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Old 05-08-2008, 09:01 PM
missyann
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Default Differentiating between relationship emotions and depression?

I'm extremely emotional when it comes to relationships--especially serious ones. I recognize and accept that it is my personality type and I tend to be drawn to men that are more dominating and a lot of times, moody. Whenever my boyfriend yells or gets angry at me, I cry uncontrollably. But I sometimes worry that my emotional state is not the normal, healthy kind of relationship state, but rather close to being depressed. Each time I go into this phase, I beat myself up and feel pretty low for whatever it is I did to him. He, on the other hand (and he's sat me down and told me this) interprets it as a form feeling sorry for myself--and that's just how I 'deal with getting upset'. I want to disagree because while I am crying, I don't feel angry at him at all--rather scared that he's going to dump me and that I'm not good enough for him. But that could also be a form of self pity as well. Ugh...who knows. Does anyone have any insights?
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