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March 16, 2018 at 8:05 am #197627Jenny LynnParticipant
Thanks Anita!
Yes we are still living together. He is sleeping on the couch, staying out of the house a lot. Almost like before when I had asked him to move out and he was working all those hours.
I think I am going to go stay with my mom for a while. Our Lessor said we can leave on the 31st (instead of the 14th of april) I asked him about that before we fell out and he wasn’t that into it but now. If he hasn’t spoke to me by tomm I am probably going to tell him I am leaving on the 31st and he can pay the rent for the 2 weeks in april if he really needs that time to make more money to move.
I didn’t want it to be temporary…but I also need a unpressured genuine apology….as the days go by more and more I don’t feel like I am going to get that.
I just feel like I worked way too fucking hard to keep our relationship together in all terms of our conflicts 90% of the time. I run the ball back every time. We had said numerous times in the past that, I mean if it wasn’t for me…we would have already broke up. I.E. waiting on him to do something more just usually doesn’t happen.
That is not to say I have never gotten an apology from him. But very few far in between and furthermore one that I didn’t have to coax out of him with conversations, talks of the incident prompted by me, or just expelling a energy I’m open to accepting your apology .
This time I just washed my hands with it. I speak through the house and say hello or whatever. I’m not walking around brooding or anything. But I have to just keep telling myself….IF HE WANTED YOU HE WOULD COME GET YOU. PERIOD.
I just keep repeating it to myself every time I get closer to making a move towards the above actions.
He is wrong and I am due an apology. If I just brushed passed this 1. it would only continue to escalate, 2. let him think he can just talk to me any way he wants to and 3. I would be the retarded idiot he says I am to come back and act like this isnt a HUGE deal to me.
I have stuck my neck out for our relationship a million times….for me to get brushed away, for him to say he’s still annoyed and not talk to me, or ignore me for days and I still talk to him and be nice to him till he comes around. I have been denied by him in my efforts to resolve situations he wasn’t ready to yet. I kept trying..because I love him and I want him.
I deserve that too. No one wants someone who just is around because its easy. No one wants someone who can just do with or without them at the drop of a hat. So I just have to keep telling myself if he wanted me…he would have me.
I do however feel a way that even if he is okay with not being together anymore…how can he not apologize for what he said. I am STILL due a apology whether this relationship continues or not. Otherwise it wouldnt be cordial between us to say the least after. I know he is stubborn and stubborn people rationalize things weird in their heads. But the other day I was in my feelings and he asked when I walked in if I was ok. I said “no” put my purse down walked in the bathroom and turned the water on and started crying and then went in my room and got in the bed..mind you this is 5pm but I do have really nice blackout curtains. He comes in probably a hour later and says “Are you sure you dont want to talk about it” I said “no” I have tossled with this thought since then. Basically asking myself what exactly I was saying no to in that moment.
But I concluded that to me, he knows I am not ok because I stated it. He knows why I am sad (us) if it is some alternate thing making me upset (we aren’t talking so why are you asking me). So to me its like asking the person your broken up with and still don’t want to be with to talk about their “feelings” ..WHY? What do we have to discuss. I have friends who I can tell the unchanging idea that my relationship is over. I don’t need to express that to you. So unless you are coming to me with new information, (I.E) HE does not like the break up, fact that we arent talking, fact that he should apologize..he should put himself in the position to do it.
Don’t ask me “do I want to talk” about the thing that we both caused that isnt changing.
Like oh yeah; lets talk about water levels rising….oh okay…what have they risen too? Oh theyre the same lets just talk about them being the same though….NOOOOO! No one is doing that!!
If its over its over and me crying to him isnt going to change that make it better or make me feel better. So yeah. I waited the week to see if he would come around before not including him in my decision to tell my mom I am going to come there.
I dont know what to do or say. I am really at a loss 🙁
March 16, 2018 at 8:30 am #197635AnonymousGuestDear Jenny Lynn:
“I am so sorry I said you are ___” are the first words he should tell you, not “are you sure you don’t want to talk about it”- an apology, sincere, one that he initiates, not one pressured to express.
I know you invested a lot of time and energy in this relationship, and that is the sad part. But it is not working for you. If you look back to the whole experience, read your own posts, you became more and more depressed while living with him, not leaving the apartment for days at a time, all weekends, right? Not socializing.. it hasn’t been good to you.
