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  • aem45
    Junior Member
    • May 2011
    • 8

    I can't loose him after six years

    Hi guys I posted about a while back regarding my break up problems. Your advice was so helpful and I knew what I had to do. I have decided to let him be and give him his space. We talked about it and he said that when he is with me i consume him and he can't focus on his career and goals. He wants to take this time to do what he has to to be successful. I agree and backed off.

    So I've been keeping my distance. On occasion he'll breakdown and come over for some companionship, just to leave in the morning and say he can't do that anymore. His last visit I saw an email he sent to another women asking to meet up. I confronted him and he said it was stupid to send that and he really should be working on himself. I promised I wouldn't snoop and He promised me that he will not chase any women, but to give him his space and no more meet ups. It has been 2 weeks and I can't handle it. I'm trying to keep myself busy trying to do other things, meet up with my friends, but all i can do is obsess about him. All day long he's on my mind, I can't eat and when I try and sleep (which is very rare) I have nightmares about him. Every so often I breakdown and violently cry. When I call I try offering him anything I can, money, love, I even went as far as trying to plan a all inclusive trip and tell him all he'll have to do is come along if he wanted to. He got really upset and said to leave him alone about that stuff and that we are no longer together so I shouldn't be offering him anything and to just let him be.

    What I want is to have hope that one day, because I know it can't happen now, We can be together. I can work on myself and he can do the same - separate but together. He won't agree to this. He says he doesn't want any ties to me, which is another reason why I think he's lying about not wanting to see other women.

    My fear is that he will find someone else if I stop calling. I know he loves to hear from me and longs for me, but I feel like he's ready to let me go. What I do know about him is he has a big heart and often needs a women's compassion to make him feel better, so if he doesn't want it from me, where is does he want it from. I want to believe him when he says to trust him and that he wont see anyone else, but then I come back to thinking that he's just saying that to let me down easy.

    My friends suggest I give him more space, because he's not the type to lie to me. And every night send him a nice text saying a few things of what I did that day, that I thought about him all day and that I love him and if he'd like to talk to call. I really like this idea, but i'm afraid i'll loose him if i do.

    Please please help. I'm so depressed, I'm afraid that i might do something stupid. He's been my everything for six years and I just can't loose him.
  • KMonte85
    Veteran Member
    • Oct 2009
    • 3303

    breakups are hard. Breakups of long, close relationships are a terror to get through. But you're torturing yourself, hun! It gets better with more time, if you allow yourself to heal. Obsessing over him, constantly thinking about what he's doing/thinking/feeling, calling him, planning trips with him... all these things are NOT going to bring him racing back to your arms. It is NOT going to help you to move on and be a more stable, happy, healthy person either. 6 years is a long time to spend with someone, but the dependence you put on him is overwhelming (even for me to read, I can't imagine how he feels right now).

    He's right that he can't focus on his goals when he's consumed with you. And I'm sure you know that there is no "working on yourselves separately, but together" That is just more codependence, and not in any way going to help you or him in the long run. He knows this, which is why he is begging you to let him be. Don't fear that if you don't emotionally suffocate him he'll forget about you and move on... because it is much more likely that if you don't STOP suffocating him, he'll get resentful and move on.

    You must listen. Listen to him, listen to your friends, listen to me: If you EVER want to rekindle any sort of relationship (HEALTHY relationship) with this man, you need to back off, stop focusing on him, and begin to focus on yourself with the goal being that you will be a better person, not that you will be with him. Determine where you lost your own identity that causes you to depend so greatly on another person. Determine how to find that sense of self again.

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    • aem45
      Junior Member
      • May 2011
      • 8

      Hi K - You're right. Its just killing me inside. I don't know what to do. I've always been with a guy (13) and I don't really know what makes me happy besides sharing it with the person I love. I feel broken and I don't know how to piece myself together, especially when I know he and I are so great together and I think what ruined things was because I was so dependent. And when he let my down it was like letting myself down and I couldn't handle it. I just wish I could be happy again. I am/was a really happy person. I don't know what happened to me. I still believe in my heart of hearts (even w/ my deep seeded issues) We could fix things and have a healthier and happier relationship.

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      • KMonte85
        Veteran Member
        • Oct 2009
        • 3303

        Originally posted by aem45
        I've always been with a guy (13) and I don't really know what makes me happy besides sharing it with the person I love. I feel broken and I don't know how to piece myself together, especially when I know he and I are so great together and I think what ruined things was because I was so dependent.
        So how will you fix this? Does calling him and wrecking yourself physically and mentally help any?

        Originally posted by aem45
        I still believe in my heart of hearts (even w/ my deep seeded issues) We could fix things and have a healthier and happier relationship.
        This can't happen until you chosoe to stop desperately grasping for comfort in others. Seek solice in your own self worth. If you can't do that, find out why and work towards it.

        Two broken people do not make a whole when put together. You must both have a sense of self worth, an individual identity, before anything can happen.

        Have you thought about working with a therapist? There are so many wonderful, well-trained counselors our there who can really HELP people in your situation. You can be happy again. But you must get over your fear... you need to let go, so you can truly be free.

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        • Cyndie32
          Veteran Member
          • Jan 2011
          • 701

          If you love someone, set them free. If it was meant to be they will be back. If they don't come back, it was never meant to be in the first place. You can't make this decision for him. He is the only one who can decide. Listen to him. And for you sanity, move on. I know its hard but time heals all wounds.

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