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at the end of my rope


Posted: Mar 15, 2011

Need advice, cannot afford a counselor!!

Have lived with SO for over 12 years.  We both have enough money to live fairly well.  We bought a house together 2 years ago that was tiny, only about 1000 square feet with the intent and understanding that we would reconfigure it and add on.  I have a home business which takes up quite a bit of space and is currently housed in a room that is the size of a closet.  I don't have an office to do my MT work, have to sit at the kitchen table.  Many of the rooms in this unfinished, older house look like a storage unit because there are bins and stacks of items for which there is no place to put them.  I have had my better furniture and smaller items in a storage unit the whole time we have lived here.  My boyfriend's answer to my complaining about the cost of the storage unit in addition to not having my things here is "move them to the garage."  I try to explain that that doesn't help much and things are being ruined being stored in garages or outside units.  I tell him that at my age it is killing me to live in such a rundown house with most of my things in totes or in storage.  I can't really entertain or have family or friends over here, it is too small and quite frankly too embarrassing to have people see how we live. 

His usual comment on all of this is "well what do you want me to do about it?"  and "it's good enough for me."  I respond that I want him to care, and have some empathy.  He usually walks off in the middle of any conversation about it.  Tonight when I reiterated once again that I wish he could at least show some concern and maybe we could work on some ideas together he finally said, after I had started crying and stated that the house bothered me so much that some mornings I didn't even feel like getting out of bed he said "aren't you supposed to be working?" and walked out of the room.

How in heaven am I to deal with this beyond what I have done already?

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Maybe it's time to ask yourself whether - you're better off with him

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or without him. It sounds like he has no respect or even affection for you. In my opinion, his behavior toward you is abusive. Do you want to be treated like that for the rest of your life?

Maybe it's time to cut him loose and have the kind of life you want. You don't deserve to be treated with that kind of contempt.

Agree - A common complaint

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I have met many men who deal with situations in the manner the poster described. . . just blow it off, make light of it, ignore the problem, etc. Women need to be heard and treated like thinking adults. I agree something is very wrong in the relationship as she describes it. I wish her the best. I think she may be better off alone, and may actually be glad she made the break.

He may be an insensitive, disrespectful, selfish - Clod

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And while those are not the ultimate desirable traits in a mate, it does not amount to abusive behavior.

She does not sound abused, just stuck with a caveman who is content in his cave.

Jane, do it yourself or hire someone else to do what you want him to do. You say you have enough money to live fairly well so find a contractor or handyman and start with a small job. That might get the boyfriend off his duff .. or not .. either way you will be getting done whatever it is you want done.

You can't can't control how others feel, act, or respond. You can only control you. So if you can't live with him the way he is, and he clearly refuses to change as he thinks there is nothing to change, then leave.

The house stuff, though, save your energy in trying to get him to be involved, and just take care of it yourself.


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