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Husband being an a-hole for no reason
Relationship Stress / by neonSummer8296
Last post
January 18th
...See more I’ve been married for close to 2 years and despite this post’s title, my husband can be very sweet and caring when he wants to be, but there are times when he’s an a-hole for absolutely no reason. It took me some time to catch on because I was too involved in my own anger and frustration in the past, trying ti figure out what I did during those times for him to act that way. I’ve started realizing there really isn’t anything I’ve done to trigger it/him, by his own admission in the past, meaning there’s nothing I can do on my end to prevent it. He was making ‘dinner’ by the time I got home from work and he asked me to just sit and relax for a bit while he finishes up. I did end up having to make additional stuff because it was literally boiled veggies with bland chicken and he said he doesn’t want to eat anything because his stomach is upset. I just made some additional stuff and some cold food to soothe his stomach which he had no problems eating, and getting seconds. I had just gottten off the phone with my parents (who were at my uncles funeral)) and his parents as well, and was sitting on the bed on my knees for literally 2 mins (might be tmi but I’m on my period and didn’t want to accidentally stain the sheets), and he started telling me off for sitting on my knees and how it’s compressing the mattress and will make it lumpy, etc. I told him I don’t want to stain it accidentally and he just continued with his tirade about ruining the mattress and that it won’t even last for a year that way, and how I always do it. I asked him when I do it and he gave me an example from yesterday when I was on my hands and knees on the mattress for 30 seconds while he was putting a sheet wher I had been laying on it, and that’s the only example he could come up with. Unsurprising as I’m only ever in bed for the 6-7 hours that i sleep, I’m not even home most of they day, he is (works remotely). Anyway it’s things like this, completely unprovoked and that lead to utterly pointless arguments with no resolution over and over again. We spend at least one day every weekend just fighting, many times just because he wants to be d*ck for no reason. I’m trying to not get worked up over things because I have blood sugar and blood pressure issues and fights only drive my blood pressure up. It would be fine even if there’s a purpose for them or we learn to make sure the same thing doesn’t repeat but there’s no resolution to this, the most I get is him admitting that he was being a d*ck but he doesn’t know why, and then he goes down the self-pitying rabbit hole of “maybe I’m just a bad person” and I have to spend the next hour convincing him he isn’t and it’s something he needs to work on. I don’t really know what to do about it other than either detach myself or give him *** for it, but I do sometimes wonder if he’s a narcissist based on some of the things I’ve seen from him. Advice would be nice.
Husband constantly puts the dog above me, what do I do?
Relationship Stress / by neonSummer8296
Last post
October 13th, 2023
...See more I’ve struggled with this issue since hubby and I got married 2 year ago. I feel like every time my needs and the dog’s needs (most times perceived needs) clash, my husband always puts the dog’s needs above mine. Earlier in the marriage he used to do it without even thinking about mine, now he thinks about mine and still does it. The most recent example: I got home kind of late today from work. I work in person all 5 days of the week, leave around 7:30 am and get back around 6-6:30 pm so it’s a long day and am usually starving by the time I’m home. He made most of dinner today, so I just had to finish up when I got back today. I told him I’m starving and can we please eat, and that I’ll freshen up after. He said okay and I finished making dinner, only to find him on the phone with a friend. I figured I’ll give him a few mins to finish talking so I told him everything’s done and we’ll eat when he’s done.The few mins turned into over an hour of waiting (they also weren’t talking about anything important or time sensitive, just catching up). My insides were practically gnawing at me and I felt bad that he didn’t even care that I was starving and had told him so as soon as I got home. I still tried to be understanding about it and didn’t say anything to him when he finally got off the phone. Right as we sat down to eat, the dog kept sniffing at it and whining. Whining usually means she wants food or she needs to go out for her business. It’s pretty typical of her to whine at us while we’re eating to tell us she wants our food, butt generally he has already taken her out in the evening before I get home to do her business. He gobbled up his food in 15 mins, pretty typical for him. As soon as he was done, he says “let’s take her out when you’re done”. I said that’s fine. 5 mins later he asks if I’m done yet, while there is very clearly food on my plate. I told him I’m not done yet. 10 mins later, I’ve cleared my plate and am going for seconds when he says “can we go out first on a walk so she can do her business and you can come back and continue eating”. I tried telling him she’s not whining because she needs to go, it’s because she wants food. I even fed her right then, and she gobbled it up in less than a minute, then went back to staring at my plate. He’s like “no she’s still whining she needs to go, let’s just go quickly and you can come back and eat”. I went with it, and ofc the dog didn’t need to go, which she showed us by wandering around with us behind her for 10 mins before picking a spot to pee (if she really needs to go, shes not shy about