THEY'RE HAVING A BABY!!!! I want to faint...
Some of you may remember my stories from the past.. but for the rest I will sum up the background info in as few words a possible because I really need some in depth advice... I'm hanging on by a thread.
I dated this guy for 2 yrs. He's in his early 30s I'm in my early 20s. First serious relationship for me. He's been in many, he's divorced and has a son. Although i know he loves his son, he's not a very good father. His ex-wife has him most of the time, she pays for everything (he doesn't pay child support), and his mother (the grandma) takes care of him on weekends when he's supposed to have him so that he can go out with his friends. It's even worse than it sounds but I won't get into the details.
When we first met, he was trying to get me pregnant within literally 2 months of knowing me. I was only 22 (he was 30) and naive at the time. I believed the pretty little picture he painted in my head, so we stopped using protection. But I kept telling him I want to get married first and he kept coming up with excuses and telling me it would happen after the baby. We moved in together after 3 months of dating. Then some stuff started happening. He had bad temper tantrums, he embarassed me a few times in public, when he was drunk he would turn into a different person, he had an awful 1920s mentality about women and their place (as housewives) we lived in his parents basement and his mom was SO RUDE to me, I realized he wasn't over his ex-girlfriend (she walked out on him after 1 yr together and left him a note on the bed..don't know the details but he never saw her since), I also realized he wasn't over the fact that this other girl he dated for only 3 stinkin' months had an abortion with his baby.. he would talk about these 2 girls a lot. He lied... a lot. One night he told me he was going to get milk and he came back at 3am. Another time he kicked me out of the house at 4am with nowhere to go because his sister in law told him she didn't like that he treated me like a kid. During this entire time, we were not using protection and somehow i didn't get pregnant. When all the red flags started going up I kept telling him I wanted to start using protection but he kept arguing with me not to. Then a series of really bad fights started happening between us and some even involved his extremely rude mother and I had it, packed my bags and left.. that's when I found out I was pregnant.. and I came back and told him.... I didn't know what to do...after a very long discussion with him (he got me flowers promised me the world etc..he was very very happy) I decided to get an abortion. Something that I can't explain in words how difficult it was for me and 2 yrs later I still cry about it and wonder "what if". We broke up briefly but eventually got back together.. things went downhill from there and I basically spend 2 yrs of my life with him crying EVERY DAY, catching him with different girls, him cheating on me CONSTANTLY, lying, playing mind games, his mother, him disrespecting me in public and in front of friends.. lord if I was to tell you some stories they would make your skin crawl. We broke up over 100 times and each time he kept telling me that it was because I had an abortion that things got so bad (I have to admit he never cheated before the abortion) and he would beg me back and we would try again and again he would cheat, or lie or hurt me or all 3. He even hit me twice under very extreme circumstances and spit in my face. Eventually I was so run down, emotionally unstable and exhausted, I took the little strength I had left and left him. He then proposed and we started working on things one last time..he said he was finally ready to let go of the abortion.. we even got matching tattoos..things were great for 3-4 months..then he cheated AGAIN! Just months before the wedding. We broke up for the last time this March.
Since then I was in a life-altering car accident (I'm 100% now thank God) that got me thinking about a lot. I have to admit, as I get older, I really want a baby (but the proper way and with marriage first) and I think about the abortion a lot. I have a lot of guilt from it. I always dreamed of a big family since I don't have a lot of family where I live. (my relatives are scattered across Spain) I know what he did to me AFTER was DISGUSTING but I don't know if the fights we were having BEFORE where sufficient reason for me to have an abortion...although my gut still tells me I was right I can't help but wonder. I really truly loved him in a very sick twisted way since I was being emotionally abused...but there were time where things were so amazing it really felt like he was the one.
It took him exactly 1 month to move on. He met a girl, they moved in together after only 2 months and now... after 4 months of dating .. THEY'RE HAVING A BABY!!! DUE IN MARCH! We have mutual friends and his sister is still my best friend to this day so she tells me everything. (they are not very close and she doesn't agree with what he put me thru) Just as I thought that I was starting to heal, the baby news brought me right down to rock bottom again. How can someone be so DEVOID of emotion that he can switch his brain from "I want to marry this girl" mode (me) to "I am getting this girl pregnant" mode (her) in just a few months!!! It took me 4 months just to stop crying every night and it took him the same time to make a child and move in with her. I want to faint. I have no idea how to analyze this.. is this all he ever wanted? Would things have been ok with us if I just gave him a child like he dreamed of?? And what possesses him to make babies with random women to begin with? I don't get it. Please help.