My boyfriend...Well ex and I have been having lots of problems for the last little while...Well since I got pregnant (i am now 31 weeks on thursday). At first everything seemed like it was going to work out really good. He said he was excited, and his parents were supportive and my mom was upset but still supportive. Then we started fighting all the time. He'd get pissed off at me because i'd get mad that he wouldn't help out around the house or that he was smoking pot, etc. Then he would say awful things such as "i'm going to take this kid away from you when it's born and you'll never see it again" in reality I am not stupid (although my judgement call with him seems to show no form in intellegence from me at all) I know that he just can't take the kid from me because he is mad, especially about something so stupid as "can you please put your dishes in the dishwasher" and I have never done anything in my life to make me an unfit parent. He on the other hand has a youth criminal record (not something I learned about until later when we were together) but I think now that he is 21 it will have been erased.
His parents and I don't get along (we never really did) they do drugs and I am not okay with that. I don't do drugs and I was never raised around that, so the fact that 2 adults do it blow my mind. When I first met them they smoked pot...And I thought it was weird and trashy as they are adults (and it is not even a once in a while thing, it's like all day everyday) but I thought oh well I would give him the benefit of the doubt, and when I found he smoked pot, I figured I was maybe being uptight, so I tried it a few times with him...But that was my extent, and then I started working on him to quit because he was like his parents. He would go to work and then come home and get baked for the rest of the night. It was awful. And he kept telling me he wasn't addicted and he could stop whenever he wanted and he routinely went on breaks to "clear out his system" but he never did...Anyways once I found out I was pregnant he said that he would quit (which made me extatic) because he didn't want to be like his parents. But I still kept finding stuff around the house. His parents got pissy because I said the baby wouldn't be allowed to go over to there house (they were more then welcome to come to mine, or we could meet somewhere public such as the zoo or the mall or a resturaunt, etc.) but they insisted that I was cutting them out of the babies life and that they didn't want anything to do with it at all if it couldn't come over to there house (they are heavy smokers) so anyways me and my boyfriend kept trying to work things out and failing and trying and in the end of november we had "been together" a year.
I found more pot on two occasions where he swore up and down that he had quit and so I ended things, then he came grovelling back and me stupidly agreed to try things one more time. So since then he was trying to proove himself to me for everything, and we had long talks and he said he understood why I was so upset about everything he had done and said and in the last couple weeks things were going really good, but I told him that he had to move out (i told him this in november) I didn't want to end things but I needed a bit of space, because living together wasn't working with all the fighting that was going on (i am sooo sick of crying) and it was a mistake for us to move in together after only a couple months of being together (i was 17 when he moved in and he was 20) and that we needed to take a couple steps back and take things slower like they should have been done originally. He wouldn't do it at first and then he agreed but not because he wanted too (and he loved making it known).
So on wednesday or thursday (sorry this is a long post, I just thought I should give some background information, I am now getting to my point haha) we were eating breakfast and talking and he informs me that he doesn't believe in child support and that he has no intentions of giving me money for the baby, however he does want to be involved and come over on his days off. Well he is totally miffed at why I would be angry about this, and it turns into a huge fight. Then on friday night I was in our laundry room and on the floor is a used bounce sheet so I picked it up to throw it into the garbage but it is all used to his pot smoking ways (he takes a couple bounce sheets and a toilet paper roll and blows the smoke into that so it doesn't smell and people don't know that he is doing it. Oh yes and its good to point out that he hasn't talked to me since our fight about the baby and child support- because I was clearly wrong) so I just left it out to show that I knew what he was doing.
He then comes to my mom and tells her that he is moving out next friday (thank goodness, because he had been dragging his heals for moths about doing it). So he is leaving this coming friday and he hasn't talked to me, which is okay, because I have nothing to say to him, I am just to angry. My mom drives him to work in the mornings because he works so early the buses don't really start running to get him there on time, so this morning she talked to him in the car on the way there, and at first he denied saying that he wasn't going to pay childsupport and then he switched his story so he was saying the same stuff he said to me, and she told him that if he didn't pay then he would have to go to court because she didn't want to have to pick up his slack (and she shouldn't have too...I am going to be going to school and working part time) and he fought and stuff and then he basically told her that he should go find a new girlfriend and have a family with her...And for me not to put his name on the birth certificate and if I did he would just deny it...Obviously the baby is his, as I have been with him and no one else (i've never even looked at another guy) in over a year. But still that's like a huge slap in the face. I know he is being immature and retarded. I just don't know what to do. I was expecting that with us getting along and him planning on coming around all the time that he would be contributing something, as I don't want my mom to pay for stuff...She is doing enough (and he agreed that she shouldn't have to) i'm already sick with money worries, as I need stuff and I don't have everything I need for the baby yet, and I am afraid she may come early. And I am not working, and my mom is a single mom who makes good money but she has a morgage and a car payment every month and all the other lovely bills to pay. So we can't afford stuff right now.
I don't know I am just so stressed... What I really think I want is for him to just sign over his custody papers and give me full custody and have him just go away. Then I don't have to worry about his family and him having bad influences on her, and fighting all the time. But my mom doesn't want that because she doesn't want to pick up his slack (and I don't want her to either) so she is going to force him to pay something, even if it means going to court...And I am just so confused as to what to do...Because I am pretty sure knowing him if he didn't pay he'd never be around. If he does have to pay then he will show up, and I wont be able to have much control as to what he does with my daughter (i am so afraid that he is going to smoke up infront of her or his parents will or something, and she'll think that is okay). I just feel really torn, I would be okay just asking him to sign over papers and having him dissapear, and not pay anything because I don't want anything other then that really from him....But I feel like I am betraying my mom or something if I do, do that because she wants him to pay, and we do need his money. Ahhh! Lol I dunno. What do you all think? I just need some advice.
*by the way... Any of you young girls out there reading this who want to get pregnant...Just keep this in mind... I thought my boyfriend would stick through with me no matter what (that is after all what he had been telling me since before I got pregnant, that he loved me and no matter what he would be by my side) but they don't always do what they say. I know that there are winners out there. I have friends from school who at a younger age then me (i was 17 when I got preg, and am now 18) have got decent boyfriends. But not all of them are and you can't be 100% sure who is who. Just wait untill your older...You have a lot of life left to live before you dedicate the rest of your exsistence to a child. I wish I had waited. There are so many things I wanted to do while I was young and now I can't and never will be able to get this time back. So make choices responsibly. Remember that you can get pregnant even if you are using condoms and birthcontrol, and there is no 100% safe way (for real!) then abstinence (no sex).
Kimmie
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