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Sick Of Having A Family With Roommates

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this is very long winded, but I have to get it out of my chest. My boyfriend is an amazing man, but suffered some insecurity after losing his job, which led us to be stuck with roommates and he is overly attached to his friends.

It might not have much to do with my PTSD, or maybe it does. I don't know. I find myself not wanting to be around people. I have barely had time to gather myself over the years and I'm tired of having to share our whole lives with others. Please bear with me as I rant.

When I got pregnant, my boyfriend said that we would get a place of our own. When I was a live-in nanny, being pregnant was too much and so I was told to get out. Homeless and jobless.

Anyway, he had a successful career but his job was outsourced. I ended up moving in with him, since my parents refused to help me, and was forced to live with also his female and male roommate, a couple, and brought my son. Now, we are raising two kids and we have not moved in the past two years. He signed a one year lease without telling me because "It was cheaper."

I had my name removed from an apartment waiting list for myself, because I agreed that we would live together.

I feel like this is bullshit. I am really pissed off about it right now for whatever reason. There are only three months left and he's already saying, "If we need to, we can go month to month." ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?!?! I JUST WANT A NORMAL FAMILY WITHOUT THE FRIENDS BEING A PART OF IT EVERY SINGLE DAMN DAY.

We have dinner together. We have to share Christmas together. Easter. Thanksgiving. Every holiday. Every birthday. Nothing is sacred. We have to share breakfasts together. I wake up and they're there. I go to bed and they're there. I wake up in the morning and for some reason, he has left the damn door open for the dog, but they're walking right past the door and they're there. I'm breastfeeding and they're right there.

The girl is nosey a bit, so she goes in the bathroom and has a look when she wants. Has a look in the bedroom. Peaks in to see what the f*ck we are doing. Implies that I'm a bad mother. First day she said to me, "I hope you're with the man for the man and not the man for the house." Other times, she's insulting my parenting skills and shouts out loudly among groups, "I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW MUCH SHE LETS HIM GET AWAY WITH," because he was four and handed a dog a piece of kibble. F*** her. But she "hates children and would never have them."

Obviously, if I were with the man for the house I would have found a man with a house without other people in it. I wasn't thinking about it but then when I hear him and the girl talking I just want to knock her out. I won't, of course, but I deeply desire to just shut them up. I am sick and tired of having to "share" my boyfriend because everything has to do with his "fake" family.

It isn't his real family, but his parents are gone, so his friends are his family to him and that means, I have had to share our new family with all of these people and I'm so tired of it. I just want a normal adult life with my children and with the guy that I plan to marry without waking up to these people every freaking day. They have helped us out a lot, which I am grateful for, but that doesn't mean I want to share my family life.

He says this is the only family he has, but I would like our family to begin. To him, everything is spectacular. To me, this is all a waste and our family hasn't even had a chance to grow.

I have tried to talk to him about it, but he tells me I don't understand the "sentimental value." I told him I'm not doing it another year, and he seemed hurt by that. I'm annoyed that she does the strangest things to seemingly catch his attention.

For instance, while I'm in the room working, she'll come out and leave her boyfriend and have casual chit chat with him until I arrive and then she'll finally hide away, or spend 10 minutes literally washing absolutely nothing just to stand there which makes absolutely no sense. Sometimes, I feel a little excited because I think since someone has been standing at the sink for 40 minutes with the water running, the dishes must have been washed for a change, but no. It's just her standing there pretending to do f*** all, so that she can be paid attention to while her boyfriend is out. Woop-dee-f*cking-do.

This isn't his fault, obviously, and he hasn't done anything wrong. But I really can't say anything in my normal life and I have been dying to get it out of my chest.
 
I'm really overreacting and probably shouldn't be saying any of this, but I have been holding it in for years and love him, so I need to be accepting of his feelings and we'll be moving on our own in a few months. I really needed to get it out and I'm thankful for them, as they are good people, but I had to get it off my chest. <3
 
I would have had it. I can't believe you went this long. I think you said it the best:
He says this is the only family he has, but I would like our family to begin.
Bingo. You need to explore that. And why he's resisting.
 
Your boyfriend needs to grow up. Is this a codependent situation amongst friends?
 
Your boyfriend needs to grow up. Is this a codependent situation amongst friends?

YES. Thank you so much. I thought I was nitpicking. He was divorced long before he met me. I had been previously married, as well. But that was him and one person. I had a family. His mother passed and it was really hard on him, so he's hanging onto his friendships, his "family."

I have not told anyone about any of this until now, so really, thank you for listening.

He was so angry our second Christmas, because I told him I wanted us to have Christmas on our own. Without his friends. He kept saying, "It's my only family." That really hurt, but me telling him it hurt, ended up hurting him because I was only seeing it from my side.

As long as his friends are around forever, all of the time with this "family" stuff, I feel like we're put last. We're not, but it feels like it. The male roommate, fortunately, let him know this would be the last year. They're getting married and want a chance at their lives too. He seemed hurt by it, but I'm not.

As far as moving, I found a beautiful home in a town that I love, but he relates it to my past, so it's a no-go. But this town relates to his past and I never made a deal about it, so how the hell does that make sense?
zxc He seems to think that if we move more than a half hour away he will never see them again. That's bullshit.

He is literally trying to figure out where everyone else is moving to SO THAT WE CAN STAY CLOSE TO THEM.. 45 minutes away? Too far from his friends. I am so tired of it! I love him with all of my heart, but why is it that every single weekend it's about what they're doing, what the guys are doing, what everyone else is doing. What we should all do as groups and have get togethers and all of that crap. I have relatives that I'm close to, but I don't see them every day.

If I even dare bring it up or tell him my feelings, he feels very hurt and I feel terrible. I love him very much and I understand having close friends. Still, it doesn't make sense when you have a new family to focus more on keeping your friends close than a home that's beautiful and perfect for your family.

I have always felt second to his friends. I know it's not true to him. He has made that clear. But that doesn't stop me from feeling like his fake family is more important than the one he has.
 
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