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A welcoming selfie.
Cheers.
Run.
Fast.
As fast as you can.
You can. Run fast.
❤️❤️❤️
There is love for you but not in a deep pit of despair. Drugs will swallow you whole.
If you feel bad about leaving him now - imagine in 6 months. A year? 2 years?
Run.
Don’t even give an explanation.
I am trying, really trying. I feel weak and first I need to make him move out of my place.
I don't feel good today.
Mixed emotions. I understand.
A bad start already, tellling you one month later.
And about the meth "every once in a while"; maybe he IS telling the truth but have seen too much around me that most times it was just a little white lie.
Agree with @metzli, Run!
Take care!
It’s a tough one to get out of. May You find the strength you need.
I agree with @metzli. Get out of there, or get him out of there. Either way, RUN.
Putting up with shitty nonsense like that is never, ever worth it.
So, RUN. ESCAPE. Flee to SAFETY.
@metzli @smasssh @majes.tytyty Thank you so much for this. It feels good to hear that.
The fuckhead is making things easy just acting not guilty at all, so I am furious like a beast and I need to kick him out asap.
Threaten intense violence. That usually scares people enough to make them run away.
If not, threaten intense and life-endangering violence. And scream very loud!!!
Sandrina -
Don't put yourself through this for one moment longer. Do what you need to do to get this misery out of your life. Is he violent? If he uses meth, he's not likely to have good impulse control. (And if he says he's using once or twice a month, you can be sure it's more often than that.) Do what you need to do to kick him out safely. Call on friends or law enforcement if you need to.
Getting out of these situations sucks. But the sooner you're through with it the safer you are. And life is too short to spend it in misery.
Also - no unprotected sex. Insist that he wears a condom! And no anal or other activites that might cause skin tearing or bleeding. Sorry to be graphic but there's a reason HIV transmission is higher among gay men. It's either anal or drug use. How do you think this guy got it in the first place?
We on Steemit love and respect you. Do the same for yourself.
Winston - thank you for this.
I don't know what to trust about what he said. I find it quite selfish to be in a couple and disappear like that.
I also think that the fact that he told me he was HIV positive after 1 month of sex together was very selfish.
But I was and I am patient and understanding, because I have big emotions and feelings.
He told me that he contracted this disease from his girlfriend with whom he was together for 1 year, living in Indonesia.
In South East Asia HIV and other STD are highly common. And you can get it from your girlfriend that could get it from a guy who has slept with a random prostitute. In Thailand 1 every 3 sex workers has HIV and a lot of people go with prostitutes!
For me the main problem here is not that he has HIV. Now this disease is treated like diabetes and it is possible to keep the level of the virus so low that is not transmittable. Also life expectations are normal and they can even make kids. All normal.
Of course I am always using condoms and I have already checked myself, and I will check again in 2 months.
I was even open minded with drugs, even if I think meth is the worse crap you could take and I would never touch that stuff.
However, he doesn't seem violent at all, but he is highly moody/lunatic and when he becomes like that he targets a person (whoever comes to his mind) and blame that person of everything. Most of the time it is some friends, some time it is me. I am positive and can be complaining but I love myself and I don't want someone talking down on me. I can't take it.
Now I just feel too shit and abused/used by him using my flat, my comforts, my money and my psychological support and giving back to me just crumbs.
I love him but it is not enough.
Now he is still out somewhere high on his meth adventures, completely irresponsible, at 46 years old and I am angry at myself to allow this situation. I want to burn all his stuff away.
I can't even tell him to move out straight away, because he would feel threatened and I don't know what would be his reaction. I need to wait at least 2 days that he sober up from the stone and then tell him I need some space for myself and give him few days to find a place (and money) to stay and he will try to convince me of the opposite and I have to be a cold calculating bitch.
Once he is out and I have the keys back, I can disappear from his life and it will be hard, because I fucking love this person and I spent a lot of my time with him in the last 3 months.
Lord knows I'll never understand why women love what they love. (And I'll definitely never understand Italians!) It doesn't sound like he's giving you a lot to hang your affections on, but I wish you all the best in any case.
Thanks really. I just wrote this because it is too much to handle for me at the moment and I am so close to him that I lost my lucidity to understand what is right and what is wrong. I wanted to hear what external people would say and you are all telling me to drop him like a boiled potato.
I feel I must throw my hat in with those telling you to run. fast. Not even because of the disease, no, but the meth- that's a bad one. One of my closest childhood friends married a man, had children with him, and he was a funny, charming, great guy-- who was a recovered meth addict she found out later. He was clean several years, but he relapsed again and again, and in the end he chose the drug over his family. He hasn't seen his children in years. Thankfully she is now married to a wonderful guy who is adopting them, but the heartache she went through was profound and terrible.
And if you are already feeling this way only a month in...
However, having said that, I know that sometimes the heart and the head do not work together very well. No judgment from me whatever you decide my darling. (Do you have a discord account? Feel free to chat me whenever you want)
After 2 months and half.
I feel very heavy. He came home at 3am sobered up by the drugs and tried to cuddle me and woke me up but I forced myself to pretend to sleep.
I'm sitting at the office and I just wanna cry.
I'm trying to listen some healing music.
