So do you think I can recover from this??
Hey all,
New user here. Wanted to register and post as I found some very useful and helpful posts on this forum. I was actually sitting and came to a realization that my current girlfriend doesn't respect me anymore. The OP's first post on here hit me hard after I read it. So much that I had to read it a second time. I am just wondering if I can bounce back and make it work or am I totally washed out, and just cut my losses when she dumps me, because it looks like she will dump me first.
My story although is a rather tricky and different situation compared to a normal man/woman relationship, as it revolves around heath issues with my girlfriend. This will be a rather long post and I hope someone will take the time to reply me and give me some advice or PM me.
Ok here it goes .... My gf was born with a condition known as
Nephrotic syndrome
Now at the time (1987) and being from a Central European country that was going though a transitional change with the imminent collapse of communism lets just say the doctors weren't the greatest and didn't know much about this and treatment options and just told her parents "she will outgrow this, don't worry". Anyways they left Europe and came to Canada when she was 8 yrs old and the doctors here we're like "Yea ... this should have been treated, somewhat". Well ... too little too late and when she was 12 her kidney's full out shut down and they had to be removed (both of em) and she was given a healthy donor kidney from a child that had just passed and his parents were gracious enough to give the best possible gift ... someone else a chance at life.
I hope I'm not going off on a ramble here, I just really need to vent and speak out. So she lived her new teen life by taking anti-rejection meds and going to places like kidney camp and etc, meeting other kids with the same conditions, etc. etc. In hopes of trying to live a normal life with diet restrictions and all the constant pill popping for the kidney. Heck, she was even in a 6 year relationship with a guy from like 15 yrs old to 21. Then when she hit 19 she started up with the boozing and blazing and parting and clubbing and college and so forth, I guess to "blend in" like all girls that age group. She's now 26.
We met in end of 2011 and at the time didn't think we were gonna date she showed little interest in dating me, even would go as far to say as I don't think we would ever be compatible and blah blah, but she wanted sex on the regular from me, and I wanted to lock her down because being from the same cultural background we got along actually pretty good and i loved the similarities of the customs and values we shared. And she loved to go to parties and bars/clubs with me and drink.
I never knew about her kidney problems or her donor kidney because she hid those things from me, and
every time we had sex she would conveniently be wearing a dress (usually a strapless mini) that she would just expose her breasts and hike up the bottom. I know now that this was to hide the two 8" inch scars on her back from where the kidneys were removed. At the time I thought it was some weird fetish thing that she wanted to fuvk me with clothes on ... that's about it.
Well in November of 2012 (we still were not dating yet but spending lots of time frequently) I guess the partying lifestyle and all the alcohol and the neglecting of her health took a toll on the donor kidney as I found out though her mother that she was in the hospital in ICU. Then thats when I found out her true story and life and health history.
Now, I don't know what anyone on this board will think of me (since I am in this thread and posting about this situation) and I'm not trying to gloat or anything but I mean I think it takes somewhat of a man to still want to stay and be with her after finding that out. Any other guy could have been like (yea its just pu$$y and forget this b!tch, i could go find another one without any health problems as serious as this) I could have done the same but I took a week off work, rode it out and visited her almost daily at her 19 day stint at the hospital. Basically she was told she had 3 infections (C. Dif, Urinary Tract and a Sinus infection). Not only that she was told that she killed off her donor kidney and was given a 6 months to 2 years timeframe on the life of it before needing a new one, all depends on how she takes care of herself. Took almost 3 weeks to clear that up and right after she got out she was like thanks for staying with me understanding, I want you to be my bf and fuvked me like a king. I never had a gf screw me the way she did. She just went all out buck wild crazy until I was like yea literally I need a rest. I am exhausted.
So we started dating then (end Nov 2012) got to fully out know her family (she lives at home with parents and 2 sibilings) and things seemed ok, until July 2013. 2013 was a really bad year for us. Everything came in 3.
#1 My mothers house was damaged in a flood. The finished basement had 4 ft of water and everything was destroyed. Insurance took forever to payout (Nov 2013) so no contracting work could be started because everything all ready too cold, frozen, snowy.
#2 I lose my job (Computer/IT) and independence. Rental apartment gone since I cannot afford it anymore no money to fall back on no one is hiring in my field, only walmart is hiring (which I dont think I wanna work there) at my age. So I have to move back into my 'mothers' place to restep my ground. Which in these economic turmoil times I don't think its bad when $hit happens and a person cannot afford to live on their own.
#3 Gf's kidney fails and she has to go on dialysis and wait for a donor kidney to show up. She goes on peritoneal dialysis which is the at-home one, which you hook yourself up to a machine everyday at night for 9 hours so you still have some independence and don't have to go to the hospital every 2 days to get hemo dialysis done. So she looses her daycare job as she cannot work anymore. She gets disability compensation monthly but its not a lot of money. $700 and change. Peanuts. Obviously she lives at home and always been so someone is around in case of an emergency.
So 3 F bombs happen within like 1 week time frame. Ridiculous. I'm working now, but as a temp and getting paid way less then before and can't afford to move out, as I'm considering giving up this line of work and going into a certified trade and make big bucks.
Now lately in the last couple of months (Nov 2013) she has been having problems at home (sometime I wonder if her mother is bi-polar) by one day saying her I'm gonna go get tested and see if I can give you my kidney and another day constant fighting and threatening to throw her out of the house. So when that happens she lashes out at me. I have been fighting back to stand my ground but she won't shut up so I shrug it off and leave. I spend a majority of my free time at her place. Since where I'm staying now (at moms) is a $hithole mess with crap everywhere and displaced and messy.
So now the lashing out has gotten worse because her mother has gotten worse and she keeps on freaking out and threatening to throw her out and my gf is constantly saying she wants to move out lets move out together I should be a supportive bf and when I try to explain to her that right now its not financially possible for me to do that I could lose my job at anytime she uses low blows and calls me 'momma's boy' for living at home. Seriously its like there is no sympathy. This has been just recently too.
So NYE comes and her mom throws a spazz and throws her suit case and some clothes outside in the snow in some apparent crazy fight they had which obviously she won't tell me what its about just avoids the topic and tells me to 'shut up'. I'm like seriously? Its the last day of 2013 your mom pulls a psycho and now your taking out your girl emotions and low blows on me I'm like hell no. Compose your $hit, get dressed we have my friends party to go to.
So we went to the party, I got drunk because I was angry she obviously didn't because your not supposed to have any alcohol while on dialysis, they say its extremely bad and dangerous. So she is mad angry that I'm getting drunk and having a good time and the whole time shes making rude little comments and talking under her nose so I'm like f-her go have fun with my friends, and got super duper belligerent drunk.
Get back to her place again I was belligerent I am not denying this try to go crash ... apparently I was talking smack all wasted and embarrassing her so she wakes me up rudely in the AM saying get your **** and leave we're taking a break I'll call you in a few days ... don't try to contact me. So I'm like your serious? Your gonna act like a $tupid b!tch and not talk to me or anything and kick me out. Basically said I'm sick of your $hit and I need to think about things ... because shes the one having problems at home with the mother and I apparently don't want to move out with her, where in her $tupid head is not processing the fact that this is not financially possible unless someone is gonna give me a place for $300 a month that isin't infested with mice, roaches or bed bugs.
So now this is now I ended up here. I spent almost 1.5 hrs typing out my thoughts and my messed up situation and trying to figure out what to do and can I recover from this. I still feel attraction and love for my gf but I am not sure if her feelings are the same since this 'break $hit' because I've never been on a 'break' before in a relationship in all my life. This is my 3rd serious relationship with a woman.
post too long continued ...