I think it is time to end it. Let him go. If you invest more time, more energy, you will be losing … more time. Cut your losses now.
I am still uneasy about some of his stalking behaviors in the past and I wonder if you should take some precautions about moving out, making it a smooth event.
anita
March 16, 2018 at 8:41 am #197639Jenny LynnParticipantYeah its like why are you talking to me about all this random stuff that doesn’t matter. There’s only about 3 subjects I will give my time too and none of the sentences he has decided to say to me are one.
I don’t have any reservations about his past behaviors in regards to moving though.
If he ask my plans I will tell him otherwise its really none of his business. Even more so I may pay the extra $100 or so in april and still leave; because if these weeks continue to go by and we arent talking..I mean in 3 weeks I dont owe you an explanation to anything. So in that regard we would just go our separate ways. If we start talking over the days to come on a more amicable terms. Like he apologies and we still break up of course he knows I will be leaving. So with the moving thats all to be played by ear. But I don’t really have any worries towards it.
March 16, 2018 at 8:51 am #197641AnonymousGuestDear Jenny Lynn:
How is your depression these days? When you think about moving out, no longer living with him, do you have a good feeling about it, sometimes, a relief and hope for a better kind of life, as in setting yourself free from a struggle that has been going on for too long?
anita
March 16, 2018 at 9:24 am #197659Jenny LynnParticipantBad…
I love him, I do. It deeply saddens me for numerous reasons.
The feeling of being without him…I don’t know if just right now.. I still don’t know any better?. But to think about never seeing him again or something just kills me, I tear up typing it.
But what can I do?…I may be who I am and feel how I feel about things but I can’t be in a position where someone acts that way AND has no remorse or accountability. On the list of things I have planned for the next 50 years…cleaning up my feelings and actions ALONG WITH SOMEONE ELSE’S because they don’t accept accountability for the things they do is too much. Its too much emotional weight for someone in the mental state I am in especially right now.
But not really; I don’t feel the relief yet. I usually do which is strange. I know the feeling your describing.
But I wanted this with him. I just wanted it to be good. Even though sometimes I feel like we set ourselves up to fail. I didn’t plan to have to do this with someone else again.
Behind every man we date there are 2 men behind him..one who is going to treat you better and one who will treat you worse. There are so many options and I know that I can find better…But I just..I wanted him.
Its hard still living there, that is taking a emotional toll on me in general.
Because I KNOW I could have resolved this by now…selfsooth the whole 9….but I’m just not going to do that this time. So to be in the space of the person you love and not being able to talk to them and interact with him. It a lot.
March 16, 2018 at 9:44 am #197665AnonymousGuestDear Jenny Lynn:
Love shouldn’t be painful. What a shame: that you love him so much and hurting so much.
If loving him has caused you so much pain, for too long and his behaviors do not change, the behaviors causing you pain, then are we to pursue pain? Like you wrote, it is too much to do this “for the next 50 years”
We want something so bad we get attached to it, to what we want, and keep at it, waiting, hoping, trying.. then giving up then trying again. And on and on. And then, five years later, fifteen, fifty and you wonder: really? This is how I spent my life, my youth?
You can be miserable all by yourself.
Between being miserable with him with no reasonable hope for a good, loving relationship and being miserable by yourself with hope for a better relationship, better make the second choice.
However difficult it is and will e for a while.
anita
March 16, 2018 at 10:07 am #197677Jenny LynnParticipantYeah I guess I need to gain acceptance. Which is why the living together thing needs to end as soon as financially possible. I don’t think I can get over it till I leave.
I have many options for that as well…
Move to my moms indefinitely
Move to my moms for 9 months take a 3 month break then work part time for 6 and then move back to where I live now or somewhere else.
Stay in the city I live and keep doing what I have been except worried about myself and make a plan to go back to school in AUG
Then hopefully the break of 2/3 options would provide me some insight as to what to do next. Maybe go back and get my masters or doctorate.
I don’t know what to do next, where to go next…
March 16, 2018 at 10:33 am #197685AnonymousGuestDear Jenny Lynn:
Maybe it is a good idea for you to move out today, or tomorrow, to start packing now and move out ASAP, for your own well-being. Why prolong the ordeal?
