Needing some fresh eyes and thoughts on my relationship situation
My partner and I have recently gone through a very bumpy patch over the last few months. Our relationship was starting to get toxic we would fight all the time and well he ended up breaking things off. This was super hard for me at the time because I could not understand why or how he could just give up on us but over the past couple of months of not being together and getting some space we have both gained a lot of clarity. He told me that he felt like I was controlling him and putting too much pressure on him as a partner. Which In a lot of ways I was without even realising it. I was pushing him towards moving out of his parents place and he’s just started a new job etc. I was living with him and his parents for about a year and we had our own little flat downstairs and before I came along his mum would do all of his washing cleaning of his room, groceries, cooking etc for him. I have lived out of home for a while now and having had different circumstances growing up I am a very independent person. My partner took on pretty quick to start doing things himself which was really awesome and told his mum that he didn’t want her to be coming in room and cleaning etc as we were both paying rent and she would always say it was our space.
His mum continued to go in the room and over time things got more and more toxic with her behaviour she would come downstairs and say belittling things to me when he wasn’t around and messaging me manipulative things over the course of this year it got worse and worse and I tried to reach out to my partner about it but he would think I was over reacting as he could not see it as she would mostly come down and say things when he was at work or not home and then she would treat him perfectly fine and nicely. It got so much for me I started taking it out on him in other ways as I was not happy but I couldn’t realise why I wasn’t happy or what was happening until after i moved out and was still receiving these nasty messages from her. Over the last couple of months my partner and I have been getting along really well I have distanced myself from going over to his place as much and focusing on my own mental health.. and we have decided to get back together although it doesn’t feel quite right. We have gone from living together and working on common goals etc as a couple to seeing each other twice a week because we both work so much and just doing our own thing a whole lot more than ever before. it feels kind of like a high school relationship and not so serious and passionate anymore ? I have tried to say this but he feels like it’s all fine and doesn’t understand why I have to try make something out of nothing but I just feel like it’s not the same sort of love and closeness we shared before. We have recently decided to move out together which I think will be good for us as we will see a lot more of each other again and will be different without his mum there but I kind of feel weird he never could stand up to her and draw the line with how she was treating me and still does just not as much because we aren’t under the same roof? Do you guys think I should be moving out with him and giving it another shot after he broke it off as being hurt in that way makes me fearful he might do it again if things get tough instead of working through it as a team idk let me know what your thoughts are.
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