letting us know and will do it as soon as she sees a patch of grass). Ofc he’s feeling pretty sheepish about it now, and so tried to drag both of us home again, to which I said that were out anyway now so might as well enjoy the walk. We walked 5 more mins and he says okay let’s go home now, you were eating right? I got so mad I just walked off and did the entire round with him following behind me. Things like this have happened multiple times. Many times he has had dinner by himself while promising me that we’ll go pick up food for me right after and then delaying it until 11 pm and even then being more concerned that the dog hasn’t eaten yet (not even hasn’t been fed yet, but that she hasn’t eaten the food that was given to her yet). I spent the MONTHS of our marriage getting only 3 hours of sleep on average per night because he insisted that the dog has to sleep with us in the bed cause she would get scared sleeping alone and the dog would keep pouncing on my head every night. It only changed after multiple vey bad fights and me finally saying that he and the dog can sleep together and I’ll go sleep somewhere else. The dog had no issues sleeping by herself in her own bed. We have gone on multiple outings that I was looking forward to very much and come back halfway through because he couldn’t stop worrying about the dog being home alone for a few hours, generally this was also accompanied with him being irritable the entire time that we were out. It’s the same even if we leave the dog with someone else. For some context, he got the dog 2-3 months before we started dating and we didn’t date more than a few months before getting married. The most I ever had as a pet while growing up was a goldfish and it didn’t live long, so I wasn’t really used to pets or thrilled about having one, bu understood the dog was nonnegotiable. I just didn’t account for him being such a nightmare about it, and I think I was more understanding about it when we were dating because she was a puppy then. The funny thing is, the dog likes me more than him I think, she won’t even eat her food until I get home in the evening, even though hubby is home with her all day. We’re definitely more attuned to each other than she is with my husband. Anyway, please help, I appreciate any and all advice. I thought things will change with time but I don’t really see it happening, just that he’s more aware that something is going to upset me but doesn’t really do anything about it. And worse than that, my judgment has been proven to be right almost every single time in the past relating to the dog and her needs but he still doesn’t listen the next time the situation arises.
Topic of Kids, Cultural expectations, diabetes and other health issues
Relationship Stress / by neonSummer8296
Last post
August 24th, 2023
...See more My husband and I have been married for 1.5 years, dated for a few months prior to that (not typical in the cultural background we come from). On our date last night, he brought up the topic of kids and that his mom was hinting at us having one when he spoke to her that morning. He then clarified that he doesn’t want one right away but maybe by 2025 we should have one. Honestly, I’ve had multiple panic attacks between last night and now so I know this is super long and it’s okay if you don’t read through it all, but I would REALLY REALLY appreciate any advice you may have. This isn’t the first time we’ve spoken about kids; when we got married we discussed that we don’t want kids at least in the first 3 years. After last night’s brief talk, I noticed the numerous other times over the past few weeks that he directly or indirectly talked about our future kids in random conversations, but it was never discussed openly. That makes me think it’s been on his mind for a while but he hasn’t known how to bring it up. Here are my issues with it: * I have a diabetes (t2) which my husband knows about. I’ve had it for many years and it hasn’t always been very well controlled. As far as I know, it’s because of underlying PCOS and insulin resistance caused by it. Since I’ve had it for years now, I wouldn’t be surprised if I’ve also developed high blood pressure and some level of kidney damage but I haven’t gotten those checked out in the last 2 years. I have recently started a program to try to reverse the diabetes and at least keep any associated complications from getting worse. * Birth defects, miscarriages, preeclampsia, and a whole bunch of other risks are increased when the pregnant person has preexisting diabetes/hypertension/etc. Upon my husbands insistence, I recently switched to a new job and as a result, have moved to a state that has a near total ban on abortions. I don’t mean abortions for people who just don’t want a baby, I mean even life-saving medical procedures in the event of a miscarriage or something else going wrong with the pregnancy. The only exception is if I’m literally standing in death’s doorway, by which point there will be permanent damage done to my health IF I even survive. Also, there are a whole host of women who had something like this happen to them who are speaking out about it. And they didn’t even have other conditions that made theirs a high risk pregnancy. * My husband claims that he just wants me to be healthy and there with him, and if it’s a choice between me and a baby, there would be no question that I’m more important to have with him. BUT despite knowing about my condition, he hasn’t bothered trying to learn about what it is, how it works, the complications and risks that come with it, even the ones that come with being pregnant and having diabetes. The way he discussed the topic with me last night was also so casual that he could’ve been discussing what he wants for lunch the next day. I have told him at