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Age: 23
Gender: Female
Location: Colorado

Meth can kill the people around you...and turn you into a person you'd never expect.

My ex was a meth addict, but I didn't know that when I met him. He was so exuberant and thrilling (because he was high) he talked me into spontaneously running off to Vegas and getting married. Had I have know who he REALLY was I would never have done it.

On the drive home he pulled over and announced that he was a bi-polar meth addict who smoked weed to control the "lulls"....and there wasn't a damn thing I could do about it because now I was "stuck".

I never saw that happy exuberant man I first met again, all I saw after that was the angry addict who beat me, raped me, tore my soul and self esteem to pieces, and stole every dollar we had.

I begged his parents, my parents, anyone I could outside of police to help me help him....to get him into a rehab, anything.....but they were too caught up in denial to "deal with it".

My ex tried to kill me twice, once he drugged my drink with a hallucinogen, then held me down on the couch and told me every mean and horrible thing he could think of to make me cry and hurt, then he handed me a razor sharp piece of glass and convinced me to start slicing up my wrists to "make the pain go away".

Some how i missed all the major veins.

A few months later I got out of a surgery for something else, and he took me home while under anesthesia...he started waking me up every 15-20 minutes to give me Tylenol "for the pain", telling me it had already been 6-8 hours since the last time he woke me. within a few hours i was in the bathroom vomiting up blood, i woke up 2 days later at home...having somehow miraculously survived without a doctor.

in the midst of my downward spiral, a new co-worker offered me a "cure for all my troubles"....when i got in her car it turned out to be a meth pipe....in that moment my whole world spun out of control as i decided NOT to try it.....not to turn into that person ....and it was a few short months later i finally found the strength inside myself to throw him out, get a divorce and move on with my life.

After a restraining order, years of therapy, and a lot of hard work on my part, I'm finally healthy and even happy most of the time!

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