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December 31, 2018 at 7:06 am #271623HParticipant
Yeah that’s right, I avoid topics that I don’t want to talk about and focus on other things more.
Yeah for someone go give me their undivided attention without being present physically reduced the pressure of everything. It felt easy. So I could put on weight and not be judged. The more I was criticised before by family members, the more I started to critique myself which became a vicious circle.
I’m not entirely sure what bothered him. I guess when I was born he didn’t want another kid? He also started resenting me for over achieving in academia- he thinks I somehow sabotaged my brothers education.
Thanks!
December 31, 2018 at 7:19 am #271629AnonymousGuestDear Harminder:
You are welcome.
Feel free to answer or not to answer the following. Maybe you will want to answer later, so come back to it, if you want:
How is your relationship with your father currently, how do you feel about him and when you are in his presence?
And your mother, what was her part in your childhood, and now?
anita
December 31, 2018 at 7:29 am #271631HParticipantHi Anita
On days it’s ok but I have this resentment towards him. Sometimes I refuse to be in his presence.
Mum is a lot better now, but I always have it in the back of my mind that she resents me for a lot of things. Used to be up and down as well.
Thanks
December 31, 2018 at 7:40 am #271635AnonymousGuestDear Harminder:
Is that why you keep asking people the same questions, keep checking if they are angry at you?
If this is the reason, better figure out what it was that your father and mother, individually or together, were angry at you about, specifically, otherwise you will keep wondering if people are angry at you, thinking it can be anything and everything about you may make other people angry.
anita
December 31, 2018 at 7:46 am #271639HParticipantYes that’s right! I remember once I was hungover lol and my friend(online) wanted to have dinner but I had already had mine. The whole day after I asked him if I had him angry or if he was annoyed with me a few times.
Not sure what they were angry about. All I knew was that they were always angry growing up.
Harminder
December 31, 2018 at 7:51 am #271645AnonymousGuestDear Harminder:
Well, if you want, tell me about two separate incidents that either one or both were angry at you, describe the circumstances and what they told you as clearly as you can. Maybe I can help you understand what they were angry about.
anita
December 31, 2018 at 7:59 am #271647HParticipantHi Anita
Incident 1
Over a year ago- I wanted to quit my PhD due to differences with my supervisor. They got angry and basically told me I was a failure
Incident 2- my dad told me I should encourage my brother to do a masters. I said it was his choice and I couldn’t force him. He told me i wanted to sabotage my brothers life in some way.
I hope they’re ok examples, I’ll see if I can think of some more
Thanks
December 31, 2018 at 9:20 am #271671AnonymousGuestDear Harminder:
Do you think that it is a possibility that your father feels and have felt like a failure since you came into his life and probably before, and so he gets angry when you experience a success and tries to rain on your parade, to make you feel like he does, like a failure?
I wonder if he shared with you, or you have any knowledge otherwise about his relationships with his parents, whether he thinks his mother, perhaps, sabotaged him, kept him away from being successful, whether you noticed that he feels angry at his mother/ parents.
anita
January 1, 2019 at 3:05 pm #271927HParticipantHi Anita
Yes in some ways he does. He feels like marrying my mum and having kids sabotaged his career progression.
Relationship with parents is quite up and down as again he blames them for holding in back but when In reality a person is responsible for their own choices and actions?
Also, Happy New year!! Hope this year is better than the last one.
January 2, 2019 at 6:47 am #271987AnonymousGuestDear Harminder:
You wrote that your father blames his parents “for holding him back:” and he feels “like marrying my mum and having kids sabotaged his career progression”. The first is likely to be true as parents often do hold their children back, and if that happens in his case, then his parents are responsible for that.
Regarding his choice to marry your mother and to have children, legally at least, he is fully responsible for that. Practically, there may be a lot of his parents’ input in his decision, causing him to choose something he wouldn’t have chosen otherwise.
One thing is certain regarding these two things: you are not responsible for these things. There has been no wrong doing or wrong being on your part to lead to his parents holding him back, and no wrong doing or wrong being on your part leading to your father marriage and sex with your mother.
Earlier you wrote: “The more I was criticized before by family members, the more I started to critique myself”- thing is you were wrongly criticized by your family (above two things to start with), some and even most of your criticism of yourself, may as well be about things you are also not responsible for, or for things that are not wrong doings or wrong-being on your part.
anita
January 6, 2019 at 9:32 am #272571HParticipantHi Anita
Hope you’re well.
Yes I’m slowly trying to make myself understand that none of this is my fault and that the criticisms by others were unfair. Family members don’t always have your best interests at heart, something I’m slowly beginning to realise that. All with time.
Thanks!
H
January 6, 2019 at 9:40 am #272575AnonymousGuestDear H:
You are welcome. Yes, “Family members don’t always have your best interest at heart”, true. Better you have your best interest in heart then.
Post again anytime.
anita
January 27, 2019 at 8:58 am #277181HParticipantHi Anita
Hope you’re well 🙂
I recently reached out to my best friend, she had stopped talking to me because of some misunderstanding we had. Not spoken for 7 months. I messaged her boyfriend over christmas to see if she was reading my messages but nothing yet. Should I reach out again? Any advice regarding this?
January 27, 2019 at 9:12 am #277185AnonymousGuestDear H:
Did you mention this best friend to me before- if you didn’t will you tell me about how long the friendship was and how it came about that you stopped talking or if you already shared about it, will you copy and paste the part in this thread where you already shared about this friendship?
anita
January 27, 2019 at 9:52 am #277195HParticipantHi Anita
Nope, different one! The friendship was around 8 years, met at uni. We always said we were more like family and did literally everything together. However she stopped talking to me all of a sudden in June, confusing as we had just met two weeks prior and everything was fine. I assumed it was because of me constantly talking about my friend that I know over email (we met through her so mutual friends. So i messaged her and apologized; a few times I emailed her because I was feeling low and I guess I thought she might have calmed down. Recently I found out through our mutual friend that she thought I had been talking about her to two other girls we knew- on any other day she would have asked me out right and believed me but because I had annoyed her she obviously felt hurt by the rumors ( i was probably the closest person to her ) so she blocked me last june. My mutual friend told me to contact her boyfriend, which I did- just asked him to tell her I had sent her an email explaining everything. Luckily, he didn’t reply which is a good sign as he didn’t block me? Not sure what to do next…messaged him over christmas as thats when I found out
Sounds like a teenage drama sequel lol but it’s been really bugging me and good friends are hard to come by, so I don’t really want to give that up
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