Just Went Through A Break Up, Thank God For Mac
Posted By admin On 13.03.20When a relationship is over, feelings of rejection can numb your sense of self and wreck your balance. For many jilted lovers, the first impulse is to try to fix what’s broken or recover what was lost. But often, the beloved has moved on and reconciliation is not possible. And still you persist.
How can you ever move on? One of my most popular posts is “.” It lists strategies and affirmations that can soothe feelings of rejection, decrease obsessions, and reduce the desire to maintain contact with the former lover. But as a pointed out, how can you believe an affirmation of worth when you are convinced of your unworthiness? And why would you use strategies for moving on when you’re still trying to find a solution that will win back your beloved? These are excellent points. So let’s examine “coping with a break-up” from this very different perspective. If you are still distressed by feelings of failure, idealizing the one who rejected you, and intent on recovering the lost relationship, you’ve essentially granted this relationship the power to consume your life and create your misery.
Powerless, you’ve become invisible, even to yourself, and certainly to this desired person- or any other person who might be a potential mate. You may harbor a sense of being stuck, or feeling suspended from truly living. In fact, it’s quite difficult to win anyone's affection while you're feeling like a loser. So here is a set of strategies for reclaiming your power and recovering yourself, including your emotional equilibrium, your vitality, and your. Forget about moving on. Moving on and away from your beloved before you’re ready only increases your distress.
Where you are right now is precisely where you belong. Instead, envision moving forward. Moving forward means not staying stuck in the same place that’s getting you nowhere fast. In other words, if a life strategy isn’t working after many months, don’t think “must do this harder, longer, faster, stronger”. Instead, think, “must find a new life strategy.” And if you’re destined to be with your beloved, moving forward simply brings you into a better place to make that happen. See your reactions as normal.
Our brains and bodies are wired to have powerfully painful reactions to rejection. The break-up of a relationship can trigger a cascade of chemicals that make you feel lonely, depressed, and worthless—especially if you see the rejecter as “the one for you”.
You are not crazy- you’re in a natural state of distress. Face your grief. It can be tempting to avoid grief. You may be that it will be too painful, especially since you’ve lost someone and something precious. But repressing your grief can result in, obsession, suppressed immune system, and chronic despair. Avoiding grief keeps you feeling stuck and powerless.
See grief as a necessary reaction to loss. Grief includes feelings of disbelief, fear, and sadness, as well as physical symptoms of fatigue, tension, emptiness, distractibility, and changes in. It is painful, to be sure, but it is also a byproduct of your ability to invest in meaningful. See as a process of healing. Grieving is how you gradually let go of what might have been, and adjust to what is.
And over time, your outlook will naturally shift from “I must demonstrate I am a worthy mate for her/him” to “I can reclaim my own sense of worth.” Grieving is what sets you free from the pit of despair. To move through the grieving process, get out of your head and get in touch with your body. Believe it or not, it’s hard to move through an emotional experience by staying in your head. While you’re rationalizing your sense of worthlessness and wracking your for solutions, you’ve probably put your emotions on hold and cut off your bodily awareness.
Your bodily sensations tell you the truth about what’s going on for you. Whenever you feel an emotion welling up or feel a contraction somewhere in your body, simply observe your bodily sensations of emotion as they move through you.
Particularly if and don’t work because intrusive thoughts keep derailing your efforts, you may benefit from this, with support and on attending to the physical sensations in your body. By training your on your body, your mind stays out of the way rather than escalating your pain with inflammatory thoughts. So, for example, when you’re thinking s/he is what I want and I must demonstrate that I am a worthy mate- or s/he’s just not that into me- or her/his rejection means I’m a failure, switch your focus to your bodily sensations, whatever they might be. I feel tightness in my jaw. Or I have a lump in my throat. Or I have butterflies in my tummy.
Anger (including frustration, irritation, ) tends to be expressed as tension in the jaw, head, neck, shoulders, and hands. Sadness (including sorrow, disappointment, despair) is often felt as pain or constriction in the throat, chest, and arms. Fear (including anxiety, worry, dread) might be felt as discomfort or uneasiness in the belly or legs. You may have your own unique responses. Let feelings flow.
