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Partner playing "cards" in my relationship - Need advice

 
 
Reply Fri 15 Sep, 2017 08:15 am
I am in a 3 year relationship with my partner. We live together, are engaged, and have went through "the honeymoon phase". My situation is so confusing and complicated to me. My partner was sexually abused by a family member as a child, and has been labeled as having PTSD from the experience. I cannot help but feel like he has used this horrible thing as a "card" to play on friends, family members, and me. I am the sole bread winner in the household, he draws SSI for having PTSD/manic anxiety and so on, but does not contribute to the bills. For the first two years of our relationship, I had a job that I was making a comfortable living at and it did not bother me to pay everything. I unexpectedly lost that job and I am now working a job with less income and I had to file bankruptcy after all of this. As I was going through my financial mess, my partner did not step up to even offer any help. I sold personal belongings, had to borrow money from my father to even file bankruptcy....and so forth. My job is a work-from-home customer service job, the only bill that my partner was paying at the time was the cable bill because he watched tv, he was aggrivated that I started working from home and stopped paying it without telling me - my job depended on the cable internet. I had to sell my piano to keep the cable on. He seen no wrong in doing that and it really bothered me. I am now paying everything(utilities, rent) as well as my bankruptcy(which is getting harder and harder to pay while paying everything in the household). I don't mean to write a book but feel it necessary in order for someone to understand my situation and give me some form of advice.
Six months ago, his grandmother passed away at age 97. He went back and forth on expressing his thoughts about her(at one point he blamed her for his molestation by his uncle, her son) - one moment he would say he loved her so much, the next he would say horrible things about this sweet little lady that I had come to know. At her funeral, we got back in the car and when I asked if he was ok, his response was "I made sure that one got put in the ground". I was horrified and disgusted by his behavior. Since then, he has started bringing up her death to anyone and everyone that will listen as a way to get sympathy, I believe. When I ask him for help on the bills, he says "I'm grieving my grandmother, I'm having a hard time". Our sex life has also dwindled. Where we would typically have sex every other day, sometimes more than that, it has literally been months since we have had anything other than an occasional oral act. When I jokingly bring it up that we're not having sex, he brings out the grandma card. He also says that he's not into having sex anymore, but I find him on a phone(that I pay for) watching porn and signing up for hook-up sites. When I confront him about it, he pretends he didn't know what the site was about or says he was just curious or looking for friends and since there's no "gay facebook" that was his only option. (He says he doesn't like being friends with straight people and that's why he is searching for friends on these hook-up sites). I know better than that.
He does not clean up after himself, doesn't cook, and wastes food like it is nothing. While I am scrounging in my situation, he is buying 50 dollar bottles of shampoo and so forth. I am very disgusted but I love him. I am in this for the long haul, and promised myself to do everything to make this work. His family more or less has disowned him - his mother made it clear to me to not bring him back to her house because she was finished with him. I do not want my relationship to end, but there comes a point where I will have to ultimately save myself. I am heartbroken in every since of the word. I have no clue as to what to do.
 
jespah
 
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Reply Fri 15 Sep, 2017 08:26 am
@Gabe2017,
He sounds awful.

At best, he's in desperate need of mental health therapy and isn't getting it.

At worst, he's selfish, self-centered, and incredibly tone-deaf about pretty much everything.

Why are you putting up with this ****?
Gabe2017
 
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Reply Fri 15 Sep, 2017 08:32 am
@jespah,
I hear you. There is more to my story but figured a book would not be a good introduction in my membership on this forum.
When we first met, and were living apart, I raced from work to see him. I love him so much. Twice, I caught him cheating. It was a new relationship so I was confused if he seen me as a boyfriend or a fwb. I overlooked it TWICE because I wanted this relationship so bad. I had to put filters on my wifi router to block him from being on hook-up sites and apps while I was at work. Again, my stupidity for tolerating it. I just didn't know what to do and I wanted to prove everyone wrong that I had made the right decision to be in a relationship with him. He isn't cheating on me, he has no way of doing so actually(he doesn't drive, etc).
I do not know what to do. I am living paycheck to paycheck, abou to get thrown out of my bankruptcy, and have no way of "saving" anything to either kick him out of my apartment or for me to just find another place to move to without telling him until the last minute. I don't want to do that, I want my relationship to thrive, but I am exhausted. Ugggh.
jespah
 
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Reply Fri 15 Sep, 2017 08:42 am
@Gabe2017,
This freeloader is sucking all the energy and joy out of your life. He is an overgrown child.

Can you talk with your dad about getting something to tide you over so you can break free? Maybe get yourself an apartment with a roommate, that sort of thing.

I also work from home and I'm a writer. If you can write, you might be able to at least make some more cash. Even if it's not a lot, it's something.
Gabe2017
 
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Reply Fri 15 Sep, 2017 08:47 am
@jespah,
Ahhh, the irony in all of this is that I am also a writer. I am finishing up a light-hearted look at...relationships. I have a fear of putting it out there because my relationship is failing.
He also wrote a short book about his life story, and I had to convince him to make it "fictional" and change the names. And guess what, yes, the entire book makes the main character a victim all the way through. Again I'm not bashing him, but I keep expecting things to change and it doesn't. Even when I say something, there's always an excuse. I've even thought about asking him "If we weren't together, you'd be paying rent and utitilies so why are do you have an issue of paying half here with me?" Should I just come out and say that?
centrox
 
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Reply Fri 15 Sep, 2017 11:03 am
@Gabe2017,
Gabe2017 wrote:
I've even thought about asking him "If we weren't together, you'd be paying rent and utitilies so why are do you have an issue of paying half here with me?" Should I just come out and say that?

Absolutely. Not "should", "must".
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tibbleinparadise
 
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Reply Fri 15 Sep, 2017 02:12 pm
@Gabe2017,
"I want my relationship to thrive"

I think you need to accept that this may not be possible with your current partner.
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Gabe2017
 
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Reply Sat 16 Sep, 2017 07:17 am
Thanks, friends for the input. I feel as though my thoughts about all of it is confirmed. How do we fall in love with someone that's so bad for us?!
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