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  • balletshoes
    balletshoes Posts: 16,610 Forumite
    no new ideas - phone the CAB, and phone women's aid.
  • ecgirl07
    ecgirl07 Posts: 662 Forumite
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    Change the bills to his name if he is not giving you money to cover them.

    Cancel everything non essential sky etc.
  • Lostinhere
    Lostinhere Posts: 89 Forumite
    Yes I will change the bills, good idea!!
  • *Robin*
    *Robin* Posts: 3,364 Forumite
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    Lostinhere wrote: »
    Yes I will change the bills, good idea!!

    Doesn't that require the signature of the person named on the utility accounts?
  • Are you picking up the full allowance benefits wise for the children and you.

    I really hope this link works and this post allowed, a search on turn 2 us based on a charity in a county close by (don't know where you are in country but it will give you an idea the help that could be available)
    http://grants-search.turn2us.org.uk/grant/lenderhand-16814?iframe=False
    so there is something out there and so you do not have to be trapped.

    (When posting on here becomes pointless I hope if genuine you'll do a similar search once you do something 'snap of the moment', it can be liberating I promise)
    Nobody need make you feel inferior, unless you allow them too, before there is another Mandy Jordash from brookside all them years ago so I'll stop. x
  • suki1964
    suki1964 Posts: 14,313 Forumite
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    Hook line and sinker
  • KRB2725
    KRB2725 Posts: 685 Forumite
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    Why do you fear Social Services being involved?
  • lulu_92
    lulu_92 Posts: 2,758 Forumite
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    emmatthews wrote: »
    Why do you fear Social Services being involved?

    This.

    Believe it or not SS aren't there to just take kids off people, they are there to (try to) ensure children are safe. Them getting involved is in your best interests.
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  • meer53
    meer53 Posts: 10,217 Forumite
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    I have repeatedly said the debt is bad, I have refused to argue in front of the kids and when he starts I leave, I have acknowledged my wrongdoing but yes he is worse as he is the one making comments to the children and in front of them. The things he does (controlling cctv) are witnessed by the children as when I tried to use it they could see the password had been changed (eldest can read) things like that...

    But YOU are allowing your children to be in the middle of this by not taking any action !!!!!! Remove yourself and your children from this awful situation as soon as possible.

    Stop worrying about whether you can "fix things" if it's fixable it will happen, if it's not then suck it up and move on. It's not rocket science fgs.
  • hollydays
    hollydays Posts: 19,812 Forumite
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    edited 28 June 2016 at 7:35AM
    Op.
    I know what you are going through is very painful.
    I know it must be hard reading this thread.
    I suspect you are feeling so bad because you are felling out of control?

    Take control now and be the adult your children deserve.
    If you are feeling scared ( and I can tell you are) just think how terrified you two are making your children feel.

    It's over. The words are futile.
    I think you need to get some counselling . I agree with others about the passive aggressive behaviour you have shown.
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