I'm 37w2d pregnant, I'm excited for baby's arrival but am feeling really stressed out. I split up with my partner in January after 5 1/2 years together because he didn't take any responsibility for things like paying the rent and bills and I couldn't see him changing and growing up. Two weeks later I found out I was pregnant, I was excited but scared at the prospect of doing it alone! When I told him he immediately said lets do this properly and be a family - because of how things had been in the past I was dubious and told him that certain things needed to change before I could do that, it was a difficult decision to make. The other problem was that there had been domestic violence in our relationship in the first couple of years, because of this my family dislike him (understandably) and have wanted me to leave him for years. When I told my family that I was pregnant they were initially shocked but then have been really supportive but have said that if I chose to be with my ex that they would distance themselves from me. Obviously that's caused me to feel really torn throughout my pregnancy, I want to give my ex a chance but I also want my family around me. I continued seeing him and although he's now working he's still not stopped drinking even around me and hasn't saved or given me any money towards baby, he has bought a few bits but not to the extent I expected. We'd spoken about living together but he saved nothing towards this, it was left down to me again. He has now turned around and said that either were together 100% and as such live together or were not together at all. I couldn't commit to us as losing my family is too hard for me to deal with. I  miss him already and it's only been two days but I don't think I could cope without my family there. What would you do? Should I have given him a chance? Thanks for reading this long post!! X