least 3 times in the past that pregnancy with diabetes comes with a lot of major complications, both for the fetus and the pregnant person and it’s something that needs to be extensively reviewed with a doctor before even trying, and also a description of some of the very likely common risks. Still hasn’t bothered learning more about it. * This is a bit of a continuation from the last point but still a different concern. Hubby is about 6 years older than me so a lot of his friends and their wives got married and started having kids fairly soon after, and I know a lot of his friends advise him to do the same. His parents are also directly or indirectly pushing for it, though I can’t fault them since they don’t know about my condition and it’s a cultural expectation. I’m not sure to what extent they would care but I know they would definitely tell us to seek out a doctor's advice before trying. My concern is that hubby is just parroting the things others are saying to him rather than think for himself what’s best for both of us. Because besides parroting his friends and parents, he has maintained that he hates kids and can’t stand them. When we first discussed kids, I floated the idea of adoption and he shot the idea down as soon as I said it, because he’d rather not have kids at all than adopt. * Probably the least important concern but I’m not at all traditional and have been very career-focused. The job I just started at is also at a top tier company in my field, and there’s nowhere farther up for me to go outside of this company, so having to leave for any reason would be devastating career-wise. If he was in my position, I don’t think he would be okay to drop a great job like this one and go somewhere else for a non-career related reason. * I was okay with being single for life until my husband came along, and I married him because I saw the same streak in him, to be unconventional and constantly striving to climb and be successful, doing something extra or working out to be healthy and look good. In fact, my current fitness program is motivated by the same mindset, to lose weight, get healthier and fit so I can sustain going on adventures and leveling up career-wise. I thought having him in my life would better it than if I were single. Now I’m starting to feel like all those things have disappeared and he’s turning into a typical south Asian traditional man, which is exactly why I had been set on staying single for life. * Ive started to feel pretty demotivated, because the last 4-5 years have been really stressful for one reason or another and I’ve constantly felt rushed because every time I start getting into a rhythm at some place, there’s either some reason to move or be forced out, or it’s a stressful place to be. Happened in college, then with my first job, second job, everything related to the wedding, the entire first year of marriage. After moving here, I was starting to feel like this would be the place I can finally settle into and focus on myself for once. Now this added stressor is making me question everything all over again. * Last but not least, hubby has struggled financially despite being out of school and working for 5+ years. He cleared off a substantial debt a year into our marriage but hasn’t been able to save part of his income despite his income going up. I have money that I’ve been saving up to pay off my student loans so it’s not money I let anyone touch, including myself. Basically, our savings are negligible, not enough to pay for even a normal pregnancy, let alone a complicated one.
Is this more than anxiety?
Anxiety Support / by neonSummer8296
Last post
August 17th, 2023
...See more My husband has been complaining about not being able to focus for very long, to the point that even a bit of a distraction (like the dog barking) is preventing him from focusing enough to do well on a 2 hour exam. He has other issues that I’ve seen a considerable improvement in since we started dating (2 years ago), and even the focus issue may partially be from the aggressor coming back into the picture, but his sister seems to think something is very wrong with him and he has much bigger issues than anxiety. I personally think, and this is from experience, that the more you believe something is wrong with you and that’s just what you have to deal with, the more likely it is to manifest. The more you tell yourself “I have anxiety and this is just how things are with me” the more likely you are to blame everything that goes wrong on ‘just being that way’. And someone else repeatedly saying that to you also has a similar effect when you start believing it. Btw, hubby also got evaluated by a therapist who stipulated he might have anxiety and adhd but nothing majorly wrong otherwise. What do y’all think? Is it just anxiety and possibly some adhd or is something much worse going on? Some context: My husband has anxiety that partially originated from his dad’s controlling behavior, temper tantrums, and abusing his wife (my husbands mom). I think it was made significantly worse by a traumatic event that took place where some goons showed up at their place and broke all the furniture, beat up his parents, and tried to stab his dad. That happened when he was around 14-15 (he’s in his early 30s now). As a result, he has anxiety, issues with anger (goes from 0 to 100 before you even know what happened), and major issues with focus. I’ve seen a considerable improvement with the anger issues at least, and he would tell me his focus and anxiety is also much better now but he’s been a little off his game lately since the guy that ordered the hit on his parents all those years ago has come back into his parents life, mainly to apologize and eventually ask for money.
Is my coworker romantically interested in me?
