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January 5, 2016 at 11:16 am #91398IsselParticipant
For those that are curious this post is a follow up to a post i posted 4 months ago. Its been months since i have seen her as she got into another relationship. The months following her departure was an extremely emotional time for me. I thought of her frequently but as time took its course the emotional stress and pain i had felt diminished. During this time she had contacted me 4 times to talk and see how i am doing, all months apart. The first couple of phone calls it was awkward for the first few minutes. At first i was confused and questioned why she is calling me and if her boyfriend knows , her answer was no. By the 3rd and 4th phone call our talks went from 20 min calls to 3 hours, where we would reminisce about the good times we had and we would confess our love for one another. She would ask me things such as if i think things could ever go back the was things were. She seemed to be hesitant/not proud to call this person she was with her boyfriend, i found that so weird. Eventually, by the last phone call she told me that she is having difficulty opening up to her boyfriend because when she is with him she is thinking about me. Keep in mind there was a one month gap between each of these phone calls, it used to really bug me how we would talk for so long, say all these things and then hang up and not knowing the next time we would speak or if we ever would again.
A couple of weeks ago, she messaged me and asked if we could talk. I told her if you wanted to talk i am done speaking on the phone and would only do so at a coffee shop. She agreed to meet up. During our talk, she told me how she still loves me and was apologetic about what she had done 4 months ago. I was extremely pissed off because during that time i told her that i loved her so much and i wanted to take our relationship to another level and she had told me it is to late “there is someone else in the picture and if you wanted to be with me you would have committed to me in the year and half you had”.
The same day of our meet up she had broken things of with her boyfriend and him that she still loved me and was unable to continue with him. Following this event she wanted me to commit to her but wanted reassurance it would lead to marriage and i told her that you need to give me some time to digest all this. I explained to her that she had broken my heart and really upset me that i don’t know if i could even trust her again yet alone forgive her.
We have gradually been seeing each other/talking more and more and i had told her that it is extremely hard for me to forgive her as she really hurt me. But because i value what we had and lover her i am to put it behind me. We have been seeing other but things are not like they were in the past because I can sense that she is holding back her feelings. She seems confused and hesitant to commit as she is not sure what to do. She says “there are two guys that want to be with her (the other guy being her x) and she is unsure if it is going to work with me mainly due to religious differences and culture.
As it currently stands I have told her a couple of times now that i want to be with her and i want to marry her. I explained to her that nothing will get in the way between us if you are willing to put your hand in my hand and embark on this journey together. There will a few things we need to figure out, but to just trust me.
Here i am willing to give this girl my all and commit to her, the premise of why things ended initially and she cant give me a straight answer. I am very confused because i do not want to continue seeing her and hanging out with her feeling this emotional distress of not knowing where we stand and that she might do.
Some advice would be greatly appreciated
January 5, 2016 at 1:11 pm #91404AnonymousGuestDear Issel:
I read your August post just now and your new post twice. The first year and a half of the relationship with this woman, you told her at the very beginning of that year and a half that you will not marry a woman of a different religion, that is her. Even though you told her that she chose to have a relationship with you. A year and a half into it, she met another guy who showed her interest. So she left you. During that time, and still, she claimed and claims that she wanted marriage with you. That she was committed to you and you were not. At the end of the year and a half, August, you told her you changed your mind and are willing to marry her but she chose to not proceed with you and instead she was with the boyfriend.
During the time with the boyfriend she called you and told you that she loves you but proceeded to be with him. Now that you and her are together, she is still considering going back to the ex boyfriend or to another guy. She also says she wants you to marry her.
It seems to me that she is a very confused young woman. It seems to me that she does not know what she wants. I think that her claim that you were not committed to her in the first year and a half is not sincere. I feel that she was not committed to you and that she is still not committed to you. It is my understanding that all along she is the one who had a commitment difficulty, committing to you or to the boyfriend she just left and considering going back to.
I think that you are setting yourself for another heartache. That is a shame because your pain from August diminished over time. Too bad you are now vulnerable again, vulnerable to a woman who does not know what she wants. I think that the reason she can’t give you a straight answer about why the relationship ended a year and a half ago is because it is not a pretty answer. And I don’t know if she wants to face the reason.
Did she share with you about her childhood, her relationships with her parents then and now? As life is, answers are there. Share that with me, if you’d like, and we can examine her reasons together, based on her relationships with her parents, past and present.
anita
January 5, 2016 at 3:09 pm #91412IsselParticipantHi Anita,
Thanks for your feed back and taking the time read all that. She has very close and healthy relationship with her parents both now and before. I feel like she is still hung up on the fact that if i felt this way about her why did i not make her my girlfriend back when we were seeing each other for a year and half.
The answer to that is i did not feel the need to say the words “will you be my girlfriend” as I was under the assumption that we were in a relationship based on the way we treated each other. clearly that was not the case. I explained that to her, but she seems to be holding a grudge on that.
January 5, 2016 at 5:41 pm #91454AnonymousGuestDear Issel:
The fact that she is holding a grudge against you is not a positive aspect in your relationship with her. A good relationship can not be built with a grudge in its base.
Am I understanding correctly: she wants you to marry her ASAP and you told her Not Yet. Next she said she may go back to her ex boyfriend or be with a new guy, that is if you don’t marry her immediately, is that so?
anita
January 5, 2016 at 7:48 pm #91467IsselParticipantNo,let me try to clarify it. She seems essentially confused with what she wants. She has me who she claims she loves. I am now telling her that I want to be with her and can see myself marrying her at the same time there is her X of 4 months, who also wants to be with her. This is the view of her eyes the way I think she sees it. She never opened up to her X because she was always thinking about me. So for that reason she broke up with him.
To be honest this is such a mess and it’s so unfortunate that she decided to leave in the first place because we really had something very special. I know based on what’s happening what the logical think to do is but its so hard because I care and lover her so much.
January 5, 2016 at 8:00 pm #91473AnonymousGuestDear Issel:
One question (I have more, but just one): Why is she telling you that her x boyfriend wants her back? What is her motivation in telling you that? As well as about another guy who is interested in her. Why is she telling you those things?
anita
January 5, 2016 at 8:24 pm #91481AnonymousGuest* I don’t want to ask any more questions, or even wait for answers. My point that I want to leave you with is this: you asked, in the title of your thread: “What am I doing wrong?”
My answer is: maybe you are not doing anything wrong. Maybe she is doing something that is wrong. maybe she is manipulating you to feel that you are doing something wrong, that you are guilty for what, in reality, you are not guilty of.
Please do not proceed deeper with her while you are confused. While her motivations are not clear to you. She may not be true with you, not honest.
Be careful!
anita
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