Advice Someone Has Given Me.

To leave my ex boyfriends. Now this may sound a bit silly but I was with my ex for about 4 years, and it was a very controlling and abusive relationship. I was basically the man in the relationship. I bought every gift for him and gave him the money to buy a gift for me. I paid for every meal we ever ate or date we ever went on. He never spent his personal money on me. But yet he didn’t have any of his own money because he never felt the need to keep a job because somehow I always got money and or I always had a job. Not only did he feel he didn’t need to keep a job he dropped out of high school as well and never attempted to start his GED. Just wait there’s more. He also stole a couple of thousand from me as well. I never am the person to regret things in life and I’m not going to say I regret this relationship or what happened during, I just possibly wish it would have went another way. It wasn’t just one single person that kept telling me to leave and or giving me advice. There was my mother, father, step mother, step father, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, coworkers, friends, EVERYONE saw how horrible the relationship was a told me to get out. Now did I listen, no I didn’t. Eventually come July 16, 2017 my sister and I drove to Arkansas where she lives and I spent a whole week with her. July 17, 2017 my sister and I had a girl’s night with her friends and during that night the topic of my ex Zamian and I came up. Having these girls as well as my sister sit her and continue to tell me what everyone else has been telling me that I need to get myself out of this toxic relationship. So, come July 18, 2017 I decided to end things completely, and yes I remember the dates because it was something that was prolonged and I am very happy to say I got myself out. There is a lot more to this relationship that was not said. It was a complete blessing that I got out and he has come to own up to most of what happened and has apologized but it still would never change what happened. I do wish I would have listened way sooner but hey at least I eventually did. The one person that I wish would listen to this advice would be my best friend Savannah she’s going through something similar but not nearly as bad as mine. I see her and see myself when I didn’t listen and just wish she would before it just continues to get worse like mine did.