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  • in reply to: I just randomly and suddenly fell out of love #457146
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    Hey anita

    I’ve read both your posts and i wanna thank you for taking the time to write all these, they seem helpful 🙂

    It’s so many things that the AI says that could be true and are spot on. I also found the part about the fear and honeymoon phase interesting. I will definitely read them again but i wanna say about the summary: Its hard not to do that, it’s almost like an automated response lol. It’s like im thirsty, waiting with my mouth open underneath the faucet for water (feelings) and whenever the pipe fills a little bit, i open the faucet and empty the drops haha.
    How does one experience the relationship instead of analyzing it?

    Yeah i think it’s a coping mechanism, dampening the feelings and become distant/disconnected. That’s what Paulien Timmer said in one of her videos, “u cant turn off the negatives without turning the positives off too”.

    But i am all about loud emotions 🙁

    Well if we exclude my own catastrophizing (random scenarios in my head for no reason) and our misunderstanding which was because of me again, things were pretty smooth for like 7 months.. (oh i wish i could go back to that :()
    But then of course my mind had to take things the wrong way and ruin it..

    I will read again and add things if i have to in new posts, thank you 🙂

    in reply to: I just randomly and suddenly fell out of love #457129
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    Hey anita

    Hmm, i think she was mostly asking out of curiosity and feel some “safety”/control.

    Well, my plans was to first meet and spend time together/live together somewhere for a while and then see how things turn out, i couldn’t “promise” her something before even having met, i think that threw me off a little. (also me not telling her that)

    Yes i think that at times my feelings come strong but for short bursts and then it’s like a complete 180, which weirds me out.. (yesterday i saw her cute little cards that she sent me for my birthday and i started crying again, idk why). Also today we were talking and it was fun..near the goodnight texts, i felt warmth and i caught myself checking her message again and again and smiling like in the early days 🙂 What i’m lacking is the “ambition”/motive for the future, i think that’s what makes me insecure and not able to fully allow myself.. This or anhedonia.

    You are right and i’m aware of that, im trying to change it and also trying to question a lot of my “core beliefs” around this subject (and some other things in life in general). I also catch myself monitoring my feelings constantly, which is something the therapist told me to try and stop gradually because it leads to spirals. For example when i feel good about something with her my mind instantly goes “hey, u felt good, why? what does that mean?” and it starts..

    Another thing i realized is that before her, my life was pretty flat and i was finding almost no joy in anything, like a functioning depression/anhedonia of some sorts, i would get up, go to work, hit the gym, meet with friends, some motorcycle riding here and there and that’s all, nothing excited me or gave me purpose, until i started falling for her. It was like my life was full of beauty and colours again, everything boosted, my mood, work, gym, purpose, everything. I would go for rides just to record and upload videos for her to see and that would make me so happy and excited. So after reading @ the other forum (which the therapist told me to stop eventually) i saw posts with people sharing some similar stories, about how the “honeymoon phase” of love was the only thing to penetrate their anhedonia and make it disappear so they would enjoy life again for a while, but then it would subside and confuse them. I wonder if all those connect with attachment styles with in my case or what

    in reply to: I just randomly and suddenly fell out of love #457126
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    I think i wasnt ready and i hadnt processed that at this point yeah.

    I understand what u’re saying, how i might have perceived her as a threat and such and i also agree that moving somewhere new is scary, but it was just a convo for the future, thats why i said “mistakenly”, it was something far from the present..

    Hmm so anxiety made me numb and then depressed? Its sad because i cant feel any romantic excitement at the moment..not for her (well for her sometimes for brief moments), not for any of my exes when i try to think back (i mean the memory of the feelings) and not for any new girl. It’s like complete apathy..

    Yeah she’s gonna be for the whole year. I think its supposed to be 2027 early but she said she would consider moving to me as well.

    in reply to: I just randomly and suddenly fell out of love #457123
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    Hey anita

    Even tho scenarios dont benefit me, i still make them..

    I know i should be prioritizing myself as #1 but at this point i cannot understand what’s good for me and why, or how it feels like, it’s very weird.

    It was more like this order “i hurt her (which i would hate to do since she’s lovely and doesn’t deserve it) and then she leaves me”, so it’s kinda both, not something more than the other.

