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02/07/2008 13:10
cat0102
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Hello group members, great to know that I am not alone. After reading several of the posts on this page (which I felt like I wrote personally), I decided to join. My story is not unlike many of yours, it is just that the man I write of is my "live in" boyfriend and not my husband. We have been together for five years and each year for those five years he has left me. He is gone now.....I am broken hearted mainly because the last three times he left, another woman was involved. Like many of you, he can become very nasty and mean and say hurtful things. I consider myself an extraordinarily strong woman but sometimes I wonder if I am applying my stength in the right place. Do I need to have strength to deal with this or to walk away forever? Not sure what that answer is. He has been gone since November but we still talk and have a vacation planned in June (an Eastern Mediterreanen cruise), which I may just cancel. This week, I am losing all hope or faith or connection I have felt for him previously. Each day I feel a bit stronger, until we talk and then it's back to square one. Sometimes I truly wonder if this is who he is or is this part of his disease and if it is part of his disease do I try to support him or run for the hills. I think of my own sanity and peace of mind often and I have that when he is not around. I also think of my 8 year old, he has been a part of her life for five years and she cried buckets when he left this last time. My strength and weakness comes in doses these days, I almost feel like I'm experiencing mania and depression myself. I am coping and I am taking an active interest in myself and my daughter. I just know that once he is done frolicking in the green grass he went to find, he will be back soon enough and want to come home. I love him dearly but I am hoping that I find the strength to say no and keep moving on. I want the best for him but not at the expense of my own sanity.
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02/07/2008 13:16
kateholland78
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Welcome Cat. I'm sorry to hear that you are struggling with this right now. I pray that you will be given the strength to see this to the end, wherever that end may be.
In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.
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02/07/2008 21:21
carmen33
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Hi, Cat, welcome to the group, as for knowing which way to go, that is only something that really you can decide, we each have our own breaking points.. I pray that you will find the strength that you need no matter what your decision.

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02/07/2008 23:02
buhlir926
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Cat, you aren't alone.

My husband is a leaver too. Twice he left me and his boys for another woman. This time he filed for divorce. I decided this time that even if he comes back, I need to make sure that the divorce goes through. The reason? I don't want to put my kids through the leaving and coming home and leaving again. It is way, way too hard on them. The are 13 and 6. It might get better for awhile, but I honestly believe that he will leave again and again. Each time it happens it rips another part of my heart out. Why would I continue to put us through this over and over? I wouldn't. I can't. I get weak sometimes and let him sweet talk me into bed - really bad idea, I know. But I am working on toughening up and not doing that anymore.

Think about it, Cat, he leaves you every year. Why keep putting yourself and your child through it? Nobody deserves to be treated like that, especially a child. It hurts so bad to have that done to you. Why stay? You sound strong and independent. You deserve better than this and so does your daughter. Stay strong and do what is right for you and for your child. You are in my prayers.

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