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March 29, 2016 at 11:10 am #100398NiyataParticipant
My mum and dad both used to fight badly and would hit themselves with chair their hands whatever they have in hands.. and curse each toher and their families real badly. which made me lose respect i never really did like them at all if i look back. And immediately after the fight she would go and plead him or he would plead her fall in each other’s feet adn they will be all happy again.. Only while writing this i realise it happened once a month atleast. they were so fricking silly they would fight horribly in the middle of the night if my mother refuses to tend to my father needs..?%^&$ (If u know what i mean) I was just 9 years old by then i remember that day very well.. neighbours had to wake up and come and pacify these people so awkward it was. i grew up here… after a while my sub conscious started to plan methods to escape my mum and dad.. when i was 14 years i would act like am having vertigo and fall to the ground wherever i am.. the plan is if its medically serious they would send me to my grandpa.. Yay and it worked.. I did take a long leave and left to my grandparents place.. i dunno if he recognised that i was cheating and wanted to keep me there or i was acting too well i dunno .. My grandpa told my parents that i have some issue in my olfactory nerve due to which im getting vertigo and made me stay there for 2 -3 months.this is where my life took wrong turn
March 29, 2016 at 2:06 pm #100410AnonymousGuestDear Niyata:
If only half, a third, even a small part of what you shared happened to a child, that would be bad enough.
The girl that you were was deeply and severely hurt. And the young woman that you are is still suffering the consequences of the abuse and violence inflicted on you by your parents and the violence between them.
In the house you grew up, where you were hurt so badly, you were a victim, the one with no power. You never learned how it feels to have power over yourself and your life circumstances. When you faked fainting so to be sent to stay with your grandparents, you learned that you can get what you want, sometimes, by manipulating. By pretending to faint, you got your wish.
With this married guy, you at one point, try to hurt him so that he will leave you. You didn’t realize that it is possible for you to leave him. You manipulated him so to get him to decide to leave you.
You don’t know, because you don’t have the experience, that you can initiate, make things happen your way, not indirectly, by manipulating, but directly, by asserting yourself:”this is what I need! This is what I want!”
You will not know how it feels until you initiate and assert yourself, then you will get that feeling and you will know what it means.
This is not easy stuff. Your desperation for love is intense, desperation to feel special, cherished, important… to matter to someone. Plus, practicing new behavior is difficult because (before it feels good) it feels very uncomfortable.
Best for you would be psychotherapy with a competent, caring and hard working therapist. If there is a way for you to get this, please do.
Otherwise, please do post again. I am so sorry for your heartbreaking story. I understand the intensity of your pain, of your desperation to feel loved… I understand your confusion, your feeling of being powerless.
If you are able, first thing to do would be to assert yourself, to learn in small portions what it is to assert yourself, to make things happen as you want them, directly. Practice this skill, assertiveness. No way is too small to use as practice.
Till your next post-
anita
April 5, 2016 at 8:38 am #100927NiyataParticipantHi am gonna go back to the starting section again since something happened on that part again and i need someone to help me.. I’m terribly confused. I actually started behaving weird with this guy and kept on hurting him saying that this wont work and tried to get away from him for continuous 3-4 days that’s the longest i haven’t spoken to him as of now/. I go back to him like a puppy. He on the other hand.. says what we have is not for sex.. we haven’t done anything so far.. its just understanding each other and being there for one another. He checks on me periodically he lives in US and i live in India.. Still we have been in touch for like 2 years now. We share ideas, talk about general interests.. i like him so much.. but on the other hand. i cannot live like this all through my life via online and that too with a married man. even though he has issues and he says i understand him and so and so..he cannot come out of that life to me neither will i want him to. he is just a good pal. And since im alone most of the time I’m unable to have self control and stop texting him or be strong in cutting contact with him.. i deliberately cried to him one day to block me.. and not text me or reply to my messages.. He says its me who has issues and so why he should go.. Karma wise i feel like hurting someone when he really needs help if he finds peace in talking to me i feel selfish to spat im out. But on the other hand. its my life which is going through lots of crap… there are some days where i had to share some stuff to him but he wont be there.. and i have series of episodes of fights with him ruining his sleep and peace. clearly im just looping this without ending.. he wont let him go im unable to let him go.. i dunno whats gonna happen here.
April 5, 2016 at 8:54 am #100928AnonymousGuestDear Niyata:
Your last sentence was that you don’t know what is going to happen in connection with the man. He lives in the US, you live in India. Your connection is an online connection for as long as you live in separate continents. You don’t see him getting a divorce, nor do you want him to and he did not express such motivation to get divorced.
So when you state you don’t know what is going to happen, it seems to me that nothing is going to happen.
It seems to me that nothing much is happening outside of your mental experience of it, outside of what you are thinking and feeling about it.
Your online relationship with this man is not The Problem. You are focused on it, and that is the problem. I wish your focus would be elsewhere, on your life, on your in person relationships in your life, in India where you live. I wish your focus would be on your daily life, what you are actually doing, how you are doing what you are doing and how you interact and with whom you interact in your daily in-person life.
I believe your way out of your confusion is to focus on your in-person daily life as is. The online communication with this man is like an addiction to an online game, a distraction taking you away from the real problems.
anita
April 5, 2016 at 9:11 am #100932NiyataParticipantHi Anita,
In real life i don’t have any problems at all.. not like this at least.. I diverted lot of my focus to gardening.. i have started growing lot of plants in my roof. I run a business and i am pretty busy with it.. When this guy pings me in the morning I would be pretty damn busy but somehow i stop all that and talk to him.. Yea it is addictive.. I dunno why.. I clearly wanna come out of it.. I feel ashamed of not being in control of myself.. I know im a non assertive person.. But i had come across situations where my Ex came back to me after marriage saying that he cant forget me blah blah i was able to say a hard NO right to his face but now i dunno where that guts went.. I fight with this guy but i go back.. or he doesn’t take me seriously at all he pings the very next morning. I started doing this for fun.. i know this guy was lying and stuff but later somehow it became addictive. I started caring too much for him. its like im stuck in a loop. Its like a whole day had now reduced into 1-1.5 hours of talk. but i don’t like this also.. this is not good for me or my life..April 5, 2016 at 9:17 am #100933AnonymousGuestDear Niyata:
You wrote that the guy doesn’t take you seriously. Earlier you wrote that he told you that the fact that you want to end the communication with him doesn’t mean he should, that it is your issue. It is obvious, is it not, that he doesn’t care about you? That he doesn’t respect you?
What motivates you to communicate with a man who does not care for or respect you?
anita
April 5, 2016 at 9:28 am #100934NiyataParticipantI’m going to paste what you wrote in front of my work desk and my kitchen cabinet.. Thanks for making time to write to me Anita! I sincerely appreciate it..
April 5, 2016 at 9:43 am #100935AnonymousGuestDear Niyata:
You are welcome and … anytime!
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