Relationship Stress / by neonSummer8296
Last post
August 5th, 2023
...See more I’ve been married for over a year now, mostly happily though hubby and I do have our moments. I recently started a new job and moved to a new area far from family and friends. Hubby works remotely and isn’t too interested in making new friends so that burden falls on me. I met a guy at work a few weeks ago who started with me and has a similar cultural background. We hit it off pretty well and since he’s married and has a dog as well, I thought he could be a good family friend. He told me his wife is still at their old place, pretty far away, trying to get a transfer to this location and they have a 4 month old. We’ve only met twice since he doesn’t regularly work at this location but since the work chat system is common, he messages me pretty often on there to talk. Over the last few weeks, the conversations have gotten much more personal, with him asking to meet, if I’ll ever be transferred to his location and all the fun we could have, etc. Honestly, I’m not interested in sticking around on site any longer than I need to for work. He would occasionally mention his wife and the dog at first but lately he’s stopped mentioning either of them, except to insinuate to me that his wife doesn’t care about him. I suggested a while ago that when his family moves here, we should plan a play date for the dogs while the rest of us hang out. Now he’s telling me he doesn’t know when they’ll move here and it might be a long time, and he doesn’t get to see me often enough, basically indirectly saying we should meet up sooner outside of work. I commented on something he was talking about and he said those are things one should talk about after getting drunk. He also keeps calling me a dear friend and tells me he enjoys talking to me. Maybe I’m overly sensitive but some of things he said definitely feel inappropriate coming from a coworker, especially one I haven’t known for very long. I know having a baby sometimes creates distance between spouses, and physical distance also doesn’t help. I also told him about another guy who’s from the same place as him in his native country and he completely shut me down saying he’s not interested in meeting that guy, even though that’s exactly what he was so interested in me for, and I’m not even from there, just have a similar cultural background! I think he could be a lively friend if that’s all there is to it but I’m not interested in anything more. I’m also hesitant to tell my husband about all this, he’s not the most even tempered person and I don’t want the situation to get out of hand since it involves someone from my workplace. Opinions pls! Both on what you think this guy is trying to do and also what I should do about it. Thank you!
Is it a good idea to host your husband’s female friend when you’re not around?
Relationship Stress / by neonSummer8296
Last post
June 24th, 2023
...See more For some context, husband and I have been married just over a year and recently moved to a new area, very far from my family (who lived about an hour from us at our last place), for my new job. I work in person 8-5 everyday and since I just joined, I don’t have any vacation time yet. He works from home because his job allows it. We’re also still in the process of setting up our new home. Our marriage was troubled at the beginning but we have been in a good place the last few months. Earlier today, hubby texted me at work saying that his friend might be visiting us next Wednesday, he didn’t specify who or how he knows her, just that it’s a her. By itself, not odd but he has a habit of over sharing whether the other person likes it or not so by his standards, weird. I told him that we should probably buy a mattress for the guest bedroom and asked if she’s only staying for that one day. He then comes back saying that he spoke to her and found out her parents and brother passed away last year, and she just went through a breakup, and he didn’t know what to say so he invited her to stay with us instead. He then answers my question saying that she’s likely staying for the entire long weekend (Independence Day falls on the Tuesday after the weekend, so he has Monday and Tuesday off, I work on Monday and won’t be home for a majority of the day). I was teasing him just last night that even though he has a long weekend, we won’t be able to go anywhere since I have work on Monday. Anyway, point is, essentially he’s telling me he invited his female friend to stay with us for a week without bothering to ask me or even letting me know before extending the invitation. I completely understand that I sound like a jealous b**** right now but here are my concerns: * I already see him being a bit secretive about who this person is, how he knows her, etc, which is very unlike him. * he just extended an invitation to this person to come and stay with us for a week, over a weekend that we were both hoping would be relaxing, without so much as even asking me if it was okay. * over the last few weeks, he has repeatedly complained that he misses me when I’m at work and feels like we don’t spend quality time together, but when I ask what he wants to do instead of watching tv in the evenings, he doesn’t know. I’ve tried to balance it out with some surprise outings and things are good on those days, but it’s not enough and there’s little to no effort from him to change it. * our s*x life sucks. We’ve had ups and downs with it and there have been temporary reasons for it (I.e. periods, having to work late, something hurting, etc) but he did mention a few days ago that he feels s*xually frustrated. Now his newly single and likely very emotionally vulnerable female friend is coming over for a week and they will be alone for a majority of that time since I’ll be at work. It’s not that I don’t trust him but i know he has a hard time saying no to someone who’s close to him or is in a bad state. I also don’t know the friend, and people who are in a vulnerable state tend to look for comfort however they can get it. feel free to tell me if you think my concerns are absolute BS or if you have any other advice/lessons from your own life to share. Also, please don’t get me wrong, I’m 100% down to help his friend in whatever way I can, I just can’t help but think that I’m inviting trouble into my life and marriage by hosting her.
