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    Anonymous
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    Hello again and again

    I posted here before about a person i love and he love me , we met on Facebook and we didn’t see each other till now and he refused to have a serious relationship.

    actually at that time he was telling me sometimes that he have a depression and anxiety and he is a negative person and he don’t want to commit because he don’t have hope about the future.

    And i thought that it’s not illness , i thought it’s just some bad days.. sometimes he is pulling me away and don’t want to talk to me. so i said here before that i told him to stop flirting and talk once a day. he accepted that but he was not happy so i felt like i’m not happy too.. we stopped flirting but we knew that we still love each other. and for me even though i met a lot of people and most of the time i’m busy i think about him but never call him too much.

    so he talked to me and i felt that he is missing me but i was acting like a friend.. talking to him friendly and trying not to text him a lot.. one day i hurt him by telling him that he is a player because he was confused

    i felt a little bit guilty because he really looks like he needed me so i end up with telling him how much i love him and i said that because i was angry. he also told me how much he love me.

    i searched about depression and suddenly i found literally all the symptoms that my man had.. sometime feeling like he don’t want to talk , choosing not to commit in a relationship , hopeless about the future and a lot of things.

    at that time i felt like i want to kill my self for what i said.. and i knew that i hurted him sooooo much! and i was afraid that he may suicide!!

    so i also felt like i want to help him because he is so kind and he love me.. gentleman and always honest! and the most important thing is i love him so much!! his personality.. thinking.. voice.. face.. laugh.. everything!! and whenever i talk to him i feel so happy and at least comfortable and safe! so i told him that i’m sorry about not taking care of him and i’m gonna stay no matter what , and we gonna face that depression together and asking for another chance.

    i see the future with him.. when i see that despite of his depression and negativity he see the beautiful things in life.. details.. he enjoy a coffee or a books , he sometimes say things that shows me that he is an optimist guy without that depression! i feel and i believe like one day we are gonna be together traveling the world as a happy lovers or couple. so i felt like i’m gonna lose i diamond or lose my soulmate.

    i want to know if i did the right thing or not? (i’m aware that he may ”infect” me that depression but i feel like i’m strong enough to protect my self.

    And i want to know if you can help me or telling me how to support him in long distance because he said that he really appreciate physical contact but he still want to me to be there.

    sorry for talking too much.

    #349938
    Anonymous
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    Dear  Amelia:

    Welcome back.  You are a good person, Amelia, and this man is fortunate to have you in his life.

    If I remember correctly, this long distance relationship started March 2019. I agree, he does seem to be depressed, but the fact that sometimes he “sees the beautiful things in life” is encouraging.

    Last we communicated I suggested that the two of you will be online friends at the most. But you clearly love him beyond friendship, and you are quite excited about the idea of having a future life with him. So friendship-only is not possible.

    “how to support him in long distance”- gently. But you are gentle, so I don’t think you have to try hard to be gentle. What he does not need is someone to pressure him to do anything. He needs to feel safe with you. When he feels safe enough with you, he will have the courage to surprise himself and believe in what he didn’t believe before.

    If you pressure a significantly depressed person (telling him that he should feel this way and not that way; that he should think this way and not that way; that he should do  this and that, etc.)/shouldn’t think this way, and that he should do this and not that, etc.), the depressed person withdraws further into himself, like a turtle into its shell.

    But if you listen to him with empathy and no criticism, if you express to him that you like him just the way he is, then he is most likely to come out of his shell and .. walk, and even run.

    Everyone needs to feel safe within a relationship, to feel accepted, not pressured and not criticized, but an anxious and depressed person needs it desperately. I hope the two of you can provide this safety for each other.

    And please do post anytime you want. I like reading from you, you are not “talking too much”, so.. you can talk (type) more, much longer posts if you want to.

    anita

     

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