And then figure out the options, once you are no longer living with him, after a while of not living with him.
anita
March 16, 2018 at 11:52 am #197721Jenny LynnParticipantYeah but I don’t have anywhere to really go right now other than a couch. I guess I have to decide the degree of discomfort I’m willing to tolerate over the next 2-4 weeks. Because yes I can go to my mothers. But it isn’t like I’d be going back to my old childhood room. That’s a complicated situation too. My mom lives in a 1bedroom. She’s really annoying and I just don’t know which is more intolerable right now.
March 16, 2018 at 12:04 pm #197725AnonymousGuestDear Jenny Lynn:
Can you ask your mother to take a break from being annoying, make an exception this time?
(this is my lol attempt. You didn’t type lol for ages).
Really, can you ask her to make an exception, not necessarily using my words here?
anita
March 17, 2018 at 3:33 am #197777AnonymousGuestDear Jenny Lynn:
It is okay to not be lol-ed by my amateur, first lol attempt. I hope you are okay, please let me know how you are and what is going on.
anita
March 17, 2018 at 2:39 pm #197863Jenny LynnParticipantSorry I left work early yesterday and prefer to type on desktop. But yeah I need to get with her and talk to about the arraignments.
I’ll probably just take a wondering vacation then decide.
Everything is fine. I’m going to have my friend over today that will be a good distraction.
March 18, 2018 at 5:45 am #197907AnonymousGuestDear Jenny Lynn:
Take good care of yourself in this difficult time, at any time, really. Prepare and plan best you can, make thoughtful choices. Try to not react automatically to fear, letting it choose against your best interest. Post here anytime.
anita
March 19, 2018 at 10:15 am #198123Jenny LynnParticipantHey Anita. My weekend was quite stressful I just tried to live and not focus on whats going on around me.
He was being kind of petty this weekend. My best friend came down and we had a slumber party. She helped me kind of not fall into his drama. He still upset me yesterday because sometimes he is just so extra.
I can’t really tell yet if he doesn’t care or he is just trying very hard to exude it. But still no apology in the air…
I cant really worry about if he cares anymore though. That’s what I have told myself over the past few days. I just need to live…live genuinely but as if he isn’t even there.
I’m still getting my head wrapped around not letting him affect my decisions. Like I said above, living genuinely and do what I want but not things that have anything to do with him if it makes sense. Just trying not to care what he would think about what I am doing. Because facts are I have no idea what he has been doing the past 11 days.
But if he is so dead set on acting as if none of this phases him…I don’t know if I can match that. But I can exude that nothing your taking from me (figuratively or literally) can’t be replaced. Rice cooker or anything else lol <–there one goes haha.
But overall my weekend was good my best friend made the time enjoyable instead of me sitting around thinking about him.
Ive organized a plan on what I am going to do on the 30th and I am confident that everything is going to go well.
Best friend says he just doesn’t appreciate me so this time will either make him realize that what I brought to his life was irreplaceable and he was fortunate OR he will remain in his mindset. Either way she thinks my decision is the best for showing what he is willing to do for what we had together.
So if it does turn out to be that we never connect again. I will know that he just wasn’t who was for me anyways. A very long time ago I should have put him in the position to decide about me on his own. Instead I made choices and gravitated myself to him almost to where he didn’t even have to choose it because I was already in the palm of my hand. I let him affect my decision making before I should have which maybe if I hadn’t I would have corned him a lot sooner into showing me this side of him. What happens when someone isn’t basically…chasing after him.
March 19, 2018 at 10:46 am #198131AnonymousGuestDear Jenny Lynn:
Having your friend over made your time there a lot better but without her presence, this is not a good situation for you, far from it. I wish you moved out ASAP, yesterday. Even if there is no physical danger to you (and you insisted in the past that there is none), emotionally this is not a good place or time for you.
You chased him all this time, you wrote. Now you are waiting to see if, for a change, he will chase you. Ahh.. the waiting. Tough on the nerves, isn’t it, and like you wrote, he is better at it than you are, appearing unaffected, like he doesn’t care.
You care and if he cares, he is well practiced at hiding it. I wish you move out real soon. After all, if he doesn’t care- you shouldn’t be there. If he cares but is trying to break you by making you suffer, well…- you shouldn’t be there.
anita
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