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Please can anyone help me with this, I’m desperate

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User200002020 · 29/04/2020 11:56

I have posted before but set up new account after realising my login was on ex’s laptop. I hope it is ok to post again, I know it is frowned upon, in just in a state.

After seeing someone only 6 months, I was pregnant, failed birth control. I thought I was in a happy stable environment, even though it was early. We were just getting on with life day to day, living together, really very happy. He was 37 and had said many times this was it for him, he’d found the right one in me etc etc.
As soon as he found out I was pregnant, he said he would support me with whatever but for him he didn’t see the relationship lasting. He said he would try his best and hope that it would, but basically he didn’t have much faith. He then said he thought it was best I have a termination. I was distraught. The more upset I got, the more he said it confirmed his decision that the relationship was no longer right and regardless of what I did with the pregnancy, he didn’t want a relationship but would be in the child’s life. He then said he wanted me to move out, which I did, having not come to a decision about what to do with the pregnancy. He didn’t speak to me all week and the following weekend he text my mum !!! To ask if I had had a termination. On the back of all this I am ashamed to say that I panicked and booked in for a termination with the pills two days later. The day I went in to take the first tablet, I was already bleeding. They couldn’t tell if it was a viable pregnancy yet as there was nothing in the sac, it was too early. But instead of waiting, I took the first tablet and the pregnancy passed without the need for the second lot of tablets.

I don’t know why I am posting really. I feel in shock and like I went from this happy, loving environment to a complete nightmare. I’ve always wanted a family and had thought me and him were for keeps (I know it was early but we seemed to be on the same wavelength). When he suddenly asked me to leave and didn’t speak to me I felt I had to terminate. I will never know if I caused the termination or I was already miscarrying. The point is that I did take that tablet and I feel awful about it. I didn’t know what to do.

Can anyone help me come to terms with this. Have I been completely stupid here, was I cruel to have become upset at his hesitance in a future? Did I cause him to ask me to leave and not speak to me again other than to ask if I had got rid? I am so confused and head is swimming.

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picklemewalnuts · 30/04/2020 13:26

Gilbert I didn't mean they don't have an impact- of course they do. But individuals have to decide what they do about the impact when their loved ones have a mental health issue. Something one partner takes in their stride would be a dealbreaker for another.

PinkMonkeyBird · 30/04/2020 13:27

Ugh...the fact he even uttered being turned on by children, intrusive thoughts or no. Dress it up as a mental health issue if you want OP, but this man was downright awful. Get some self respect and stop grieving for this flash in the pan relationship.

GilbertMarkham · 30/04/2020 13:27

Op feel free to correct me, I'm not trying to be horrible or offensive but you sound pretty much desperate to get into a relationship, have a family etc.

You're talking about it having been your last chance - how old are you, I really doubt you're at the age where it would have been your last chance (and as I pointed out donor eggs now make last chances pretty irrelevant as long as the woman are her practitioners are prepared to go ahead).

You seem to have been very invested - desperate almost - to be in a relationship. You plowed on in spite of some red flags (the intrusive thoughts about being turned on by children would've completely spooked me/freaked me out and I don't think I could've continued the relationship).

You're going to (continue to) be very vulnerable if you out this much pressure on yourself to be in a relationship and have kids.

GilbertMarkham · 30/04/2020 13:28

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GilbertMarkham · 30/04/2020 13:33

Fwiw I think he may try to creep back after what he thinks is enough time for you to not be deeply upset, stressed etc. (Which he "can't" handle.

(How dare you show pain or anger or disappointment at him not wanting to continue the pregnancy that you both caused).

If and when he does he'll whitewash the whole thing and continue to blame your natural behaviour for his decision.

On the other hand the may just want to write off the whole thing and not to have to think about any of it (including how distinctly not "decent" his behaviour was). Sociopaths are good at doing that - total discard.

GilbertMarkham · 30/04/2020 13:37

I forgot to ask in my post about the pressure you're putting into yourself to be in a relationship and have kids; did you take risks with your contraception thinking that if you did fall pregnant, it would expedite the relationship into marriage and a family (or at least a family)?

GilbertMarkham · 30/04/2020 13:41

Something one partner takes in their stride would be a dealbreaker for another.

Having intrusive thoughts about being turned in by children should be in the deal-breaker category for everyone, one would've thought.

GilbertMarkham · 30/04/2020 13:42

People also tend to understate things when they are talking about something that doesn't reflect well on them.

GilbertMarkham · 30/04/2020 13:44

So "I've had intrusive thoughts about being turned on by kids" could be the minimalised/"prepping" version of "I've been cautioned for my inappropriate behaviour towards children, my mum knows and that's why we're constantly on the phone to each other, with me telling her every detail of every thought/action in my day".

Of course maybe nothing's happened but ...

picklemewalnuts · 30/04/2020 14:11

Possibly Gilbert, or possibly that he has that form of OCD where the fear of inappropriate thoughts is the problem, not the inappropriate thoughts. You can have a fear of becoming violent towards someone which is in no way rational, you aren't going to be violent, but your fear that you might is crippling. It's a specific mental health issue. Do you see the difference?

User200002020 · 30/04/2020 20:04

Thanks for the posts.

I know I need to move on from this I just feel shocked by the whole thing. It has happened and I need to accept it. I just can’t believe we were so happy and he could cut me off just like that and turn to his mum every waking hour to deal with it.she even text me on his behalf last week asking if I had terminated.

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