:( so upset...

[eg88]

I am so lost and upset. I am 22, I was with a guy for about a year...he swept me off my feet with his charm and seemingly genuine character. I am a good girl, never got into anything bad, partied in college but never got in trouble. I met my ex out of pure boredom, knew him from highschool (he had a terrible "bad boy" reputation). He literally said all the right things, charmed me and I fell hard. He got me with his sad story too (his mom passed away when he was 10 from a heroin overdose, and has 5 siblings and grew up very poor). He is an alcoholic, an ex coke head and E head...I started dating him knowing he was going into rehab and a halfway house (court ordered, he is on felony probation)...He said I was his angel and I gave his "lost soul" something to work hard for...my background in school is sociology and psychology and I come from a very good, close family...I really thought I could help him...for about 2 months everything was great even though he was not anywhere near my intellectual level (not braving AT ALL) but I just blamed it on his past drug use and environmental factors from childhood and looked past it...anyways, things went really bad, really quick. He got kicked out of the halfway house after about 2 months for running his mouth to a counselor...and he moved into my apartment with me (stupid idea, i know)...well...he started to beg to drink and hey, I'm 22 and I only knew him for 2 months at that point, I didn't know if he was truly an alcoholic...well he is 100%...I remember the first time we went out and drank, he thought someone made a comment to me and he smashed the entire back windshield off a random car downtown, fled the scene and left me alone in the street and I had to meet him at the hospital...it was awful..and he cried and begged me to stay and said how sorry he was and I gave him another chance...after that I made him a resume so he could get a job, and we sent an email to a potential job for him, when I checked the "sent" box to make sure the attachment sent...I found 2 sexually explicit emails he sent out to MEN off a craigslist ad looking for sex!?!?!?! I immediately freaked out and didn't know what to do, he denied it (hes a pathological liar, lies about everything)...it took about 3 hours for him to finally admit that he was bi-sexual and had been with men. Well...I kicked him out that day, but it didn't last...he cried and begged and said I was everything to him...and I took him back thinking MAYBE it could work if we went to counseling to try to figure out why he has sexual desires toward men. Well we never went to counseling..we moved into another apartment together (BIG MISTAKE)...I wanted him to be the man I fell in love with, with all that charm and said all the right things, he always said all the right things, his actions didnt. After we moved in with eachother over the course of about 9 months I found probably 40 facebook messages to other women (to me thats cheating, whether he pursued it or not), he stole 23 of my prescribed xanax (denied it, but i found the texts proving him selling them for adderal), text message from a girl at work, etc. I tried breaking up with him several times...an example of how it went when I tried to break up with him includes; holding a butcher knife to his throat, dragging his head on the pavement out of my drivers side door, choking himself with my seatbelt, smashing a mirror over his head causing a concussion and another hospital trip, begging, promising the world to me, etc. He literally messed up a 100 times, and then manipulated the living crap out of me to try to get me back each time. I wanted to believe him SO bad that he would change and just be the nice guy he is 75% of the time. Well...I was miserable everyday of my life, I didnt know how to leave, I was scared to leave, I still "loved" him (really I just loved the idea of what I wish he was)...finally about 6 weeks ago he really blew it over the edge, he started to bring cocaine into the apartment, started spending his entire paycheck at the bar, etc. Well this one particular night he drank about 15 beers, half a bottle of liquor then about 6 more drinks at the bar when we went out...he flirted with a girl (which i later found out he cheated on me with a week before i broke up with him) for about 4 hours infront of my face at the bar as I cried and begged them both to stop...the night ended with a phone call to the cops, he fled the scene and went god knows where...and I called my mom and we waited until 10am for him to finally get home and I broke up with him and asked him to pack his stuff and leave. He left, in a very cocky manner, denying that he did ANYTHING wrong...then over a 5 weeks span after the breakup, he started "dating" her (he denied that), he posted himself on craigslist for hookups with men, he commited harassment, aggravated harassment, and stalking to me insisting of about 700 phones calls, 350 texts, 50 facebook messages, emails, showing up at my apartment, 7 suicide threats(im on the train tracks and can hear it coming, im going to hang myself in the back yard, "i hope you like killing me"), etc. etc. etc...well I stayed strong for about 2 weeks...then he left a voicemail saying he got arrested and was going to go to jail for atleast 1-3 years and "if you ever cared about me, call me back"...I called him back and had him come over...BIG MISTAKE...I contacted his probation officer and told her to leave my name out of anything because he clearly is getting into trouble on his own...well once he had probation the day after I had him over...He called screaming at me saying the "arrest story" was a big LIE (to manipulate me into talking to him)...and his probation officer called me and said he lied (shes not happy with him)...after that he still called over 300 times and contacted my friends to relay messages to me, etc. Well I filed for an order of protection and finally THIS MORNING I had court to finalize a "full stay away for one year"...I saw him at court today for the first time in 3 weeks...it was AWFUL, he came in whistling, cocky, and gave the judge responses like "yup, nope" it was terrible. The guards/cops came up to me afterwards and told me they got a good laugh at him because of his clearly controlling, manipulative, immature behavior. Anyways...I guess I'm writing because I am having a hard night...I KNOW I clearly made the right decision by leaving him and getting the restraining order, but seeing him today at court was AWFUL. I can't help but to still wish he was the sweet, "genuine" person I fell for...but he's not. My therapist is convinced that my ex is a narcissistic sociopath who is heavily emotionally and verbally abusive...I dont know...I just am SO scared to ever love again, SO scared I am going to fall for another jerk. I want revenge and to tell all his friends that he is bi...I don't know anymore...I just want to stop dwelling...help?

[Lucy2011]

I wish I could give you a hug:)

 

I'm going through something similar and have just joined this site tonight to try and find some sort of comfort. I only hope by knowing you aren't alone is a sort of comfort (it has been for me).

 

See today/tomorrow as a fresh start and forget him (I know thats hard, I'm here telling you what I want someone to tell me) I was so tempted to tell my ex's friends via Facebook a few things. But don't! Don't sink to his level, he isn't worth it.

 

You are worth more than him and you will find someone who deserves you.