Hello, I am writing here with a request for advice, because I no longer know where to "catch". I am a 35-year-old woman from a big city. From 5 years I have a relationship with a man, four of whom live together without marriage and have a 3-year-old child. A bit of background: I was 30 when we met. We both worked and I can say that we had a good standard of living. We go out, we go on vacation, like a normal couple. About a year later, he inherited from his grandmother and offered me to use this money to buy a house and live together. Of course I agreed. He bought a house, but the money was not enough to repair and furnish it. His banks refused a loan, but they gave me BGN 15,000. We made the repairs, everything was great. For another year, everything was wonderful, until the day I realized I was pregnant ... Then my hell began. We both wanted this child, but my pregnancy was very difficult. I was constantly in hospital for detention. Later I received a pre-advertisement. From the beginning he was very worried about me and the child, but literally for days this person changed. He accused me that I was to blame for having a severe pregnancy, that I would lose the child or give birth to a sick child because of me. I attributed his behavior to stress. Anyway ... Our child was born prematurely, but alive and well. After we got home, his attitude towards me changed radically ... He doesn't help me with the child, he doesn't let me go out, he doesn't give me any money. I begged him to go out for a walk in the park, to eat somewhere, and he kept saying he was tired and couldn't. I asked him to cancel me for 1 hour to go out with friends, but he wouldn't let me. I am a mother and I must be with my child. Then I thought, maybe he's right .. In time I became a shadow. I'm at home all day, cleaning, cooking and looking after my baby. He accepts me as a maid, but without the right to ask for anything. You may find it funny, but he doesn't even buy me hair shampoo, I bathe with the child's soap and shampoo. I have two pairs of jeans and two T-shirts. For these years he has not bought me a pair of pants ...
I no longer have anything .. The banks call me for the loan, but he said he would not deposit it. You will say no money. Believe me there is, but it does not want. Change my number so they don't call .. I don't have friends anymore, because whenever they called me, I couldn't go out .. I don't have a penny, I have nowhere to go. I wanted to work, but he did not give, but unknowingly he enrolled the child in kindergarten. When I told him the child was going to kindergarten, he made a big scandal of me, but the child went to the garden. A month later, I told him I was starting work. He got angry again ... I just thought things would get better, but alas. Every day scandals to leave work, but I refused to leave. The child was very ill and I was constantly absent from work. One day the boss asked me to leave because it couldn't be that way anymore. And the man was right, from 6 months in which I worked to have natural 3 months .. And so again in his old age. So I ask you for advice .. I do not know what to do .. On the one hand, I no longer have a life, but on the other my child has everything. Yes, he doesn't know how to test her temperature, how to bathe her, what medications she takes, how to dress her, but from a financial point of view the child has everything. He goes to dances, English lessons, has the best clothes and toys. I want to leave him, but I'm a realist and I can't make emotional decisions. Where to go to live with the child. If I find a job, it will take me months to get back on my feet. What are we going to eat? How will I pay for the garden, the lessons, the loan? Will he not get angry and demand the rights of the child, which in my situation will be given to him? I don't know, there is a complete mess in my head at the moment and can you, as outsiders, give me a solution that I can't find? !!
1 stonerqueen816 answered
You can contact a foundation like Gender Alternatives. They deal specifically with women, single parents and victims of violence. My friend contacted them. He met with a lawyer, a social worker and went to a psychologist for free. They have temporary housing, but they are waiting.