Open Question: Should I stay in an emotionally painful, one-sided relationship?

30/05/11

I have been with my partner for almost 6 years and we have a child together but I feel like the relationship has nowhere left to go. My partner is selfish and even though i work 40-60 hours a week in a high stress job, I still find myself coming home to a messy house that i have to clean despite the fact she only works 1-2 days a week and spends the rest of the time sitting at home doing virtually nothing.
Our child is almost 4 and extremely self sufficient so supervising him is not a difficult duty even when cleaning the house (I know because I still do both frequently). My partner demands favours from me all the time like massages and other luxury services but returns nothing.
She is agonizingly negative and seems to go out of her way to bring me down with her. We separated at the end of 2009 for 6 months because of these exact same reasons, but it crushed me to be away from my son so I went back. But now I just can’t deal with it any more. I stress at work and at home it just feels like she is constantly seeking to manipulate me. I feel we are both over this relationship but have grown dependant on each other. Should I go, or should I stick it out to be with my son?

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