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January 30, 2020 at 9:56 am #335856
LinLin
ParticipantI also forgot to mention, a week before he left I had unintentionally been acting like a total ass. I was picking small arguments, blaming him for being angry/annoyed with me based on his facial expression, tone of voice or whatever and he of course, got defensive and a bit annoyed.
This happened a few times in a row when he spoke up and said something along the lines of, “I think you are trying to make this “perfect” weekend but you are so focused on that, that any little thing that goes wrong or unexpected you see as a failure and get way more upset than usual and that basically you trying to make the week before I go perfect is making it…un-perfect”. And he was right I think I got so focused on making sure he would miss me, I tried too hard to make a flawless week that I ended up ruining some of it by over-reacting and over-analyzing his expressions.
I sent him a long text one eve when he was at work apologizing for how I’d been and he told me he understood none was intentional and it was because of my anxiety and missing him. He said he was not mad and that next night was the night he chose to take off unpaid from work to spend it with me. He was very physically affectionate that night, we had lots of laughs, lots of conversation, a nice dinner and an overall really nice evening.
I can’t help but feel bad for how I acted though.
January 30, 2020 at 9:59 am #335858Inky
ParticipantHi LinLin,
Well, you lived quite fine without seeing him everyday for the several years you were just friends. SOMETHING is triggering the over the top separation anxiety. Is it just him or have you always had trouble being alone? Do you need to hear “I love you”? Some people do, you know, and him not saying it and his explanation sounds like a cop-out to me, frankly.
Well, what I would do is schedule events to go to when you’re not at home or work. And all your friends and family that you have? Schedule times to see all of them! In fact, sleep over at your friends’ house and vice versa. Go on your own overnight trip. Be so social you don’t have time to miss him! Be so busy you “can’t even”!
Buy yourself things you’ve wanted, or go to the spa, as rewards for getting through this. Pick out new Netflix series to watch. Listen to books on tape. See movies in a theatre.
Good Luck!
Inky
January 31, 2020 at 11:29 am #336048Anonymous
GuestDear LinLin:
“a week before he left I had unintentionally been acting like a total ass. I was picking small arguments, blaming him for being angry/ annoyed with me based on his facial expressions, tone of voice”-
-you are not really seeing his face, in your mind’s eye, or hearing his voice, you are seeing and hearing the faces and voices of your parents.
In 2018 you shared: “had both of my parents mad at me so it scared me into being a goody good. So that I would not get those angry glares and passive aggressiveness from them. Even now, my Mom still looks at me constantly with an angry glare/ tone of voice or passive aggressive language”.
It is your mother’s “angry glare/ tone of voice or passive aggressive language” that you see in your boyfriend’s face and hear in his voice and words. And when you see those things, you get scared and you get angry back. Only the man wasn’t angry with you.
We keep re-living our childhood experience as adults, keep projecting our parents into the new people in our lives. You did the same thing with your previous boyfriend.
We can peel off the past from the present; peel off our childhood experience from our current, adulthood experience if we examine and process the childhood experience that scarred us.
anita
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