Dear sugarhut:
So you don’t want to do #1 and you don’t believe #2 can take place. You want to exit the relationship but you are scared.
This is why you need help- you need someone to help you exit the relationship. Maybe your brother after all?
If you do reach out to your brother, make sure that you will follow through the whole way. If you trust yourself that once you tell your brother you need his help, and once he helps you exit the relationship, that you will STAY outside the relationship, no matter what- then you already started to become the person you will be proud being: proud and free.
anita