Dear Caroline: I would like to answer you in this thread and in the other later today, or as late as tomorrow morning.

anita

Dear Seaturtle:

“This is so confusing since he also encouraged me..“-it’d be easy to figure out if a person is for you or against you if a person always behaved one way or the other. I think that the evil stepmother in the story of Cinderella always behaved against Cinderella, but then she’s a cartoon character in a story that is of the fiction genre.

A real-life infamous evil character comes to mind, Adolf Hitler, who caused massive pain and death to many millions of people, including the death of 6 million Jews, placing him in the category of behaving against Jews, right? Yet, he arranged for a family of Jews, neighbors of his, to escape being taken away to a concentration camp.

How about a real-life famous good character, a saint, a Mother Teresa? Research it and here it is: “The Dark Side of mother Teresa“.

From my experience and understanding, a good person is a person whose behavior is guided not by the desire to please and satisfy a particular individual, but by values that promote everyone’s well-being. In the Hitler example, if he was a good person, he would have not sent any person to a concentration camp, not just his neighbors.

EVERYONE by the time we reach adolescence, got mixed in with evil to one extent or another, be it indirectly by purchasing an item in the supermarket, and by doing so, promoting the financial success of a company that pollutes the environment and therefore causes disease and death to plants, animals and people. We can’t live in a modern society anywhere on earth, and NOT contribute to death and destruction in one way or another: modern society is embedded in wrongdoing, and living in it makes us all wrongdoers.

It is painful for me to look within right now and think of all the ways I directly hurt other people, including here on the forums via judgmental, angry replies based on my issues, replies that people did not deserve. It makes me feel that painful shame-guilt combo. I struggled and was stuck in that combo for a long, long time until I figured, quite recently, that being a good person (who is born into a society that acts against itself), is about doing the best I can in the circumstances I am in, intent on doing good for everyone, and looking within, correct my wrongdoings best I can, for the benefit of everyone.

If you had N as your life partner and tried to benefit him by accommodating his preferences to not look within himself, it wouldn’t benefit everyone, including N.

To summarize what may be a digressing here, seeing via the 3rd eye, processing information with the crown chakra, the confusion you mentioned in the quote above can get resolved.

“So, why was N in pain?“- started in his childhood. Personally, I don’t know anyone who is not in pain. After all, we are embedded in a society that acts against itself.

“Was his pain all from his past, or were there things I did to hurt him…?“- what you did that hurt him  was to.. expect more than he could give you and express that expectation to him.

“I do not like small talk“- neither do I. We have this in common (see my above talk.. not small at all, is it).

“To get back with him permanently, he would have to be the opposite of who he is“- the tiniest chance of being with someone who is opposite to who he is, is being with him.

“.. and change who he is for me to feel like he could love me correctly with 0% intimidation and 100% adoration“- unrealistic expectations, not going to happen long-term with any man (past maybe a love bombing exhibition).

I feel like going a full circle here and back to our initial conversations of projecting F into N. Not that N is the right guy for you, but no man will be right for you when you hold on to the expectation you stated in this quote.

anita

Dear Seaturtle:

I’ll reply further later, in hours from now, maybe as late as tomorrow, but for now, regarding him encouraging you to do things that make you stronger: when he did not feel threatened, he did. When he felt threatened, it’s then that he wanted you weak. It’s not like he planned this or was even aware of it. It is more instinctual than a thinking thing.

What threatens him? That you will see through him, that you will see what he sees: a man beautiful or valuable on the outside, but not on the inside (as he sees himself).

anita

Good night, Seaturtle, I’ll read from you tomorrow and reply.

anita

Dear Seaturtle:

“I have always been good at speaking to boys…. But the thing was, none of those flirtatious conversations, actually wanted to date me. In fact, I witnessed all of my crushes with another girl… All of these occurrences, happening every year of middle and high school for me, 8 years, made me think the guys that I wanted didn’t want me and I couldn’t understand why”-

– maybe a lot of guys wanted you but you were not interested in them. Maybe it was a matter of numbers: a certain number of guys were interested in you, you were interested in a number of guys, and then there is some match or no match between the two groups, being that there is a lot of competition for any one girl: other girls.

“I didn’t feel less pretty, so I blamed my personality, crushing my self esteem. Even today I get anxious around a guy if I have any feelings, often I am mean to him because I don’t want to flirt/show interest and be rejected. With this self doubt and lack of self esteem, could I have really had a high vibration through all this going on around me? Not forgetting what I would also go home to?“-

– (1) no one, particularly no girl  (almost none perhaps) has a massive amount of self-esteem, not even adequate self-esteem (whatever it may look like or feel like), but you had more self-esteem than many: you didn’t feel less pretty than other girls- that a huge positive self-esteem expression right there! Plus from my communication with you over these 24 pages, I sense a pretty healthy self-esteem on your part. (2) Your self-esteem and confidence held through these disappointments and heartbreaks, and chakras were open enough to do their vibrations, maybe partly because guys were after you, just not the particular ones whom you mentioned here.

“I am certainly getting more over him every day. Yesterday my feelings of disgust changed from inside of me to seeing it in him, seeing him as gross. I still wonder about getting my things and have anxiety about this, I find myself planning what to say in my head but it also just brings me anxiety to think about“- I would send your roommate or someone else to contact him and collect your things, and ask that person to tell you no details about their exchange with him.

One more half a mile, good evening/ night, Seaturtle!

anita

Dear Seaturtle:

I arrived at my answer (for now)  within 2-3 minutes and had a boring 7-8 minutes on the treadmill: N turned the non-crying option to the manipulating via expressing anger/intimidating option that’s totally available to men such as he exercised during the cash incident (an option kept down by heavy-duty daily weed smoking), and F turned the non-crying-option to the whining option (that’s what those housecleaning sessions were about, weren’t they? You-don’t-love-me, wah wah waahhhh. But no tears.

anita

Dear Open Chakras, Open Pores Seaturtle:

I will be answering part by part as I get off and on the treadmill (too snowy/ slippery to walk outside.. although I have done it many times before and fell on ice only once.. had a concussion):

“It is interesting to hear this perspective because it is hard for me to tell if I was high vibrations in high school, how could I have been despite my parents being the most low vibrational relationship at home?“-

– from personal experience I learn that for a child, an abused and neglected child included, it takes a long, long time to have  chakras dimmed on an ongoing, regular basis. There is abuse and terrible misery, but then.. there are moments of feeling exhilaratingly alive, chakras open, running-on-green-grass-under-the-shining-sun kind of experience.

Therefore, it’s possible that in high school, you had many of those exhilarating moments and that’s what your friend remembers about you. But with N, you were on the slippery slope process of your chakras being dimmed on an ongoing,  regular basis, and your friend witnessed a lot of those moments.

anita

Edit: the name of the author of the two books is Kerry Cohen, and the article from psychology today is from Jan 2013.