I don't know what to say - I am back and hit the wall

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#1 Dec 8 - 2PM
Happy1
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I don't know what to say - I am back and hit the wall

I haven't been on the last 2 months. Everything happened so fast. I got a job and then out of nowhere my N told me he was going to move in with me. His lease was up and of course I could use the financial help. Then 2 weeks later he proposed to me. Another huge shock because he has said so many things to lead me to believe neither of these things would ever happen. So he moved in and he proposed. The boys were excited but it was wrong to begin with. From the evening he proposed it felt off. He was favoring his son when we were all together and I spoke up. I told him we need to sensitive to both boys and the changes. He didn't hear me. He would also come home each and every evening and not speak to me. He would sit on the couch and watch tv or play with his iphone. I would ask him how his day was and he would always say he didn't want to talk about it. I felt more lonely with him in my home I guess you could say. I have been even more unhappy if that were even possible. I thought this is what I wanted.
Then I saw on his phone that he was a dating site called "zoosk" a few weeks ago. I asked him about it and he said it was old. But he never bothered to deactivate it did he. So then I went on last night to his computer and saw he had asked a lady to dinner that was on his PTO committee. I called him while he was at dinner with her and asked him what he was doing. He was very vague. I lied and told him my girlfriend sees him in a restaurant with another woman. So then he says she just stopped by to drop something off before their meeting. I couldn't take anymore. I told him he was a liar and there's no language or country that would say he's right in going to dinner with another woman. And if so innocent then why didn't he tell me. So he went out of control and screamed at me that nothing will ever make me happy and now he sees why my gay ex left me and he doesn't blame him. He said he doesn't love me and hates me and is leaving this Saturday.
SO today he has rented a uhaul and is not returning until Saturday to pick up all his items. He has already given me a list of things I have to do by Friday. One of which is get my cell phone on my on carrier/name. It's currently on his. I haven't responded or said a word. I know how this works. I won't beg him back or ask for his forgiveness when I've done nothing wrong. He said he hated my guts. No, he screamed that he hated my guts and didn't want to see me again. I'm making that happen.
I'm on a huge crying spree and can't control my emotions but I know it's the right thing to do. As much as this hurts, I know he isn't right in the head and isn't right for me. Just a bad day for day 1. Now that his items are in my house and he's lived here for a few months it will be hard to wipe him away. I hope by reading your messages again I can gain strength and not lose my job over this. I need to get strong fast and I'm scared. I'm scared of me and how I take things. I take things very hard. I don't know what to do with myself.

Dec 8 - 7PM
onwithmylife
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Happy 1

I wondered what happen to you,Journey says it all, he doesn't offer you anything you would be afraid to lose , but I want to add,by taking him back you will lose YOURSELF,you need more faith in yourself, I used my EXNARC as a liferaft and not myself, I took him back for the 10th time several years ago when he wrote me a beautiful letter and I thought, wow, he has finally changed. WRONG, he was just very depressed and lonely and probably missed our great sex life ans supply, so what do i do, take him back for another year and then he moves to another state and I am left devastated and alone.IT DOES NOT WORK, you are going to have to work on yourself, get some good therapy, read books on NPD, stay on the board, and recover all over again let me take his things and /get out of YOUR life,YOU are not the only one who takes things hard, it has taken me close to 2 years to recover from that creep and I still have my sadness within my heart and maybe always well. It is a permanent scar on my heart i feel that maybe time and meeting a good man can heal.Get your own cell phone and get off of his.You loss is an illusion of the man you thought he was, but he is really a monster, just like the man who I thought I loved.
Dec 8 - 7PM (Reply to #16)
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onwithmylife

This is hard and the first night has me crying and really feeling the loss of him being gone. He can't come back now. It's over and there's no going back. I knew it was a mistake when he said he was moving in and I didn't feel the glorious happiness I should have when he proposed. I knew something was wrong and I knew this day would come. I kept fighting back and he knew he lost control of me. That's why he really left. I was standing up for myself all the time and he couldn't take it anymore. I was standing up for me. I hope tomorrow is a better day. thanks!
Dec 8 - 7PM (Reply to #17)
onwithmylife
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Happy 1

It is a rough ride, I cannot sugarcoat it, but once you are away and stay away from him, and do your homework ,it will get better, we even have a person on here who wrote a post you will laugh when you look back on it all, i am not laughing yet but hope to some day!Hang in there and take it day to day............After 15 years I now know they will never CHANGE EVER..............I am happy for you that you stood up for yourself, without yourself, who are you?????????????.
Dec 8 - 7PM (Reply to #18)
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thanks onwithmylife

