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ConfusedParticipantSame goes for you anita! 🙂
I hope i get there someday and live my dreams as i imagined them 🙁
Oh i think it wasn’t that hot today here, it was bearable! My least favorite weather is definitely summer because of bugs and because i sweat easily so i feel disgusted with myself haha, i think i prefer spring, flowers blooming and 20 degrees celsius, what about you? 🙂
ConfusedParticipantHey anita
I appreciate all your help and replies so far 🙂
I didn’t feel like u were involved in a way that affected me but i understand, i will be checking this forum too but not as often as i used to, i will try to limit my ruminations/compulsions too 🙂
Thank you for all your help, u are an amazing person for trying to help strangers with so many issues that are complex.
I hope i get to the bottom of this and find peace and happiness again, may this thread become a helping hand/guide for others that happen to bump into us in the future. I will be here trying to help as well 🙂
ConfusedParticipantHey anita
I wouldn’t be able to feel it/care about it right now..
No no i asked gemini about this and it basically told me that if u cant find the inner child it usually lies within the things u tell others (like the one i said).
Yeah, i dont remember feeling love or attachment to anyone except romantic relationships actually. (we’ve known each other for 1.5 years, started having feelings for her a year ago, April 2025)
No no i don’t think that’s the case. She did bring color into my life but it’s not like i wasn’t enjoying life before her. Or that i just happened to project my desires on her. I like her for legit things, character traits, loving and caring personality, humor, intelligence, wittiness and many more, it wasn’t a blind “ok i want her now”, i was falling gradually while getting to know her.
I know she’s not the cure, i am not looking for her to cure me, i just want my old self back, the one that could feel romantic things with her, who could dream things, be excited to share my life with her, the prior to november confused. Because right now i dont feel like myself at all.
I think the panic i was feeling was because i would lose her specifically, since a month or two ago, imagining the future without her was bringing me bad feelings.
ConfusedParticipantBefore all this happened i was feeling very lucky to have found her, for so many reasons that i am now not able to appreciate/feel, it’s as if even if u give me a million dollars right now, i can’t care/feel happy.
Oh yeah i know this fear is not because of her and that she can’t heal it, it’s my own wounds and past. But i have motivation to heal for her, otherwise i don’t really care because i’m not really gonna be interested in love after her, too much hassle haha, not gonna try and find another girl with similar traits (and im talking about character stuff, not appearance) because it’s rare and i think i’m tired of relationships, especially after all those things that came up with me now.
Tbh anita, i don’t remember feeling love for anyone in the past. I dont know what love is and now i am trying to “feel” / acknowledge it with her, because she loves me and she’s great to me but it’s like those things fly past me, like it’s a language that i don’t speak. I think it’s because i’m used to chaos and trying to win them over. I dont know how slow love feels like, when i was younger i was proudly saying: “If it’s not burning me up from the inside, i don’t want it”, oh how mistaken i was haha.
Gemini tells me that what i give her, is what i need to give my inner child. Whenever i cry and think of her and go in my mind “my sweet baby, u did nothing wrong”, this is what i have to say to my inner child. It seems so weird!
ConfusedParticipantHey anita, i read both your replies.
I think she made it public because she tagged her siblings and if they want to repost the stories, ppl that don’t follow her (their friends) will not be able to see the stories, it will be just a black error-screen so i figured she made it for this reason.But still my mind spiraled.
U are right that this fear predates her but i guess now it is activated by her.
Reading that leaving her will be healthier/better for me doesn’t feel good, it makes me feel uneasy/wrong. I don’t think i wanna leave her, i had dreams with her, i felt like i finally found the girl that i was dreaming of, do things together, be my romantic self without being judged, being loved and cared for and so many more things 🙁 I don’t wanna blow it all and hurt her deeply because i am triggered or burnt out. I wanna fight and figure this out. If i fell for her once, why wouldn’t i be able to do it again? If i get better and actually want to leave, i think that’s the best time to make that decision. But like i said in the past, if i leave her, i dont wanna deal with relationships ever again. I will stop working on my traumas since i wont care, no motivation will be left for me, i would be done with romance. It’s not like i want to be with someone else, i am not interested in other girls, i really felt like i found what i wanted but i can’t experience it right now with all this 🙁
I tried what copilot’s saying now and i’ve tried in the past again, but nothing comes up.
