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Loving a reoffender

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Titania

Member since
April 2024

2 posts

Posted Mon October 14, 2024 4:13pmReport post

It's been 7 months now, and when it happend i learnt that it had not been the first time. That between 2015-2018 he had recieved therapy for this already and now "because" of stress at work he reoffended and it had been going on for 4 month at that time. Last week after my request i got to read the discharge notes from the forensic psychologist and in the notes the primary diagnosis given was the word that gives me the most horror i can imagine, the dreaded P word. The word we are sometimes told is not a given with these types of offences. but here it is. and here it's happend again after having recieved such intense therapy. We don't live together so i asked for a week of no contact for me to feel the feelings i was having. I cracked and made contact on friday, because i missed him. It terrifies me that i feel so much love and so much disgust, so much fear, so much confusion at the same time. I can't just stop loving him, i can't just leave him, i can't confide in my friends because i am too ashamed. The procedures are just starting and he will be recieving therapy again; one full day a week of group and individual therapy. I don't know how i can have faith in the future. In forensic psychology they speak of "protective factor" to asses reoffending chance; here all the factors were in place; a loving relationship, a housemate, no social isolation, a job(that did cause stress), a long list of hobbies like improv and musical theatre couple days a week, a long list of meditaiton and self regulation skills and still it happend... what else, life will give him more stressors than some work stress. His parents won't live forever; all of these things. I am so torn inside. It would be the logical road to let him go, focus on healing but i just can't. There must also be something wrong with me. I am forver changed by this and I'm afraid this broken feeling will go with me to my grave.

Stan cat

Member since
October 2024

6 posts

Posted Tue October 15, 2024 10:06pmReport post

my OH has just reoffended after 10 years he's had therapy love and relationship started his own business and yet he's done it again. It's hard to understand why he has he refuses to talk to me about why he's done it again but it is hard to stop loving them And to walk away So I just wanted to let you know you're not alone