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Post Info TOPIC: I guess he's leaving me..... =(


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I guess he's leaving me..... =(


Well, after the last couple of weeks of me agonizing over my fiance's strange behavior and increased drinking.... and trying to tell him how I felt with no luck.... he decided to disappear for a day and stumble in late last night..... but he would not talk. Should have just let him go to sleep I guess.... I could tell he was in a bad mood so I tried to lighten up with humor, BUT I started to get sarcastic and kinda mean.  He asked me if I wanted him to leave, I said I didn't care, I guess so.... so he packed a few things and left. 

I am torn between missing him desperately and mad I pushed him out..... AND at the same time, I know the way he has been acting has been really rude, moody, unpredictable the last couple weeks, which was starting to bother me to the point where I didn't even want him here, anyway. 

Maybe I should be glad it's finally gonna be over.... but I keep thinking of all the good things I loved about him the first several months.... the things that caused me to say yes when he put this beautiful ring on my finger in June.  I'm just sad, lonely, and all in all miserable.  Wish I could talk to him but what to say, and he won't answer his phone anyway.

Just needed to get this off my chest.  Thanks for listening....

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(((DEAR OKLAHOMA)))

i UNDERSTAND THE SITUATION, AND KNOW THE PAIN OF UNCERTAINITY.  THIS DISEASE LIVES ON CHAOS AND CONFUSION AND UNCERTAINITY. 

PLEASE TRY TO GET TO A MEETING.  USE THE TOOLS OF LIVING ONE DAY AT A TIME, FOCUS ON YOURSELF AND WHAT YOU AND THE CHILDREN NEED. TAKE DEEP BReATHES AND REMEMBER TO NOT GET TOO.HUNGRY, ANGRY, LONELY,OR TIRED.

YOU WILL HeAR FROM HIM AGAIN.  TRY TO TAKE TIME TO TALK THINGS OVER WITH A SPONSER  AND FIND OUT WHAT YOU REALLY NEED AND WANT FROM THIS RELATIONSHIP AND LIFE. '

KEEP SAYING THE SERENITY PRAYER AND SHARING HERE

YOU ARE NOT ALONE

-- Edited by hotrod on Monday 11th of October 2010 10:33:21 AM

-- Edited by hotrod on Monday 11th of October 2010 10:34:52 AM

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It's hard when you're ambivalent about him leaving.  And the A being gone seems to leave room for all the good memories to come surging back.  I remember the day my A moved out (because I had asked him to), after many months of terrible behavior on his part, passing out, lying, breaking promises, and all that -- even despite all that, on the day he moved out I had a panic attack that I was making a huge mistake.  The unknown was so scary, and I remembered so many good things about our relationship (most of them long in the past, sadly).  And him not being present allowed all the fantasies I had about things changing and our being happy again to come to the surface. 

After things had calmed down, I found that I really appreciated living without the turmoil and the chaos.  But just as it's hard for them to give up alcohol, it took several years of false starts in the years before that for me to give him up. 

I don't mean to tell you what you should want or what you should decide.  One thing that helped me was writing down all the good things and the bad things, so I could look at the list when I was feeling confused.  I tended to black-and-white thinking, like it was either all good (I'd discount all the bad things) or all bad (as if we never had had any good times).  And then which has it been lately? 

Hugs to you -- take care of yourself.

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We are as addicted to the A as the A is addicted to alcohol/drugs. I think Jerry said once that for us, the hurt, anger, resentment, etc is actually our drug and we "shoot" up/drink it up like they do with their alcohol/drugs. I then regret what I have done, the obsessing, checking, snooping, that turns to resentment, anger, hurt.... I am learning to accept that he is an A and that I can't control him or his using. I am learning that if he walks out the door and doesn't come back, that I will have to recover from him, but that I will be ok. Take care of you :)

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Very sorry you are in this situation. Please know you didn't push him anywhere. We are powerless over others so if he left that was his choice, he may have just been waiting for you to say it so he could turn it around on you.
Try and remember when you speak with him you are speaking with a disease weather he is sober or drunk it is the disease that speaks to you.
Write down the 3C's and keep them with you as a reminder.
Wishing you well in your recovery
Blessings

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