When an emotion is triggered, notice how your physiology ramps up at first. Attend to your bodily sensations as you ride the wave, so you can disregard any painful thoughts. Stay on task by scanning your entire body and describing your physical sensations to yourself. You’ll reach the crest, and as your physiology calms down, you’ll slide down into calmer waters. Observe how the wave has passed through you - within a mere minute or two.
That's what emotion is- energy in motion. Your physiology ramps up and then quickly calms down, as long as you don't sustain it with painful thoughts. It’s just a wave and not a flood, unless you make it so.
That’s why focusing only on your physical sensations is a powerful tool—it renders you incapable of thinking painful thoughts (including repressive ones such as, I can’t feel this grief; it’s too painful; it will destroy me) that needlessly ramp up your pain. By focusing on your body, you’ve put a halt to that endless loop of mental anguish and existential suffering, and allowed your feelings of grief to flow through and out of you. Practice this technique every time a wave of emotion comes up, and you’ll never have to experience that particular wave again. Letting your feelings flow through you frees you from their grip and eases your emotional burden- and enables you to naturally move forward.
Granted, letting it flow can be totally scary, especially when your feelings promise to be painful or overwhelming. But by riding the waves, you get to go with the flow and find healing.
Practice deep, slow breathing. Physiologically, the only difference between excitement and fear is whether you’re breathing or not. Focusing on your, even for a few minutes a day, can put your brain into a more.
Also makes it easier for you to practice being a nonjudgmental observer and letting your painful feelings flow when you are triggered. Getting out into has a similar calming effect. Take one day at a time. There are no deadlines. Trust the process and understand that your adjustment can be as gradual as you need it to be.
It’ll happen as you become ready for it. It takes time to move through the grieving process. But you needn't grieve 24/7. Give yourself respite by pursuing your interests and friendships- and exploring new ones. Nurture yourself every day, doing what makes you feel good about being you and being alive, including eating nutritious foods, moving your body, getting out into nature, and sleeping well.
Try Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and other practices that help you feel calm and soothed, such as yoga, dancing, and meditation. Over time, by taking good care of yourself (and you do deserve this!) you will adjust to your new life and the despair will gradually lift. It is mind-boggling when an ex seems indifferent, but rest assured, this only indicates that she is not into you NOW. At one point, she invited into her world, and you were totally there. And she knows it. Alas, she has moved on, and you no longer occupy a space in her world, and that's her current reality. And as long as you remain in the past, wishing you were still a part of her world, your realities will be out of sync, and therein lies your pain.
If you haven't already, check out this blog post, which has tips for coping with the distress and agony of it all:. Let her keep acting indifferent. Let her keep faking it. It's what many humans do. Its a proven technique that works to subtly get back at or hurt the other person or come across to the other person as if they are ok, moved on and not feeling anything. I wonder what she is REALLY thinking and feeling inside.
Only some of her friends know. Maybe she did find someone else to help her move on faster before breaking up. I don't know all the details.
All I know is how the 'indifference / I don't care' game is played, and although men have to do this more oftenaccording to rules of society, women are better at it in many cases because they have more options and usually more people to fall back on, rebound to, or support them. Another thing is women can completely withdraw over time and keep you around until they lose feelings for you and then are ready to easily move on by the time they finally announce that they are done with the relationship (and these are the occasions when true indifference may be present).
After all, there is a reason I'm on this page. I didn't realize many people were going through the same thing.
I was blindsided and my significant other ended our 12.5 year relationship. He first said he felt old and didn't know what he wanted then he told me he wasn't in love with me but still loved me as a friend. Treated me hot and cold.
He says he still wants to be part of my life.what the heck does that mean. I thought we were forever and never did I think he would end it. The pain is so awful. He's broken me in every way possible. The sadness, the emptiness, the loneliness it's bad.
I don't know how people survive this heartache.literally physically hurting on top emotionally and mentally hurting. I don't know why we live through this. BUT articles like these help. Other people posting their stories help. I don't feel as alone. Thanks for people who write these articles and for people sharing their stories.
