Suffocating
Hi I'm new to the site and came across it "looking" for some support.
I'm suffocating with my husbands adult children. They are 21,24,26 & 28. The 27 yo lives in NZ, 25 yo "travelling" and currently in Aus. 24 yo just started to rent own place with bf and 21 returned from travelling with bf and gone back to being "Princess" a name given to her by her sisters & brother.
I don't really know where to begin as it's been going on for so long. The crux of my angst is the fact that my husband called off the marriage as he wanted to do his "due diligence" to say that he "hasn't signed up for having me and my "kids" living with us and he was worried it would happen. I told him that if any of my 3 adult kids needed support then of course I would help them but he wasn't happy and needed lots of reassurance. I feel embarrassed to admit this because he sounds live a diva and I allowed it.
Long story short his ex wife suddenly announce she was leaving the area as going to live with new partner and renting out her home. Their kids used to flit between both their houses (we live in his house and mine is rented out) this has left me with no say in anything, as since we married 2.5 years ago we have had each of his adult kids live with us, not just them but they think it's ok to have their bf stay too. They don't pay keep and even text dad to ask for specific "dinners" that he makes them when he finishes work. He loves this and loves his kids but I've had enough.
He used to even sit at the dinner table and twiddle his daughters feet after we'd eaten. I had to walk out of the room.
There's just so much I've put up with and I'm really finished with it all now - my own kids are independent and don't get a look in as I'm so swamped with my husbands kids when we get free time we do our own thing. The final straw is the youngest daughters bf testing positive for Covid whilst at ours and having to isolate (at ours as his mother is vulnerable 2 years after having treatment for BC) however she is a PT and still has clients to the house to train, I don't understand how that works? This means I can't go back home as we were away when they announced it (my husband didn't tell me until we were nearly home from a weekend away. I have an 85 yo father to look out for and my 33 yo daughter has just had an emergency section and premature baby I am also helping to support - I was supposed to have baby over night on Friday/ Saturday while my daughter rested and now cannot do this at home.
I'm currently staying with my son and his gf so that I don't expose myself to Covid and although I'm double vaccinated I could pass it on. The only time I knew about the situation was when husband pulled up at Tesco's to pick up some Vimto his daughter had text him to buy on the way home from a 230 mile drive. Her bf does have parents and a home. When I asked husband why he hadn't told me he said what could he do? And if I wasn't happy with the situation I should "throw them out" he makes it sound as if that's what I wanted - I understand it's not their fault but the way he excludes me feel I have no voice, we have no privacy and a shell of a marriage because of the complete absorption of his family.
Btw they are not a close family - it's just dad / daughters. Husband/his son/ his father/& brother all don't speak, and my husband seems to be the common denominator in it all. I'm really struggling, when his youngest came back from travelling having lived with her bf for 18 months funding themselves (with the odd few £100 sent from dad) around the world he had the conversation that this is a bolt hole and they need to get on their own 2 feet and rent a place if they want to be together. She blamed me and told her father she was stressed and can't cope and it was making her ill. He completely went to the other way and caved in. We are right back to square one.
Her own mother has bailed and said she wants to start "living her own life" she's left the strain of the fall out from this into us and me and it's breaking up our marriage- sorry for the rambling but there's just so much and I can't really find any starting point to try to even sort it. My husband won't sell the house yet as he says "we're not ready" to sell yet, we need our own space to be a married couple and to have privacy to start our married life that was supposed to start 2.5 years ago - can anyone pls have any insight / ideas? Support - I'm at the edge of calling it a day
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Hi, and welcome. Can you edit
Hi, and welcome. Can you edit your blog and put some paragraphs in? It makes it easier to read. You will likely get more feedback. There is an edit tab.
This man isn't husband
This man isn't husband material at all. He's a cake eater, excluding your kids while enabling his own and wanting you to play bad cop. Do you see yourself ever being happy with such a man?
I think you should quietly put together an exit strategy. Quit expecting your H to make you happy, and start living your own life. Give your tenants notice, and fill up your spare time with things and people you actually enjoy. BM was right to move away, and you can too. Don't let this man come between you and your children. Date him if you must, but move out, take your power back, and start focusing on what's important to you.
Thanks for editing! So he
Thanks for editing! So he held off on marriage out of fear that your kids would move back in and then promptly moved his own adult kids in? Have you called him on his hypocrisy? What does he say?
Is this your home or his that you moved in to? If it's yours, have him and his kids move out, if it's yours, move out on your own. If you aren't ready to split up, let him know you two can get a place together when his kids are launched. Though I'd agree it sounds like he's not good husband material.
He has shown you who he is,
He has shown you who he is, believe him. You willk always come in last in this crew. The fact that he expected you to expose yourself knowing you had vulenable people in your life is very telling. Give your renters notice & move back to your own home. Please see a therapist to understand why you don't value yourself more.
Thank you all
Thank you all - It helps to see its not me - I don't know how it's got to this stage before I've reached saturation point. I need my own space away from his space and to reconnect with my own "kids" rather than morph around him and his "kids" I really do feel this is make or break. I need to withdraw to look at the situation objectively and make my plans for my future and my family.