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Dom Violence Back to the "i love you and going to change" stuff again...

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leslie82

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So I divorced my ex husband almost 2 years ago. We got back together twice in that time. I stupidly bailed him out last year and it wasn't cheap. He had finally had his pretrial in March and they offered him a plea so he took it and has been in jail the last two months. Has to do 3 of six months. He gets out the day before our daughter's birthday.

So I had written him a letter to say I'm not answering when he calls because I'm completely done finally. He used our daughter's medical condition to have the judge release some of the bail to him (it's been in his name) and he used it to get high before he went to jail. He's a horrible meth addict. So I wrote him after he tried calling. I said he can call when he gets out and video chat with our daughter but I'm not hearing any of his crap. Then I got a letter from him saying "I bet you're mad about that money" and then said "I have mixed feelings about you because, well, you never had my back." I never had HIS back? Yep everyone was lining up to bail him out. Everyone covered his ass so he wouldn't get in trouble for writing checks on my account. Or was always there defending him to my family and sometimes HIS family. I used to be on the "addiction is a disease" bandwagon and would say "he's sick and once he's sober things will be fine." Yeah he is probably mentally ill. Something has to be wrong or he's just a plain old ass. He just went on and on about himself and how he loves all his kids and blah blah.

I wrote another letter and let him have it about how he's made me feel the last five years. Luckily we were only married a year. But he's milked half my savings out of me. I have had two loans because of him to pay credit cards. I have a maxed out credit card that I'm working on. I had to trade in my 4 1/2 year old car because he ran it down and racked up miles and this was after I dropped $2100 on it. He never has gone to many of our daughter's medical appointments. He always took off when she's in the hospital because he can't "handle" it and didn't think she needed him. She's almost 3 now. He has three other kids with two women. One he was married to before me. One was a one night stand when he was 19.

Then today I get a letter and omg has his attitude changed now that he has less than a month left. It was all "I love you and miss you" and "I'm sorry I didn't realize I was hurting you" and that he didn't think I had feelings and I was just pissed all the time. Um I was pissed but I was hurt too. It was all the things I'm sure he thinks I want to hear. Because his last letter he said "It seems like you always wanted me to fail." Yeah everyone wants their husband to fail at life and disappoint their kids. But I read that and I laughed at most of it and then I think about it and I cry because it pisses me off. I wish he would just leave me alone. I'm not going through this again. Every time he gets sober he says this crap and then it never lasts. I'm not wasting my life on him anymore. If he thinks he's moving back in here he's crazy. And says he'll give me what's left of the bail and pay some every month for the rest he owes me. How's he gonna do that without a job? And if he gets a job how will he after child support is taken out?

He just doesn't get it. You can't just be a douchebag and then apologize like it's ok. "I'm going to prove to you and get our family back." What family? The one where I provided everything for us, our daughter and his other kids? I paid his child support for like 3 years otherwise we couldn't see the kids. I paid for their birthdays, Christmases. I pay all the bills. He did nothing but spend and if he didn't get his way, it was my fault. He verbally attacked me. Every time we break up he calls me ugly and fat and nobody wants me. I just laugh because I know it's not true. I know if I tried I could find someone but I don't have time! Our daughter is on dialysis waiting for a kidney. I don't trust him with her why the hell would I bring some strange man into our lives especially now?

I just want to shake him and knock the rocks into place in his brain. I used to hold onto "someday he'll change" but he won't. And IF he does good for him. I hope my daughter can have her father. But until I see it I won't believe it.
 
Ugh. So sorry you are going through this and that your daughter is going through dialysis on top of it!

All those people who bailed him out? Enablers. You are breaking free! He's still behaving like an addict, even if he is has the forced sobriety of jail. Recovery is about so much more than getting sober.

Your heart is strong. Get support around you to stay strong and hold these very good boundaries for when he gets out and tries ALL his tricks to pull you back in.
 
