Should I leave this 12 year relationship?
I have been living with my partner for 12 years. I'm now 33 and he is 35, he got two kids both are teenagers now. We always talked about marriage, future kids and our life together but only last last year we have a solid plan to try for a baby.
A lot had happened last year and a lot of stress specially with the pandemic..
- March I quit my toxic job and he proposed to me
- July I went back to study and worked as a casual
- August my grandfather passed away overseas
- September he quit his toxic job and our landlord decided to sell our rental house
- October we moved to an apartment
- November we are still settling in
- December he suddenly broke up with me. No prior fights or disagreement.
He had a troubled youth and when I met him we were both in our partying stage in which we grew out off pretty quickly. We grew up together, learned from our mistakes, supported each other and we worked hard for our relationship to make it work. He is my best friend and my life partner. We both came from a separated family so we were always cautious on our relationship making sure we don't turn out like our parents.
My parents don't know about his kids. Our family also never met coz we decided to keep them separated for our peace of mind. We always talked about the "right" time to tell my family about his kids but we never did. Out of respect for him I kept his secret from my family and my friends. Only recently I told two of my friends about it coz I cannot keep this burden anymore.
He said I got an attitude and that he cannot live his life putting up with me anymore. I don't deny it, but I know I'm not as bad as how he portrays me to be. I know I got issues and I am seeing a therapist about it. He got his own demons too but he refuses to get any help. He is putting blame on me, he gave me an ultimatum to change. I said I'll change but he says he cannot trust me but he loves me. I feel like nothing I do for this man is good enough and now he has left me in this limbo.
We are still living together at the moment coz I am supporting him financially. I'm confused coz he is acting so nice to me but he hardly talks to me, no physical contact and he sleeps in the lounge room.
A good friend of mine already offered their guest bedroom for me to move into, rent free til I get my shit together. I have already packed my belongings but I'm still here hoping it'll get better. I'm confused. Everything was going great. Should I just leave?
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