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    JemJem
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    Hi I’m truly and utterly devastated. Me and my partner split up last year but remained friends. I still love him. We slept together in January and I fell pregnant. I was overjoyed and so happy to be becoming a mum. He was also looking forward to being a parent.

    In March I found out the pregnancy was ectopic and I had to have surgery to removed my left falopian tube. I am so heartbroken and can’t stop thinking about the baby we lost.

    I’e asked my ex to have an another baby and or get back together and he doesn’t want to. He doesn’t want to even try to date. I asked am trully gutted and have never felt so heart broken . I’ve lost a baby and a future with him.

    I am now left going over and over the relationship and regretting ending things last year. I feel sick with guilt and regret.

    I am also petrified of not being able to have tthe  chance of being a mother again. I’m 29 and worried that I won’t meet anyone I love as much as my ex. I’ also petrified of having another ectopic pregnancy or again one thing going wrong with my fertility.

    I want my ex back and petrified I won’t be able to have his baby. I am also scared he will get someone else pregnant , this wuld absolutely kill me as I want our baby so much .

    I can’ seen to move on from all these feelings of loss , hurt , rejection and fear . Please help me.

    #204285
    Anonymous
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    Dear JemJem:

    You mentioned that you feel guilt and regret regarding the relationship with this man, a relationship that was ended last year. You feel fear and lots of emotional pain regarding the terminated pregnancy and your future as a hoped for mother.

    Quite overwhelmed with fear, hurt, sadness. I do hope you feel better soon. Very soon.

    It might help you if you share about what happened in the relationship last year, what brought about the ending of it. And how is it that it did not end completely (hence the Jan pregnancy). I will read attentively and reply.

    anita

    #204415
    JemJem
    Participant

    We were together for 6 and a half years. The last year was unhappy due to my anxiety and depression following two deaths. At the same time I was trying to complete a teacher training course ,get better , work and be happy for our relationship and pick myself up.  We were unhappy for a while and things weren’ the same.  He didn’t treat me the same . He broke up with me and never gave me reasons why just that we went happy and it wasn’t working aftwr we had a disgreement one night .

    We remained friends for a year and got back together. He asked me to get back with him. We had been gettng closer and I was doing well and was happy. I had been on a date and he asked me to get back with him and said he had been feeling it for a while. We got back together and a few months later he moved in with me . My feelings were all over the place. One minute I was happy and the next unhappy. I kept battling within myself as to whether it was just my anxiety and nd negative thinking. He definetly didn’ give me the attention and affection I needed.  I felt that I had told him everything that makes me sad in the relationship but he didn’ make an effort to try improve that aspect. I ovcourse asked how I could improve he relationship and I hadn’ been given much feedback. I started to think back on the date I had the year before and if I had made the right choice getting back with him. A few negative things happened over the next few weeks , he called me my sisters name during drunk sex , then he was unhappy with a member of family that I’m close with and wanted to give hem into trouble which I didn’t agree with him doing so that was causing stress and nd hhe kept It going . I felt so stressed and nd out the potential conflict and told him how I felt and he said I was making a big deal of it but he hadn’ made up his mind yet as to whether he was going to say something. I started panicking and thinking more about breaking up. We had another disagreement and spoke about how much we disagree alot on different topics and I ended the relationship as I felt that the rest of our lives would be constant disagreements. He accepted it. I felt terrible as he had to move iin either his mum and get a new flat. He slept with someone a week after we broke up. I ended up going out for a few dates with the guy I had been on a date with the revious year before we got back together. I stated to regret my decision as I loved him so much. Stopped seeing the other guy. I asked my ex back and told him how I felt and that I wanted to get back and apologised for the ending the relationship and he said no for now but he wouldn’t say never. So for the last year we have stayed friends and slept together occasionally. With me hoping that we would get together some day.

    This is all a mess and I constantly dwell and brat myself up for the decisions I much ale in every area of life and doubt myself when I and make decisions. I know that I’m not fully happy in a relationship with him but can’ help but love him qnd want to be with him .

     

    II can’ stop thinking of the baby we lost and what could have been . I was excited to coparent with him and hopeful that maybe things could have worked out.  I would still have another baby to him even if it meant we werent together . But just now o feel like I’m experience grief of losing a baby and grief and heartache from losing a person . Because he has told me he does not want to get back together , I feel like I’m going through the emotions that I should have the previous year.

    I feel that I’m weak now. I used to be so confident in myself and now I feel hopeless , sad and I hate myself and blame myself for everything .

    #204483
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Dear JemJem:

    I read in Wikipedia (and a bit from Mayo clinic. org) about ectopic pregnancies. It reads that when a Fallopian tube gets damaged as a result of such pregnancy, a future embryo may get stuck there. But because your damaged Fallopian tube was removed, I suppose, damage of that tube no longer exists.

    It reads in Wikipedia: “Ectopic pregnancies cannot become normal pregnancies, and will not result in a baby”- so it is a medical impossibility to save an embryo in such a pregnancy.

    You wrote in your original post: “I’ve lost a baby and a future with him”. You wrote that you would have a baby with him even if not in relationship with him. But if you had any hope, or may still hope that having a baby with him will improve the relationship with him, my comment is that I read again and again, story after story, where relationships did not improve as a result of co parenting. Relationships often deteriorated further and were ended following having a baby.

    You wrote that you have suffered from anxiety and depression, still are, correct? I learned from personal experience that having a baby does not resolve the mother’s anxiety and depression. The demands of caring for a baby, sleepless nights and so forth, often worsens the mother’s mental health. So it is very important for a hopeful mother to be mentally well enough first, to live a satisfying, functional life for a while before getting pregnant. Otherwise, the mother’s anxiety will harm the growing/ forming child.

    You wrote: “He definitely didn’t give me the attention and affection I needed”- I have no way of knowing, of course, it your need was too great, and expectations from him unrealistic. I don’t know. From personal experience, looking at my past, my needs were too great for any human to satisfy. I needed to go through a healing process (started in 2011 in psychotherapy) and nothing else could have substituted that healing process.

    It reads to me that the communication between the two of you was lacking, and that the two of you were responsible for that lack. The relationship, after all, did not work out well, did not benefit you overall, looking back. It left you feeling “hopeless, sad and I hate myself…”

    I would like to read more of your thoughts and feelings, about my reply and otherwise.

    anita

     

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