Am i in the wrong long post!
Please tell me is this okay! So i have two children with my (partner) have been together 4 years any way he has done enough stuff wrong that i would of been long gone if i didnt have my babies and no where for us to live. so I don’t work because my children are under two and no childcare i get like 700 a month UC and he earns around 1500 after tax doesnt pay rent or for his van or for petrol also does his own jobs so earns good money i pay towards bills and pay for everything the children have anyway he also had (has) a gambling issue says he doesn’t now but… anyway he asked me who doesn’t get much to lend 320 so i gave it him with him thinking that is all i had so every penny luckily i have learnt to say i have less then i do. For the past week i have asked for this money every day and had 50 sent today i have epilepsy and i am struggling at the moment never stopping no me time he works but gets to do what he wants he cooks tea thats it we have needed a food shop for ages now i don’t drive have a double pram he has a big van anyway today he said he was finishing early so i thought oh great can get a food shop done and i can maybe have some help. we get back he goes upstairs and comes down with his golf stuff so i said your not going golf are you and he’s like yeah when do i get to play bare in mind he played all day last Friday (for work) he’s a electrician and then is playing Friday again instead of work but apparently thats not the same because he is playing during work 🙃 so I obviously got upset because in the 2 years since my first was born i have had me time around 3 times to get hair done and go cinema once when it was just my son and i also had his mum have them because he never watches them anyway so i got upset because i am so stressed I feel drained all the time and we had no food shop and i said how he can’t even send me the money he owes me then i get oh i am nagging him over money and all that yet he said he would pay me back and said oh i do nothing and get UC its a joint claim so i would get more without him he then sends me all the money he owed me which is funny because he didn’t have it a few hours before but did now 🙃 i was already crying at this point and he said get a fu….. shop with that as well and then said other stuff I didn’t bother to argue because it triggers me epilepsy he then still went a played golf so i walked 30 min to the shop and got what i could with what i could fit under pram and carry and still got home late and he wasn’t back so i did that and bed time as always he texted at 8 saying do we need anything after leaving me crying to go golf so I didn’t reply anyway he has just come up which disturbed the children and said what did you get from shop i said can’t remember and he said oh have you put it away i said no what’s it matter to you I didn’t get you anything and then he had a go at me saying i am selfish and all this then stormed off like i am crazy?
To be fair it sounds like you’d be a hell of a lot better off without him, he sounds like dead weight that you just want to shake off. I hope he gets his priorities straight and priorities you and your children. As you get universal credit your also entitled to housing benefit and can get from £600-£950 (which either goes towards your rent or covers the entire thing) depending where you live. There’s a housing benefit calculator online if you were interested in that. But the fact that he acts like that proves that he hasn’t grown up and isn’t trying to, tell that man child to get his priorities straight.