last week or so my head keeps going to the same place. it's not somewhere i'm prone to go to. it involves my exbf. yea, him again. i've talked about the freaky stuff to friends, counselor, sponsor..... i've written about it..i think about it. i've never really talked about how it all ended. i think it's part of what f*cked me up over this whole thing.
he had threatened to kill me again. i 911'ed him. cops came and took him out. after that i was terrified. he could see my house from his house. for awhile i didn't open the garage without first being in the car with the doors locked or i wouldn't get out of the car until the garage door was shut and i was fairly certain no one had slipped in.
i can't remember how long that went on for. less than a month for certain. i had been sitting on the fence again for awhile, knowing i had to go back to my kid's dad and try to make it work, while at the same time i couldn't make that decision. i remember praying for G*d to help me out. the next day he tried to kill me. the choice was made clear.
at that time i never expected to see him again. i think he probably contacted me online. i talked with him. i could never have cut him off entirely, no matter what he did to me. over time, a few days maybe, he begins talking about the idea that he must see me one last time because he can't live with the idea that the last time he saw me was the time he tried to kill me.
i probably didn't like the idea at first, again i can't remember all the details, i just remember talking to my counselor about it and having her say it was okay as long as we met in a very public place. so that became the plan.
what actually happened was late one night we were talking. online? on the phone? we ended up agreeing to meet in the middle of the road between our two houses. looking back now it doesn't surprise me i would do that. i do a lot of risky things with people i don't even know.
i remember most clearly ending up on my front step talking for a long time. i don't remember exactly what about, i just remember sitting next to him. i think we had planned to say goodbye and i moved to the door and stood talking to him like that for awhile. shortly after that we ended up sitting on the bottom of the stairs leading up to the bedrooms by the front door talking some more.
how i went from meeting someone i was terrified of in the middle of the road to laying next to them in my bed i don't know. i don't think we even had sex that night. we just lay and cuddled together. he was like that. it was one of the things i loved about him, he never let sex take control and override whatever else was going on like everyone else i'd ever known. if i needed to cuddle and he needed to f*ck, we cuddled. no attitude, no turning over and ignoring me, no punishment..he cuddled me and gave me what i needed.
i don't expect to find that ever again and that is part of the reason i can't move on entirely.
i have little memory for the time frame or what we did or said. i just have little flashes of that time. i think it was 3 days.
all i know is we spent about 3 days together. i was just as much in love with him as i had been and him too of course. i wanted to cry frequently and did. i would ask him how he could be with me and not want to cry the whole time and he said that 3 days from now if he spent this time crying he would regret it. i don't know how he did it.
i remember him trying to fit everything he wanted me to know in that short period of time. i think i wrote it all down somewhere, it was stuff like to be strong, to not go back to using drugs, to tell the people in my life what i needed "because we can't read your mind", remember to spend time with my kids, don't speed with my kids in the car (smile).....and on and on like that. i just cried some more.
i still have the emails he sent me during that time and it hurts so much to read them so i don't. i've maybe looked at them once or twice over the last couple years. it's all part of the reason i can't understand why he won't be with me again. i wonder sometimes if he got rid of all that sorta stuff. probably, he always said if something was causing problems he got rid of it and i know they've caused me problems and taken me back to something that doesn't exist anymore.
i shouldn't even be writing this here. if he ever stumbled across this site accidently he would know it was me. i don't want anyone to know about the things i'm doing now and how i've gone back to behavior i never thought i'd do again.
the three most memorable things he told me were, get rid of the stomach (*sshole). i'd gained a lot of weight from the first time i met him till those last few days, all related to the pain and confusion i was going through. i couldn't drug myself or smoke or f*ck my way out of it so i ate my way through it.
the second thing was lose the jacket. i had a sorta ?basketball winter jacket thingy with a hood he hated. one of the first things i did when i went back to my kid's dad was go spend 500 bucks on a new coat. last xmas i spent another 500 bucks on another one..lol..just to be certain i didn't have to wear the old one again.

which i actually do wear occasionally just to throw on to take kids to school etc..hell i don't wanna bum around in a 500 buck coat, not now i'm on my own again anyway.
the third thing was, stick with the purse. i'd used a fanny pack instead of a purse for a few years cause i hung with alot of guys and hated being the only one who had to drag a purse around. these days i use nothing. i stick a little wallet with my visa and drivers license in my pocket along with my cell and that's it. i used a purse for a little while when i first stopped using the fanny pack. that was when exbf told me how much he hated it. never used one since.
now if only losing the weight was as easy as throwing away a fanny pack and buying a new coat.
so, where was i, oh yea he was giving me a life times advice in under 3 days. he said that one day he was going to be rich and he was going to come and get me. and people wonder why i'm so f*cked up about this?? he owned his own company and so it's possible that he will be successful. hardest working guy i ever met. it wasn't really something he said dead serious, it was just something he said to make me smile for a few seconds.
it was strange some of the things that came up in those few days. i don't know how we'd get talking about some of the stuff. one of the most..i dunno how to even describe it..but it's one of those moments in your life that changes everything. i was sexually assaulted in my 30's. i would use the word molested if i had been a kid at the time. i could have stopped it. no one knew what was happening and i DID NOT want it to happen or like it, but i was almost powerless to stop it. i don't totally understand that, i know it has to do with sexual abuse etc. i can remember sitting there and thinking.."oh well i've been through worse and it had no effect on me..this is nothing...it will all be over and done with soon".
i know afterwards i realised there was something wrong with me for letting someone do that to me but i didn't know what to do or who to talk to. i told my kid's dad about it and he didn't really say much as far as i remember today and did nothing. so as i was talking to exbf about it all of a sudden i turn to him and said, would you have been mad at me if i'd come home and told you i'd let that happen..and he looked at me and he said, "i'd have gone and killed the guy".
not many people will understand the effect that had on me. i musta cried for a long time after that. you don't know what it's like to have people in your life your entire life that don't stand up for you and protect you from other people, from yourself. it's always about what you did wrong, why didn't you do something, what did you do to cause someone to act that way blah blah blah.
G*d when he said that to me, it was a feeling i can't begin to describe. it was like it somehow fixed so many past hurts. it was probably the very beginning of when i first started to see what my life was really all about and how i'd been living in a haze my entire life.
the sex during that time was f*cking incredible. funny how that works. when you are cheating or you know your time is limited there is an edge to it that you just don't get with normal sex. i would never have seen it so clearly if things hadn't played out the way they did. i wanted it to be the best sex he ever had..why?..oh because i loved him more than anything, there was that to be sure, but i also never wanted him to forget me..ever. being the self centered bitch i am i wanted him to think about me for the rest of his life. sex can be amazing but nothing is as good as incredible sex with someone you are in love with.
the last night we slept together he was awake all night. everytime i woke up throughout the night he was awake watching me. i asked him why he didn't sleep and he said he wanted that night to last forever and he didn't want to go to sleep and wake up and have it be over.
i thought i was going to die those first few months without him. i wanted to.
he would always ask me who i belonged to throughout the time we were together..
before i left he said to me you're going to belong to me forever aren't you..no matter what and i said yes.