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Feel suicidal after leaving narcissist husband

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Survivingeachday · 22/08/2020 23:42

I have left my narcissist husband after 15 years together and two children. It took me 10 years to get the courage to do this along with recent therapy. I felt awful living with him. But now I feel suicidal without him I’m struggling to get through each day. We are still in contact because of the kids and everything seems amicable. His mum said she knows he is desperate to come back home. I miss him so much. I’m starting to wonder if he was even that bad. And I just miss him and having another adult in the house. But he used to be so controlling over me, no empathy, everything about him, he had cheated before, gambled etc. But he also had good points like he could back me up with dc now they are not listening to me. I miss his hugs. I feel terrible, I had dreamt of this day of leaving and instead of feeling relief I feel suicidal and I’m four weeks out of the relationship . I’m not sure I’m strong enough to break the trauma bond. I messaged him tonight and said to come round for Sunday lunch tomorrow because it would be nice for the kids. I’m such an idiot

LouMumsnet · 23/08/2020 10:04

Hello OP, we are really sorry to hear you are feeling this way - it sounds like you've been incredibly strong and brave so far.

We hope you don't mind, but when these threads are flagged up to us we usually add a link to our Mental Health resources.

You can also go to the Samaritans website, or email them on [email protected]. Support from other Mumsnetters is great and we really hope you will be able to take some comfort from your fellow posters, but as other MNers will tell you, it's really a good idea to seek RL help and support as well.

We're going to move this thread over to our Mental Health topic now, as we always do with threads like this - we hope that helps but get in touch with us directly on [email protected] if we can help further.

Best of luck. Flowers

DawnMumsnet · 24/08/2020 16:00

Hi Survivingeachday, as several people have mentioned The Freedom Programme, we thought we'd add a link for you here. We know that it's helped so many Mumsnetters over the years so please do take a look. Flowers

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