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To consider a termination?

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violetta1 · 22/05/2016 22:14

Hi, I'm new here. I've been searching for ages, trying to find a termination topic, but I don't believe there is one? This seems like general information, so I thought it would be a good place.

I really don't need people having a go at me, or calling me awful (which I have had in real life) so I've come online, but I really hope you can try an be understanding.

I had been with my partner for 5 years - we actually met at school; I thought it was true love and we would genuinely be together for ages, maybe even marry each other. There is this walkway near our town, which has a bad nickname, implying that people are beaten up there/murdered. It's just all talk really, due to it being an underground walkway... No one has ever been severely hurt. I was on a night out with my friends, just a casual meal. I decided to walk the way where the walkway is. I was attacked... By my boyfriend. I appreciate it's very confusing, but I don't need to go into details, as it defeats the point of this threat. However, I obviously have spoken to the police and it's an ongoing investigation.

These couple of months have been hell. I haven't been able to sleep/go to uni/go to work/talk to anyone - it's like I'm numb, I just can't speak. I'm absolutely lost. I feel sick, betrayed and everything else you can imagine.

I'm pregnant.

I'm only young. In my early 20s, just about to finish uni. A baby wasn't on my list of soon to happen things. It's not even the baby that's the problem, it's the fact that they are half him; half the man that did that to me. It wouldn't be fair for him/her to have me as their mum, as I won't be able to look at them as an individual, they will always be a cause of the worst thing that has ever happened to me. How is that fair? How is that fair for them to carry that on their shoulders?

I'm just lost for words. My mum hasn't been very supportive. My brother wants to keep out of it all. I have no one. I'm utterly lost...

OP posts:
Sunnsoo · 23/05/2016 01:36

It is 100% your choice, and only yours.

Personally, I would abort.

LucyBabs · 23/05/2016 02:04

It's always your choice and how you feel about it. I'm so sorry what happened to you Flowers
I've had an abortion and although tough at the time I knew I was making the right decision.

If you felt you could cope physically, emotionally and financially and had a good support network then no having a baby wouldn't be the "end of the world".

You need to speak with a professional and get to the bottom of all your feelings and then make a decision.

Good luck

toastedandbuttered · 23/05/2016 08:31

You really do not have to do anything to keep that baby alive. You don't owe it anything. Your first priority should be yourself

Yes you'll survive if you have it, but you don't have to do it

It is perfectly OK to want a child with the father around, with more financial security, in a few years

Even though I'm now at a place in my life where I may not have children (in my 30s, divorced), I still would never ever regret my termination. I cant imagine having had a child with some loser who didn't respect me. Yes single mums are doing a fantastic job but I absolutely did not want to be a young single mum with no money, no fun, no partner

It's perfectly OK to not want to do it

Blu · 24/05/2016 18:56

Op are you still here?
Could you consider calling Rape Crisis? The fact that you had a relationship is not an issue, legally . But in any case, unwanted contact is an assault and it may help to get professional support with that.

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