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Angelstar

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Feeling Low Today
« on: June 11, 2012, 05:16:20 PM »
I'm just feeling really low today. Mr Dyson is hoovering again, sucking me in, pulling me back. I am clinging to my dreams of leaving I wish I was gone already.
Today he seems to think that we have so many years behind us it would be a shame to throw it all away at this time in our lives. And had I not of been hostile earlier this year he would never have been sucked in my his lady friend and had an affair with her and he would never have returned to her day after day hungry for love that he didn't feel I was giving him.
I had to continually tell him I loved him, and I had to continually live by his rules. If I did them correctly, it proved I loved him, if I messed up or forgot to obey a rule it showed I did not love him. If I got up early to feed the animals I was asked why I was getting up early, when I told him I'd get 'if you stay in bed till I wake up properly we can make love.' he would then fall back to sleep and I would get up and see to the animals. Later he would tell me that obviously I did not love him for I had not stayed in bed to make love.
I would say the animals could not feed themselves.
My husband believes that the act of making love is literally that. It is not a sexual intimacy it is a way to make/generate more love in a relationship. If we do not make it, then the love soon gets used up, and our relationship would suffer. We have to keep topping up our love by making more love. I was actually flabbergasted when I worked this one out. How can anyone presume that one cannot love without making it first?
What does one do when loving other people, friends, family, animals! Consequently we had to make love daily and he would keep a running total in his diary.
I did have to laugh, 2011 I seriously lacked over the previous year when he announced we were 70 down over the previous year at the end of November 2011. I told him well if you think I am going to catch up on another 70 in the month of December you can forget it!
He just told me the usual, then you cannot love me, or if you do, we soon won't have enough love to love each other with because it will all soon be used up if we do not make some more.
Has anyone else encountered this strange way of looking at love with their partners?
So I am feeling low today - perhaps he is right. It's many weeks since I allowed him to generate more love with me. I reckon I can live with that.

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Re: Feeling Low Today
« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2012, 06:25:38 PM »
You'd better buy him one of those rubber dolls.  He's too much.

On the serious side, he's abusive.  To blame his offensive behavior on you is emotional abuse.  So you're his scape goat for anything unethical or immoral that he's forced to do because you didn't meet his needs?  He's ridiculous.

Don't let him hoover you.  You're making the right decision.  You need to save yourself.  Tell him he's got a dirty d**k and stay away from you.  Gross.  Keep strong and keep posting here.  Don't let that heart break back in your life.
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Re: Feeling Low Today
« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2012, 06:55:25 PM »
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You'd better buy him one of those rubber dolls.  He's too much.

On the serious side, he's abusive.  To blame his offensive behavior on you is emotional abuse.  So you're his scape goat for anything unethical or immoral that he's forced to do because you didn't meet his needs?  He's ridiculous.

Don't let him hoover you.  You're making the right decision.  You need to save yourself.  Tell him he's got a dirty d**k and stay away from you.  Gross.  Keep strong and keep posting here.  Don't let that heart break back in your life.

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Re: Feeling Low Today
« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2012, 11:49:47 PM »
Angel star,
My heart goes out to you. Although my exnpd never came out and said those hurtful hurtful words like your husband, he may as well have. What really touched me was that as he blamed you  for his disturbing behaviour, you remained the good loving wife and tried your best.  My God he doesn't deserve you...you are an angel like your name states.  Let's all work together to gain clarity, gain strength, gain perspective and try our best to love ourselves enough to make the changes necessary to do what's right for US!

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Re: Feeling Low Today
« Reply #4 on: June 12, 2012, 09:36:27 AM »
Pull the plug on that Dyson!  Good grief! Was he "making" love with the lady friend? Wonder how much love he chalked up with her.
Maybe tell him that he made so much without you that you ran out!

Angelstar

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Re: Feeling Low Today
« Reply #5 on: June 12, 2012, 11:01:02 AM »
Yes he did chalk up his times with her. That's how I found him out. He put it at the back of his diary a list of dates under the letters ML. When I cross referenced the dates with me in the front of his diary his running total was wrong and the dates didn't match. I asked him about the ML at the rear of the diary and he told me it related to mowing the lawn. I told him two dates it was minus 5 and one of them there was snow on the ground or so the weather report in his diary stated, PLUS in big capital letters on March 31st he had written mowed lawn for the first time this year. It was then he confessed to his affair but added, he had to do it as I was being hostile and he needed love and she offered it to him.


