I don't know if this is in exactly the right place. Bare with me I plan on only saying a little but I have yet to come out with this topic to really anyone fully so if it's huge ... I'm sorry.
My ex, we were only together for a short time before I got pregnant (i'm 29 wks for those of you that don't come to the pregnancy forums) He was very abusive. Physically and emotionally ... I won't really get into detail about that but let's just say it was bad enough i have dreams and flashbacks about it.
In a way I know it was my own fault for sticking around. I had always been a strong person and any guy that even talked down to me was gone, until him. he could say and do anything... and then say he loved me he was sorry and wouldn't do it again and I would just get over it.
When I got pregnant the physical abuse stopped... and I definately became stronger... I had to I'm having a baby!
I moved out, back with my parents started working and so on , but still seeing and talking to him.
he began doing drugs after I moved out again, he had done them early in our relationship but stopped when i became pregnant, and with drugss came the agressiveness ..he cut and attempted suicide repeatedly. So I ceased contact until 2 months later. Whe I thought I could "help" him.
he was so high he ended up putting me in the hospital because he slammed me into a wall (by my stomache) and dropped me to the ground.
I was so stressed out and upset the doctors were talking about preterm labour and that if I didnt calm down it would happen.
I never felt more guilty about anything, I really had no idea he was that bad and if I thought he would endanger the baby... i wouldnt have gone. I went to his apartment with drug and crisis hotline numbers and we were gonna call them together... i dont know how it escalated from there.
that was a month and a bit ago and I have not seen him since, but he contacted me the other day to tell me he was so sorry he loved me and the baby but he had to go. I asked him where he was going and he hung up and I later got a phonecall that he was in the hospital, ... they put him to sleep because he is on breathing machines and cathadars and ivs and tubes everywhere they say.
I'm stayiong calm , but even after everything he's done to me, my heart hurts more than anything.
I don't know what to do , I blame myself... I know I shouldnt care but I do.
How am I supposed to get over something like this?
How do I forget it all and move on?
I will never allow him around my child and am done with him , being with him talking to him (even if he pulls through)
but I still feel emtionally tied to him... I hate him but I love him.
I've never felt so powerless... ever.
any advice or just a few words would really help... I'm just so boggled right now!