I feel there's no choice now. We tried the living together thing and he had proposed. It's over now and it's not going to return. It's gone and I have to think of good things for my son and i now. I know this is going to be a very hard journey. Very hard to let go and forget and forgive. I'm so sick that he blames me for this being over. He is the constant cheater and liar and Mr. Secretive. I'm sick over it all! I want to scream at him but nothing will ever get through to him. Ever!
Dec 8 - 3PM
Journey
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Now you know

"I felt more lonely with him in my home I guess you could say. I have been even more unhappy if that were even possible. I thought this is what I wanted." Now you know it isn't! Its a new day today, so try not to be hard on yourself for allowing that reality to be proved to you once and for all. I think knowledge and certainty breeds strength. Use what you know now is true about the way you really feel when he is in your home to fuel your courage to make sure he leaves for good. He doesn't offer you anything worth being afraid to lose. Journey on...

Journey on...

Dec 8 - 4PM (Reply to #12)
Happy1
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Journey

Why do I feel so sad? what is it that I feel I will miss? My ex asked me what it is that I really love about him. I just don't know. I told him I really wanted to feel that family life again. I desperately wanted it and once he moved in, I realized it didn't feel like a family at all. He kept talking to only his son and not mine and he would ignore me most of the time. I cannot figure out what is wrong with me. I cannot figure out why I clung so hard to him. I just don't know.
Dec 8 - 6PM (Reply to #13)
Journey
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Sad because

You've lost the dream of a family you wanted that he seemed to offer you (at least with him). You miss the man you thought he was and what that man could have offered you (if only he was real). There is nothing 'wrong' with you for wanting to keep believing he was that man (especially if he did a good job of presenting himself to you that way in the beginning when you fell in love with him). You clung to him for the same reason I did - because it is sad to let that man we thought we'd finally found and loved so much go (taking the dream you can no longer believe will come true with him away with him). You feel sad because that man is not who the narc is and never will be. Its okay to feel sad, because your situation is sad. That is reason enough in my opinion. Honoring ourselves is important as we heal and I think a part of that is accepting whatever we really feel in the moments that we do without the judgment that we shouldn't or should know better. It is how we learn. Hugs! Journey on...

Journey on...

Dec 8 - 7PM (Reply to #14)
Happy1
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journey

Thanks! It's hard to not be depressed right now. I don't want to be but feel myself sinking with every hour that passes.
Dec 8 - 3PM
desprathousewife
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Saturday is the first day of

Saturday is the first day of the rest of your life!!!!!!! Let him go, then you can take control of your life, go NC and start to focus on a decent future for you and your family. You drifted from this board and got sucked back in, don't let it happen again. You are worth so much more. It's gonna be 2011 pretty damned soon, I hope we can all stay strong, move into the new year stronger, wiser and even more determined to make a decent life for ourselves without a mentally disordered person messing it up. Of course it will be hard to WIPE HIM AWAY, we can all vouch for that, but that is the only way you have a chance at happiness in the future. Get your bacterial wipes out pronto and begin the cleansing process :)
Dec 8 - 3PM (Reply to #8)
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desprathousewife

Thanks! I know I drifted and fell for the narc for the last time. He moved in and told the boys they were going to be brothers and got them all excited and they loved the last couple months. Now, I have told my son today that N has to move to Indiana for his work and won't be staying here any longer. I didn't know what else to say and he's very upset today. He keeps telling me he wants the N's son to be his brother. I'm more upset because of my son being hurt than anything. I will not return to the horrible N again. He's messed up so much and I will never ever trust him or be happy with him. I was more lonely with him I think. I would reach out and touch him and not receive anything back. I would give him words of endearment and get zero in return. It has been eating me alive inside and my inner voice has been screaming for me to get out of this heartless and unfeeling relationship.
Dec 8 - 3PM (Reply to #9)
desprathousewife
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Emotional blackmail

He used your son against you, they know our weaknesses GRRRR. You told your son what you had to and of course he will be upset, your N was counting on that. You've done the right thing regarding him. NOW you have to do what is right re YOU. Your son will heal far more easily that you. Listen to that inner voice that has been screaming at you...it's your GUT and it is always spot on! It's time to take control, be strong, leave the shite behind and focus on healing and making a new stable future for you and your son, without a personality disordered person in it. We all deserve happinesss, we won't ever get it in a relationship like this. Strength and knowledge is our inspiration here. No pain, no gain! Feel the pain and then eventually you will gain all the things you should have in this one off chance at life that we all have. Onwards and upwards :)
Dec 8 - 4PM (Reply to #10)
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desperathousewife