It's helping me get through this low point of my life. Thank you for this post. I read it and the strategies post several times a day. I feel silly sometimes because my relationship was only a few months - but they were the happiest of my adult life. At 40, after many heartbreaking relationships I fell in love with a wonderful man who treated me like gold. He was recently divorce and I blew him off dating him for weeks - having very adult conversations about being ready. He seemed healthy, took responsibility for how he contributed to the end of his marriage.
There were no kids so no ties. He led the entire relationship - asking me to be exclusive, telling me he loved me, introducing me to family. We were fully integrated into each other's lives spending weekday and weekend time together. He recently booked and paid for a vacation for ya. We communicated dAily via phone/text or in person. He'd known the hurt is been through and I knew his.
We openly talked about everything - had constant fun, great physical intimacy and shared values and future goals. Last week, just a few hours after a sweet good morning he broke up with me in a text message with no explanation just saying his heart wasn't in it - just a few days before we spent the weekend laughing, being intimate and talking about our summer vacation. He told me he loved me just the day before, All he can say is his heart is not in it. I have no information. I requested to speak with him and he just never returned my text.
I can't call him and Won't resort to reaching out to someone who disrespected me in this way. I realize what he did was heartless but my only memories are good and loving. He told me I was the love of his life and I, for the first time felt the peace I've always dreamed of. I had a true partner.
And then he disappeared. I am distraught, sad, angry and it Makes no difference how long the relationdship was. I waited 20 years for the love I found and it was ripped from me without warning. My despair is the deepest I've ever felt even from relationships that ended after several years. This was my person - our love was incredible, fun, relaxed, and respectful.
Both of us lost parents at an early age and we shared our triumph over loss and supported one another in so many ways. I'm the strongest person I know - and I can't even breathe about 10 times a day. I know it will get better but I can't seem to let him go. I still love him and feel like it's worse than if he died because I didn't get to say goodbye. I sent a loving email the day after he left me and got no response. I would never treat another human this way and can't even relate to the fact that someone could. God help us all.
Thank you for your wisdom. The same thing happen to me a few months ago, and it still hurts. I was madly in love with this woman, and made it clear she was a priority to me. She literally stopped communicating with me over a 2 week period, right after my father with dementia had just moved in with me due to a fall out between my parents. I never asked her for anything, and only wished she would be there and show that she cared. Instead, she avoided me, and broke things off over the phone.
She said 'she would rather hang out with her friends'. No remorse, no best wishes for my dad, and no explanation for why things ended. I was 30, she was 27. I cried on the phone and basically every day for the next 2 or 3 weeks. I did reach out to her, and though I wish I did not, I do not regret it as I have learned next time that she did not deserve my love. It is a shame how people communicate these days. I include our ages because I partly blame social media and online dating.
This is how we met, and though I fit into the millenial category, I never really embraced it. All my prior relationships were created from friendships or acqaintances, and I think because of facebook, pop culture, etc, dating and friendships are even more mutually exclusive. Friends respect each other, or at least mine do. And yes, friends come and go, and that is okay and usually there is no hurt. But with dating these days, there is no real selflessness or self sacrifice, and once someone has obtained what they want from you, or realizes that maintaining what you have requires effort, they cower. I have now developed trust issues, but not of the other person, but within myself, for I do not know how I fell for someone that could do this to someone else.
We are human, so I should have expected this. Best wishes to you, it will get better.
Hi Sola - I totally get where you are coming from. I have come to realize that people who can so easily end a relationship show their emotional true colors in the way the end things. At the time it feels like a knife to the heart, but in truth, they didn't have the emotional capacity to give and receive in the same way someone who would NEVER do something like that (casual breakup via text/phone) would. I will tell you - that it isn't so much age or technology - it's truly emotional maturity. My ex and I met online and we are 40 and 42. If a person is a coward - no matter when they were born, they will be a coward. We have to thank them for showing us the truth early on so we could know we deserved better.
