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what in gods name do i do

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prettyfly1 · 09/04/2008 16:18

before i start a brief recap on my story for those who are new - this will be long so bear with me. As most of you know my son was conceived in a one night stand with the man who is the love of my life when i was incredibly drunk. he was married to someone else at the time and i have done my years of hanging my head in shame so please try and not comment on that. I think going through pregnancy and labour alone and hiding your child was enough punishment and i beat myself up for long enough. i wasnt supposed to be able to have children so my son was a shock but since the day he was born he has bought me so much joy i cant regret it for a moment. His father wanted nothing to do with it. asked me to terminate and ignored me for the rest of the pregnancy when i wouldnt. When he was born he asked me to take a dna test which i did and as a reslt his wife found out. They seperated last year. In october of last year after two and half years he asked to see him. I have always wanted a father for my son and i thought they would love each other so i said yes. We spent a lot of time together a for my sons sake i felt trying to be a family was a good idea. This man has serious issues but (in true abused woman style) i do love him so i tried. I recently found out i was expecting again. I also decided it was not going to work with his father and told him it was time to seperate. All the way through all i have heard about is how his other child is more important, is the onlything he cares about, is the favourite and always will be and how my son comes second best. his reasoning for this is that he had son no.1 by choice and also lived with him. it is true that his wife had a c ssection and did nothing with him for the first few months so l had to take over and do everything so it is right that there is a strong bond there but at the expense of his other child?

Anyways the final straw came last week. I was heartbroken at walking away and he turned up (drunk) at one in the morning as he felt bad. When he proceeded to inform me about the three women he could have had that night and how i was lucky that he came home to me.hwo fit they were and how if i didnt want him he would have another woman in minutes because thats how he is. how he couldnt understand why he couldnt let go of me. how he wanted to be there for the new baby but i had to understand that it would make ds a distant third. I waited to calm down then told him i didnt want to know anymore and felt he would cheat on me as well so would prefer not to be with him.

On Thursday of last week my son became very very ill - the next day i called l to let him know how things were, and he told me the only way i could understand his feelings for my son were if i had gotten involved with someone who had a child who was nothing to do with me.

He has told me he does not feel connected to my son, is ashamed of both of us and is afraid of his ex wife taking the other son who is his world and the only important thing to him away from him if she finds out about him and my son isnt worth that. My son loves him so much and talks about him constantly. he insisted on being called daddy almost straight away and he knows who he is and worships him but i dont want the man anywhere near my son. He is on holiday at the moment but he told my sister on sunday that he cant understand why i would not want him near my two children. I had an early miscarraige on monday so thats one problem solved but what do i do. hwo long before he makes my son feel worthless as well. he means nothing to him according to him but my head keeps saying if i stop the relationship it will turn on me in the future. even if he does try and see him it will stop the minute he gets another girlfriend and ds is an interference in his life.

thanks for bearing with me. i just dont know what to do.

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prettyfly1 · 10/04/2008 16:56

oh and it gets worse. my new job are already going spare that i have taken a week and a bit off with my sons bug and the nursery are refusing to take him tomorrow so i will probably loose my job on top of everything else. i feel like someone just set fire to my life and i am looking at the charred remains. i quite literally am losing everything. please help me because i feel like i cant breathe.

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motherhurdicure · 10/04/2008 17:13

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prettyfly1 · 10/04/2008 18:51

my gp has written a note but work are getting fed up. i think a friend will cover for me tomorrow to help out. i just feel like sobbing and sobbing though. and i do feel like its my fault. if i were a nicer person, if i hadnt asked him for anything if i had just let him do whatever then it might have been ok for my son. i feellike i have failed at everything and its just gutting. All the really bad stuff started cause l kept phoning sick every time he was supposed to come over and the final straw was when things were really good between us and we had been happy for a while i invited him to a wedding with my friends. he didnt show up and didnt tell me he wasnt coming till half an hour after we were supposed to leave. i nearly missed all of my best friends ceremony. i was so angry i couldnt believe it and told him to f off at the time and when i tried to speak to him about it a few days later he blamed me for not waking him up sooner and informed me that if i expected him to do anything to make it right i was kidding myself. he wasnt that kind of man and would never try for any woman. three hours later he told me he loved me and asked to move in. and in my head i keep thinking maybe i should have just not said anything about the wedding. maybe i should have just let him get on with it, maybe then he wouldbe nicer to us and not hurt my son. i know it doesnt make sense but it keeps playing over and over in my head.

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prettyfly1 · 10/04/2008 18:58

i know it probably seems like i have very little self respect but i know about self respect. i built a life from nothing. from a homeless shelter with no money and no experience of children, to a degree a brand new car after putting myself through driving lessons, to working at least one job for the last three years, normally two or three including running my own business, to being on the verge of buying my house and decorating it and creating a home with no help from anyone else to raising a beautiful, bright funny little boy but somehow its all falling apart and i feel like its my fault. i dont understand how he could tell me he loved me but say such horrible things about the miracle we created. and every time ds asks about his daddy i want to cry. i thihnk i have already posted about when he todl my son that he had no clothes whilst i had a wardrobe full of them. i keep thinking that if i keep l in his life, hearing things like that he will grow up to think i didnt provide enough and i didnt care enough about him to give him what he needs. and that i just cant have. i just dont understand.

