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Kind of at that point right now. Everything seemed to be looking up in life, right on the cusp of everything going great, debt coming under control, future looking bright. Then just as my gf was finishing up nursing school, she breaks up with me, essentially says she’d been using me for the last year or two to make ends meet until she graduated. Everything I’d been thinking about was our future together, now none of that means anything. We have a kid together, so we still have to interact, but she treats me like a stranger now. Life just feels meaningless, it’s made the election easier because I honestly don’t care if everything burns down now.
The best way to get over the depression is meet someone new. In time you’ll deal with custody but judges are more open to split custody these days.
My ex became a nurse while I worked and I became a nurse while she worked. I’m lucky she didn’t get pregnant.
Life is about being happy. Don’t waste the precious time you have.
In the same boat 2 years in. It hurts. Hope it gets better some day.
She pulls that shit when you guys have a child?
I don’t want to come at you with frustrating cliches and platitudes about how time heals all wounds and you’ll find the actual right person, but your post gave me big “dodged a bullet” vibes. In this case you definitely got grazed by the bullet, but still.
One of my best friends lost her place of living when her boyfriend of 4 years said the relationship had actually ended in his head 2 years previously, but he needed the rent. But then he found a new girlfriend to grift from, "opened the relationship," and they edged my friend out. I am still mad they did that to her; she was so heartbroken and damaged from that.
Wow, edged out of a relationship. Had never considered that possibility. All sorts of fucked up.