Is doing what's right ,or bing nice, suppose to make you fell horrible?

@megabiz (185)
United States
July 14, 2010 6:53pm CST
I have this guy in my life that every time I try to do what is right/nice, he always has a comment to make. For instance, I am a good cook. Lots of people compliment me on my cooking as great. When I cook for him, he is so negative. Not done enough! To soft! It's mushy! Do it this way next time! Then when I start cooking, he has to stand over my shoulder and asking me why I'm doing it that way. Telling me to do it this way. I tell him to do it himself if he doesn't like it my way. He gets mad at me. He expects me to do his laundry his way treating me as if I don't know how to cook, or do laundry. Tonight, July 14th, I went to help him pick up his car. It was at a Firestone 25 minutes from my home. He told me at 5:00pm, before leaving the parking lot that he (being he is a counselor) had to be back at the office for a 5:30pm client. I was to just take the car and go to my place, only 15 minutes from his office and wait till he was done for him to come back around 7 so I could help him get is car home. Being that I don't have a cell phone at this time, he stuck his hand out the window and I was not sure what he was trying to do. He exited off at an earlier exit sticking his had out like he was waving. I went to the next exit that was to get me to my apartment. I was home at 5:40pm. This guy called me screaming in my ear, "Where were you? I exited off to get a bite to eat at Braums cause my client called and was going to be a half hour late! You were to follow me! Now you missed out on dinner!" I told him that was not what we talked about when leaving Firestone and that he had a 5:30. He jumped on me for that. Then said, at least the car is back okay!" But you, stupid still missed out on dinner! GOTTA GO!" Then hung up on me. Made me feel my doing something right was wrong. I try to be nice to him by cooking, doing his laundry and letting him shower her as he can not afford to get his pipes at his home fixed leaving him with no water. I even let him take time to use my computer and he treats me like I don't do anything right. At times he says I'm stupid. He even calls me stupid when I am folding his socks and one falls on the floor by accident. I get chewed out for that. So, why is it every time I do something right or try to be nice that I'm suppose to get treated horribly? Feel as if I never get any appreciation for the good things or even for trying. Anyone have this problem and want to share or even help me figure out what to do in this situation? Thank you.
2 responses
• United States
22 Jul 10
I know people who are in this situation also. Have you tried talking to this person about how his behavior made you feel? Some couples I know ended up changing their relationship for the better after having a heart-to-heart talk. Or perhaps suggest going to a marriage encounter to help you out. I know people whose relationships got better because of this. If he's not willing to do either of these, you have one of two options. If you really love this guy and don't want to leave him, then you can simply be a "martyr" and endure this verbal abuse without complaint. But if you feel otherwise, then you may want to consider finding someone else. I do know of people who were in verbally abusive situations whose relationships improved after 40 years (believe it or not). If you think you can't wait that long, then I also know of people who left their first love, and had a better or more wonderful relationship with their second love. The decision you make will depend on your own personal beliefs about love, and your beliefs about right and wrong. But I do strongly suggest consulting with a professional, or(if you practice a religion) with a spiritual adviser.
@megabiz (185)
• United States
20 Sep 10
Yes, I have talked to him about my feelings and he seems to not care. He only cares about how he feels. He is just not one to have heart to heart talks with. He is a Physiotherapist who seems to think he knows it all. Everything needs to go his way. just so you know, we are not married. We are in a dating relationship. The one thing he will not do is seek any counseling. What is strange though: It takes me to be from him for two or three weeks in order for him to really miss me and realize how he has treated me. When I return, he acts all lovely dove to me. He will go for two weeks not looking at other woman on the computer, focus on me, and treat me like a queen. I scratch my head in trying to understand why that is as well as why it only last two weeks. Why? I was married one time before meeting this guy. The marriage was ten years. In spite of how he is with looking at woman, mainly Foreign woman on line, talking to woman on the phone from different states, he does care about me. He'll show me by helping me pay bills due to my having trouble trying to get anyone to hire me right now. He'll even treat me out to eat, movies, take long walks with me int the evenings, take me where ever I need to go due to my not having a car and will tell me he loves me along with reminding me everyday of how beautiful I am. The thing I don't get is; he tells me that the woman he looks at are just pictures and I am the real deal. Explain that one? If I am the real deal, then why look at other woman? Why? ~CONFUSED~
@censae (72)
• United States
15 Jul 10
Are you serious? It is very clear who and what he is. I wonder about you. Ask the question of yourself, "What is in this for me?" Is this man a " project" for you? If you please him, will you have reached some milestone? I am sorry to say that your man is a jerk. He is psychologically abusive. He uses your need to be accmmodating and unreasonably "nice" to feed some off-centered need in himself and for that reason alone, he wil never be pleased, not with you. There is nice and there is being a doormat. He is wiping his shoes all over you. The only situation here is the one that you are allowing to exist. Figure out what you may be getting form this and... stop it! The only way to fix this situation is to give him the boot. Use your time to please yourself and find you some healing from these wounds.