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Help me shake some sense please

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Calamari99 · 14/07/2025 04:55

I'm heartbroken but I have a brain tumour and my bestfriend thinks it's impairing my thought process and I'm struggling to see the light.
My ex broke up with me a couple days ago and went straight back to his ex but she told me he had been begging to move back in with her and said he loves and misses her while saying those things to me, trying to have a baby with me and I had a miscarriage, he met my children, he lived with me for 2 weeks (we've been in a long distance relationship for nearly a year) he usually drove from Scotland to England to see me and I tried to make it a nice stay for him :(

I made him cooked breakfasts everyday, bought him things he wanted and needed, massages when he wanted etc. I gave him money to go home. When he went home he went quieter and became unavailable most of the time. And when he spoke to me in texts he would mostly talk about himself or his friends. He used the money on £10 car chargers (which is what it was for) and then spent the rest of it on expensive sushi, things with friends and paid his friends vet bill. Now he will go into overdraft when the chargers take out the full money & I gave him the amount of money so that he wouldn't go into overdraft.

When he went out a couple of days ago I got upset and told him how I felt because he didn't charge his phone and then got home at 1am after not speaking to me most of the day or checking in to say he was ok (he went to the middle of nowhere to do kayaking). Maybe I was too hard on him and he said I was horrible and then didn't reply to my texts or calls when I apologised so many times. And now he's gone back to his ex and I saw on his car app (which I've now deleted but tortured myself seeing it).

Anyway over the course of our relationship I wrote down some red flags but my brain still isn't seeing it and I feel worthless and awful. Maybe I am. I truly loved him and despite me having kids, he's the first person that I've had such a passionate connection with and first person I've had a proper kiss with. The sex we had was a million miles from what I've ever had.

Him: Jobless Financially unstable Flaky sometimes Immature sometimes Got me to pay for everything He puts an old game priority before talking to me He leaves his phone charger in car and cba to get it out to message so phone goes dead He often wakes up in the afternoon He has no motivation to get a job He doesn’t tell me things like going over to Alice, high probability that he still speaks to her daily and maybe leading her on (confirmed correct)

He flexed muscles like Patrick Bateman during sex and it cringes me out He had sex with me when I was very drunk *He argued with me when I was very drunk and made me feel like I was making it up or being dramatic. He let me cry on the bathroom floor without checking on me while he sulked in bed. Then came in when I was vomiting.

When we were drunk he didn’t care that I had left the hotel room because he asked me to get him water, it was a rough area He made me feel a bit silly about a gaming event we went to and I missed out on some of the things there He play fights with his friends and he’s 30, a grown man Criminal record Asks a lot of me He didn’t tell me he has herpes and had unprotected sex with me many times including on Wed when he had a sore on it. He told me he was clean and he made me look like a complete freak for questioning things. He took away my autonomy and didn’t care about my health. He put me at risk of having a life long disease.

*Didn’t take his anti viral tablets religiously even though he said he was taking them to protect me
Puts his feelings before mine Can’t communicate properly Ghosts me He never cared that I was in hospital, instead he went back to Alice He begged Alice to let him come home and kept telling her he loves her and misses her while having sex with me, meeting my kids, getting me pregnant and having a miscarriage Drove car like a psycho with me in it Called me crazy, slag, cunt, cow as a joke but didn’t feel nice sometimes Shot me in the leg with BB gun when I asked him not to *Spanked me really hard 3 times when I wasn’t feeling good and it made me cry, he could’ve stopped after the 2nd time

His mums house where he had been staying and I visited is smoky and unkept and his dog pisses everywhere. He slept on her sofa for months. He told me he did it for me but turns out his ex apparently kicked him out and he was begging her to let him come back. He doesn’t clean the dog piss up properly. things weren’t perfect in his relationship with Alice despite him going straight back to her and he said she gave him herpes without disclosing too

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Trolleydolley · 14/07/2025 05:12

That is a very long list of very major red flags. What is this thoughtless, selfish, financially/emotionally/physical/verbally abusive jobless, STI carrying, immature man giving you? Why would you want someone like that around you or your children?

Kateboosh · 14/07/2025 05:14

This man is a walking red flag, the list of negatives I would expect far outweighs any positive! I am sorry to read what he has put you through, you deserve far better! I am sorry to read also what you are going through and have been through with the miscarriage.

