Hannibal said:
What I wanna know is what the hell kinda logic is going through your mind when you try to justify to yourself to let her still live with you. Is it because you need her paychecks to make rent and food? You can"t kick her out because both your names are on the lease? The "think of the children" excuse if you"ve got kids? or what.
No, I pay for everything. Both our names actually are on the lease, but that isn"t what is stopping me. No kids.
She just literally doesn"t have any place to go. We only own one car (not even paid off yet), and she has almost no money that is hers. She has been looking for a job in the city we moved to for almost a year and a half with no luck, which is really the city"s fault, anywhere else in the country she could get a job easy. But this is where I had to be, so she is here with me. She let me move her halfway across the country to be with me, I can"t just put her on the street.
I know, I feel like a sucker, but I can"t stop taking care of this girl. I love her, and I guess I"m just not the sort of person who can leave someone they love in the lurch. Which contributed to our break up now that I think about it. My Mother has pretty severe heart problems and my Brother has a brain injury, is blind in one eye, deaf in one ear, and one of his legs is paralyzed from the knee down. I"ve been living on the other side of the country till last year, and my Mother has been living up at her cabin (long story). They used to plow the road, she didn"t tell me they"d stopped (California budget cuts), so this 60+ year old woman with heart problems was having to dig herself out to get food, and if she"d had any kind of emergency... well, suffice to say my sisters, who both live in California, thought she was going to die up there. And they didn"t help her. They are both inhuman monsters, incidentally. One was a head cheerleader in high school, that pretty much sums her up. But, of course, once I moved out here I went to visit my Mom and found out about this. My fiancee and I, jointly!, invited her to stay with us till the snow melted when winter started.
My fiancee feels, and I can"t really disagree with her, like the apartment we moved into isn"t really "Home" with my Mom here. My Mom has been very pleasant, it isn"t her fault, but is it just psychological: people in our space bothers us, we"ve both always been like this. Now, the snow has melted, so she should be gone, and there is a very good reason she isn"t (besides the obvious health issues). A reason my ex-fiancee agreed with.
That was actually one of the big things we working on in therapy, dealing with my Mom having to live with us.
Its funny, I get the feeling every time I post explaining one thing, I"m going to have to post explaining something else. Like I said, there is a ton of backstory, been together six years almost, and neither of us look all that great if you look at the whole thing. I just need to find a way to deal with what is going on right now.