Hang in there and I hope things with your dad are better. See I am a stranger and I thought to write that - it's what decent people do. Consider yourself lucky - it was a blessing in disguise! Hi Steph, My boyfriend broke up with me just last week hence the reason why I was looking into how to cope with this grief and saw your post. What you wrote, your story, word for word, it is as if someone had written about mine. From your dating, the way you described your boyfriend, his loving ways, even to the vacation the two of you just had, then the weekend and the breakup and he had disappeared and it was just like that, it was over. Mine was the man, the love I thought God had finally given me.
We just had a lovely vacation in NY. A few weeks later, he texted he can not continue with our relationship. It hurts, it's a pain like no other pain I've ever experienced.
It was short of two days to our anniversary when he texted. Our time together was short but the most wonderful time of my life. I've been hurt before and was so guarded when he started courting me. But he was so loving, and I fell for him, so deeply in love with him. The pain is so brutal, everything is so raw, my heart, my body and my soul long for him. I wonder how you are doing right now. I am, like you wrote, just trying to breathe, and yes, may God help us all.
Hi Bella - I am so sorry to hear what you are going through. I too felt like God had answered my prayers.
Just 2 weeks ago I was still in the sharp pain that you are in right now. I know it is agony. It is truly trauma - I have done so much reading and research in the past few weeks and a book that has helped me is from Susan Anderson and it will speak to everything you are feeling. It is called 'The Journey from Abandonment to Healing.' There is a great workbook too that goes with it -both you can find on Amazon. I am just about a month from the day I got that final text and I can tell you that the pain DOES subside.
Just as recent as last weekend I was in fetal position crying. I can't tell you it was some magical moment when I felt the pain lessen - but you just have to go through it. You have to cry until you can't cry anymore. One thing I can tell you is that I tried to force myself to do what people typically say to do - to distract yourself, to get out and go have fun - I couldn't do that.
It felt inauthentic to pretend to be social when inside I felt like I was dying. I did put myself into therapy and I have a huge network of friends and family so I was not necessarily totally isolated - but I spent time crying in bed, feeling all the pain, asking God 'WHY?' - praying to take away the pain. The only way out is through - but of course reach out for support and don't do it all alone.
Healing isn't a one day thing. I know I will go through other ups and downs, I am just feeling a LITTLE better 30 days out (as in I don't cry myself to sleep anymore.) One thing that helps is to avoid 'future thinking' - I know the worst part is feeling like your future is gone. It's not, it's just not with that person. Your future is still a work of art, waiting to be created. Just concentrate on thinking about 1 hour, 1 day ahead - not 5 years from know. Breathe and believe that you deserve a man who would NEVER do something like this. I am in a very distressful predicament, as my ex-girlfriend and I are both police officers and work for the same Police Department.
It's a terribly anxiety producing feeling not knowing if I'm going to bump into her or not on any given day. We broke up about two months ago, and although it was a mutual decision, it feels like it's taking longer to heal than it would if we didn't work for the same department. I just don't know how to move on, or at least move forward. Thank you for this post though, it was very helpful! I feel your pain. I have been involved with a man I have known for 17 years, we were together as teens and after all that time we cameback into each others lives. Wrong timing though as he is going through a stressful divorce.
Like you, I have waited many years for this person, after fruitless dating experiences, a couple of heartbreaks but nothing for the past 10 years that meant anything to me. He came into my life and spoke of a future with children, we had plans for how we would work together. We had been away for a weekend and on our return he had some family stresses - and he e mailed me his goodbye.
I care and worry about this man as I know he is very stressed and not ok, but I too am not ok. I have abandonment issues from my Dad leaving and this way of coldly walking out of my life has just stunned me. I trusted properly for the first time and this is how he does it?
A man I have friend ties with, a man I have all this history with? It has been stunning to me. It is now about 7 weeks on, I am on antidepressants which seem to be pulling me out of the well of despair and hopelessness I was feeling. This man promised me children - I am 35 and feel my chances are dwindling a little. I want to just move forward but it is hard. I know I should put this man out of my life as he should never have done this to me.
If he comes back, as I think he will after he has sorted his life out then I feel i need to tell him to get out of my life, but I felt he was the one for me. Many years ago I went through a very traumatic break up with my first boyfriend. We were together from the time we were 17, until age 20. He moved to a different state, and right up until I went to visit him, I was still getting love letters. My visit was a nightmare.
