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Dec 28 2010

Been visiting the self esteem and positive thinking support group today. Got me thinking, Why can't I think positive? How come I have no self esteem? Then I think back on this past year and my  situation now and I say to myself oh yeah thats why I can't think positive. As far as self esteem that was shattered when I was a child never to be recovered. I came from an abusive family with daily beatings and cutdowns. One day I will write about it I should I need to get it out. I haven't even told my phychiatrist all of it yet except I have flashbacks and nightmares sometimes. The one thing I told myself is my children would never be treated that way, and they never where. If anything they where spoiled. I went the opposite way and let them walk on me which isn't good either. sigh. Look where it got me. I guess i wasn't a very good mother after all the more I think about it.  But when it comes to a mother loving her children well I guess I am very guilty of that.

Sitting here having my coffee it is 6 am. Nick has himself sick. gee i wonder why, after a 2 day bender. I don't feel sorry for him at all. should I? He drinks himself silly then wonders why he gets sick, then he wants me to wait on him. not happening today. I'm not in the mood for it. He can get his own water and juice. I'm tired and my fibro is acting up because i'm out of my medication. Plus emotionaly I am wiped out. I can't deal with it today. I'm not saying I don't love him, I do but there are certain things like his drinking that I don't need in my life at the moment. I have enough going on.  Then why don't i leave him? sigh I feel responsible for him i guess. His health is very bad. I have tried to leave before and when I came back to the apartment to get my things I found him on the kitchen floor having sizures. What am I to do? he can't be left alone and I am afraid he will die. He is not a bad guy just an alcohalic. But yet on the flip side if I don't leave and get my own place I can't get my kids back. what am i to do? if he dies I will feel like it's my fault forever and I could not handle that. If it was just sizures wrong then I would worry but not as much he is on meds. He has many other health problems that I have to help him with and his family has all but turned thier backs on him. sigh I am in a mess.  I am in the middle of loving to many people who can't be with each other and I am being torn apart.  Money wise I can't get my own place right now I only get 781 a month from ssi/ssd, and I can't get any help from the county. but yet thats what they want from me. I can't come up with the deposit and the first months rent at the same time plus pay my medical bills and monthly bills as well. Guess I have a lot of thinking to do.



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written by Kristie1972, December 29, 2010
first have you tried to get into public housing? second don't get me wrong on this, but if your man has seizures, why is he drinking? who buys the alcohol? if it is you that goes out and gets it then stop it. the drinking is making him sicker than he already is. what he is doing to you is called emotional abuse. i have been there and done that. there are places that will help you.

i am not tring to be mean, just telling it the way that i see it. please don't get upset for what i said. i lived that same life for over 10 years and it about put me in the grave.
written by awhnuh, December 29, 2010
Lots of thinking to do, indeed. But Nick's situation is is NOT working for YOU, and I think you should run with that. Your intuition is telling you to get out, and I believe there are ways. You can't live in guilt over his illness...that's all on him. We all know that these fatal things we do to ourselves are just a way to avoid our feelings...and he's avoiding his. It will never be your fault. Recovery comes from within, and that is something you can never give him- he has to get it from himself.

Keep chossing the path of recovery, and self-esteem will come to you...slowly but surely. You have to find yourself first. One day, like you wrote, you'll relive all the hurt of your past...and be able and willing to practice forgiveness. Then you can move forward without having all that resentment and hurt within- looking outward from ourselves in the moment is freedom. You're on your way.

Gotta take care of yourself. First and foremost.


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