a stupid idea...
well today i feel i get to take the cake for most stupidest idea of the year...
i asked hubby to read my blogs as i felt that they clearly express my thoughts and feelings of our time together and how i am now feeling about his daughter and ex.
i have been feeling dread and guilt about the things i have written expecting hubby to feel hurt by the way i don't trust him with other women or the way that i felt his daughter was a mistake which i now beared the burden of but you know what i got after him reading it all
" yeah that sounds right"
i felt like crying i had poured out all my bottled up feelings and thoughts from our years together have expressed the feeling of not walking away but running and taking my babies with me and leaving him to his sh*t head child and her bi*ch of a mother and all he can say is "yeah that sounds right"
am i crazy for wanting more? for wanting my husband to feel the hurt, anger, frustration and shear fear that i have over the past few years its almost like he doesn't care and i am here just to save him the effort of dealing with the ex and his daughter.
i love my husband dearly but with his responce or lack there of to my very personal and emotional blogs i feel very small and drained. i feel hes detached emotionally and just going through the motions of day to day crap but not feeling it.
i thought i had a partner in crime to help me through or to be at my side through the hard times and the down right ugly times but today i felt lost at sea.
in the beginning my hubby was a very pasionate man with great ideas and was emotional he use to write me letters and poems but i asked him tonight why i don't get them anymore and he said he doesn't feel the need to write any more or doesn't want to...
did i do something wrong by taking on this situation, i thought i had a caring thoughtful emotionally mature man only to find he doesn't care or doesn't see the need to care about the issues that dictate our lives it seems the only time i get anything emotionally from him is when he wants something usually physical or if i spit the dummy but it doesn't last my hubby doesn't like confrontation and would rather step aside and let things just happen rather then take a stand on things.
i feel so hurt by his words they lacked so much of the support and nurturing i was looking for. i feel that my efforts these past few years are worth even less now he doesn't care.
i know it hasn't all been bad bad but the good times seem far and few between. i am constantly plagued by the actions of the ex and the impact that she has had on our lives but also now the hurt that my sd is causing and yet hubby says he doesn't like it but wont do anyhting he just goes with the flow i swear that cow could drop in unannounced and demand anything an my hubby would comply simply not to have to deal with confrontation anytime an issue has been raised with the ex its because i have pushed anytime something has been organised with the sd its because i have organised it i feel im the soul parent of this ungrateful little snot and yet he gets to take credit or the cow does...
im sorry my blog seems harsh but i feel so damn angry and hurt oh so deeply hurt by hubbys lack of responce to his life and its ups and downs that i can't think to be nice...
i don't like the ex, i don't like my step daughter and i currently don't feel to warmly towards hubby either... i had a dream of growing old with this man sitting on our home porch talking reflecting on our life hearing each others thoughts and feelings and now i feel rejected and that the only reson nubby responded in the past was because someone else pushed to make it happen. i wanted a partner someone to go 50/50 in life with only to find i have yet another dependant with baggage.....:(
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If your relationship is that toxic
perhaps it's time you remove yourself from the situation. To feel like any child is a mistake is just because you have to 'bear the burden' so to speak? And are you are wanting this info in your blogs to hurt S.O.? I understand the trials and tribulations of having to deal w/ a nutty BM, and a severely disturbed adolescent SS. I have also made the mistake of making things easy on hubby-but that was MY mistake. And I would never think of his child as a mistake, or any child for that matter. These people are in our lives for a reason, and in bettering ourselves(attitudes, actions, etc) we will be able to help others become better as well. But being spiteful and treating these children with such disdain- christ, the children won't have a fighting chance in hell to be decent human beings, if they are treated like 'burdens' and "mistakes'. I'm sorry if I come off harsh, as I understand the whole myriad of emotions that comes w/ the territory of step-parenthood, it's no picnic. If he is not willing to be more involved in your marraige then try to suggest couples counciling, or tell him to take a hike. You guys each have to give 100%, cause 50/50 is half-assing it. It's never easy when involved w/ a person who has so much baggage, because they almost never have their head on straight to begin with. Best of luck to you and yours.
Its not that he doesn't care
I really think mens minds are so mechanical(maybe thats why shivalry is dead) and they don't see a way to "fix" a problem with duct tape then they don't know how to deal with it.I guess thats it since DH and I did the same as I didn't feel he understood how difficult it was but there was also the fact that I am a stresser, I need everything done now and his personality is that of a lets just see what happens and that makes it hard for him to understand alot of my reactions.
I don't think that what we dream can every be 100%..
I really honestly do not believe that in a second marriage that we can have the same kind of partnership as with a first marriage. There is so many other factors to consider...exes, kids, financial inequity, etc. I think that we got into a second marriage with high expectations and ideals and it feels so wrong when it falls flat. A man will often choose his children over his partner, overtly or covertly. We must expect it and not be surprised by this going into the marriage. I now appreciate it this after several years of marriage. Do I like this reality...hell no! But I have to accept it or drive myself crazy trying to change a reality that can never be different!
Indeed.
I want my hubby to feel more, too. Sometimes I think he's there, other times he is defensive, and then sometimes? He's almost human, but his kid interrupts it. Or his pride? I don't know.
His heart is in the right place before he gets cold and shuts down. It's like having a kid makes men...different afterward. Or maybe life does. *shrug*
This baggage sucks. *hugs*
Sounds like my husband.
He's like a sponge who has absorbed as much as it can and now can't take in another drop. How is it that when we, the wife, and they, our husbands, are faced with the exact same situation, we can feel so deeply and they seem to feel so little? You know what I think it is? I think it is because we have a higher threshold for emotional stress... we can take it long after they have shut down. My DH and I have been working on reconnecting, plus I think his PTSD therapy may be starting to help with his anger problems, but I'll never understand how we got so far apart in the first place. I'll never understand how my being his cheerleader, his biggest fan, his biggest defender, the one who always had his back made me his enemy in his mind. Men. Can't live with 'em, can't shoot 'em.
~ Anne ~
"Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries."
(Truman Capote)