Help - Heroin recovery or not? All replies welcome.

Sherr70

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I was with someone for 5 years. I dont drink or drug and I didnt know he was a long term heroin user - he would use any drug but heroin is his DOC. He did tell me about it but I thought he was clean. So for the past 5 years I stuck by him through rehabs, jail, cheating, lies, manipulation ect. I tried not to enable but I know I didnt handle all the relapses well. The hurt and pain was and still is very raw and real.
He relapsed last March 2016 - maybe sooner but I didn't know for sure. By August 2016 I helped him get into a free rehab which put him on lock down for a month then he had free time on evenings and weekends where he could check out as long as he was back by midnight. He did very and seemed to be acting normal and loving the first 2 months. Then he started changing. He was acting as if he was still on heroin but he wasnt as he was being drug tested. I found out he had started taking Kratom. He did this 2 years ago and left me that time as well - dated someone else - ended up back on heroin - and of course I took him back in.
By Nov 2016 he told me he was planning on staying at the rehab and working there after he graduated - he no longer wanted to come home. He was nice one minute and very cold the next. He stopped calling and asking to see me as much. He told me in one conversation he wanted to focus on his recovery of which I can respect but the next sentence was he wanted to do whatever he wanted to do and didnt want anyone to tell him what to do.
He came to my home on a pass the beginning of Dec 2016 and still wasnt acting normal. All he wanted to do was play video games. He adopted a dog from a rescue 2 years ago and didnt seem to care about him anymore either. When I dropped him off after his pass I didnt hear from him for a week. I use to be close to his mom who I also found out had started sending him money he seemed to cause fights between us. I now have no contact with her. She hates me.
On christmas day I went to the rehab and he told me I was stupid and he didnt want to see me anymore - we were done. No thoughts on his dog or me. He basically laughed at me when I was crying.
On Jan 3rd he got an emergency order of protection against me by lien to the judge - this was dismissed at the hearing 2 weeks later. He then tried to get another emergency order of protection on my last Thursday and that was denied but he requested a hearing so I have to go to court again on Feb 23rd. I have not spoke to him since Dec 25th 2016. I have not went to the rehab. I have had no contact with him at all.
He tells his family he is clean and done with drugs for good because he doesnt want to come back to me.
He is now on dating sites.
He is still staying at the rehab and they graduated him the end of January.
I dont know if he is still using Kratom to get a high from - can pass a drug test but its like I dont even know who he is. He is posting bad things about me on his facebook page. I cant see them as he blocked me but my friends can. He says I am a psycho and I am pathetic and I am a stalker.
The dog he rescued is now in my name and I wont abandon him as its not his fault and I love animals.
Am I denial about all this? Is he really on the path to recovery? Does he just not want me in his life because he has a free place to live and a job now? Was everything a lie?
When he first went to this rehab this time he said he was afraid of losing me and he couldnt wait to come home to be with me and his dog. He completely changed. I am just at a loss as to what to think. Of course I want him clean and happy. But from what I have read this doesnt seem like someone who is serious about recovery or following the 12 steps. I think he still goes to meetings. He is very cocky and arrogant again. With his new facebook he is friends with all his old friends - some he used drugs with - some from the rehab - some girls he use to have relationships with. None of these people have been around in 5 years to help or support him - nothing. It was just me. Now I am the outcast.
This isnt the first time he has done this to me. I am not perfect but when he fails I am the one he calls. I am afraid of hearing from him again and other part of me is afraid I wont ever hear from him again.
Any comments - or thoughts would be so greatly appreciated. Thank you.
 
It sucks when you love an addict. Co dependence is a bitch. I went through something similar with my wife. It's tough when you have to compete with heroin. She wins every time.
Whether he's clean or not, it sounds like you're holding on to something that's not there anymore. I still wake up hoping to see her next to me and it's been over two years since I have. Let him go. It's hard and may require therapy of some sort but if you don't you will wake up feeling empty everyday. At least I do.
It's hard when you feel like you put in all the work to hold things together and fought to get them to a point where they could get clean just to have them leave when they do. It's a never ending kick in the balls.
Anyway, I'm still trying to figure it out but I know if I would have let that shit go sooner, I wouldn't be so fucked up now.

Happy fucking Valentine's Day, eh?
 
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He is very narcissistic and into himself. He has told me more then once when he was high that I would always want him back. In his mind he probably thinks that now but I am working very hard on myself and I can never go back. He has done enough damage and I cant let him destroy me. I wont let him destroy me.
 
This is a repeat of his past behaviors towards me - its what he does. He has in the past come back when he lost everyone and had no money ect....then it was how sorry he was and he only acted that way because he was messed up or some bs excuse. But I always fell for it because I loved him. In a sense he became my heroin. I was addicted to him and I am fighting for my life or so I feel to break that addiction. I wish I could understand or get answers to questions but that will never come.
As long as I did what he wanted, didnt question anything or make any waves..we were fine. When I started questioning him in this rehab about doing drugs because of his behaviors and his changing again he said he couldnt be doing drugs because they drug test him. Now I know he was taking Kratom - pass a drug test on it.
I told him there were 2 reasons he acts like he is to me - drugs or he wants someone else and he kept telling me neither. Both lies.
He spends his time playing video games and hanging on single sites looking for another hook up. He works on his recovery only when hes forced to or has to. He has a free place to live and no real responsibility to take care of himself so hes good. If he was with me he would have to help pay bills and take care of his dog and wouldnt be able to do Kratom or other drugs ect.
I was really hoping he would get clean and things would get better - another promise he made. I dont know if hes clean or not but the behaviors havent changed. I wonder if he find someone and be good to her and I wonder why he couldnt be good to me.
 
Yes heroin will always win. I cant compete or give him that high that he craves. I guess because of the past I hold onto the hope he will come back because he always has but he comes back when he has burned all his other bridges and has nothing and strung out on dope. I am afraid he will come back and I am afraid he wont.
I am doing everything I can to fight for me now and get me back. I have lost myself in the past 5 years caring and loving someone who is not capable of doing the same. Its funny in a way but not really...I am not the addict yet I am looking into addiction and trying to understand it more then he is or ever will. I guess that means I want to get healthy and he doesnt. It hurts to be hurt so bad by someone who I believed in.
 
I think you need to let him go, which includes wondering and asking why, why, why. In the grand scheme does it really matter? He is an unhealthy choice for you and you concern whether or not he is clean and recovered. Instead, concern yourself with you and your recovery. He is to you as heroin is to him right?
 
Yes very much....he is my heroin. I know he's unhealthy but I know being w him has made me unhealthy. I know I need to stop asking n wondering but I still do. Maybe it's my fault.
 
Cut him out of your life like a cancer. Find ways to move on, change focus when you think of him, keep busy, and eventually you will break the habit of him consuming your life. A friend once told me "best way to get over someone is to get under someone new!" Lol not that I have taken the advice, I don't have anyone I need to get over. Good luck!
 
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