I really hope my son bounces back from this. I hope I haven't hurt him where he can't recover from taking this away from him. He keeps talking about the other boy and how he wants him to be his brother. He made me a xmas card last night thanking me for bringing him a brother. It all makes me so sad and I know my son will mention this often and it will upset me more and more. I know I have to be strong for him and be able to explain that it's not his fault that the N had to move out but that it had to be done for his work. I don't know if I'm doing the right thing but I don't feel he's old enough for anything else.
Dec 8 - 3PM
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On the right track

Yes happy you are indeed on the right track, by not feeding into the madness with this narc you are regaining your control its very important to maintain your control, the one thing that we must remember is that we can go thru the hurt and even though it seems unbearable some days, thats a part of the healing process, no wounds heal without some itching and discomfort, however to maintain your position of not giving in to his child like behaviors keeps you in control, and once you relinquish that control it is hell to get it back, keep the control, cry the tears and go thru the process, pray and stay connected whatever you do keep the control, it is your power at this point and lots of times this is the only power that you will have for a while this is a process and this too shall pass , stay empowered and dont lose control.
Dec 8 - 3PM (Reply to #6)
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highlyfavored

Thanks highlyfavored! I'm definitely not contacting him and have absolutely no reason to. He has broken up with me for the last time. I'm done being hurt by this loser of a narc and will be very cautious in the future to never fall for this again. Or do my best to watch for all the red flags. It was a major physical attraction and I don't feel it any longer. I don't feel anything but sadness right now and I'm accepting this loss. I am not going to wish for his return. I will just have to feel what I feel I guess.
Dec 8 - 3PM
Briseis
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I know you are really upset

I know you are really upset right now and looking back over this DISASTER may not be foremost on your mind. You let him back in so easily, were taken in by his "proposal" even though it's obvious now he just needed a place to stay. You basically let this guy dictate your life for you. He tells you he's moving in? He makes lists for you? He's moving out and he'll be back for his stuff on Saturday? And you just sit there helplessly waiting for him to make his next move. You are so much more powerful than this, if only you'd pick up your power and take charge of your life hon. Think of your son and what it must be like for him to have gone through this. He needs his mother to be strong for him, even if you don't feel strong, you need to ACT strong.
Dec 8 - 3PM (Reply to #2)
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Thanks Briseis

It is a hard day and I'm doing everything I can to not look at the xmas tree right now. He said he wanted his ring back to today because he's getting it insured. I'm giving it back to him. I told him to let me know what he wanted me to leave outside but I won't let him in the house tonight. He wanted to come over Friday night to start packing and I told him 'no'. I told him to come over Saturday and my ex will be here to help him. My ex husband is helping my N move out. It's all crazy and sad and stressful and sad sad sad... I'm trying so hard to do things with my son today as he had a half day of school but have to leave the room constantly because I'm crying. I allowed the N back in my life and I shouldn't have and now I have the horrible holiday's coming up. I'm sick
Dec 8 - 3PM (Reply to #3)
Briseis
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In a year from now, you'll

In a year from now, you'll look back on this whole disaster as a turning point in your life. It's just how these things work :) You WILL be here a year from now. Doing your thing. So look forward to that person. What would you like to be doing a year from now? Next Christmas? Don't doubt yourself. You have what we all have to make your life better. You just might feel like you don't. It's just a feeling. YOu've just been through two months of Hell. OF COURSE you doubt yourself. You let him back in and are suffering a loss of confidence in your judgment. Your judgment WAS poor, but you chose in hopes of GOOD things, Happy. The problem was, you chose in hopes of GOOD things with a very BAD man. Just like the rest of us :) Don't beat yourself up and make yourself sicker. You did what we all do. And now, you have an opportunity to head off in a new and better direction.
Dec 8 - 4PM (Reply to #4)
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Briseis

When I read your note I felt a glimmer of happiness for my future. I cannot imagine I will be in this pain a year from now and hopefully in a very different place. I know I have a lot to look forward to and I can plan the future and not have to rely on the N to do that for me. I wanted the dream so bad that I allowed him in my home and move in for a few months. I know now that he can't give me what I really want. It's just very hard to be alone now. Especially around the Holiday's. I have my son but it's not the same.