I hope my daughter can have her father.
At this point it sounds like he's the worst person who could be in her life. You will be doing right by your daughter if you cut ties with your ex completely, and don't even respond to any of his letters. IF it's possible, you should move away. This guy sounds like a major liability who will screw up your daughter's life if he's given the opportunity. Don't let him. Once she's older, she can decide for herself, but right now, when she's young, it's up to you to protect her.
 
Once we reach our limit, it's frightening to look back at what all we allowed, endured, and enabled in hopes of something finally clicking, be it in ourselves or our abusive partners. Then comes the click we needed the most. No more, dammit. No more. Hold your ground and continue to take good care of you and your daughter. Wishing her much improved health and both of you some peace of mind.
 
I used to be on the "addiction is a disease" bandwagon and would say "he's sick and once he's sober things will be fine."
In all honesty it doesn't matter whether he chooses drugs, whether addiction is an illness or whatever he will keep trying to pull you in to some kind of relationship with him where he will continue to abuse you. I say that because you sound angry just now and anger is a huge motivator for change. Bit when you're up to your eyes in it, with a very poorly child, and he's at his manipulative "loving" best, it's much harder to keep yourself back from him.

In your shoes I would stop all direct contact with him, stop any of his or your family talking to you about him and put everything re child contact through a lawyer. Just don't engage with him, even to tell him what a shit he's been, even to tell him you're done with him. Just be done with him. Every bit of contact and every response you give him will give him an opportunity to manipulate, coerce and drag you back into a relationship with him.
 
Ugh. So sorry you are going through this and that your daughter is going through dialysis on top of...

I bailed him out. I know I enabled him as did his first wife, his parents, his siblings. We've all done it. I know he's just spewing bullcrap. I just had to vent this all out because it just irritates the crap out of me when he gets a little sober he starts saying this but it never lasts.
 
At this point it sounds like he's the worst person who could be in her life. You will be doing right b...

I'm military and when I do have to leave, I have to notify the court. We were married and got divorced. Luckily he never showed up and didn't do the online parenting class as is required so parenting time is at my discretion. But when I move I have to notify the court and he will get notified I'm sure to have a say. Hopefully I can get extended where I am due to her medical situation and being close to family. I think he needs to move away. No one wants him around. None of his kids. Well his youngest son but he doesn't know any better yet. But no one else really wants him around. His family is the type they shove everything under the rug.
 
He's only promising change because he needs you to support him like before. I'd be shocked if one...

I'll be surprised if I get that damn bail money back. Supposedly he'll give me what he has and then pay me $200 a month to pay back the rest (the court keeps 10% and then they took $1000 or so for fees and stuff and gave him the rest of that half so he had about $1500 before he went to jail in March. I know what he did with it). I knew it was stupid to bail him out I said so that day. But he had been sober going on five months. I didn't think he did what he was charged with based on the witness statement describing a guy who did not match his description. But he relapsed that very night I bailed him out. I hated him that day and the day he got the bail money back using our daughter's medical issues to get it.
 
In all honesty it doesn't matter whether he chooses drugs, whether addiction is an illness or whatever...

I have absolutely no urge to have any relationship with him. He is not allowed in my apartment. It's my discretion if he sees her and I told him if he wants to be her father he has to prove it and if he wants to see her he can come to her and I'll meet him in a public place. When I read that letter I just said "Well this is all bullshit." I know what he's doing. He's close to getting out. He can go live with mommy or under a bridge for all I care. I can't afford a lawyer to do anything with right now since I had to drop most of my savings on my car.
 
You go, girl! For me, the final straw was when my ex jumped his bond that I co-signed for. I was left financially responsible for the money and was told they would get a warrant for my arrest if I couldn't pay. I am glad it didn't get to that point for you. Personally, I got a lot more relief from cutting all communication than I probably ever would have gotten from him paying me the money back. I'm with @Suzetig on this one, use that anger!
 
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