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    alexa87
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    Hi i am new to this site and i love the support and advice you guys offer. I am having issues with letting go of hurt of past things said and done to me and it’s gotten to the point where i feel dry and sort of in a dark cloud, i have been with my boyfriend for a couple of years now we have kids together and he has some of his own from previous relationships, when we met everything was great we would talk constantly and couldn’t stand being apart the first hurt came when we got in to an argument over me talking to some friends thru facebook guy friends that i had know way before him and not as intimate relationships just friends well he took it the wrong way and believed i had been involved with them and that i was talking to the behind his back after arguing he said to me that he wanted to go back with his ex and that his ex was way better than me,(Sex wise) and i had probably been with so many guys and probably being over used blah blah childish things but cut me like knives, after he cooled off he said he was sorry and me still hurt i decided to stay and bottled my anger still over that and in a way i guessed it hurt worst since they have kids together, than i got pregnant with our child when we met i was still legally married to someone else but i had started the process of my divorce my than husband had left and no where to be found 5 months in to my pregnancy he re appeared looking for me and to get back together but i was with my boyfriend now and i consider my self happy well thru Facebook my ex husband found me and wanted to settle thing i couldn’t tell my boyfriend i had talk to him thru facebook since i know how jelous he gets and he wouldn’t understand the fact that me and my ex had lifes together before we met and needed to finish things up like the divorce we had been separated 2 years before i even met my boyfriend so it was even absurd to me having to hide since i was comfortable with him going to his exes house to get his kids and all that well one night he went thru my Facebook and found the messages he than said my child could never be his since he didn’t have kids with liars this was my first child and i felt so let down to hear something like that come out of his mouth i was angry, than betwen than and now some fights got physical and i know i should of left but i didn’t so i feel so disrespected and betrayed,his ex than decides she is tired of being a mother and leaves their kids behind now they come live with us and of course here i am pregnant after hearing my son is nothing and i see those kids do matter to him and i guess my anger made me associate the first argument to the next and build anger, he than again he was sorry and we went on my son was born and i was bitter what he had said about him than. Decided to work thru things and i still love him he always criticized me for lieing and every argument that would be his first thing the liar and maybe you are cheating blah blah when my son turned one i found out he had been lieing to me and had got addicted to some drugs asked me for forgiveness and said he will get better he relapsed 3 times and lied about every single time until finally he got the help he needed and turned his life but now i feel like i don’t have the will to stay and i think about all the hurt he has caused me and how now he says everything is better and will be better but i feel like i nevered made him feel the way i did and now he expects me to let go of all this hurt and live life because he is better! Please any advice will be greatly appreciated!!

    #93068
    Anonymous
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    Dear alexa87:

    First advice that comes to my mind and quite urgently is: no more kids. Please. By any person in the story you shared.

    Second: It is unfortunate, that you are in this situation. When he said the hurtful things he said and then apologized, said he was sorry, that doesn’t take away the pain caused by his words. He may think, conveniently, that his “I am sorry” makes everything good but not so. It hurt when you heard it and then you remember it. You can’t help but remember it. It is not your choice to remember it. If it was, wouldn’t we choose to forget so much…?

    So “I am sorry” doesn’t cut it. And then, when he feels good, he is nice; when he feels upset, well, watch out. This is not right: he should not be abusive no matter how he feels. Otherwise, you can never relax, can you, not knowing the next time he gets upset…

    When you wrote he got the help he needed regarding his drug taking, what kind of help was it? One of the 12 step programs, like AA? If he attends such a group, maybe you can get involved in such and maybe he can be taught there to not abuse you no matter how he feels, just as he hopefully learned there to not take drugs no matter how he feels.

    What do you think about what I wrote so far?

    anita

    #93238
    alexa87
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    I think you are right and his program it’s actually a psychiatrist with prescription meds to help cope the crave of this drug and he has joined a local Buddhist support for addiction he has been beeter in terms of mood he has been very respectful and understanding helps a lot with the kids and now i seem to be holding back i can’t show emotions like before and i constantly feel down and he repeats he is sorry and asks me to please work it out and let go of all the hurtful things he has said but it’s so hard. Now

    #93240
    Anonymous
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    Dear alexa87:

    You can’t help feeling what you are feeling. Feelings cannot be forced. You are hurt and angry and you distrust him. All this based on real experience with him and based on the information you have.

    Over time, if you have different experiences with him and you have more information, you may feel differently. For example, if he proved himself over time to be serious about his recovery, if you see him making real efforts (while you don’t pressure him, just patiently wait and see…) then you may feel different.

    Can you visit the Buddhist program he attends, see what that is about, see his involvement there (that would be new information for you, that over time, with other information and experience with him, MAY change your feelings).

    anita

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