Husband keeps breaking stuff unintentionally. What does your spouse do that drives you up the wall?
Relationship Stress / by neonSummer8296
Last post
March 26th, 2023
...See more Heads up, I am partially looking for advice and partially starting a thread for people to vent about the things their husband/wife does that drives them crazy. When you get married to someone, it’s almost a guarantee that your spouse will have some habits that annoy you to no end or make you angry. Mine, for example, keeps breaking things out of carelessness. He’ll break the blender by not making sure it’s fixed into the slot properly before turning it on or by shaking it while it’s running. He’ll break vases while moving a table they’re sitting on without taking them off first. He’ll spill something on a rug despite me telling him that he’s put something in a very precarious position and to be careful. Some are genuine accidents that couldn’t have been prevented or foreseen but a lot of them are things that I’ve repeatedly told him not to do and he still continues to do them. The appliances that I’ve managed to keep in perfect condition for 5 years will almost always break in his hand. He keeps saying that it’s because I buy cheap stuff but he’s broken more expensive stuff that we bought on his insistence (at the end of the day, the quality doesn’t matter if you’re not using it right) as well. His expensive car on the other hand, he will swerve out of the way to not drive over a pothole, get it regularly washed and waxed, etc. I feel like he doesn’t have respect for anything that he views as cheap. I understand that a $50K car doesn’t exactly compare to a $50 blender but he doesn’t really have money to throw away on replacing everyday items repeatedly because he keeps breaking them. He does the same with food. I have an issue with food being wasted so I’ll only ever get as much as we need. He on the other hand will throw out food that’s not cooked fresh. By that, I mean that he won’t eat something cooked from the day before even if it’s perfectly good to eat. im at a loss for what to do because I’ve spoken to him about it multiple times and he says he’ll be more careful but we ultimately end up in the same place. Please feel free to share advice and things about your partners that bother you.
Husband wants parents to live with us
Relationship Stress / by neonSummer8296
Last post
March 13th, 2023
...See more My husband and I have been married for just over a year now. His parents live in another country. He told me pretty early in our relationship that he wants to bring them over to live with him a couple years down the road so it’s important to him that whoever he marries is okay with that. He did assure me that it wouldn’t be right away, it would be 5 years into the marriage or maybe whenever we’re having kids. At the time I said I was okay with it since it would be a couple years into the marriage and we probably wouldn’t be too concerned about having some privacy. I’ve grown up in the states but we have the same cultural background so parents staying with us isn’t a huge shocker culturally. I visited them a month ago in his home country and stayed with them for a week by myself. Don’t get me wrong, they’re both nice people but I also felt like they were on their best behavior for me. I’m concerned because even then they seemed very pushy about how I should dress (they bought me traditional a.k.a more conservative clothes to wear for my visit and insisted I wear those and not the clothes, mainly tees and jeans, I brought with me), they are definitely more religious than my family and expected me to be as well (which was fine for a few days in a different country but probably wouldn’t fly in daily life), they have a lot of restrictions on what you can or should eat and on what days and I have health issues that force me to eat a certain way. For example, they can’t eat meat on certain days of the week and generally have very high carb foods but my health issues require me to follow a high protein, low carb, low fat diet. Im okay with them following whatever they want but the issue arises because they also try to directly or indirectly force me to eat according to what works for them. Maybe some of this wouldn’t be such a concern a couple years down the road but my husband is saying he wants to bring them over for a visit and have them stay with us for a couple of months (4-5). Besides the things I experienced when I visited my in-laws, I am also concerned because my husband and I had constant fights and our marriage was on the rocks the couple of months we stayed with my parents after the wedding because of not having any privacy or a space to ourselves. Even now, we stay 2 hours from them and they ask us to visit every other weekend and that causes fights because he feels like we don’t get any time to ourselves. I’m not sure how it’s going to go if his parents are staying with us, especially since they seem to stress him out quite a bit. I have spoken to him about how I felt staying with his parents when I visited them and what my concerns are about them staying with us in the future. He did assure me that even if they are staying with us down the road, they will probably leave us alone for the most part and mind their own business or try to help us out around the house but I’m not convinced that they won’t meddle or insist on how some things should be done. I understand that any relationship needs some adjustment, I just don’t want it to turn into them expecting me to do everything according to how they like it. I could really use some advice if anyone has any. I’m not expecting someone to just magically have a solution but even bouncing ideas off of someone would be great.
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