My ex shut himself in front of me and survived AMA
EDIT: i meant to type shot, not shut.
I’m 28, it happened when i was 19, he was 27. Destroyed my life, but i rebuilt it from scratch and got a lot of support and now im with my soulmate and we have a beautiful baby together who is about to be a year old in august. I’m extremely proud of myself honestly and id love to answer any questions you guys have. I think talking about it can be helpful sometimes for me because i never really get to, people dont want to hear about it cuz it’s really heavy.
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More info:
He shot him self because he was on a lot of drugs and not in the right state of mind. He had been clean when i met him but i s extremely young and didn’t know anything about addiction or what i was getting into. He relapsed while we were together and was not honest and our relationship was going downhill. I was threatening to leave and it was just… bad. I didn’t know anything at all and i did my best but with what i know now- i did it all wrong.
He had a miraculous recovery but definitely had some clear brain damage. He shot himself through the occipital lobe so it drastically effected his vision. He was in the hospital for months, yes. It took me a very long time to cut him off because his parents kept us apart. I was clearly traumatized and not handling it well and of course she wasnt either and came to really hate me, and kept us apart which then drove me absolutely insane. We finally got back in contact after about a year and it was just… really fuckin bad and he was really awful to me and raped me through coercion multiple times and i finally found the strength to cut him off and leave.