Advice Needed

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I am 18 years old and have been with my current boyfriend 3 years this past new years. He is 22 years old and has a 4 year old daughter who I adore. When we first met and started going out he was just after cleaning his life up. He used to do drugs while in highschool for a couple of years and was addicted to oxycontin. I did not know my boyfriend when he was an addict. Although over the past few months we began to have problems, and this morning he called me and told me he has relapsed over the past couple of months. He begged me to bring him to a detox center, which I did and where he currently is. I am really actually lost as I am only 18 years old myself and have no idea how to deal with this. He does not have the support of his parents, who don't seem bothered to even consider the fact that they should go through counselling with him to try and figure out the problem, or that they may have contributed. His brother was part of the reason for his relapse, although I realize I can't "blame" anyone else. I know he neeRAB me but I feel totally drained and made a fool of. I feel like I have given up everything for this person. I did nothing over my highschool years because I spent all my time with him and his daughter. I spent countless nights in the hospital with them because his daughter had cerebral palsy and suffers seizures. Not that I regret anything, it is just so hard to believe that he could go back to this life knowing what it was like and knowing he has a "sick" daughter who neeRAB him. This makes it all that much worse and I could really use some advice.
 
You are probably one of the luckiest people on this board.. You are young, you have your whole life ahead of you and you came to the right place.

MY ADVICE....Don't let the door hit him in the ass as you slam it on him. Get rid of him.

If he didn't learn after his mistake and he won't stay clean for his sake and the sake of his sick child... HE CERTAINLY WONT DO IT FOR YOU.

Don't make his problems yours.. Lifes too short and as I said earlier, you are in the best years of your life. Go be a 18 year old! Go do 18 year old things. You'll never get these years back and don't waste them on a dead beat!

He is not worthy of your love.
 
Thank you for your advice it is really appreciated. Although that is much easier said then done. I know that this may be what I should do, but I truly love this person and except for this issue he has been wonderful to me, and his daughter. I know this sounRAB like I am just young, naive and stupid, but I guess I can't help that. I just really want to be able to help him because I know he is a good person, but it really feels like to much to take on by myself. Thanks again for your reply.
 
He came to you for help - that is one of the hardest things an addict will ever do.

He is at a detox center, getting clean, going through withdrawals...

If you love him, stick by him but be firm. Tell him you don't want this life. He has to do it for himself, not you and certainly not his daughter. If he truly wants to be clean, then he'll detox and continue to get support from NA or an addictions doctor.
 
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