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What does it mean when your 'loving' spouse is more rude and disrespectful to you than he is to perfect strangers?

I feel like I'm watching the slow deterioration of my marriage and I try to communicate with him but he wont; he shuts down. I think he's lying to me about something again but I can't guess what and when I asked him who he was texting earlier he got super defensive about it.

Then when I asked him why... why he works so hard to hide things if there is nothing to hide he said, "because I like to see you make a fool out of yourself."

How can someone love you if they want to see you look and feel stupid? I feel like I'm at the end of a horribly painful epiphany in which I figure out that you can't love someone that you don't respect.

That this last time, it didn't even hurt. It should hurt, right?
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newbie · 31-35, F
guess you already know what it is?
Angelfire21 · 36-40, F
@newbie He's probably having a relationship of some kind with an ex in Mexico or one of the women from his job. It's my kids I worry about. Am I the bad guy for taking away their father? Who is an amazing father, just a terrible husband.
newbie · 31-35, F
@Angelfire21 well it sounds like he has done it before and its just about to become routine - for him and for you?
Angelfire21 · 36-40, F
@newbie I guess so. Our fucked-up routine.
newbie · 31-35, F
@Angelfire21 of course it's more complicated than what a simple advice can cover - but you have to break the routine and save yourself and your kids from becoming replicas of his mom and him ...