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Partner just left out of the blue.

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  • sp1987
    sp1987 Posts: 907 Forumite
    Nicklt wrote: »
    But tbh without the income from me she has nothing.

    This struck me.

    I know if my partner gave me the feeling about me that you gave me about her, that I would feel uncomfortable.

    Anything that makes a woman seem financially reliant on a man I get quite angered about. Some women let it happen, I realise.

    Maybe she feels everything is ''your'' money and she has no place in her life and no bargaining power, due to having no money of her own?

    I know if I had no prospect of having my own money (even if the tiniest bit) and therefore, to make my own choices, I would be really, really miserable. Even if a woman works for two hours a week for £14, it still gives the independance of mind that some people need.

    Or she could just be bored, or she could have tried all she can to keep up the idea that she loved you for your child...or something else.

    Until you speak to her, you will have no idea which, if any.
  • euronorris
    euronorris Posts: 12,247 Forumite
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    GEEGEE8 wrote: »
    No proof of that at all. Why make him feel worse?

    Yeah, not sure where that came from at all! I didn't get that impression at all!
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  • Fang_3
    Fang_3 Posts: 7,602 Forumite
    She sounds like a spoiled princess type to me. Struggles to look after her own child one day a week? Walks out and expects you to come after her? It's nothing more than attention seeking, but I would worry about your daughter being with her full time if she struggles for one day. Why doesn't she work?
  • jimbms
    jimbms Posts: 1,100 Forumite
    Aputsiaq wrote: »
    Sorry but it sounds as though she was seeing someone else to me.
    There is always one with a big wooden spoon who likes to stir without an incling of proof just to make others feel worse.
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  • DVardysShadow
    DVardysShadow Posts: 18,949 Forumite
    edited 25 June 2010 at 12:24PM
    Nicklt wrote: »
    Partner has just left me out of the blue, she just said she didnt love me anymore. I tried to get her to stay and talk to me but she said she has made her mind up and there is nothing i can do.
    Perhaps time to get 'men are from Mars, women are from Venus' and have a good read - it is highly likely to have something relevant to say. I am basing this on the impression that the situation is not working out for her at the moment, rather than the more fanciful theories.
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  • Any
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    edited 25 June 2010 at 11:55AM
    Fang wrote: »
    She sounds like a spoiled princess type to me. Struggles to look after her own child one day a week? Walks out and expects you to come after her? It's nothing more than attention seeking, but I would worry about your daughter being with her full time if she struggles for one day.

    I agree with this. Problem is that some women at home have nothing better to do then think up all sorts of problems and work themselves up about it and as long as you let them off with it one you will find out that you both live in different worlds.

    My sister is like that - despite having one child at home and one at school and a cleaner every fortnight, she never manages anything. She actually has friends (working full time) to help her clean and organise things when guests are coming. And the ideas she comes up with!! And how worked up she can become about them! And how she believes she has a right to say anything, even offensive - because she is right and that is it.

    Don't take me wrong - I still love her to pieces, but sometimes I have to be quite firm when I don't want her to manipulate me into something and then feel the rejection for couple of days when I don't do as she wants me to :-)
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