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December 30, 2025 at 4:00 pm #453599
meParticipantMy Xmas was ok, first without my dad. I still get confused telling myself out loud heβs deadβ¦what the fuck?? Hope you get better! And happy new years, hope itβs a great year for you!!
Still bummed out itβs over between us. But in reality sheβs too far away. Maybe itβs not over over? But I wanted to leave because it was turning into that whole other situation all over again, so I had to find an excuse even if it was a bad one to leave.
People at work all know what happened.my boss told me next year to come to china with him (heβs Chinese) and find a girl, I can still go to Taiwan later and see her if we still talk one day, so I said maybe Iβll travel and have girls all over the place and give me reason to stay traveling all the time while making money.
I just wanted to leave this girl so I can work on myself and start traveling not worrying about someone all the time, Iβll try talking to her again someday but I canβt right now. I got my life to live and places to see. I had to make up a lame reason to end things, instead of the truth that I liked her but sheβs too far away and things arenβt working out right now.
December 30, 2025 at 4:02 pm #453600
meParticipantOh and going out with co workers again for new years. They keep inviting me so Iβll just keep accepting.
December 30, 2025 at 7:46 pm #453602
anitaParticipantDear me:
I am glad you’ll be going out with coworkers for New Year!
I understand how it may feel, not having your father alive for the first ever Christmas. No matter how complicated the relationship was, still, he was there your whole life, and now he is gone.
You did your best as he was nearing the end of his life, your very best. You werte a good so to a father who was not as good to his son
Pat yourself on the back, me, for having been the good π son that you were, that you are still. You are a good person, me!!!
I’ll write a bit more in the morning (using my phone. Did ,I mention zI broke my computer by spilling liquid on it the day before yesterday?
π Anita
December 30, 2025 at 7:48 pm #453603
anitaParticipantedit; a good son
December 31, 2025 at 9:32 am #453633
anitaParticipantDear me:
“I just wanted to leave this girl so I can work on myself and start traveling not worrying about someone all the time… I had to make up a lame reason to end things, instead of the truth that I liked her”-
What you wrote here and shared previously many times (beginning in regard to the first coworker years ago) fits a certain Attachment Style, and I wonder if talking about it may help?
So, what you shared over time, fits the FearfulβAvoidant Attachment Style (also called disorganized attachment), which I personally experienced for most of my life.
It combines two opposite forces:
(1) an Anxious side who longs for connection and closeness
(2) an Avoidant side who becomes overwhelmed by closeness
When there is a connection, a person with this attachment becomes hyperβvigilant to signs of rejection, monitors texting frequency, tone, social media activity, feels easily threatened by small changes, and interprets neutral behavior as loss of interest, then shuts down when emotions get too intense, withdrawing suddenly, blocking, disappearing, or cutting off contact to regulate the fear.
This creates a cycle of: βCome close.. but not too close.β
A fearfulβavoidant person craves intimacy, reaches out, then feels unsafe in intimacy, panics and withdraws or blocks. Then feels lonely again, longs for connection, and repeat.
Itβs a nervous system stuck between fear of abandonment and fear of closeness.
So, even small changesβlike fewer texts, slower replies, or a missed Instagram storyβcan feel like danger.
I experienced this because I desired closeness with my mother but then it was unsafe, she turned against me too many times. That became the blueprint for my connections with people: wanting it but feeling unsafe in it.
Does this resonate with you?
Thank you for your good wishes for me, me. Maybe they helped because seems like my cold is gone or almost all gone since yesterday!
Happy New Year Me ππ₯β¨ππΎπππ₯³β¨πΎπππ Anita
Anita
December 31, 2025 at 9:34 am #453634
anitaParticipant* Only one of me there, at the end of the message lol
January 1, 2026 at 1:38 am #453664
meParticipantYeah that sounds about right for me. I was told she has lots of pics of her trip with the guy, was shown none look like they are together just rando pics of them on the trip.
As for my New Yearβs Day partyβ¦2 other co workers and the female coworkers boyfriend. Lots of drinking and screaming and stuff, it was fun. One of the co workers is 55, the other is 20 and her boyfriend is 21.
January 1, 2026 at 9:24 am #453683
anitaParticipantI’m glad you had fun last night with younger and older coworkers! I didn’t stay up till midnight, not even close, but had a good time socializing at the local taproom. I hope to read about positive things happening in your life this new year π€ Anita
January 1, 2026 at 5:28 pm #453713
meParticipantWell now that the girl is gone, Iβm done with the thread.
Seems my threads always have an expiry date. Either a death or the end of a friendship. The first one was her choice, this one was my choice even if it likely left her puzzled.
January 1, 2026 at 5:51 pm #453716
anitaParticipantYou are quite a mystery to me, me.
Positively a mystery, I mean. I wonder π€ if you’ve been a mystery for her as well (“left her puzzled”).
Maybe you leave before you explain..?
January 21, 2026 at 5:48 pm #454400
anitaParticipantI miss reading from you, me…?
February 11, 2026 at 5:45 pm #455135
anitaParticipantThinking about you, me. I think you live south of the scene of mass shooting yesterday in B.C π
March 14, 2026 at 6:10 pm #455994
anitaParticipantWill I ever read again from me? I hope you are well, and it will make my day to read from you again, here or in a new thread
π Anita
April 12, 2026 at 7:09 pm #456876
anitaParticipantA new thread, me? 3 months and 11 days since you posted last?
π€ Anita
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