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Whats a Girl to do when breaking up is necessary but seemingly impossible?

I've been dating my boyfriend for over 2 years now. I love being around him and I think he has a wonderful personality. The good however seems to be overshadowed by the bad. He's been unemployed for almost 2 years and hasn't been able to get a job and won't let me help him find one. He has a crazy ex-girlfriend who stalks him whom he fathered two sons. I've had to call the police to have her removed from my doorstep when my boyfriend was spending the night. I hardly ever get to see him even though we only live 45 minutes away from each other. If we go out on dates I end up paying for everything because what money he does manage to get doing odd jobs goes to his kids. (which i don't have a problem with at all). In the end it just makes me feel a little used.  I feel like he's trying to "hide" me from people that he knows and he doesn't want me to tell people that we are dating. I'm really confused about this entire situation. It's landed me in therapy more than once. I've tried to break up with him and date other people but he shows up at my house after a few days looking like he hasn't slept or eaten and it makes me feel really bad for him. I don't want to make his life worse than it already is. He threatens that if I dissapear from him that he'll want to kill himself. I love this guy but this isn't healthy and I know it. The question isn't if i should end it but how do you get yourself out of a situation like this? How do you say enough is enough? I've been isolated from my family and none of my friends talk to me anymore so I have no one else to ask. What advice would you offer?


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~ Snotternonsense   CatInHatter ~

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Angina ~

You are not responsible for his happiness.  You guys are young.  There is no reason that he cannot find a job.  It may not be fun, but it will pay him money.  He is using you.  And, the fact that he comes to your home and tells you he will hurt himself if you don't take him back proves he is too immature for a steady relationship.  It is time that he grow up. If he is old enough to sire children, then he is old enough to get a job and behave like a responsible adult.  I don't think what you feel for him is love.  I think you pity him.

Close your eyes and pretend that he is the same person, but with a job and some ambition and some backbone.  Would you really like him manipulating you for money?  He is hiding you because he is probably seeing someone else too. He doesn't want you to meet his friends because he is not being honest with you.  The best thing you could do for him is to show him some tough love and make him grow up and take care of himself and his children.  AND, you deserve so much better than that.  Once he is really gone, it will be more of a relief to you.  You won't feel responsible for catching him every time he falls ~ which was never your job!!!!!  Time to start anew, Love.  You know it's time.

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I guess I expected him to change. He's 7 years older than me. I should have known if he didn't get his life together before he met me that I wasn't going to change anything.

Posted 2008-11-16T09:17:37Z
 
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~ Snotternonsense   CatInHatter ~

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He is almost 30 years old and behaving like that????  A 30 year old man with 2 chidren and has had no job for 2 whole years???  Run, Darlin'!!!  Find yourself a good, responsible, intelligent man.  Nice personality only goes so far!!  What if you became pregnant??  You would be a single mother.  He would contribute as little or less to your child as he does to the 2 he already has!!!  Please, Anigina, get out now!!!  People rarely change, and he doesn't have to!  He is being taken care of, like a stray dog, by every pushover on the block!!

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