Without going over every gruesome detail, he must have changed his mind before I came to see him, and basically he told me he didn't love me or want to be with me anymore, and I wasn't going to be included in his new life. I had no idea that was coming and was completely blindsided. I had a very hard time dealing with the loss of this relationship. My eating became erratic and disordered, I partied too much; started hanging out with people who were bad news. This was before the days of online communication, but I was still (foolishly) sending him letters. I don't even remember what I said in the letters, but he would ignore me.
Eventfully I moved to a different state, did some traveling, met some new people, cleaned up my bad habits. Then I started hearing from him again. On his end I think he was just trying to make amends for how he treated me during the break up, but in my mind I still was holding out hope that he might want to get back together. Time does help, as does stopping all communication. I've gone years without getting 'triggered', but with social media and us having mutual people in common, it still stings when I see pictures of him with the woman he ended up making a life with. In my case I think early childhood abuse and neglect affected how I form attachments, and bonding. Because it was my first boyfriend and I was so in love with him, and my trust in him was so pure and not tainted or jaded by life yet, it truly shook me to the core on such a primal/ deep level when he abandoned me.
The grief and the sense of loss was like when someone dies, only he left me by choice which added this whole other layer of hurt. For the most part I go for long stretches of time without thinking about him, but every now and again I still grieve over that loss, and for the hurt, abandoned young woman I once was. I also think for some people, there are just certain love experiences that you just don't ever fully get over, in my case being my first love (other break ups I did okay with and fully got over those people). Social media doesn't help, I find that no contact all together is best. Kitty, thank you for your eloquent, incisive comment. Indeed, our early experiences with attachment and caregiving do color future relationships, and it can help to know that abuse and neglect can color how you feel when someone breaks up with you, and it's normal to struggle more than someone who had more positive early experiences.
Still, rejection is supremely painful- especially when the person does a 180 in feelings. That can be mind-boggling! I also like the way you can look back at the vulnerable young woman you once were, acknowledge the ongoing sense of grief, and enjoy the growth and strength you've since acquired. Finally, your observation that 'no contact at all is best' is quite true especially when the break up is experienced as traumatic.
If you still feel triggered at times due to any of the traumas you've endured, I wonder if a brain-based treatment - such as EMDR- is in order. EMDR helps the brain get 'unstuck' and process trauma once and for all, so that you aren't triggered into reliving it. Ongoing trauma is like having a bug stuck in your throat.
EMDR is like drinking a glass of water, which helps you move the bug along and get on with your life, unencumbered. Life is too short for unnecessary suffering. Still, you are clearly resilient and self-aware. Hats off to you.
Thanks for your reply and kind words, Dr. I did do weekly EMDR for about 2 years, CBT therapy, read dozens of books over the years. I'm also trained in DBT (as a participant and facilitator). All of those things helped some and I'm better than I was in the early years after the break up. But this, unfortunately, was one relationship I just never 'fully' recovered from. I think you're right, having early childhood trauma, and then trauma around the first love experience just really close to home.:(.
Why am I not surprised? Indeed, your self-awareness, incisive observations, and eloquence could be a testimony to your added resilience due to getting treatment and seeking mastery. As for 'full recovery', that's not even a reasonable nor worthy goal. What is reasonable and worthy is a 'healing transformation,' and it appears you've experienced that in spades. Hence, the 'hats off' to you.
You're an inspiration and proof that terrible heartache doesn't sentence us to permanent misery. Best wishes to you.
Gay here, so please move on if this isn't for you. Seems odd to identify with past home-relationships. But that's my stuck today.
Thankful for Dr. Davis' article, I will give it another shot. On writing here, I suppose misery indeed loves company. 13 years with one, who left me for another 'with more in common'. I joined his same workplace 6 years in, so have a great job for which he trained me. We never ever see one another, but finding a new job is hard with no energy and in golden handcuffs. 5 years with rebound, who returns to his 'bully ex' but still wants emotional and intimate support from me.
