Home→Forums→Emotional Mastery→New and Improved: the journey, rebirth, a new world
- This topic has 297 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 5 years, 6 months ago by
cali sister.
-
AuthorPosts
-
October 3, 2019 at 7:42 am #315749
cali sister
ParticipantI am writing this as a side note as these thoughts are flowing in: I see myself these past 2 or so years, constantly searching and searching for ways to get better. To feel better. To enter my own world and not be fused with theirs. I can literally see myself – as if I am watching a movie. I realize now – All I need is for them to just not be a part of me. Not even a text.
October 3, 2019 at 7:44 am #315751Anonymous
GuestDear cali sister:
Your thinking is clear, you know what you need. I don’t know if you noticed my reply before your post of a moment ago?
anita
October 3, 2019 at 7:44 am #315753cali sister
ParticipantYour posts continue to bring tears to my eyes. Oh, how they are helping me. I will do this today. Unfortunately, I am still on their family plan so I will probably have to change my phone number. I will do that today as well. My co worker M is being very supportive today. I have to say, I am very thankful for her.
October 3, 2019 at 7:47 am #315755cali sister
ParticipantI wanted to share – on Tuesday my yoga teacher set the intention of the class as “celebration.” I celebrated my reconnection with you. The last time I went home, I came back completely distraught. My therapist and I spoke on the phone and considered all the ways of NC with parents. I was very emotional as I was that day, but scared. I am still scared, but it is different today. I am asking the universe for support.
October 3, 2019 at 7:49 am #315757Anonymous
GuestDear cali sister:
I am glad M is being very supportive, excellent. I’ll be here all day long, a couple of hours away later on, but the computer will be on until about 9 pm your time. When I see your name on the list of Topics I will answer. (If you see that I submitted a post t someone else, it means that I didn’t see that you posted before I attended another thread).
added: your yoga class celebration- that is heart warming, to me, it means a lot. Thank you.
anita
October 3, 2019 at 7:52 am #315761cali sister
ParticipantThank you.
I hope you know anita how much you have helped my sister (and I of course). I am very thankful for you. My sister and her husband and our dogs are my family. I love that concept. That I do indeed have this family here.
I am trying as the minutes go by to come to terms with the idea that I may have to call the police. That is my current hardest thought.
cali sister
October 3, 2019 at 7:55 am #315763Anonymous
GuestDear cali sister:
You are very welcome. Call the police if and after you tell them to not contact you and they contact you anyway. Warn them first. And change your phone number.
anita
October 3, 2019 at 7:57 am #315765cali sister
Participantanita,
Ok will do. And you will be the first to know when I finally block them. I shall change my number today.
I am proud of me, because even though I am so emotional right now, I am functioning. Which is a huge improvement from last year.
October 3, 2019 at 8:22 am #315773Anonymous
GuestDear cali sister:
I am proud of you too.
“even though I am so emotional right now, I am functioning. Which is a huge improvement from last year”- the slow, step by step healing/ improvement work you’ve done in the last two years is paying off. You have practice functioning no matter how you feel, you built that kind of resilience over time and you can trust it now.
anita
October 3, 2019 at 8:53 am #315783cali sister
ParticipantI figured out how to change my number. Now for sending them the final text …
what do you think?
October 3, 2019 at 9:12 am #315791Anonymous
GuestDear cali sister:
You mean what text you should send, as to the words?
anita
October 3, 2019 at 9:20 am #315797cali sister
ParticipantYes. what words to say to them
October 3, 2019 at 9:31 am #315803Anonymous
GuestDear cali sister:
Write what comes to your mind and I will be glad to give you my input/ suggest an editing. (Will you be sending it to your father’s and mother’s phones, same message?)
anita
October 3, 2019 at 9:50 am #315811cali sister
ParticipantYes, same message. Phew this is hard.
Hello. I hope you have been doing well. For my health, it is the best decision for me to no longer keep in contact with you. You may never know why or think you have done nothing wrong, but you have caused me so much pain. As my parents, of course I love you and care for you, however I can no longer tolerate your behavior. Please do not contact me anymore. I moved apartments – do not go to my old apartment. If you do, I am sorry but I will have to call the police. I need to do this for myself. I am sorry, but this is not my fault. As your daughter, please respect my decision. This is not my fault. I have done nothing wrong. I deserve to live a peaceful life.
October 3, 2019 at 10:22 am #315817Anonymous
GuestDear cali sister;
Interesting- my last note to my mother had the same thing in it, I too wrote to her that I was doing it for my health, that was my stated purpose in my last note to her.
* Which brings me to this question: you do know that this no-contact step will not bring you instant peace and well- being- do you know this clearly?
It was not the magical solution I hoped it would be- it was a necessary step that made it possible for me to proceed in the long process of healing and experiencing a better quality of life, still an ongoing process.
As to your draft of the text, it is fine. If you want to consider this editing, do so. The purpose of my editing is that you keep this text (sent to both of their phones):
– to use it in the future, in case you do involve the police, as well as if you will need to get a restraining order from the courts (I don’t think it will happen but I cannot predict the future, of course).
– “You may never know why or think you have done nothing wrong etc.” is a waste of text space. You can add that, but it is useless. It won’t hurt if you keep that.
-“this is not my fault”- this is giving them more information (as if they needed any more) as to how they can further hurt you, telling you in so many ways that indeed it is your fault.
So this is what I suggest:
“I love you and care for you (…?), however I can no longer tolerate your behavior. For my health, it is the best decision for me to no longer keep in contact with you. Please do not contact me anymore. I moved apartments- do not go to my old apartment or my new one, or to any apartment I may ever live in. If you do, I will call the police. Do not come to my workplace looking for me. If you do, I will call the police.”
I started with the Love part because in the beginning and for so long, you loved them so. Begin with the love part because this is what you are about and have been for so long, loving your parents.
You can add if you want something following “I love you and care for you”, or redo this sentence so to fully express your love for them, so that in the future, you will have the peace of mind that you did indeed express that love accurately to them, this one last time. If you want, you can add that love part to the end of your text. And maybe (?) add that your decision is final.
What do you think?
anita
-
AuthorPosts