Feeling trapped
I'm 24 my partner whom is 23 and I have been together for 3 years. This has not been a smooth sailing relationship as I have constantly defended her and gone against my parents for her. We've lived in my car and in motels at one point because she had no where to go. She has almost no relationship with her parents or extended family & I refused to leave her on the streets despite the fact that I have always been welcome to go back to my parents' house to live whenever I wanted.
We finally have our own place but things aren't exactly happily ever after. I have a full time job and go to school pat time, I also have a car under my name and pay the majority of the bills and rent. She has a job but due to a conflict she had with a co-worker, her hrs have significantly been cut down to about 10 hrs a week; and we're struggling to make ends meet. I'm never home because I'm busy working 9 hr shifts.
She's always at home but often complains that I never help clean or cook. She nit-picks at every little thing I do to the point where I don't even want to be home I can't even walk into the door without her complaining about something I did or did not do.
When Im at work she'll call 3-4 times just to ask why I didn't call her on my break or lunch. Since I'm busy I'll be very short with her and tell her I can't talk. When I get home she'll bombard me demanding to know what girl answered the phone because she was being a "Rude " When I go visit my parents or friends that I rarely see because I work so much she'll blow up my phone with texts and calls asking what time I'm coming home. When I get aggravated with her constant demands and bossiness and want to leave she'll take my car keys and hide them so I can't leave. I become irate looking for them but she won't give them to me she'll say "why do u wanna leave?? so you could be with other girls!???" Its ridiculous. I've been 100%faithful throughout our whole relationship while she on the other hand has hidden talking to other people through texts and even contacting her ex. I've forgiven her... She's broken my lap top, my phone, and many other things that were extremely difficult to buy in the first place. Everything we own in the house is because I've purchased it with my hard earned money. I've locked myself in the restroom to get away from her when she hid my keys and broke my phone so I could call anyone to pick me up & she's unscrewed the door knob to come in. I feel like I'm going completely crazy depressed and insane... I love her but I don't know how much more I can take
She blames her behavior on the fact that she never had a good relationship with her mother, her biological father left her when she was 6 and her ex cheated on her multiple times. I keep telling her she's pushing me away by trying to possess and trap me but nothing seems to speak any volumes to her. She continues her ways and I feel like I'm the crazy one when I become irate and punch walls when she traps me in the house with her by standing in front of the front door, hiding my car keys to prevent me from leaving. She's even stood in front of my car to prevent me from leaving. Like I said I love her very much but these behaviors are pushing me so far away I don't know what to do... any suggestions or actions I could take to fix this?
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