Me(30F) & my boyfriend(34M) have been dating for 4 years & always had a rocky relationship. For some idiotic reason we decided to have a baby together after being broken up for 4 months. We were on that “I missed you so much” high and honestly my daughter means EVERYTHING to me. I love her so much. However him, I no longer love him. I don’t care to kiss him, to hug him, to be touched by him. He’s as romantic as a boring grey rock. He has to always initiate sex. I only have sex with him to get off & to get him to just leave me alone. Last time we were having sex I was literally just staring at the ceiling hoping he would cum soon so he could just get off me. I hate his mindset. His mannerisms. His values. His goals. Everything about him. I wish I wasn’t experiencing my first time being a mother with him. He was super neglectful when I was pregnant and now he only cares about our daughter. We live with his mom and I’ve become so turned off watching him get treated like a literal baby by his mom. I have no room to be a housewife, let alone any type of wife to him. He has his mom for that. As if that wasn’t enough, he’s just a horrible boyfriend. Imagine, the meanest, most demanding, bullying, unromantic, manipulating person ever now times that by 10. He’s cheated on me, he’s addicted to dating apps, he has a wondering eye by a thousand. Hes absolutely horrible and my heart hurts every day. I know I can’t leave anytime soon. I’m not in a financial place to leave. My daughter is barely 6 months old. I can’t make the sacrifice of splitting up her time between her dad and I just so I can be happy. Her happiness comes first. I just…I wish I could find true love. I wish so badly I could be loved the way I love other people. Why did I do this to myself. won’t I harm her by forcing her to be in a split home situation so little? I honestly am staying so I can watch over her well. If I leave, he’s absolutely going to fight me over split custody so that he doesn’t have to pay child support. And he will win, because our state is not a mom state. So I’d have to live with knowing she’s all alone with him and his entire family who consists of 2 other grown adults and his mom and 2 semi aggressive dogs. I have nowhere else to go. Where I live is so unaffordable now. I wish I could leave and have her full time. I wish I had the money to take him to court properly. I wish so many things. I think this is why A LOT of moms stay. Staying here means ALL her needs are provided for financially by him. Foods on the table every day. I am always with her, taking care of her, watching over her. If I leave his mom is going to raise her and she will absolutely try to take her from me or change her in ways I wouldn’t hope for.
No longer in love – we just had a daughter
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Ok Im going to lay it out for you cold and honest. You are not doing your daughter any favors by continuing to live in what amounts to a broken home. even at a young age she will pick up the rift between mom and dad and she will internalize it. The relationship she sees her primary parent (you) in will be the one she emulates when she is an adult as that will be her example of what an adult relationship looks like. You owe it you and her both to get out and be happy. This guy isnt it. Live with family, friends, whatever it takes in the short term but seriously you can do long term damage to your daughter if you stick it out for her childhood.
You definitely have to start making a plan now to leave. It’s possible.
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