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« on: October 14, 2014, 11:51:22 AM »

NC was broke after 21 days two weeks ago. She has hit me up every weekend with a crisis and is using me as a therapist. Im falling apart. She wants me to be her AA sponser... .I vowed to help anyone struggling but I cant with her. Too much emotional stuff. Please help motivate me regain NC. Im drowning brothers and sisters. Im so ashamed and feel so weak. Please say something to me to help me get my focus. Thank you. :'(
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« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2014, 12:12:19 PM »

No need to feel ashamed, it happens. We've all been there!

Maybe try the "one day at a time" or even "one hour at a time" to get back to NC. Congratulate yourself on each hour that you don't respond and let it accumulate. You can't fix her problems and you aren't the answer to her problems, no matter how much she wants that.

With NC, you stay in control, which is where you want to be to get your bearings again. Take care of YOU first.

Good luck, you can do it!
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« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2014, 01:09:44 PM »

Thank you. I felt myself getting stronger in NC but she i am realizing is the worst addiction i have ever had. I feel so weak. She has confessed all the details to her incestuous dominant/submissive relationship with her cousin to me and I am just emotionally and physically sick. I am so revolted that part of me wants to run in disgust yet some part thinks I can help this profoundly sick woman.
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« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2014, 01:26:48 PM »

Thank you. I felt myself getting stronger in NC but she i am realizing is the worst addiction i have ever had. I feel so weak. She has confessed all the details to her incestuous dominant/submissive relationship with her cousin to me and I am just emotionally and physically sick. I am so revolted that part of me wants to run in disgust yet some part thinks I can help this profoundly sick woman.

Whitey, I'm sorry you are feeling so torn up. We've all been there.    I think you might want to let go of the idea that you can help her. You need to help yourself first. How can you be of assistance to anyone if you are a mess?

I know it goes deep, I'm a "helper" too. Try to breathe into the feelings that come up without acting. Give yourself some time to respond instead of react. You are not going to lose anything important, don't worry. YOUR well being is vital right now, nothing else.

We're here for you. 

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« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2014, 01:30:15 PM »

Thank you. I NEED to focus on myself. Im a wreck. So much hate and disgust yet i see a profoundly sick human being yet feelings of sheer revulsion clash with finally see8ng a scared abused child in a slutty tramp of a womans body. I wish the hate would take over as horrible as that sounds.
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« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2014, 03:15:41 PM »

You can't help or save her. The only person you can help right now is you. Something i have learned over the last six years with my exBPD is that they lie or stretch the truth to their fitting. So take what she says with a grain of salt. Although you feel sorry for her due to her upbringing you cannot change it and it is not your responsibility to make it up to her. Block her and do not respond. She will suck the life out of you.
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« Reply #6 on: October 14, 2014, 04:03:48 PM »

I would apply the 12 step fellowship rule that only the same gender can sponsor someone.

NC is protecting you and your recovery.

I agree with you about the addiction part. I was so hooked and I'm still withdrawing 6mknths later. It's the longest detox I've ever been through :-)

Look after yourself first, this could derail you.

Be strong
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« Reply #7 on: October 14, 2014, 04:15:25 PM »

Hey Whitey, Agree w/those above: focus on your needs and taking care of your self.  Perhaps it would be helpful for you to examine just how much she is manipulating you through FOG (fear, obligation and guilt).  Sounds like a lot of obligation and guilt, and probably fear, too.  I was an easy target for manipulation by my BPDxW, so I should know.  Hang in there, Lucky Jim
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« Reply #8 on: October 14, 2014, 09:00:22 PM »

I'm sorry Whitney.

Every contact is like taking a hit of the ultimate drug and the come down is rough and you are left wanting more. I have finally come around to no contact is the way to go once you accept that the addiction is in control and all the justifications of why you should contact her are a combination of truth and the addiction talking.

When you really are ready to heal no contact awaits. No messages no social media stalking.

