Anonymous wrote:An unhealthy home is much worse for the kids. PP, you sound like YOU cannot function without your husband's support. That's your problem. I feel sorry for you if you HAVE to stay with an abusive drunk. That says a lot about you and your self esteem.
Who said I stayed with a drunk?
Anyway, you still sound like a young adult with no children who has not lived a particularly long time, and who has not encountered real-life situations that demand compromise.
And so I'll help you out a little here: a home where everything is very pleasant and civil and full of riches and provides 99.5% of everything a child needs is, actually, not "worse" for kids. Kids do not give a shit if their parents are fucking properly so long as their world is cheery and supportive. That's the big 'if.'
The parents care, hell yes. That's what this thread is about. But no 10 year old is going to say, you know what? My father is entitled to get hot sex initiated by both partners about 4-6 times per week. I would gladly give up my pleasant, cheery, upper middle class life with parents who see me every single day and don't fight and don't snipe and are quite cordial to each other -- just so dad can have inspired sex 4-6 times per week. That is in fact what I really want. Shuttling between 2 homes with diminished lifestyle and not seeing one parent at every. single. holiday is what I prefer. I want a step mom with 2 baby step sisters and I want my mom and me to sometimes live in a crappy apartment and leave my friends at my school. I want my college funds to be cut by 66%.
That is not worse for me, no way! What's worse for me is my dad not getting great sex 4-6 times per week. That just kills me to think about that.
Anonymous wrote:Well, I believed I owed it to my children to at least attempt to work things out and ask him to get help for his mood disorder. You sound like a nanny, maybe? without children, or a young curious woman without children, or a dude.
NO grown woman I know with children old enough to understand what's going on would say, Hey, your spouse has starting being unkind to you. Fuck the kids, and kick him out pronto!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:An unhealthy home is much worse for the kids. PP, you sound like YOU cannot function without your husband's support. That's your problem. I feel sorry for you if you HAVE to stay with an abusive drunk. That says a lot about you and your self esteem.
Who said I stayed with a drunk?
Anyway, you still sound like a young adult with no children who has not lived a particularly long time, and who has not encountered real-life situations that demand compromise.
And so I'll help you out a little here: a home where everything is very pleasant and civil and full of riches and provides 99.5% of everything a child needs is, actually, not "worse" for kids. Kids do not give a shit if their parents are fucking properly so long as their world is cheery and supportive. That's the big 'if.'
The parents care, hell yes. That's what this thread is about. But no 10 year old is going to say, you know what? My father is entitled to get hot sex initiated by both partners about 4-6 times per week. I would gladly give up my pleasant, cheery, upper middle class life with parents who see me every single day and don't fight and don't snipe and are quite cordial to each other -- just so dad can have inspired sex 4-6 times per week. That is in fact what I really want. Shuttling between 2 homes with diminished lifestyle and not seeing one parent at every. single. holiday is what I prefer. I want a step mom with 2 baby step sisters and I want my mom and me to sometimes live in a crappy apartment and leave my friends at my school. I want my college funds to be cut by 66%.
That is not worse for me, no way! What's worse for me is my dad not getting great sex 4-6 times per week. That just kills me to think about that.
You have some horrible options to choose from.
Anonymous wrote:An unhealthy home is much worse for the kids. PP, you sound like YOU cannot function without your husband's support. That's your problem. I feel sorry for you if you HAVE to stay with an abusive drunk. That says a lot about you and your self esteem.
Who said I stayed with a drunk?
Anyway, you still sound like a young adult with no children who has not lived a particularly long time, and who has not encountered real-life situations that demand compromise.
And so I'll help you out a little here: a home where everything is very pleasant and civil and full of riches and provides 99.5% of everything a child needs is, actually, not "worse" for kids. Kids do not give a shit if their parents are fucking properly so long as their world is cheery and supportive. That's the big 'if.'
The parents care, hell yes. That's what this thread is about. But no 10 year old is going to say, you know what? My father is entitled to get hot sex initiated by both partners about 4-6 times per week. I would gladly give up my pleasant, cheery, upper middle class life with parents who see me every single day and don't fight and don't snipe and are quite cordial to each other -- just so dad can have inspired sex 4-6 times per week. That is in fact what I really want. Shuttling between 2 homes with diminished lifestyle and not seeing one parent at every. single. holiday is what I prefer. I want a step mom with 2 baby step sisters and I want my mom and me to sometimes live in a crappy apartment and leave my friends at my school. I want my college funds to be cut by 66%.
That is not worse for me, no way! What's worse for me is my dad not getting great sex 4-6 times per week. That just kills me to think about that.
An unhealthy home is much worse for the kids. PP, you sound like YOU cannot function without your husband's support. That's your problem. I feel sorry for you if you HAVE to stay with an abusive drunk. That says a lot about you and your self esteem.
Anonymous wrote:STBxH started with A, moved on to B, and now he's decided to C.
If it matters, I "withheld" sex AFTER he morphed into a fucking prick who is unapologetically verbally abusive and began calling me fat, stupid, unambitious, and more. Oh, lazy, unattractive, "stupid like the rest of your family," ....
It's hard to ever get the vag juices flowing after hearing that for years, you know? Point being, OP, it's never one-sided. Next week you can start a cutesy poll titled something like, "WHY did you stop having sex with your husbands?"
A. He's an unemployed high functioning drunk
B. He sucks in bed.
c. He's emotionally abusive and cruel
etc etc.
Anonymous wrote:Well, I believed I owed it to my children to at least attempt to work things out and ask him to get help for his mood disorder. You sound like a nanny, maybe? without children, or a young curious woman without children, or a dude.
NO grown woman I know with children old enough to understand what's going on would say, Hey, your spouse has starting being unkind to you. Fuck the kids, and kick him out pronto!
Anonymous wrote:Well, I believed I owed it to my children to at least attempt to work things out and ask him to get help for his mood disorder. You sound like a nanny, maybe? without children, or a young curious woman without children, or a dude.
NO grown woman I know with children old enough to understand what's going on would say, Hey, your spouse has starting being unkind to you. Fuck the kids, and kick him out pronto!
Anonymous wrote:STBxH started with A, moved on to B, and now he's decided to C.
If it matters, I "withheld" sex AFTER he morphed into a fucking prick who is unapologetically verbally abusive and began calling me fat, stupid, unambitious, and more. Oh, lazy, unattractive, "stupid like the rest of your family," ....
It's hard to ever get the vag juices flowing after hearing that for years, you know?
Point being, OP, it's never one-sided. Next week you can start a cutesy poll titled something like, "WHY did you stop having sex with your husbands?"
A. He's an unemployed high functioning drunk
B. He sucks in bed.
c. He's emotionally abusive and cruel
etc etc.