    So, the scenario i made today is a classic actually: What if i wasn’t ready for the future talk (the moving to another country part) and i got mistakenly “scared” when she brought it up so my mind started seeing her as a “burden” or a “threat”, rather than the loving woman that she was (and still is) to me? It was just a convo but i did feel like she rushed things a bit there, but if that’s the case, how can i “undo” that? Or was it just anhedonia/depression and my mind looks for a scapegoat?

    in reply to: I just randomly and suddenly fell out of love #457095
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    Hmm, even though that talk about the future and her responses did throw me off a little bit, it didn’t seem like a really big deal (even tho in my mind she looked like she’s sabotaging, which she wasn’t) because i still had the plan of “meeting first and see how it goes later”.
    It might have been something like this: I woke up depressed/anhedonic/burnt out or something along the lines. I couldnt tell her because i was thinking she would be hurt and leave me, so my mind went to freeze mode/avoidance for protection? This is a scenario i’ve thought too but idk if it actually benefits me to make scenarios.

    in reply to: I just randomly and suddenly fell out of love #457091
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    Hey anita

    Haha dont worry i wouldnt leave without telling u 🙂

    Hmm, it started when i woke up feeling like shit (10-11 november) and especially in the 12th when i felt the repulsion, from then on i started feeling guilty for hurting her/leading her on and responsible, the connection suddenly felt like a “burden” in my mind, rather than enjoyment and i cannot understand why 🙁

    I like emojis too (it’s also our “inside game” with the girl 🙂 ) so dont worry i dont judge anything haha

    in reply to: I just randomly and suddenly fell out of love #457084
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    Hey anita

    I didn’t use my PC at all that’s why haha. If i am about to stop posting i’ll inform u 🙂

    So guilt affected me?

    in reply to: I just randomly and suddenly fell out of love #457042
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    Yes i have been very guiltful 🙁

    Another thing, why were my feelings/fantasies would last for a minute and then vanish in january? What is this?

    in reply to: I just randomly and suddenly fell out of love #457039
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    Could be the case but i woke up first feeling like i dont want anything at all, then i didnt know how to tell her so this followed.. I still wonder

    in reply to: I just randomly and suddenly fell out of love #457032
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    Hey anita

    Today i feel like shit, my body feels drained and exhausted, my mind too. I am noticing those things.

    Yes exactly this, i analyze and search for reasons and stuff.

    I am trying this but doesnt seem to help..

    Today i was talking with a friend and i realized something.. When i woke up like this in November, i was feeling like i need something, could be space and time to myself.. (idk why since i was enjoying our connection very much until the previous night-could also be the onset anhedonia), but i never asked for it till this day. I couldnt ask for it because idk how much its gonna take, i know how she would feel and i would hurt her, so i stayed and stayed and maybe my mind rebelled against her.
    My friend told me his example: He woke up some days ago feeling like he wants to be ALONE (he lives with his GF) and he has no mood for his girl. It took him a while to realize and he kept fighting with her because of his bad mood, but as soon as he realized what he needed and communicated it to her, he felt fine again. Perhaps this is what i had to do?

    in reply to: I just randomly and suddenly fell out of love #457003
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    Yes yes exactly, i am trying to control my feelings all the time and i am trying to stop it, but its hard.

    Well, how would that help?

    (haha drop it, go ahead)

    in reply to: I just randomly and suddenly fell out of love #457000
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    Idk the difference between those.

    Oh i didnt know such a procedure existed. Maybe we have it here too but idk.

    I think it could apply but i can’t let go of control

    in reply to: I just randomly and suddenly fell out of love #456990
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    Hey anita

    WA= Washington? I am gonna watch some videos of this place, i’m curious! Oh ok it makes sense.. Why would they be responsible for someone getting drunk in a taproom?

    Yes it was like this for months but recently i was getting better until our “arguments” where i felt rejection and inadequacy (she didnt accuse me of anything, its just my mind is now prone to blame others) and she felt “hostile” again.

    I dont know this movie but it sounds like hell 🙁

    in reply to: I just randomly and suddenly fell out of love #456974
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    Hey anita

    How come it closed for good? Retirement? Btw in which state did u say u live in USA?

    Haha the emoji puzzle is really puzzling u.. i see the same emojis as yesterday tho.

    Today i woke up feeling the urge to end things EXTREMELY strong and real.. I can barely even talk to her, i think the last conversations/arguments we had affected me too much (because i felt i wont be enough and she’s gonna leave) and now i just can’t even have fun with her chatting. Will it go away? I think it came and went many times but idk it always feels so real 🙁

    in reply to: I just randomly and suddenly fell out of love #456962
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    Haha is that u when u’ve had a bit too much to drink at the tap room anita?

    Im off to sleep, talk tomorrow!

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