It was our third anniversary yesterday. I got my husband a card & little pressies - he didn't even get me a card! Maybe it doesn't sound a big deal, but I'm so resentful.
He only got me a card our first anniversary; last year our anniversary was spent saying goodbye to our youngest child. She'd been born the week before, I'd had major surgery too, and they couldn't stop me bleeding. So my husband had to look after our 16 month old, as well as arranging the funeral. So neither of us cared.
This year I had hoped it would be 'better'. DH decided to arrange a firework party (only my parents came), and wasted a fortune. As our anniversary falls on bonfire night, there is NO way he forgot it... especially as we talked about it the days before.
Now I feel unvalued. He didn't even arrange something 'special' for the two of us.
His loft is full of soppy anniversary cards to & from his ex wife, which makes me feel even worse,
I am so resentful too. I wrote a thread before about his (adult) son breaking his PC and DH getting a new one for him. Well, DH bought him a second hand one, reconditioned & refurbished it with new hard disk, new OS, downloaded 50 games etc,,, then sent it by courier. His son has now broken this new computer within days, and DH feels compelled to replace this - even though his son won't be able to use a computer after christmas, and we are extremely short of money.
I don't know what I'm asking really - I just feel as if I'm taken for granted - not cherished.
When his son comes to visit DH will take him out for dinner again, yet he never takes me out - and didn't even mark our anniversary.
Sex is rubbish. DH avoided sex with me for 7 months after our daughter died - saying I was a "turn-off". Our bereavement midwife advised counselling, but DH says it's my 'head' that's the problem,
I found out that he'd joined a site for prostitutes, after seeing a 19yr old prostitute on telly - he did what any "red-blooded man" would do, and joined & paid to see her naked. Yet, he will never come to bed with me - saying he wants to chill & watch TV till he's tired, then have sex... so he can devote time & money to a pro, yet a willing wife is 'boring'.
It's got so bad that I now make sure I'm asleep when he comes to bed - I no longer want sex with him, there's too much resentment.
This is too long I know