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ginnedup · 10/04/2008 21:21

Prettyfly! Firstly you have just had a mc ffs. Go to your GP and get signed off work - it doesn't matter if they get the hump, they can't fire you for that.
Secondly, from readomg your last post you are an amazing strong woman. You have just fallen for the wrong man and let him drag you down.
None of this is your fault at all, look at what you have achieved in your life - don't let this horrible excuse for a man take it all away from you.
As for him lying about his holiday - surely that is the final straw. He should be taking you on holiday to help you get over your loss and give you a much needed rest.

ginnedup · 10/04/2008 21:24

not readomg - reading.
My fingers are tired!

littlewoman · 11/04/2008 02:17

Prettyfly, you sound desperate. Concentrate your small amount of energy on what is important right now. Like ginnedup said... get signed off. Get yourself well, and every time a thought, image, whatever, of your xp pops into your head tell your brain 'no', and replace the thought with something else. Let your head know you are not going to tolerate its nonsense. It sounds stupid, but it can be useful. Sending you some virtual hugs, which are no good, but I so wish they were.

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prettyfly1 · 12/04/2008 15:11

hi ladies. thanks so much for all your kind thoughts and words. i went back to work yesterday and actually felt better having something else to focus on. i have started to feel relieved more then anything else, relieved that i dont have to be afraid to say anything, or for the next snipe or patronissing dig to hit. he is a very ill very unhappy man and i hope he gets better but i cant make him happy and i cant change his nasty behaviour to me and my son. i still feel anxious and there are momments that still hrut but i know from experience how healing time is and knowing that i have taken this decision for me and my boy makes me feel better. he made me laugh so much this morning. i have the tummy bug he had and he shouted at the "poorly bugs in my tummy to get out cause im his mummy and he loves me and he hates the poorly bugs so GET OUT". He is such a precious little poppet and i would walk over coal for him so i will get through this one way or another. thanks again.

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motherhurdicure · 13/04/2008 10:02

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garden · 13/04/2008 10:13

prettyfly1-thinking of you. do go easy on yourself- after my mc i was weepy for weeks-try and eat well and have early nights if possible.would it help to be referred to a counsellor via your gp? s/times talking to s/one outside of the situation can really help.but do take care of yourself-warm baths , chocolate-whatever helps!you are in my thoughts.keep talking on here.

prettyfly1 · 13/04/2008 16:47

thanks. today is not such a good day. family party last one i went to was with him and i was the only single person there. sis mother in law kept asking when i was going to settle down and sis is heavily pregnant. sister in law had her new born and kept handing her to me. the whole thing was just excruiating. keep thinking of him off playing happile familes or shagging everything that moves while i go through this. fun.

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motherhurdicure · 13/04/2008 20:38

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littlewoman · 13/04/2008 23:51

Has your son ever thought becoming a doctor prettyfly? Ok, that might not work on everyone, but I expect it made mummy feel a bit better. I'm so glad things are looking up for you. Well done, really really well done for being so positive at such a low time.

prettyfly1 · 15/04/2008 16:47

well, he is back. i contacted him and my sister also unwittingly contacted him about seeing my son as he is heartbroken - i had suggested i be nothing to do with it. absolutely nothing. he doesnt give a shit about his sons pain at all. or mine as he hasnt even bothered to check i am ok. grrrrr.

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prettyfly1 · 17/04/2008 19:10

yeah i do and he loves them very much. he slowly seems to be stopping asking but i know he is very stroppy at nursery at the moment so its obviously impacting on him. l found out about the csa yesterday, informed me i had ruined everyones lives and offered to hurt himself if i didnt stop. nice. apparently i made all of last week up to cling to him. i wish i had believe me. bastard. he is such a bully.

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Tinkerbel6 · 18/04/2008 10:11

prettyfly1 sorry to hear about the baby this man is no good for your son and its better to have no father than a father who come and goes and dishes out mental abuse, you will never end up with this man so get rid once and for all as you wont want to be with someone who blatantly treats your child 2nd best, kids come first and you dont love one more than another.

prettyfly1 · 19/04/2008 16:12

hey guys feeling much better, when he found about csa he told me i was a liar, that i had inconvenienced him bothering him with a million (6) texts whilst he was on holiday to tell him about the baby and that i had ruined everyones lives. when i fiunally blew i really blew adn ranted for fifteen minutes during which he couldnt get a word in. funnily enough after telling him the world didnt revolve around him all i got was a text about how he was in debt and his life was over. after checking he wasnt going to kill himself i realised it was just more bullying and when abuse didnt work he tried guilt. he is a disgusting piece of filth and i cant even be bothered to acknowledge him any more so i posted proof of what had happened with a note telling him to f off. i never want to see or hear from the lying arse again and i informed him that no little boy needs a dad who denies he is his despite a dna test and calls him second and third best. scum.

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littlewoman · 19/04/2008 23:48

I don't mean to be funny prettyfly, but it is good that you are angry now and staring the reality of this bloke in the face. Don't be surprised if he starts making overtures to get back together with you, though, just so he doesn't have to pay any maintenance for your son. Sounds like the sort of crafty shit he might get up to.

prettyfly1 · 20/04/2008 09:36

hi Little woman. hes done that before and i dont think it will happen this time. i have not heard from him since last wednesday and as far as i am aware he wont contact me again. once he gets his proof tomorrow no doubt i will get some abuse but other than that that will be it. i have had a couple of wobbly moments when it just hurts or when my son asks for him but on the whole i just feel rage and i really want to rebuild my life better then it was before to prove a point. i was always taught that the best form of revenge is success and not letting him win and carrying on is going to hurt him so much more then any nasty words or rowing can.

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prettyfly1 · 20/04/2008 17:03

a little bit yes. no doubt it will come back on me but mostly i just feel sad. that useless git has the most beautiful sons and still whines about his life being over cause he will have to pay a few quid for one of their up bringing. it makes me sick. thanks you for thinking of me tho, i really do appreciate the support and time from the people on this thread.

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