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I feel as though a part of me is dying. I just heard that d's moving away. I don't know why I feel this way. I am heartsick. I want to run to him and I can't. Trapped between my heart and my head. It's been a year of chaos, restraining orders and protection orders. Yet here I sit sick with grief. I still love him. I feel so damn empty. I wanted to stop the pain this afternoon. I almost made a terrible mistake. I am so lost and confused. Why can I not just let him go. There has been so much abuse. My life almost sniffed out by choking. Assault. Why am I still hanging on. I have been with him for seven years. I hurt so badly right now.
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I am so sorry that you are in such pain.
Time is the only healer I know and hearing the true, true words " this too shall pass".
What you have identified and defined yourself by is shifting. It feels like a death and perhaps it is. just remember woman, that the catipillar rebirths as a butterfly and the pupae, a dragonfly. You too, can fly...in time. I hope for you angels tonight.
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i feel the exact same way. I think I am crazy, I think I must have lost my mined during one of ther many beating

I long for him, I feel so afraid. I amsorry you feel this way but I am glad that I am not alone
Maybe we can be kbrave together
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I know that your greif is getting to you right now, and you feel the impulse to grab on to anything, however, I can tell you from experience that distance helps the healing process. I have had more healing in the year and a half since I moved about 800 miles away than before when I could have run across him at the mall or the grocery store. I am no longer looking over my shoulder for him and I have been able to process all of those feelings.
Good luck to you and hang in there. THings are rocky during this time, but they DO get better.
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I'm sorry that you're hurting. I think this is something that most of us have in common. Missing our abuser once we have split from them. That's part of the control that they have over us. I know it sucks but we have to be strong. Every time we run back it sucks our power away. We can do this if we stick together. XOXO
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Ditto. I miss my stbx terribly even though he was so violent. I feel like I am grieving not just the loss of a toxic relationship but as though he has died. I am concidering doing something to help grieve the closure of my relationship with my stbx. I think it might help somehow.

Am I just missing the quality times we spent together? Or is he just so controlling I lack the self esteem to move foward without him? I am struggling everday with loosing him. I thought I would be more relieved, but I am not. I am able now to prove to myself I can be a good mom though.

Biggest thing is DON'T CONTACT HIM. It will make everything worse until you can heal from this.
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