I’m 10 weeks pregnant and my husband won’t stop yelling at me. You’d think I would be the emotional one, but lately everything seems to set him off. He has a daughter who lives with us for half the week. Tonight, she took something of mine without asking, so I told her I was disappointed, and that she was not to do it again. My husband overheard, and his response was to scream at me in front of his daughter that she could have whatever she wants. Then he called me “step-b****”, compared me to his evil stepmother, and took his daughter downstairs and started telling her a story about how he was treated like a second-class citizen by his stepmom. While I understand that his childhood situation was painful, I am not his evil stepmom. I have never treated his daughter badly. In fact, just yesterday I consoled her as he yelled expletives at her because he doesn’t like her online friends.. She specifically asked me to talk with her privately when she was crying and upset, so I know she doesn’t think I’m evil. Why did my husband marry me if he was just going to punish me like this and poison our family with his bitterness? Why can’t he realize what these rage episodes are doing to us? Some days, I just want to crawl out of my life.
