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March 16, 2018 at 8:30 am #197635
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GuestDear 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 Lynn
ParticipantYeah 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 #197641Anonymous
GuestDear 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 Lynn
ParticipantBad…
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 #197665Anonymous
GuestDear 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 Lynn
ParticipantYeah 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 #197685Anonymous
GuestDear 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 Lynn
ParticipantYeah 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 #197725Anonymous
GuestDear 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 #197777Anonymous
GuestDear 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 Lynn
ParticipantSorry 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 #197907Anonymous
GuestDear 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 Lynn
ParticipantHey 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 #198131Anonymous
GuestDear 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
March 19, 2018 at 11:13 am #198143Jenny Lynn
ParticipantYeah I didn’t think about it like that….
But I am just not in the space to be able to make a move like that right now especially monetarily. Either way I know I would be just as annoyed with it all because I would be at my moms driving a hour and a half to work everyday working 11 hours of work and yeah thats just way too much. My plan is to cope till the 31st and after really ironing out my plans I am in a sort of in a upper mood. I have something I am looking forward too.
Yesterday he made this big dramatic ass display of “getting his stuff together” so EXTRAAAA.
Best friend was like “dude dont let him stifle you…he is trying to get to you right now, hes trying to get you to come to him… probably because of me being here he knows that kind of made you happy and he wants you sad and shit. Dont even give him a reaction.”
At first it did take me back a little when I walked in the house because he had taken the curtains down and stuff. We have these really nice blackout curtains that are his and he knows I like it dark. We have them in the bedroom and livingroom (He has been sleeping in LR). I dont know what had him in his feelings. I saw all his stuff around and it just seemed like yeah hes getting all his stuff together but you touching the stuff I generally use. The curtains just annoyed the crap out of me because honestly if hes there when I get home today….he is literally dramatic as hell. Oscar worthy, because Anita look…he has all his crap out. As if he really about to do something. Like stuff out of the cubbie storage under our bed and everything. It was almost like he wanted to disrupt my comfort by trying to take things he knows I use and use “getting my stuff together” as the excuse. It all overwhelmed me momentarily. Best friend and me had just came back from brunch; and he had left before we had left to do that so coming back in and seeing that, just got me off guard. Which I guess is what he wanted. But when they both were gone I cried for a second. Washed my face and took a old blanket and tacked it up on the wall in my room… As I said nothing in here wont happen just because he’s being a child today. Because to me regardless of people mindsets on moving. If you are going to continue to be living here for 11 days which he probably will (but shock me please lol) the curtains would be the last thing to go…because we sleep everyday. He makes no sense…whats he gon pack next his toothbrush lol..So as I said just a few sentences ago…why have all this junk out yesterday in the open if not to be putting it in your car today to take it somewhere….so we shall see in a hour 2.5hrs when I get home. Cuz if its the same as I left. He was just trying to bug me…for whatever reason.
But it felt so good to see him see me overcome even just the curtains you know. Because I KNOW he knows how much that bothered me. Especially because I had got upset when I came in he knows I would have wanted to get in bed, you know. But when he came in I had the door shut because I wanted him to have to work for it..force him to physically have to open the door to see me (*in the bright room with no curtain* like he left it, right…). He came in like he had to grab something and I just saw on his face when he saw the room dark..like “shoot she got around that” and then the cherry on top was seeing him 2 hours later when I got up I look in that BRIGHT ASS livingroom he couldnt help himself but take the curtains down from…he is in there on the couch with a blanket over his face trying to take a nap. I just though to myself….now who look retarded lol
I dont know if you know about snapchat. but he deleted me off there today. Idc because he has done it before in other conflicts so that really didnt phase me.
But dang man I could only be so blessed as to walk in my house at 4:45 and see that he left….pridelessly my baby ass would cry. But at this point its like are you trying to hurt me?..because I am already that….. soooo if Im not getting an apology can you just GO ON
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