For me the problem is not that he has HIV (diabetes is worse nowadays), I could handle it. The meth is the issue. He keeps repeating that he wants to stop and that he is better than that. He keeps telling me that he has everything under control and that he knows that the drug keep him away from me and his work, but then he does the opposite.
You know what is hard for me? That when I see him I feel love.
Oh, I don't have a discord account, rarely I use steem chat.
I'm so sorry you're hurting :( Love can be as terrible as it is beautiful. I wish I could tell you the exact thing you need to hear in order to do what's right for you. But all that comes to mind are platitudes- 'You're too good for this' 'You're strong and beautiful and you deserve better' etc. I know, not very helpful. One thing I tell myself when life is shitty is "This too shall pass". It always does, it's the balance of this earth that there will be dark times and light times. Hopefully we appreciate the good more for having gone through the fucking awful.
I believe you already have my opinions on this. stay strong Sandrina. You are stronger than most of us.
We know it.
This is a very brave post.
But here is my two cents worth - get out of that he is already bringing you down.
Disinformation and stigma make hiv people suffer more than they have to. I don't agree with people to tell you to run away despite what your heart tells you. I am not saying that you shouldn't go separate ways. Just don't give in to scaremongering and to the uninformed opinions of strangers who aren't even aware of what you two guys share. About the drugs, it's a toxic environment, but not at all something that can't be fixed. Drugs are tools and as such they can be used for good and bad. People are people: they can make good choices or bad ones. Having a bad environment around them makes it easier for them to go on a downward spiral.
Again, i am not saying this to make you feel guilty. It's just an objective view from yet another stranger on the internet who doesn't know nearly enough to properly advice you.
A video that might interest you
and my support, as a friendly italian stranger
— Destrudo
Ciao Destrudo! Grazie per il tuo commento. Nonmi faccio influenzare da nessuno, ma mi sto proteggendo e sto ritornando lucida. Avevo bisogno di sfogarmi e mi ha fatto piacere ricevere cosi'tanti messaggi.
Non so piu' che pesci prendere e ...I'm taking my time.
Grazie, stranger. =)
Sigh....and when is time to love yourself? :) I know it sounds like cheesy bullshit....but thats how we are. This are our patterns.
You can go two ways. Accept him as he is. You knew from the start more or less. Or....dont and move on.
In time you realise that every person comes to you with baggage. Some ppl have it more, some less. Cancer etc is one thing...transmited disease is smth that will constantly worry you. Smth over your shoulder 24/7. Again...do you not love yourself?
When u start ... ull break the pattern and maybe next time pick differently.
I know. It is time to love myself, I am just so angry that I feel in love with the wrong person.
I have tried to accept him with his desease, but I don't think I can accept him taking meth, even just once a month. Now it is hard for me to force myself to push him out of my place and break all the bridges.
Um...so dude, I don't even know you but you part of the Steemit family so I respect you and your process. When one of us is in pain or turmoil, we are all affected. I am so sorry this circumstance is your current reality and thank you for sharing your vulnerability. You are very courageous!
Let me just say right away that I'm in no position to be doling out advice on life. We all create our own experience in some way or another (choices and decisions), based on previous patterns collected along the way. Some interesting research I've read also indicates that some of it is actually inherited through our DNA!
You are a beautiful and creative person that deserves all the potential and opportunity life has to offer!
You are not alone here and others have gone through your current situation. Based on how you describe things, I see patterns of co-dependence. It's neither right nor wrong, it just is. You'll get through this and, as others have mentioned, you already have everything you need in terms of strength and resolve. A strong support system will help alleviate some of the immediate turmoil, but we all have to individually go through the process.
You already know what's best for you and your situation and am confident you'll emerge stronger and wiser from this life lesson. Stay safe and do what you have to do. Don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it!
WE ARE ALL HERE FOR YOU!!
HUGZ!
Thank you so much for your valuable comment! I am receiving a lot of support from the steemit family. That's brilliant. I feel strengthened by it.
WHat do you mean exactly by I see patterns of co-dependence?
I know the best for me and he is making things easier acting like an asshole!!
(I'm so tired to get life lessons and become wiser and stronger).
Thank you so much.
I'm in agreement with many of the other posters.
GET. OUT. OF. THERE.
And Fast!
A drug user will drag you down. You will crash and burn alongside of him.
Playing with HIV is playing with fire. You'll catch it eventually. You don't have to be in that situation of worrying yourself all the time, is this it, have I caught it. From this moment on DO NOT HAVE SEX WITH HIM.
In faact, don't stay with this person at all. Not because of some misguided loyalty, or sympathy, or of some delusion that your "love" will change him. It won't.
Save yourself. Run.
Joe
@joe.nobel
People who are HIV positive can have a normal life, but they are often discriminated and stigmatized! Hopefully things are changing.
It is a diseases with very little symptoms and a very easy treatment to keep under control.
He didn't show to be a meth addict neither, but for me even taking it once a month is too much and I need to accept and process that I have to distant myself.
Thanks for leaving your comment.
You have a big heart Sandrina. One day you will find a man who wants to share his whole life with you, and raise you up not drag you down. Let this be a lesson for the future. Others have said it better before me so I have up voted them.
Rather then offer more advice I leave you this.
Thanks! Really! I am receiving a lot of support from the steemit family <3
I am feeling incredibly ashamed by this entire situation.
Now time to get rid of the dirt in my life.