I suspect your feelings for him are the culprit here, sometimes, even when we can see the reality that someone is treating us poorly we overlook it as we have feelings for them. It will take time for your feelings to change, just because you can see someone is bad for you doesn’t mean your heart falls in line with this.

Try to focus on yourself and your children. Your feelings for him will take time to lessen but it will ease, in the meantime from what I have read I can safely say you are better off without him. He sounds like a user & a very selfish person. You & your children deserve more. Be kind to yourself, I promise him being out of your life is a positive thing, even if it doesn’t feel like it right now.

Eastendboysandwestendgirls · 14/07/2025 05:25

Really, OP? That big long list and yet you still think he's worth it? I suggest you need counselling rather than a relationship.

TealSapphire · 14/07/2025 05:29

Goodness OP. You need to completely forget about this loser, and focus on your health and children. What have they been doing amongst all this drama?

WilfredsPies · 14/07/2025 05:33

He is cruel. He has used you. He doesn’t love you. He doesn’t even like you. He is not a good man.

I don’t know whether your tumour has any bearing on this. I strongly suspect that, if he is the first man who has ever kissed you properly, you have a history of relationships with dysfunctional men and as a result, you have zero self esteem. That’s what is making you think that the way he has treated you is acceptable.

You aren’t in love with him. You’re in love with the man you hoped he was, and thought he might be. And every time you had good sex, or he gave you a crumb of niceness, you grabbed onto it as proof that he was that man. And every time he did something cruel, you ignored it. This isn’t about him; it’s about you and your lack of love for yourself. Also, Google limerance.

sesquipedalian · 14/07/2025 05:38

“he lived with me for 2 weeks (we've been in a long distance relationship for nearly a year)”

Two weeks is nothing. I’m v sorry for you about your miscarriage (but probably not the worst thing that could happen under the circumstances). Seriously, OP, just read back what you have written - the man’s a filthy loser who can’t clear up after himself or his pets; he uses you for money and can’t be bothered to charge his phone; he doesn’t have enough respect for you to prevent you from catching herpes; he has no job; he slapped you and made you cry - the list goes on. Just what does this prince among men have going for him? I suspect that, like many of us, you’ve made him into what you want him to be in your head, but seriously, having written all this down, let him go back to Alice, then block him on your phone and chalk him up to experience. No woman deserves this appalling man-child. He won’t treat you any better if you let him come back, so please, OP, get rid of him from your life and move on.

Fatiguedwithlife · 14/07/2025 05:51

Christ he sounds vile OP.
And you need some therapy, look at the freedom program, to understand how a person like that is Not good enough for anyone

dogcatkitten · 14/07/2025 05:57

If even half of this is true you know you should dump him and should never have given him anything or got into however a distant meaningless relationship with him. And having a baby? You are joking!

Om83 · 14/07/2025 06:12

Please wake up - good riddance to this man. I’m not surprised your self esteem is so low if you let someone do this to you. What a complete waster and he has absolutely used you. You need to pick yourself up and never let this happen again, you owe it to your kids and your self respect!

I’m sorry you had a miscarriage but were you actively trying for a baby with this idiot or did he just ‘get you pregnant’? It takes two to tango so why were you not on contraception? Why did you still sleep with him knowing he had herpes and not treating it properly?

is this post a wind up as seems very far fetched..

Calamari99 · 14/07/2025 06:36

Om83 · 14/07/2025 06:12

Please wake up - good riddance to this man. I’m not surprised your self esteem is so low if you let someone do this to you. What a complete waster and he has absolutely used you. You need to pick yourself up and never let this happen again, you owe it to your kids and your self respect!

I’m sorry you had a miscarriage but were you actively trying for a baby with this idiot or did he just ‘get you pregnant’? It takes two to tango so why were you not on contraception? Why did you still sleep with him knowing he had herpes and not treating it properly?

is this post a wind up as seems very far fetched..

No it’s not a wind up. It’s my part of my life right now. We both had std checks and both had negative results. They didn’t screen for herpes and he disclosed to me much later into the relationship despite me asking many times. I only found out when I asked him why there was a red mark on it and that was only recently when I’d just miscarried. I believed in the dream and liked all the good parts of him that I overlooked a lot of bad things that I’m now realising

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WilfredsPies · 14/07/2025 06:48

You say he put you at risk of having a life long disease. Do you think you haven’t been infected?

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