It's hard to swallow I know i wish there was another way but for most of us here that have fallen so far down the rabbit hole I don't see another way.
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« Reply #9 on: October 14, 2014, 09:56:40 PM »

Thank you everyone. I know I must maintain NC. I have beaten other addictions with relative ease but the addiction to this deviate sick woman is a brutal one.
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« Reply #10 on: October 15, 2014, 06:30:54 AM »

Thank you everyone. I know I must maintain NC. I have beaten other addictions with relative ease but the addiction to this deviate sick woman is a brutal one.

It is. I journal and this it what I keep re-reading. Its a harsh reality, but when I start feeling the need to be with her again or miss her(she replaced me) I read this: It still hurts, but it reminds me of why I need to be gone from her life... .

Journal entry for the day:                                                                                                 

What gives you the:

Right to be immediately happy again, when im destroyed

Right to discard my love for her and her kids

Right to leave me in tears

Right to call my daughter names

Right to deny me any opportunity to say goodbye to her kids

Right to make up stuff that never happened

Right to keep me under wraps and not bring me around her friends

Right to never do anything i may want to do.

Right to demand all my time when i too have a house to run.

Right to threaten me with "treat me special or lose me"

Right to never care about my day

Right to never take care of my emotional needs as a combat veteran. Might have something to do with why i went quiet a few times and wanted to be alone. I did it because i didnt want to expose you and the kids to it.

Right to deny me any opportunity to help you with 5 kids and their schedules

Right to call me a liar

Right to deny my daughter your love. She loved you more than her own mother, who walked out on us. Now you have too.

Right to treat me as an inferior because I dont have a fancy house, make super money or run in certain circles. I KNEW that was going to be a problem no matter what you said.

Right to keep me alone, even when i was with you.

Right to deny me affection because you were mad.

Right to deny me any contact unless it was for your needs

Right to never make me feel at home

Right to devalue me as a person.I am a person who loved you and your five kids. Youll never know about the ring and proposal because you threw me away. Now I wander in my mind wondering what i could have done, and i own some of it i kept hidden from you in my dark times, but you never expressed an interest in my problems or thoughts.

I loved you, Ive missed you, but youve wrecked me as a human being. Im still not sure what Ive done... .
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« Reply #11 on: October 15, 2014, 07:05:54 AM »

Good morning, Whitey.  The only way to get to it is to go through it.  Fake it til you make it--all good AA advice.  If she wants you to be her sponsor, I know you understand the truths of 12-steps; now apply them to your situation recognizing that she is/was your drug of choice and only total abstinence is going to get you to peace and recovery.  You fell off the wagon; we all do.  And she is manipulating you using a framework you understand, and now she needs your HELP.  There is no way you can be her sponsor and stay "drug free" yourself.  Please take care and keep us posted.  
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« Reply #12 on: October 15, 2014, 09:12:49 AM »

Thank you all for the advice. Im minute to minute here. Her act always begins thursday evening so im planning on shutting down all modes of contact and riding out the withdrawls yet AGAIN. I loved that deviate sick woman beyond words and more than life itself and now she is a loaded gun pointed at my skull and I struggle putting it down. Her lunacy has brought lunacy to my life that I would not wish on anybody.
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« Reply #13 on: October 15, 2014, 10:28:43 AM »

Her act always begins thursday evening so im planning on shutting down all modes of contact and riding out the withdrawls yet AGAIN.

Can you make plans for tomorrow night? Have friends lock you up... .Take friday off (if you have to work) and go away for the weekend. Give your phone to a friend or family memeber... .In other words; plan your own intervention! Running wont solve anything in the long rum ofcourse but for now... .Day by day.

Im really sorry you feel like this. I kept on helping and supporting, I gave my all, untill I got a break down myself... .Guess who wasnt there for me... .My exBPDbf... .I now vowed that I will only help if I am able and in a good place myself. If Im not, im truely sorry, but I cant! Healthy people will understand and will have empathy for your situation. BPDs just react selfish. She is being a royal selfish b*tch (excuse my french). You cant go destroying people, break them down to little piece and then expect them to be there for you!

Stay strong! You sound like such a good and nice person! You do not deserve this crap!
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