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  • #456387
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    Hey anita

    I think pretty low mood today. We scheduled a movie night with the girl and my avoidance is on full-blast right now but i will still do it, like the other time with the video call.|

    I can’t understand why my brain makes her specifically a target..

    #456382
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    Yes i am trying to focus on the good things now, like bob ross was saying 🙂

    Thank you anita, i enjoy talking to you too 🙂

    I am gonna go to bed now though, let’s see what tomorrow brings!

    #456379
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    Glad your day was better! 🙂
    Haha, before all that, i wouldn’t even notice a “calm” day, my life is constantly on edge. Hmm, i’m grateful for a nice payday at work today and a calmer night 🙂

    #456371
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    Hey anita

    I used to be like that before, many nights before going to sleep i would think of what i have and i would feel grateful and happy. Not anymore though 🙁

    Today was a sad day full of ruminating but now i am calmer. How was yours?

    #456342
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    Some people can do that, they see the positives in almost every situation.

    Hmm, like being hopeful?

    #456340
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    That reminds me of a 2pac song!

    You are right but the problem with me is i can’t let go of the thoughts, i grab onto them and i analyze them to death. Especially when its for a matter so concerning. I also believe that whatever it is im feeling now, is what im gonna be feeling forever.

    Damn, i used to be so romantic, dreaming of finding a girl like her, a connection like that, and now i can’t feel a thing. Life is so unfair 🙁

    #456338
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    I hope i get there someday because today feels like hell. Since the time i woke up i’ve been in a bad mood and my mind is now convincing me that i don’t want her and i need to end things, i feel extreme dysphoria and i have no more tears to shed. The idea of me ending things brings me some nausea in my stomach but i am so convinced that i feel nothing. I remember how amazing i used to feel with her before all these happened and its like a distant memory. Such a precious connection that i’ve never felt with anybody else again.

    Damn today’s been hard 🙁

    #456332
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    Hey anita

    Yes it’s like i am doing now with my feelings, therapist says i am intellectualizing them a lot, but idk how im doing that..

    So what changed after u felt empathy for the little you? Also, you mean the dissociation, shutdown lifting and allowing u to feel?

    #456317
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    I think this is the time that i am coming to the same conclusion about what u’re saying, that no person can live up to that. I knew it already, but never actually went through that realization by “experiencing” it. We can only save ourselves i guess

    Hmm, how did u reconnect or find that part?

    #456313
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    I didnt see your last post before mine.

    I suppose its normal but i’ve never given much thought to them. Can/should we change that?

    I think i was/am the same as you, feeling alive through romantic relationships. How can we find that balance? Have you found it yet?
    Hmm by music? Sadly i feel nothing when i listen to music nowadays 🙁

    #456312
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    For example: i stopped going to the gym because i dont feel the “pull” to do that, i don’t ride the motorcycle because of the same reason. I think getting out of bed is hard because of it too.

    #456310
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    U mean the people pleasing or cutting people off? I’ve always found it to be weird when i would think about it.

    Hmm, i do make scenarios in my head, that’s what u mean?

    Yes but my mind still downplays this and thinks obsessiveness and jealousy/infatuation is the only way 🙂

    Haha thats how i mark the beginning of all this just so we can understand better

    Exactly, it would either be very low, almost no excitement for anything or very intense and of course intensity was more preferable for me, because this is the only time i would feel “alive”.

    #456307
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    Perhaps u are right anita, because this led me to either people please or get angry and cut people off like a switch. (two extremes again, the ambivalence of either 0 or 100)

    I like your questions 🙂
    Hmm, i can’t recall anything specific, maybe because it never worked?

    Thinking back on my relationship patterns, even though all of them were short-lived, i realize that i was only associating with girls that never really made me feel safe (always hypervigilant about them leaving, trying to meet thir needs).The feeling of needing them was consuming me, they were the source of my happiness (just like it happened with the current one) and i would get strong stomach cramps because of insecurities (like jealousy), even though i would always be pretty chill and never worry about getting cheated on since i can’t control them and know for sure, so i never bothered, i did felt extreme feelings of jealousy though, the ambivalence again? 🙂

    As for the present girl, i would be like that until two months ago, if she would speak of any male acquaintance or someone hitting on her i would get this intense feeling in the stomach (i think u know what im talking about). Now i still get jealous (we joked around today and i did feel jealousy, but it was not needed) but i stopped getting this intense stomach cramp-like feeling. Could this mean that i’ve reached a level of security and comfort in this relationship that i am more relaxed on this part? Because my mind translates this as “if u dont feel consumed by jealousy then u dont want her”. Also, since november (the birth of confused), whenever i would have fun or feel good with friends/etc and not with her, or not think of her for some minutes, or feel the same intense infatuation for her, i would feel guilty and sad, which my mind also translates to “u see? u dont really wanna be with her”. I would say there is a level of codependency on me. I’ve never learned calm love/choice, i would always seek intensity and to be consumed by desire, otherwise it wouldn’t gauge my interest.

    Idk if i’m right, i am just introspecting 🙂

    #456305
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    Hey anita

    I did share everything after i got this incident in november so i could give her something to understand and not think i was manipulating her, but still i opened up about everything.

    Thank you 🙂 I did feel our connection as precious and special, it’s just now that i am in this state, it’s like nothing matters to me. But when i think back at it, i get tears and maybe a warm feeling that what we’ve built is very nice 🙂

    U think that’s what caused my shutdown? I will elaborate more on that on another post later

    Yes u are right, i am focused on what i SHOULD be feeling (which is probably elation, infatuation, honeymoon phase, etc) and i don’t pay attention to the other feelings. Hmm i would say it’s like appreciation and caring.

    I did not express anger/sadness to anyone in my life, including my parents.Never felt comfortable doing so.
    Also yes, if i can recall correctly, sometimes i did “manage” myself to not disturb anyone. You think those things affect me today?

    #456285
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    Damn, i read my post again and i contradict myself again: “my eyes get watery” / “i can’t feel the appreciation”

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