Gullible, I'm aware I'm going nowhere. An anomaly in the gay world, I stay faithful WAY past 'Elvis' left the building. I told my last girlfriend I might be gay before we connected. If we married, I'd be worth eight figures. But that's not ok, plus then I would be the Indifferent One. I get priest abuse sets me up for more issues than a magazine subscription.
I don't think on it but wonder about influence: I get brokenness is a magnet for some people, so I don't share that till much later. Dating in late 40s is a weeding through (1) hookup-minded in I-want-a-home clothing and (2) Needies. Wanting to get out of 'Needies' category, I divert attention to job, finances and gym which help. Feeling shame about my neediness, I don't go hunting any more. With grateful heart, I'm now MINING Dr Davis' intelligence for my new checklist of physical cues. Light & life to all reading/writing here.
Going on 2 months after a break up. It seemed like a great relationship, we were happy, he was happy, or so it seemed. We were in love. Then one day he decided it was all too exhausting and broke up with me by text message. I regret my actions after the break up, the obsession over closure and not giving him space. I regret my actions that led to him blocking me.
I am trying to take it a day at a time, but sometimes the feelings just consume me. I am dying inside and I try to hide it. I will probably never get closure, or even remotely understand why he chose to be alone, instead of being with me.
I have to try to find a way to let go, but it is hard. I hope this article will help me find some peace. I left my marriage of fourteen years to get back with my soulmate from my twenties that had hurt me then as well after many years together. This man sought me out and caught me at a weak moment. After almost three years of being my world, he abruptly broke up with my by text. We were together the night before.
Just Went Through A Break Up Thank God For Mac Free
Our kids have grown to love one another and we had discussed marriage. I told him at the two year mark that we needed to wait so that we could give the kids more time between the other changes in their lives and a new change like our marriage. He was in agreement or at least I thought so but had slowly put up walls and would pout more and more about us going backwards and not forward in his opinion. This man told me I would have to beat him with a stick to get him to leave and he had waited for God to bring us back together for twenty years. I was his princess. He has left me feeling destroyed.
I can't even contact him. I have to pull myself together for my children. I don't see ever getting over him. My body is aching and I can't focus on my own value.
It's been about 3 months since she walked away from a relationship of 2 years together. We met at work and for about a year kept things friendly. I was 47 and she was 33. Very talented artistically and a playfully nature about her. Anyway, it took me about 6 months to approach her about taking her out on a date.
My self confidence had been in the toilet for a few years due to a divorce when I was 42 and more recently having been incarcerated for a year. Nothing crazy just got pinched with ten pounds of pot in my car.
So finally after texting for a while, I got up the courage to ask her out to a concert on the beach. It was my best first date ever and shortly after we started dating. About 8 months in, I get a text from her saying she can't do this anymore. Naturally I was floored and couldn't believe that she could be so callous to text me something like that.
We were silent to each other for a few weeks then slowly started talking again. I knew she had some issues but never really took the time to fully understand and how to deal with them even after talking with a long time gf of hers. Issues of self mutilation and low self esteem and all the others that come with it were what was going on. And again, I didn't take the time to research and fully understand those issues. I figured that loving her unconditionally and affectionately was all that was needed.
Turns out I was wrong. We met near her house for the last time and she told me she ' wasn't feeling it '. It was very cold and indifferent but I could still tell she was struggling with what she told me.
We parted ways but continued to text a bit. About a month after that, we were texting and I was admittedly bitter.
It escalated to the point where suddenly another man started texting me from her phone with name calling and threats. I made some of my own and said some very nasty things to her. It continued the next morning on the phone the next morning where I accused her of lying and cheating to the point she was crying and trying to explain but I couldn't understand her thru the tears and me seeing red. I hung up on her after saying FU and haven't heard from her since. After a couple of hours when I was finally calmed down, a huge wave of remorse came over me for speaking to her in such an ugly way which she truly did not deserve.
I have always been a kind decent patient loving man in all of my relationships so realizing what I had done only drove me deeper into the hole I was already in from having her walk away from us. It was barely 3 months apart and she already had a new man in her life and who knows how long he's been there already. I felt so hurt that someone who I professed to loving and supporting unconditionally almost on a daily basis could be so callous and hurtful to me. I decided to do some research on her issues and her behavior started to make perfect sense. On paper that is.
