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betr4

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« on: October 20, 2007, 05:26:32 PM »
I just found this board and sure sounds like me.  Ihaven't read much here yet, but what I did read I sure can identify with.  Especially trying to win approval or do what I think someone else thinks is "right".  My relationships with my family are becoming increasingly distant as I learn to think and speak for myself after a lifetime of living with a n mother and husband.  Lots of addicts in my family.  I am in recovery and have found support outside of the family system.  Still feels like isolation though.  I am glad to be here and relate to others here.
BR

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Re: New here
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2007, 05:35:04 PM »
Hi betr and welcome.  Glad you have found this board and to hear you have found a support community in real life too.  (((((betr)))))
Character, which has nothing to do with intellect or skill, can evolve only by increasing our capacity to love, and to become lovable. - Joan Grant

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Re: New here
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2007, 05:59:47 PM »

"Hello" ((( Betr4 ))) and a very warm welcome to you.

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Re: New here
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2007, 06:15:42 PM »
Dear BR,
  Welcome.It is so good  that you are here and we don't have to be so alone with the terrible "curse" that is N.
                                             Love to You    Ami
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Re: New here
« Reply #4 on: October 20, 2007, 07:25:23 PM »
Welcome! welcome!  Hope you find the support you need!!

love,
Poppyseed

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Re: New here
« Reply #5 on: October 20, 2007, 07:40:53 PM »
Welcome
Betr4


Jump right in. The people are fine!

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« Reply #6 on: October 20, 2007, 07:57:36 PM »
Hey betr4...I couldn't help but notice your name on here...and I want to tell you that i really believe you WILL be betr4 having come to this board.

WELCOME.  I look forward to getting to know you better

Blessya,

Laura

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« Reply #7 on: October 20, 2007, 10:17:25 PM »
Hi Betr4... so glad you're here!

My family is riddled with addictive behaviors, too, and I'm still breaking free of some of those along with the patterns of thinking from which they spring. It's a daily struggle, but so very worth the efforts!!

Please share what you'd like when you can... and again, Welcome!

With love,
Carolyn/ Hope

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« Reply #8 on: October 27, 2007, 12:39:24 PM »
I am already very much encouraged by all the support and sense of belonging I feel here. 
I have struggled for so long to be okay in the midst of n and a family of addicts and denial.
I broke free a few years ago and the disease reinvented itself in my life and I am back into some of my old thinking and behaviors.
My nh is gone at the time and this is the way he manipulates the relationship.  I stayed against my own will each time he "changed" to get me back into my old ways.  I see it now however at the time it was some powerful stuff.  Now I can see I am back to old thinking and behaving and I am having a tough time. 
The lonliness and isolation are very destructive.  The n has filpped the whole picture and needed to leave me.  Now the old pattern of disappearing and coming back are back in place and he is triving.  I am working at letting go.  Separation is very painful, but I can see that the separation from the n is not where the pain is coming from.  It is being alone with the pain.  I have to learn to want to find where I do belong and when I am with others enjoying life, I am better.  I tend to let go of everyone when the n leaves.  I know it is who I want him to be that causes the pain.  It is so amazing that it all started out with the nh as the one obsessed until I let him into my life.  He keeps it going with such skill and cunning.  I know I am one of many though no matter how special he treats me when he comes back.  The only twist is that I have almost total control of the finances in this world of ours.  His other job, career and world, he controls with me as an object of his mental obsession.  He "thinks" I am involved in everything he does financially. 
I know I need other people for support.  I am wanting to let go and move on.  I know I am rambling, but I have to admit this stuff as I can sort it out.  I am not depressed*-br

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« Reply #9 on: October 27, 2007, 01:26:18 PM »
Yeah, btr4, just like my friend Bean said...your emotions are acceptable here and you will find people who genuinely care for you and want to help. I sure did.  Many of us have.

Do not come down on yourself for having taken the N back, in hopes of change.  I used to do that too, and, no doubt, might STILL be doing it, had they not let me know that they were DONE with me forever.  As long as there was a glimmer of a chance that they wanted to work things out, my door was open.  Since they publically announced that they wanted to cut me off entirely and had no intentions of ever rekindling things, I'm ok.

I can't say it enough, what a PULL these people seem to have on them for us.  They just somehow possess some sort of extra charisma, mystery, intrigue about them, that we keep wondering if we cut them out of our lives, if we might miss one of the best things we could ever have.  They are no dummies, know which buttons to push, know how to keep us wanting for me, and know how to utterly destroy us from the inside OUT.

My prayers are sooooooooo with you, betr!

Blessya and know that you are going to be ok now, no matter what, because you are no longer having to live life without people who believe you and understand and have been there and still are.

~Laura

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Re: New here
« Reply #10 on: October 27, 2007, 01:34:11 PM »
Dear Betr4
   I am so glad that you are here. You will find support and friendship. You are not alone b/c we understand the 'craziness,my friend             Love    Ami

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« Reply #11 on: October 27, 2007, 05:10:59 PM »
I was very emotional all day today.  I kept on moving and getting through but I was not happy.    I had to let myself go through the pain and right now I am feeling better.  It is such a relief to have such wonderful support from this site.  I am so grateful and feel such a sense of relief that I can share openly.  I have repeated these roles so many times over and over. 
I hope to move on with my life and even though I have lived in this for so long I know it's not the n I miss but companionship and fellowship.  It is a real effort for me to reach out but when I do I am okay.  I would love to have this relationship behind me.  When I look back I can see what happened and it is exactly the same today.  The only thing that is different is me.  I am stronger and I do have awareness.  And today I have choices I did not realize I had.
Thanks for all the love and support.
BR

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« Reply #12 on: October 27, 2007, 05:39:39 PM »
I too waited for the n to come back and I was always open, accepting and forgiving (downright denied) what was happening. I didn't realize it at the time but living in his denial was what we were doing.  I had seen it in his foo.
 As I get stronger and let him go we have less and less contact.  I do have to say that if I contact him, he is instantly the perfect adoring husband, ready to come back and resume our wonderful life together.  Until he is back and ready to leave again and then, without warning he flips over into someone else, insulted, offended and running out as if he is being chased by demons.  Disappears into that other life.
 I would get over it and get okay and resume contact, either hearing from him or I would call as if nothing had happened.  I would try to discuss it, but at first he puts it off until he is back at home and then it starts all over again.  I could not make it stop. 

I have so many fragments to put back together and through it all my life has always been blessed.    I never believed his lies even when I could not make them stop.  I am willing to do what I need to do. 
I have a loving God who has seen me through and I know I have many blessings to be grateful for.
Although age is making him more paranoid and angry, we are in contact less and less.  He is turning more and more against me. 
I don't have a picture of where I am heading but I do want something better.  I know the relationship I have had is distorted and I was not strong enough to make it stop or get myself out of it.  I hope to have a life filled with love, acceptance and warmth.  I am open to the love I know others have to offer.
I am so grateful for everyone here sharing and listening.
BR

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« Reply #13 on: October 27, 2007, 06:05:56 PM »
Thank you Bean,
It is hard work and I am not used to acknowledging a lot of what I do.  It is just expected to keep going without any notice.
I so appreciate your encouragement.
BR

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Re: New here
« Reply #14 on: October 27, 2007, 06:30:05 PM »
Welcome, Bet,

I'm glad you've found us.
Does the fact that you have financial control mean you could begin to plan for divorce?
Are you willing to talk to an attorny about how to set things up?

What a long, disappointing marriage.

But I am a strong believer in joyful late chapters.
Hope you'll come to believe that too.

Hopalong
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