deserving of breaks but I feel like he should have offered to come home (or not left in the first place). The longer I stew the more fucking annoyed I get.
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Last week we went to a family funeral. It was a very sad day and I was trying to be supportive of my sister and brother in law as it was his mum. We were all in shock at the loss as she died on the same day as my mum (only five years later) and they held the funeral in the same place as my mums, to the day. It was an emotional day for everyone and during the wake my husband comes out with.. "I don't care if you're pregnant or not" infront of all our family. Nobody knows we are trying and I'm currently in the tww. We had a loss a few months ago which broke me and we agreed to try again one last time. I said it wasn't a nice thing to say and definitely not appropriate for the time and place.
Now I just think he wanted the sex rather than the baby. I am feeling like I'm pregnant and anxiously waiting to take the test. I feel exhausted physically and mentally. Now I also feel like my husband won't be happy to be having a second child as he's clearly stated he doesn't care. I've done all the housework this morning after a massive row about who does what around the house. I said that I'm not feeling up to doing the housework which sparked the row. I am genuinely feeling like shit.
Yes I work part time but I also work gruelling 10 hour shifts where my husband sits behind a desk. I painted as he asked on Wednesday and that's when I started feeling extremely tired and dizzy. He hasn't asked how I'm feeling today. Instead he started shouting about how he does enough. He does the school runs and food shopping, he also takes our son swimming on a Friday as I can't drive due to my health. If I am pregnant, it will be ingredibly high risk and I don't know if I will get the support from my husband that I will need. Maybe I am still reeling from what he said last week because it was rude af!
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My child’s father is stressing me out! One minute he’s happy the next he’s having a complete bitch fit🤣 he blames me for his rap career not popping off the way he wanted. Says he gave me 2 kids and he has nothing to show for it. Granted when we met I was in school for music business I worked with KCamp and MoneyBagg Yo and Dolph all before they blew up when they were still establishing themselves I told him I could help him but then I moved from LA being in the club life back home to take care of my dad. Things got hard I wasn’t in the places I needed to be to make his dreams come true and money wasn’t there because we had bills. Covid happened and things really went down but I tried to help him when I had it but like he says my priorities changed…duh we were pregnant, had bills in the middle of a pandemic shit was hard for the world and we could never really gain our feet back under the music thing. Now that we are pregnant again he’s blaming me for his life not being where he wanted but I got what I wanted a family. I’m so tired to where I don’t care if he leaves me or not he don’t pay NO BILLS, he don’t help around the house, but he has a job and does whatever he wants with his money and our son and I are always last on his mind unless it’s a holiday or birthday. I needed to vent because I’m fed up and tired
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How do you handle putting your baby in daycare knowing that they are spending more time with your child during the day than you are?
I’m starting a new job soon and my hours will be full time which means she will be full time daycare which means she will be up for about 4 hrs or so when we get home before she goes to sleep for the night 😩
My daughter just turned 1 on September 3rd and has been with me all day every day since conception. Help me!!!
I was excited to get back into the work force but now I’m getting n nervous as it gets closer to reality.

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What do you do with your toddler when you’re on deaths door kind of ill and they’re raring to go?! I have a day of solo parenting ahead of me and I’m not my best.
Any advice welcome!!
P.s. he will probably sit down and play/watch tv for approximately two minutes…he’s not one to relax!

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