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Worried about ex and his new family

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Bettie2192 · 21/04/2020 16:41

I was with my abusive ex boyfriend for four years. It was mainly verbal/mental/emotional abuse but there was some physical abuse.

Fast forward 6 years: I am happily married with a baby on the way, he is with his girlfriend for the last couple of years and they have a baby daughter.

I can’t stop thinking about whether his new GF knows anything about his past. Has he told her what our relationship was like, and if so does it not bother her? Or has he never told her what he was really like? I hadn’t thought about this for a while until they had a baby a few months ago, and now I can’t get it out of my head. Does he not think about how he treated me, and imagine someone treating his own daughter the same? Does he not feel ashamed? He has never said sorry to me, just acted like nothing ever happened.

I know there’s nothing I can do, it’s not like I’m going to get in touch with her now and be like oh by the way here’s all the shitty things your boyfriend did to me over 4 years. I guess I just wanted to get this out as it’s been playing on my mind recently.

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Gutterton · 22/04/2020 21:36

Why are you thinking about the past. Unless you reported him and have proof your just torturing yourself over trash.

It’s not an active choice. This is clearly some unprocessed and unresolved trauma causing nightmares and obtrusive thoughts that have been triggered by her own pregnancy and a horror of imagining she was back their with her baby and knowing what some other poor woman and child are enduring.

Hannah021 · 22/04/2020 21:40

You need to move on, focus on ur presence. Your ex is not ur concern anymore, his gf might be the one leading him by his leash... You are making assumption hes abusing her.
she doesnt need to know about u, u need to focus on urself and move on

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