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  Nov-4 1:55 pm

Okay.. so.. he left me at 7 months pregnant, 2 months after he asked me to marry him because of how great I was to him, and a week after he told me how much he loved me. He left me and moved in with another girl 10 years younger on the day of my baby shower he threw for me! So what is it??? Why do guys do this? I was and still am completely in love with him..and love what we had together even though it was hard and miserable at times.. I felt like we'd make it through. But then he does this.... and there is nothing I can really do because he is playing house with someone else. I have text messaged him a lot since he won't answer my calls.. I get nasty at times in them because of all the hurt he has caused. Then he says.... 'you make it hard for me to be there and help.. with all the $hit you tell me.' So.. basically it's my fault for him not being there? How can they turn it onto us when they are the ones who ran away? Do they expect us just to forget about them leaving in the first place.. and just let them show up when it is convenient for them? How do you let them know how you feel without pushing them farther away and farther from a chance at all that he comes back. Do you even want someone that could do this to you? I am so confused! I guess I don't want the man he has shown himself to be but want what he was and is capable of. Why do we have to work so hard to get them to show up??? I needed him so much these last 3 months and he has been having 'fun' he says with his new girlfriend. How do you get through to them... or do you just let them go? He says he wants to be there when the baby comes... but what I just say.. if you wanted to be there.. you wouldn't have left. I am willing to do counseling with him if he came back.. I have tried to offer him anything. Maybe he is feeling like I am smothering him... but to me it's my maternal instinct on preserving a family... something he obviously doesn't understand. He said to me... 'no matter what.. I know my daughter will want to know me when she's older... so I'm not worried. You can do what you want! ' Who says that!? He is giving me all kinds of mixed messages.. and I can't deal with this.. it occupies every second of my mind... and I am due in less than 2 weeks! How do I get through this. No one in my family understnads.. they just want me to drop him and not let him be there... but I still want him back!! What's wrong with me????
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  Nov-6 3:11 am

I am so sorry this happened to you. I am not in the same situation as you, my boyfriend left me the day I told him I couldn't abort. The truth is I know that what you are feeling must be so much worse than what I felt and I am really truly sorry anyone would ever have to go through this.

First stop texting him. Stop the calls. Every time you pick up the phone to do it stop yourself somehow. Give him space and let him leave, you don't want someone around who isn't in it 100%. This is no longer about you. Your whole life is dedicated to your baby now and your purpose is to raise him or her to be the best person they can be. Having your ex pop in and out of your lives will just show instability which is the last thing you want. He is a jerk to have left you but he is gone now and you are better off.

All the good times are not things to forget, but are not what you should focus on. This is going to hurt like hell, and it will get worse before it gets better. I was with my boyfriend for a year when he left me and I felt the worst feeling in the world. This isn't impossible. You can do this, this image you have of a family can change to be just you and your baby.

Try to stay strong. Read a book that is motivating or something like that. I watched all 8 seasons of the Gilmore Girls back-to-back- trying to convince myself I would have a 'Rory Gilmore'. The pain fades and you will realize that you are stronger than you could have ever imagined. Your baby is all the joy you will ever need, just love him or her with all your heart, try to keep your stress low for the little tyke too!

I wish you the best in all that is coming. And just remember that behind the darkest cloud is a blue sky!

<3 Sunshine

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  Nov-7 8:46 am

I am truly sorry you are going through this especially right now, but you HAVE to let him go.  You are holding on to someone that you think is going to change.  I can tell you honestly, he is not going to and if he can do this to you now, he is incapable of being the guy you need him to be.  Of course everyone is going to tell you to forget this loser, which I am sure you would like nothing more than that.   It is hard to let go of him because he is the father of your child and you want a family.    So I totally get where you are coming from, but you need to focus on yourself and your baby right now and try to put him on the backburner for now.

The first thing I would do is NOT contact him in any way or form, especially by texting.  When you engage him this way, he feels even more justified in being a jerk to you.  This is how they live with themselfs after screwing someone over.   The more you send nasty texts, the more it will hurt you because he will retaliate back.   As hard as it is, you need to let him go because he is not the man for you.  Just because you have a child together does not mean you were meant to be together.  This was something that took me a year to accept myself, so I know how much it hurts and how hard it is.    Here is a little backround

I have a 19month old from a man whom I loved, but didnt' love me.  He tried to be there during my pregnancy, which he was so I though he cared and we could make it work.  When my LO was 7months old (last nov) he left me for another woman that he feel inlove with.  Talk about a slap in the face, I was so hurt and upset and humilated.  Here I was the woman he was with for almost 3yrs waiting for him to tell me he loved me.  He turns around and falls in love with a woman going through a divorce with 3 kids of her own.  I am still fighting with not causing drama with him and get to deal with knowing they play house with me son when his dad has him.  It still hurts to a point, but my love has faded big time this past year and she can have his sorry ass.   It just takes time.

Right now you want him back because you are scared and hurt, but seriously think of what this man has done to you.   Look past what you wanted him to be and really look at the type of man he is.  I had to do this with my EX and got a whole new side of him after he left.  He got nasty, hurtful and unreliable, so I see now this man I feel in love with was a fake and not someone I like.

I deal with the EX now only to discuss our son and keep the conversation limited.  It works well for me and keeps me from fighting with him.  Take time to mourn your loss with him and try tomove on.  Once your baby is here, you will be able to focus on something else and in time you will be thankful this guy left.   Take care

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  Nov-20 8:10 pm

I can relate I am 14 weeks pregnant by a man who one day acts like he cares and then next acts like he dont,  I could not deal with him.  He would get jealous if I was talking to someone while i was pregnant. But he could be going out sleeping with every woman in town.  Quite disgusiting.  I tried to be friends with him but he ruined that with needles lies to me.  I have finally told him that I dont want to talk to him because his behavior hurts me.  Either he will man up or I dont need him.  So far he has not.  I dont text him I dont call him.  I miss him alot though but I had to  do it for me baby.  I know there are other fish in the sea.  I am already a single mother of a 9 year old and this is not my first time to this rodeo.  I dont want to push him out of my childs life but if you cant be apart of the pregnancy in a responsible non negative way then, the chances are that you will not be in the future.
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