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Re: Feeling Low Today
« Reply #6 on: June 12, 2012, 01:31:08 PM »
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My husband believes that the act of making love is literally that. It is not a sexual intimacy it is a way to make/generate more love in a relationship. If we do not make it, then the love soon gets used up, and our relationship would suffer.

My unNPD ex used statistics too, it drove me nuts as it was so unfair. If I put 1 kiss on a text message he'd get upset, he'd say I wasn't texting/telling him I loved him/whatever  enough. He'd also say for example "we've only made love twice in the past week" and conveniently forget he'd been away working for some of it, or I was pregnant and sick, or just had a baby, or an operation. It was always some kind of measure of our relationship. If we weren't up to his standard it'd be the "so, are we going to have sex tonight ? " question and there's nothing more likely to turn a girl off than that.

Your husband is using emotional manipulation to serve himself and its not fair on you. You deserve so much better, keep strong :)

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Re: Feeling Low Today
« Reply #7 on: June 12, 2012, 02:45:30 PM »
Gross.  My exh use to ask me if we could have sex everytime I asked him to do anything for me.  It got where he disgusted me with that question.  When we were dating, he got to where he wouldn't travel to my home to do anything unless he asked "if we were going to have sex".  Yuck.  I finally said I'm not your whore.  Why is sex the price for any favor I ask for you to do?  It made sex a chore and I was irritated by his demeaning question .
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Re: Feeling Low Today
« Reply #8 on: June 19, 2012, 09:38:36 AM »
It's so strange...mine never verbalized it as fully as yours, Angelstar, but I think if he'd heard yours say it, he would have been in violent agreement!  He kept track on his phone, worried our relationship was suffering if we weren't keeping up with our own statistics, even if there were extenuating circumstances.

And mine was creative.  He knew I had a libido and he got this phrase stuck in his head that I "needed sex" (I think we had similar drives, I certainly wasn't some nympho like he thought I was).  So if we didn't have it as often as he thought I needed it, he'd act like he didn't trust me.  He'd push the issue frenetically, we'd better hurry and have sex or he wouldn't be able to believe I wasn't getting it somewhere else.  Then sometimes he'd pick fights and because we hadn't been able to have sex because of the fights he couldn't trust me then, either, even though he was the reason we weren't having any.

So I ended up having sex with him more than I needed, just to prove to him I wasn't getting it elsewhere.  Physically this was okay, as our compatibility was one reason I had been drawn to him, but he made the whole thing such a psychological/emotional issue that my libido eventually drained away.  It's been months and I still don't desire it.

I remember the rules.  I remember trying to follow them and getting them wrong.  I remember mentioning the rules and hurting his feelings and/or making him mad because his ex-wife complained about his "rules" and now I sounded like her.  And this, of course, reflected badly on me, not him.

I'm so sorry you're low.  I hope you can be truly gone from it soon.

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« Reply #9 on: June 19, 2012, 09:20:11 PM »
What was with that? Anytime I wanted him to do something for me he wanted sex. I agree yuck, it did turn into a chore.

Anglestar, wow he is really odd, you are a saint. Everyday or you did not love him? How the hell do you love your parents? Is he having sex with everyone he "loves" ask him that. You are being emotionally abused in a big way and you in no way deserve that, he is dumping all kings of garbage on you. Love is an emotional connection, when you feel comfortable to be yourself with who you love, when you do not need to prove you love them. Or that is my dream of what it is, personally I have never experienced it so....I have only had the abusive kind.

He is messing with you, and no he is absolutely not right, so never say " maybe he is right" again, you are being abused. The freaking excuse he gave you for the affair is just that a lame excuse and to me not acceptable. He gave his love to someone else, maybe you should find someone to give your love to who would appreciate it and not make such ludicrous demands on you. Yuck.

You deserve so much better, be kind to yourself. Take care, what he is trying to convince you of is so wrong and not true.
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Re: Feeling Low Today
« Reply #10 on: June 20, 2012, 05:06:51 AM »
So sorry Angelstar. he is definitely manipulating you,blaming you for his transgressions. I find it amazing that he is keeping a tally,but to try to pretend that ML is mowing the lawn??? Seriously ?Very peculiar. We are all here with stories of partners who have at times tried to make us feel less than who we are. Stay strong, we are here for you.  Maybe you can pencil in some extra marks without him noticing,just in case you run low again..... ;)