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rawnee ([personal profile] rawnee) wrote2009-05-31 07:32 pm
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Writer's Block: All Broken Up

Have you ever had a bad break-up with a significant other? How did you handle it?

Yes, absolutely. 

Basically, I'd met someone else and I suspected he had as well but had no proof.  I told him I didn't love him any more and that was that really.  He wanted to go to marriage guidance and stuff but I just didn't feel the same about him.  The hardest part of that was leaving my children as the house we were living in belonged to my in-laws so I couldn't really throw my husband out and I didn't want my children living in student housing.  Apart from that, it was what I wanted so handled it pretty well.

That was particularly bad.  He was on meds for his depression and moved into a horrid little bedsit in the next town.  He was going through a really rough patch and got together with someone that his family didn't like. (They kept in touch with me).  Anyway, after a lot of nastiness and threats I decided I couldn't cope any more and ended up being treated for depression as well.  Seems neither of us was any good without the other so we sat down and had a good talk and he came home in January 2005.