I am in a 7 yr relationship with my boyfriend, we have lived together
> now for 7 yrs and at first he was loving and attentive. But at first
> he would say things like "our relationship is on a day to day basis
> today I am here but tomorrow I might not be" It tugged at my heart
> and made me want to prove to him that I do love him and that this
> relationship is the best thing that ever happened to him. 18 months
> into our living together (I have 2 kids then they were 7 and 8 yrs
> old) we went to his brothers for new years eve with the kids, he got
> mad and wanted to leave and me and the kids didn't want to so he
> started yelling at me and I was crying, so his brother came over gave
> me a hug and said "are you ok?, he shouldn't talk to you like that"
> that inraged Jim even more and told me to get my AS_ in the car and
> why do I have to be such as stupid CUN_! I was scared at this point,
> cause I never saw this side of him before, I left the kids there and
> took him home when we got home packed his things and said its been
> nice the last 18 months with you, have a good life. I was sobbing,
> beggin him to not leave, but he did anyway and I was devastated. the
> next day I called every motel in town til I found him, I went there
> we made up and he came home and over the next 6 1/2 yrs that has been
> the cycle he will get mad, call me names, pack his things and leave
> and would go after him. As the years went on he became more and more
> like Jekyl and Hyde. my kids are now 14 and 12 and they hate him,
> they hate how he makes me cry, they hate the names he calls, one time
> he got mad because he thought I slammed my dresser drawer shut and I
> tried to tell him I didn't and he spit in my face, he got so mad
> another time he threatened to bash my head into the wall. Now my son
> is wanting to go live with his dad because he can't stand the way
> things are at my house, and all I do now is cry. And NOW my
> boyfriend wants me to leave, I KNOW he is verbally and sometimes
> physically abusing me, and my children, SO WHY ISN'T THIS ENOUGH TO
> WANT IT TO BE OVER WITH? Why do I want nothing more than to be with
> him? HELP? How do I get through this?
>
2007-04-17
05:22:25
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23 answers
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lynlee39
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