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August 9, 2018 at 7:32 am #220859AnonymousGuest
Dear Bella:
I don’t know if I asked you before, but since you mentioned it again and since you still think about it, I will ask: what is it that you think you should have done differently than you did when he lived with you, something that would have prevented him from leaving you?
anita
August 9, 2018 at 9:00 am #220863BellaParticipantHi Anita,
I told him I wish I could find someone to take care of me & me not take care of them…I was tired of having to be the responsible one and make all of the decisions.
I was always the one to be responsible. But as soon as he moved out he was able to get a charge card, he purchased a new camper etc. When we were together he never made any effort to get his priorities in order. If I mentioned we needed to start saving so we could get the property graded he would say don’t worry about it. He said he didn’t want any charge cards, but he got one as soon as he moved out…
I do understand none of this really matters because he is gone & it makes no difference why he moved out. I know in my gut he left because he met someone else & he wanted to leave. He was just waiting for the right opportunity to leave.
Maybe he just wasn’t responsible when we were together because he knew I would be. I hope and pray this ends soon, I can’t stay on this roller coaster much longer…I have this terrible feeling of fear~
Bella~
August 9, 2018 at 9:24 am #220869AnonymousGuestDear Bella:
We don’t do our best thinking when under the influence of “this terrible feeling of fear”.
The reason fear feels so terrible, for humans and other animals, is to motivate an animal to escape real danger and do so quickly. When a predator runs toward a deer, there is no time for the deer to wait, it has to run quickly and fast. This is why nature “invented” fear, made it so distressing, so to motivate us to escape danger now!
Problem with us humans living in the complex society we live in is that we feel fear where and when there is no danger. So we are motivated to run but there is no place safer to run to, because.. there is no danger where we are.
You prefer to live with a man, a partner, for the remaining of your life, it is a preference, not an issue of life or death. Relax best you can and start planning on how to live the life you prefer to live, one where you live with a compatible-to-you man, in a healthy, loving relationship.
anita
August 15, 2018 at 7:17 am #221575BellaParticipantHi Anita,
I have gone out a few times to meet people at our local coffee shop…No clicks, or any interest. I did try to remain open, all I wanted to do was to get back home…All I do is think about what my ex is doing~
I have a friend I worked with 15 yrs. ago and we have been talking & mostly texting one another…But it usually ends up with him touching on the subject of sex…He wants to meet Sunday for lunch and I told him I would. We communicate well on the phone, but I don’t have a clue as to how an actual lunch date would be.
I also will open up about how I am torturing myself. My ex’es phone bill still sends me emails letting me know when payment is due…I looked it up online because I use to take care of all the bills, he just pays it by phone, so he is not aware the bill comes here & I can look at numbers called. Well, I got more than I bargained for, he has made calls to a an event planner for Marriage/Cruise Line ( I am assuming Honey Moon), 2 Brokerage Firms and Real Estate agent & U haul Truck…Marriage, Honey Moon and New Home!!
I am getting obsessed with this & don’t know why I continue to look at these numbers/ finding out who they are & then imagining the worst. It’s not like I can do anything about it & we haven’t spoke in weeks & it has been months since we have seen one another. I have no doubt as to what the end result is & guess I still wish we could have spoken before he got too involved with this other women. When we first split, I really thought he would come back & until I saw all of the places he has been communicating with I now know what he is doing. It does hurt so bad & I wish I could stop thinking about him & what he is doing.
I always felt in spite of everything that we would always care about one another, but from all he is doing I feel like an old hat that he had no more use and being tossed away…
I can’t believe he will be living the life with her that we had planned & never did…It has only been 4 months since he moved & how he can be planning a life with someone else makes me feel so disposable…
Part of me says to talk to him, but I know him well enough if had had the smallest feeling of wanting me he would do whatever it took to get me to talk to him…I am not that pushy & don’t want to degrade myself with groveling. Then another part says call him. I know by the way he has been for the past few months I have probably not crossed his mind at all, because he wouldn’t hesitate to call if he wanted to talk.
I feel so disposable…Like I never mattered to him & how can he move on so quickly!
Bella~
August 15, 2018 at 7:25 am #221579AnonymousGuestDear Bella:
I understand the temptation to be looking at his phone record, it being so easily available to you. This kind of work is being done by Private Investigators, by the way, as you probably know. A lot of information is in telephone records.
Since there is a PI kind of work being done here, I wonder, how do you put together the fact that he told you after he moved out and after living with this other woman, that he might be homeless soon (for lack of money, I assume), and his planning on such great expenditures of money for a wedding/ honeymoon?
anita
August 15, 2018 at 8:14 am #221593BellaParticipantHi Anita,
I agree, I now know it was lies & don’t understand how he is entertaining the though of a home purchase, lavish Honey Moon and all that he is doing. Some I am sure would say it could be coincidence , but I know better. I am glad I found these things out before I made a fool of myself talking to him. I have so many different emotions about all of this…I have a clear picture that he stayed with me thinking the relationship would be more to his satisfaction & he is the type person who will stay put until they have another safe haven to go to.
