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Slowly drowning

User Profile: goldenLion7271
goldenLion7271 July 23rd, 2025

I don't have friends and my family is very toxic and dysfunctional. I've gone through so much in life. I came from a broken family. My mom would physically and mentally abuse me. I was also sexually abused by a family member for years. Somehow survived. I am now married and with a baby. But being a stay at home mom with a very cold husband is just making me very very very depressed. In those 10 years I feel like he never really knew me. He doesnt seem to know what i like even when I tell him all the time. He almost never really got me gifts. And at times he did, it would be something I dont like. When I tell him I love flowers and why he doesnt get them for me, he would say it's just a waste of money. He never initiates affection. I would always hug or kiss him first. Or I will ask him to hug me or kiss me but he never do it on his own. He always walks ahead of me, even that time I was pregnant and I had a foot fracture. All those years it's always been 50/50 became 60/40 on bills and expenses, even if I'm a stay at home mom, I have money to contribute. But lately he's getting more money and I'm gonna loose my part time. If he could treat me bad when I can contribute, I'm scared how much worse it will be that I would not be able to contribute anymore. I always ask him if he trully loves me and all the time he says he loves me. But I just cant feel it. I have brought up all my issues so many times, bringing up how I cant feel his love. And how he can try to express his love the way I can feel it. But nothing really changes. I don't know how I'm gonna escape this because I honestly dont have savings. What do I do with our relationship? And how can I survive this for me and my baby?

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User Profile: Amanda84
Amanda84 July 23rd, 2025

@goldenLion7271

You have been through so much, more than any person could bare 🥺 I'm sorry for the way you were treated and abused and that's not fair and it's understandabke that you need affection and love to be initiated and never apologise for how you feel. It will be hard but you need to have a hard conversation with your husband, and let him know that you need him to start listening, hearing what you need and putting each other first or things may very well be over. You are a great mother, hold onto that and continue healing, you deserve to be happy and safe 💕💜