It eased my heartache slightly but the pain is still here. This is a woman who I introduced to my daughter, my ex wife who I have always had a great relationship with and still has my back and has supported me thru all sorts of situations even after the divorce (how many men can say that). A woman who knew how deeply I felt for and cared about. A woman I swore to love cherish and support till the end of time. And due to her condition allowed her to just walk away from a relationship with great potential.
I have been agonizing about the nasty things I said to her. It was completely out of character for me. I hope that someday soon I can apologize to her for that because she truly did not deserve it. I know she has been struggling with at least emotional trauma for years now. I often tried to get her to open up to me about it but would always shut down or change the subject. Anyone who cares to read up on low self esteem and self harm issues will understand what happened here.
At this point in time, I still do love and care about her immensely. I probably always will. It's the type of guy I am. But I also need to take care of myself.

I've been feeling like a zombie since she left and very ashamed and disgusted with myself for the things I said to her. I also know that her current relationship probably won't last due to her issues. Not that I wish her bad luck with it, but that's what happens with low self esteem issues. They often sabotage relationships. I just hope she doesn't get hurt or abused in any way because that would surely tear my guts out.
She would have been safe with me but at this point there is nothing I can do except hope her the best and perhaps one day she will reach out to me. But I'm not holding my breath. I just have to get myself in a better place than I am now. I want to forget and forgive my partner of 12 years. I just cant, I cant forgive him.
He harm me in different kind of ways. We split up in April, still verbally abuse because I told the women that hes with that he barely stop having a sexual relationship in the month of September, she never believes me and shes a family marriage therapist. She emailed me and said many things to me which I keep her email. I find it very disrespectful and she just jeopardize her job because she send it with the signature of her company she works for. I don't want to be a B::: and for her or him to loose her job.
They work together. We have one son and he has 2 kids from a previous relationship and I help him raise his kids.
I don't know what I can do or what can you recommend me to do. I feel they both see me as a crazy person but everything I told her is the truth I feel if she doesn't want to believe me its on her.
I have keep in touch for him because of our son and the rest of the children. Which by the way in the email she sent me she said that both are happy and he meet the 2 children of his from his first relationship and that they have an open relationship. I did email her back and told her since she has an open relationship and he is happy why we continue having sex and did he mention to her that we kept doing stuff together for the kids. Still asks me to lend him money because she mention hes financially OK. I just want to leave everything behind. Because you share children, you will remain in some sort of relationship with this man.
But you can change your relationship for the better by (1) setting healthy boundaries and (2) being more clear about what's okay with you and what's not okay. Healthy boundaries means that you are in charge of yourself and your behavior, and you don't try to be in charge of anyone else and their behavior. And so, for example, if it's not okay with you that he is having sex with you AND someone else, then YOU can stop having sex with him, and stay out of their relationship. Then over time, their relationship will matter less and less to you because you'll be focusing on your own relationships. In fact, there is a basic truth spoken by the lyrics to the song, 'New Rules' by Dua Lipa: 'And if you're under him, you ain't getting over him.' Take that specific piece of advice to heart, and you'll build a better life for yourself.
I wish you well. I'm so sorry that you are married to an abusive man.
It sounds like a very painful situation. And of course you do not trust him anymore- because he has proven to you that he is a threat to your safety and well-being. I'm not sure where you live or your culture, but in many places in the world, it is against the law for anyone, even a husband to harm or threaten you. And even if there are no laws against this, it is absolutely unethical and immoral for anyone to treat you this way, no matter what!
And you are right, hurting someone is not love. He might claim he loves you, but the only way he can prove it is to respect and protect you, every moment, from now on! It is completely normal for couples to have disagreements and arguments and to feel very angry with each other. But couples can learn to express anger by talking about their feelings and expressing what they want, NOT by insulting, beating, threatening, or harming with words or actions. This can take much practice, especially if you've grown up watching adults attacking each other.
