Stay Strong
Stay Strong
After a two years of bad decisions, rehab, relapse, and utter hopelessness, i met a guy who i thought i connected with. He convinced me to finally stop taking the suboxone i had been on for a year and all the other medications that i swore to myself i needed. Then about one month later i found out i was pregnant. He promised the world and told me everything i wanted to hear. After a couple months he started acting funny. Treating me terribly, getting very irritable and short tempered. He started going out and lying about everything. I found out that he was a drug addict as well, but an active one. He had chosen drugs over me and our child. After months of abuse and lies, stealing from me and from everyone around him, i had no choice but to walk away from him. He is now in jail and that was the last i heard.
It has been hard to deal with so much in a short period of time when normally my response would be to resort to drugs. My daughter is due in March and she saved my life. Of course he pushed for an abortion because he knew what i had yet to learn- that he was not fit to be a father and he knew he could and would not be there for us. I chose to keep my baby. If i hadn't there is no guarantee that i would be alive right now. I knew i was not strong enough at the time to say no and stay clean while watching him do drugs and party. This has been the toughest thing i have ever done but i know that i will never regret it because of what i am now blessed with. I have been clean for 13 months and i feel better than i ever have. God has blessed me with a beautiful gift and a second chance. Now i will live for my daughter and I will be stronger than ever because of it.
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