Am i selfish if i leave my addict boyfriend
My boyfriend who is 24 is severely addicted to heroin and has been for two years now. I feel like I'm watching him die.
I have an alarm at 1am, 3am, and 5am, to make sure he's sleeping on his side and hasn't thrown up and to make sure he's still breathing here with me. I'm exhausted. I've called 911 several times because he gets unconscious. I've tried everything but send him to jail to get clean. He shakes and sweats when he's sober and is in so much pain. I've even (don't hate me for this) locked him in his room for hours to keep him from getting high.
I love him so much, he means the world to me, and it's killing me watching him fall so hard. I've never seen him cry in my five years of dating him until the day I took his dope away and he begged for it back.
We are both med students, I can barely support myself, we have class hours a day and I work every weekday, my family helps me with money, but I can't keep supporting my jobless boyfriend especially when he's skipping class to get high.
I'm lost. I love him. But I can't watch him kill himself.
| Yes it's selfish, but you should still do it | 5 | |
| Yes it's selfish, you shouldn't do it | 4 | |
| No it's not selfish, but you should do it | 13 | |
| No it's not selfish, but you should do it | 11 |