ConfusedParticipantFear of abandonment=fear of losing HER specifically or just being abandoned? Does it mean that i want her or i just don’t want to be abandoned? But i think if it wasn’t for the specific person i wouldn’t feel that fear,right? I also made another scenario in my head, tomorrow she’s going to Metallica live in Berlin, so why did she make her profile public today? So she can post stories and tag/location to be seen by randoms? But she’s not like that (or so she made me believe?) a week ago she told me she loves me..
Oh and how do we do this exactly anita?
ConfusedParticipantYes and that happened now too! A friend of mine told me that while searching for someone he saw my girl’s profile on instagram being public (she had it private a day or two ago) and as soon as i heard that my stomach clenched. I started wondering why would she do that? She posted a story with her siblings and tagged them today and my mind says “maybe she did it to attract men from her siblings profiles”, but then the feeling vanished and i was like “why did i get that feeling?”
But i never had this issue again in the past, idk what’s up now.
Idk, i dont really feel like i don’t put myself first, i mean, what do i not do that i need?
ConfusedParticipantOh i see what u mean. I think i mostly want to feel it for myself first, because i think that’s how i will feel good and okay.
But for how long? I dont enjoy anything, i want the 2025 back 🙁
ConfusedParticipantOh anita, why would i not feel absolute joy and contentment having such an amazing girl loving me and being so caring to me.She’s such a sweetheart and i wanted nothing else than to kiss her all over her pretty face before this happened 🙁
Actually in december too, while holding her i would hug her so tight and kiss her hands, forehead, lips, eyes, etc and i would feel like shouting from excitement! (while my mind was telling me “u are fooling her, u will leave her” “u are faking it”)
Now it’s like none of this matters, i can’t imagine anything romantic or feel it, like this self of mine has gone dark.. only void and vanity remains.
ConfusedParticipantNo no, it is the opposite, i can’t how that felt, my mind “removed” it, like a distant cognitive memory, no emotional charge, that goes for my whole life pretty much 🙁
Yes some days have been fun but i constantly ask from myself to be enthusiastic, miss her, be crazy about her, etc, otherwise it’s hard to feel it.
I know it does but i can’t really stop it, no matter what i do, play games, watch movies, be out with friends, ride the motorcycle , nothing works. All i do is think and ruminate and when i don’t i feel bad for not doing it lol.
Yes we did talk about those two, what do u mean changing thinking=changing feelings? About drugs, i am still not comfortable idk, maybe Wellbutrin but i need to find someone to prescribe that for me..
Yes, the therapist suggested CBT-ERP mostly, she constantly says i should really master CBT and slowly eliminate compulsions but she knows it’s difficult.
ConfusedParticipantThank you anita
Hmm yeah you are right, we said that again and yes, this was the first one to move me like that.. but u know i can’t even remember that right now, everything is so long ago or my brain has just disconnected me 🙁
Today i feel very bad, so disconnected from everything and everyone, i can’t enjoy anything, can’t focus on anything, feel empty and alone in my house and idk what’s the problem. All i know is i can’t stop thinking of her, from the minute i wake up. I constantly look in the past and try to find what changed or reminisce about how good i used to feel. I know that’s a compulsion/rumination but its hard to stop.
Hours ago i was thinking about her and i was like “what? who is this girl even? why am i so obsessed with her?” not like i don’t “know” who she is, but it’s something different i can’t explain it.
ConfusedParticipantHey anita
I relate with almost everything copilot said and i understand it, but what i don’t understand is why is this happening for months on-end? Why now? What is this trying to tell me? Maybe it’s not trying to tell me anything and it’s just a protection mechanism designed to keep u away from closeness or building deeper foundations/intimacy? I can’t understand what’s happening.
Today i feel more numb than ever, we were texting and i was feeling dysphoria and a burden.I hate it.Paulien timmer also says that doubts are a protection mechanism of the FA
ConfusedParticipantHey anita
You are right, i can’t be sure of anything ever again. Whenever i feel/do something the doubts & questions arise, that’s the OCD i think..
ConfusedParticipantOh then yes, i was already scanning/being hyper-aware and very afraid of losing her before november.
Thats what i thought when u talked about middle grounds in buddhism.
But how can i kick this part out of me or silence it? I dont need it 🙁
Also how can i know if it’s this for sure? I think it all began since that future-convo 🙁I used to believe in love fairytales, that love will save me and i will be complete
ConfusedParticipantTherapist also said she thinks i have an inner judge that has some high requirements/standards about love, relationships, how i should be feeling, etc and comes online right after i feel something. But that has never happened again in the past.. She said it could be because my previous relationships were mostly superficial and this one requires foundations. I literally have no clue
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