But there is a better way, and it can be your way if you are willing to do the work of changing and learning how you think and behave. Even if he says you stress him out, he cannot blame you for his temper. His actions are completely his responsibility. He should have complete control over himself.
If he doesn't, he needs to learn. And he will only start to learn if you stand up and tell him that he cannot hurt you ever again. If you are afraid tell him, then you must leave him.
Leaving might seem impossible, but there is ALWAYS a way out, even if you cannot see it. If you are having trouble seeing a way out, you need more support. There are many books with ideas for you.
My favorite is The Verbally Abusive Relationship by Patricia Evans. Are there domestic violence organizations in your area that help women like you? Contact them. Even if you think you can't, YOU CAN. I am a fat girl that born in Asia that have a strict tradition about relationship between man and woman. Actually my phisically condition never bother me at all, but still I find it a lack.
I have a 10 years relationship with a classmate's friend since I'm 17 years old. We've been spending a lot of time together, even growing up together.
Learning many 'first time experience' together. Including our very first sex. I was so scared at first, because of my family's tradition (no sex before marriage). Before we did that, I asked him to marry me later, and He said yes. And we did that. And later sex wasn't become something odd in our relationship. One day, He become so far from me, less caring about me.
I'm so scare if He didn't love me anymore. I'm scare about my future, how can I married to another man if I have given my virginity. And then I know that He having a relationship with his friend, a tall and pretty woman. And it have been 2 years since I realize it.
Today have been the fifth years we live with this weird relationship. He never break me up, neither do to that woman. But he keep saying that he done with that woman. He keep saying that I'm better than that woman and promising to marry me, but it never happened. Suddenly I know that he do sex with that woman too. And he promised to marry her too. I feel so hopeless and scared.
One day I decided to start move on, because this relationship won't go anywhere. I started to meet new friends, and finally found a man that love me. I feel so happy, but scare at the same time. I'm scare that he won't accept my past. Knowing that I already have another man, my past boyfriend easily let me go and going steady with that woman. Last week they getting married.
It somehow broke my heart. I feel unwanted, unattractive, and hopeless. Until the end, he never say break up to me, but he married that woman.
I keep embrace my sadness and loss, even though I have a boyfriend now. I am scare if someday I lost my boyfriend again because I am just focused on my past.
But I can help it. Yes, you CAN help it. What do you think would happen if you focused on gratitude for this boyfriend you have now, instead of focusing on regret for the past boyfriend?
If you are scared that your focus on your past will make you lose your present boyfriend, then why don't you practice focusing on your present boyfriend? Step One: Whenever sad thoughts about the past wander through your mind, just let them go on their way, without holding on to them. Step Two: Set aside time to practice thinking about the present. What do you like about your now boyfriend? What does he like about you? Do you enjoy spending time together?
What new experiences would you like to have with him? This can create new habits of focusing on your now boyfriend and your now life. Do this for three weeks and see if you notice a change. I'm so sorry- it sounds like your pain seems endless. I concur with Kyle's recommendation of CBD oil.
It can help calm your brain so that you're not in high stress mode- and so you can sleep. In fact, anything you can do to calm your brain can help, such as spending time outdoors- just lying on a blanket in the grass at a park and being one with nature is a soothing balm. Do this everyday, even if just for 20 minutes. You may notice a calming effect even when you're on a porch or by an open window. There are also many ways you can calm your brain by changing your thoughts toward reassuring yourself and boosting your morale.
For ideas on this, see my post 'Coping with Distress and Agony After a Break-Up.' I wish you well.
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My husband left me for his mistress and the whole thing got me stressed out that it affected me at my place of work for i couldn't concentrate anymore. I searched and looked for help from friends and family but no one could get an answer to my problem not until i was referred to Doctor Zakuza by my Neighbour. I got in touch with the Doctor and i opened up everything to him and the Doctor gave me words of hopes and promised me that my husband will come back to me within 12 to 16 hrs. I followed all instructions the Doctor gave me and behold my husband came back to me within 12 to 16 hrs has the Doctor has promised and my husband has been so faithful, lovely and honest. I must say that this is a miracle for I've never had an experience with such before and it really worked out for me.
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