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anitaParticipantDear Nichole:
I am so glad you got back to me!
Not focused now, but will read thoroughly and respond tomorrow morning..!!!
Anita
anitaParticipantDear Going Through Life:
If I had read your whole post before leaving the computer, your request for words of comfort, I would have found the time earlier π
Thank you for your empathy, friend. You are a good person π. I am fine now, in this regard.
I think that yours and E’s choices in regard to SS & E are wise.
Yes, I do think that you can attract good mates, have fun relationships and a good career.. nothing perfect, but good-enough. Just keep being honest and courageous. Gradually reveal yourself with new people as you get to know them patiently. No rushing in these matters. One Step At A Time.
π€πΏ Anita
anitaParticipantI want to add: when we suppress our emotions, trying not to feel them, they tend to explode or overwhelm us.. sort of demanding their 3rd dimension/ their space.
anitaParticipant* My 2nd post (“I want to add: when we suppress our emotions, trying not to feel them, they tend to explode or overwhelm us.. sort of demanding their 3rd dimension/ their space”), that was meant for another member, Q. I mistakenly posted it in your thread…
Back to you in a few hours, Going Through Life!
Anita
anitaParticipantDear Thomas:
Your opinion is valid here. Thank you for caring to offer it to me. I appreciate you π
“The fact that you are considering your position makes you not a bad person.”- yes, now, so far today, I am a good person. But back on Sunday before last, at that moment of confrontation (challenging her to punch me in the face π’), I was a bad person.
It doesn’t mean that I am permanently bad, just that I was back then, judging by the impact/ results of my words.
I will continue my journey in this thread later on.
π€πΏ Anita
anitaParticipantI want to add: when we suppress our emotions, trying not to feel them, they tend to explode or overwhelm us.. sort of demanding their 3rd dimension/ their space
anitaParticipantDear Q:
What you say makes sense. I think that you have a very good understanding of your internal and external situation.
By internal situation, I mean your thoughts (the “rationally part of me”) and emotions, the emotional part of you.
“I had a moment today at work where I was overwhelmed by so many of these thoughts and thoughts of the finality of the break up. I had to step out of the office to let my emotions take its course. It was a very unpleasant experience and I feel like Iβve been set back in my progress.”-
What can be useful is the concept of Radical Acceptance not only in regard to situations you cannot change, but also in regard to your emotions. When you feel hurt or sadness or fear in regard to the breakup, do you try to resist the emotion, like in holding your breath, trying to push the emotion down (to suppress it)?
Or distract from the emotion by thinking and thinking..?
I used to do the above a whole lot and am learning these very days to give my emotions space to be, that is, to free them from being caught in 2- dimensions.. giving them the 3rd dimension, so to speak.
Does this make sense to you..?
π€πΏ Anita
anitaParticipantDear Going Through Life:
Let me see.. there’s SS, then your girlfriend, her best friend, let’s call her B, B’s ex-boyfriend, let’s call him E. The 4 of you went on couple trips together and you formed a close bond with E during those trips.
Next, B cheated on E and SS cheated on you (I don’t know in what order).
Next, you told E that B cheated on him, you broke up with SS, E broke up with B, and you and E’s bond deepened over the shared painful experience of being cheated on.
Next, SS called and said she misses you, then 2 nights ago, she called and texted you excessivelyβ50 times. Her urgency was about B’s panic attacks, triggered by what you told E about B’s cheating.
Is my summary so far accurate? What is it that SS wants from you at this point.. ? Does she want you to tell E that B didn’t cheat on him, or that the cheating was not so bad.. anything like that?
I wonder how you found out that B cheated on E..?
“Yesterday Anita, I felt confident, I felt good about myself and I attracted a really wise, high vibration lady of 78 years old..”-
I like it that you felt confident and good about yourself two days ago. I hope you feel this way more and more often π
π€πΏ Anita
anitaParticipantYou are welcome, always, Going Through Life! Will get back to you Mon morning (Sun, late night here)
anitaParticipantDear Nichole:
It can take way less time for you than it’s taken for me. I can tell you all that I learned over time and how connecting is happening for me, and you can tell me about your efforts to connect. Maybe we can help each other.. right here, on your thread?
π€πΏ Anita
anitaParticipantI am π, me, because I like what I’m reading. Good job communicating with her!!!
π€πΏ Anita
anitaParticipantDear Going Through Life:
I want to put more time into reading and processing your recent post, maybe go back and reread previous posts, and get back to you tomorrow morning.
The imagining her with the other guy, that sounds excruciating. I am wondering.. were you jealous in regard to SS’s sexual activity with previous boyfriend or boyfriends- before she met you?
I am asking because when I was much younger I suffered from such jealousy in regard to a guy’s activity with previous girlfriends, a sort of Retroactive Jealousy. (I think you mentioned something like that before..?) Do you relate to it and if so, when did it start?
I am asking but please feel comfortable to not answer. In whichever case, I will reread posts already submitted and any post you may add Mon morning (it’s Sun early afternoon here).
π€πΏ Anita
anitaParticipantYou just brought the first smile to my face, me, and it’s afternoon!
anitaParticipantDear Nichole:
The part of your post from “Nothing in particular has made me distrust the people” to the ending, I could have written that, it’s like I wrote it. It is only in the last 10 years or so, that I started to feel connected to people. At first (in the last decade), I didn’t know how, I was clumsy, inexperienced.. and very distrustful.
I am much better at connecting now than I ever was, yet, I still make mistakes, still learning.. In a month from now, I will be better at it than I am now.
Does this resonate with you, Nichole?
π€πΏ Anita
anitaParticipantDear Q:
I have more time than I thought this Sunday morning (still weekend here, U.S.)
I think that you are self-aware and it is indeed human nature to hold on even if it hurts.
“Is there any emotional equivalent of a physical gym then I can work on by myself to handle whatever Iβm going through right now?”- the immediate answer that came to my mind as I read this question was
Radical Acceptance.
Accepting what you cannot change, letting go of all that energy that is resisting (fighting against, internally) situations you cannot change, particularly past events and interactions that you cannot undo or redo.
That “Stressed and anxious” energy (title of your thread) may be that resisting/ fighting energy in regard to past and present situations that cannot be changed..?
This letting go of futile energy will allow access to useful energy- to change what you can change in the present, one day at a time.
π€πΏ Anita
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