What should I do?

[MaKiMaKi13]

My ex and I were together for 8 months. She is 30 has 3 kids with her previous partner who was an abusive alcoholic. I am 26. When we met I helped support her financially, emotionally and psychologically. She started working again and moved in and lives with her brothers now. She has had some problems with identity theft which are still not resolved but I helped put the case and steps in process to fix it. She dumped me using the excuse of me wanting kids and that her oldest daughter of the age of 8 did not like her mom dating me and as jealous. But the real reason was because she felt the relationship progress stalled and we could not grow anymore which I do not feel is the case. The 2 younger children love me and the youngest girl always asks for me as soon as she wakes up in the morning.

I tried to talk to her about things after the break up but she did not want to hear me out. She is now in a rebound relationship with a single father of a 2 year old baby girl less than a month after we broke up. She texts me atleast once a week asking me how i am and about my family. I told her we couldn't be friends because of what I feel for her and she still continues to ask me for help and things like that. I do not want to be her emotional dumpster while she is with this new rebound. She has even told me that she still loves me even while she is with this new guy. I am at a loss of what to do because it seems like she is confused about what she really wants. I am not going to sit around waiting to be a backup for her even though I love her and the kids deeply. Any help, thoughts etc are appreciated

[Wakeup]

If your story is actually real (hard to believe someone would let themselves be taken in the way she took you) She's trying to keep you in her life so that she can use you for your money still.

Why would you caretake someone like you did her before you were even in a real commitment. 8 months? She took you to the cleaners so get the help you need to fix your White Knight Syndrome (google it and read about yourself). If you don't fix your need to be fixing others, you will fall prey to another woman just like her ~ a User.

You need to work on your codependency and learn the difference between Caretaking and Care giving. Caretaking is unhealthy for yourself and who you caretake.

Block and delete her and don't meet a woman's children until you are in a relationship that you know is going to be successful.. and you're doing it with a woman that has her shit together. She's got issues and she's abusing her children by bring men in and out of their lives like she's doing.

Block and delete her and get her out of your system with cold turkey zero contact withdrawl.