but so many ppl have been telling me to dump him, dump him...

Just wanted to comment on that. Friends and family see the hurt, and that's their typical response for what ails you, but they're not walking in your shoes, and it's not their life. They're also motivated from going through their own ache at seeing you hurt, and want it to be over with. So they all follow this same script taken from a one page treatise titled, "What To Advise Your Friend Or Relative To Do About Their WAS Sitch". People who follow that advice all end up with the same outcome. However, DR takes about 300 pages or so to spell out what to do, and people who take that advice end up with different types of outcomes.