I am more angry of all of his lies to get me to feel sorry for him & that way he knew he had a place to come crawling back to if things didn’t work out with his new girl. That is why I feel he is rushing new home & marriage with someone new. He wants to get locked in and feel safe. It also makes me sick to my stomach. I still can’t believe he never wanted to talk once he left. I have though about those last few days and it wasn’t any different than any other time we had our differences. I didn’t stop him (wandering now if I should have) to talk, I thought he would be gone for a few weeks & we would be fine…I have mixed feelings as if I should talk to him~Part of me says don’t be a fool & the other thinks to try…Deep down inside I do know he wouldn’t care how I felt and on the other I feel I may regret not trying to talk…I know it is quite redundant…I know it’s like when you want someone to do something to show you they care without asking them to do so…This new info is really causing me additional pain that I should continue to walk away from…I guess because I am just finding out of all these little details, it has been going on in his head for months. I guess I should be glad I found out sooner, than later…
I will never understand after 8 yrs. how he could marry and purchase a home when just 6 months ago I was the one he wanted to marry~
Bella~
August 15, 2018 at 8:28 am #221595AnonymousGuestDear Bella:
“I will never understand after 8 yrs. how he could marry and purchase a home when just 6 months ago I was the one he wanted to marry”- you don’t understand because you don’t operate this way. You shared this morning how you go to the coffee shop to meet people but keep thinking of him. So you don’t understand how he can think and feel and then act differently from you.
There is also the other person factor playing a part here, the woman he is with. Maybe she pressures him to get married, something you didn’t do and he is responding to her pressure. Maybe she adds some money to the pressure and makes it tempting for him to get married.
anita
August 15, 2018 at 9:13 am #221601BellaParticipantHi Anita,
I need confirmation it would be better with no contact…I don’t want to wake up 2 years from now alone and wander if I should have in some way cracked the door open to see if he would in some way make contact with me.
Deep down inside it would take more than a crack, I know if he wanted me in any way shape, or form he wouldn’t hesitate to contact me no matter what the consequences…
I don’t know why, but I felt like what is happening was going to happen weeks before I found out…
Bella~
August 15, 2018 at 10:09 am #221605AnonymousGuestDear Bella:
I don’t understand: how can the door be possibly open for a reunion between you and him if he is living with another woman and plans are in the making for a marriage between him and her?
anita
August 15, 2018 at 11:38 am #221619BellaParticipantHi Anita,
I would hope if he knew deep in his Heart how I felt he would at least talk to me, But it is only wishful thinking on my part.
I know if he had an ounce of Love for me he wouldn’t even be living with her.
I am just so Sad & Heart Broken. and feel cheated & deceived.
I will not make a fool of myself, maybe as the weeks pass by I will get over this. This is the worst pain I have ever felt over a break-up~
Bella~
August 15, 2018 at 12:40 pm #221625AnonymousGuestDear Bella:
Hope prolongs your pain. As long as you hope for a relationship with him, for him talking to you, to start with, for as long as you hope, you can’t move forward and leave him behind. It is like keeping your house door open, waiting for him to come in. But what happens is that the heat in summer comes in with the mosquitoes that bite you, and the cold in winter comes in and you shiver. Got to close that door.
anita
August 15, 2018 at 1:57 pm #221653BellaParticipantSo true Anita,
I will continue to focus & work on my mind set to this terrible situation…I have been leaving the door open & me frozen in time, waiting for him to call or to get in touch with me & I know it is not going to happen…
Thank you~
Bella~
August 16, 2018 at 7:21 am #221711AnonymousGuestDear Bella:
You are welcome. “me frozen in time” is a poetic way of putting it, and correct. Close the door then, it will be difficult and at times you will find the door a bit open, kind of opened a bit on its own, so close it again.
And post anytime.
anita
August 16, 2018 at 7:42 am #221721BellaParticipantHi Anita,
This is probably one of the longest posts, but it helps me tremendously & I will continue as long as you will respond~:)
I thought a lot last night and I believe my biggest fear is being alone…If I were to meet my ex today as a stranger, or date and knew his capabilities in a new relationship, I would run. So I will keep telling myself it is not so much him that I want back, it was the security I had with someone that I THOUGHT CARED and LOVED me, but it was not the type of love I want in a new relationship.
I will just keep living my life as it is comfortable for me & I am sure I will run across a nice caring person that is meant for me & if not, so be it~I will be alone, but at least I will only be alone by myself, instead of being lonely with someone as I was with my ex. I know if he had been what I needed in my life I wouldn’t have so many questions now.
Have a nice day Anita & I will try to do the same~
Bella~
August 16, 2018 at 7:50 am #221723AnonymousGuestDear Bella:
Your thread is not the longest and I am okay with it if it was to be the longest, no limit required on my part, so keep posting and I will be glad to reply.
I think that you made an excellent observation, and it is an excellent insight, that “it is not so much him that I want back, it was the security I had with someone that I THOUGHT CARED and LOVED me”-
it was not real security, it was the feeling of security that you had with him, and it is the feeling that you’ve been missing all along.
You are as safe now, probably safer now, in real life, than you would be if he was back living with you. I can imagine how angry and distressed you would be if he was back, and that distress would take away from your safety.
anita
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