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  • in reply to: I just randomly and suddenly fell out of love #453184
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    Thank you both for your replies, i appreciate your time and effort truly. I will reply to each of you after reading what you said 🙂


    @Alessa
    Yeah it happened in 2021 again but i didnt pay much attention because i didnt have someone i dont wanna lose like now.I think it could have been covid, shutdowns and stuff but i just let it pass.Even tho a girl came (again, a girl gave me meaning) that reignited the spark in me. I think that this was my normal state for many years tho, because even before the current girl, i was still not finding joy and purpose in anything, i was just going through the motions, no goals for my life. Until i started connecting with her and she became my main source of joy and happiness, which i know is not good. Im also a hopeless romantic and strive to experience everything intensely or i feel like something is off.
    The visit went okay, it was our first time meeting, i stayed for 3 days and she knew what was happening inside my head, so she was also distant/disconnected.I also have extreme flight responses when changing places but i pushed through it. I liked her in person and my body responded very well to us kissing and cuddling (even tho my mind was constantly doubting everything). Took her a lot of time opening up and even touching me tho. The first 2 days she was keeping her distance which i respected (because she needs to develop a sense of trust and security before getting intimate, especially after i planted many doubts in her head). Maybe the realization of the LDR difficulties hit us harder than we imagined and we got scared.Yes exactly, i felt like i was the only one that has to consider moving if i wanted the relationship to work. Which she said isn’t true and ofc she would consider trying living in my country (up close) but it was kinda too late for that reply, if that was the case that made me shutdown. Sometimes i think that i truly don’t wanna live in another country and maybe my mind knows that (or my fear of moving elsewhere) and it’s trying to “protect” me by cutting her off.

    Yesterday i had a conversation with her which i set everything on the table and told her that if she is willing to see where this leads, that texting for and indefinite amount of time isn’t cutting it anymore, no matter how much i like her and we have to make plans, meet frequently, sacrifice money, time and energy and its okay if she doesnt feel like committing to this, but id like to know if we are on the same page. I for once feel like i wanna go through the experience and letting go of control (which is very hard for both of us since we are control freaks) and see where this leads, without expectations. She said that its hard for her to do that, especially now that she has so much stress from other factors in her life so i told her to back off from our situation for now and focus on the other factors of her life that she needs to set in order and she thanked me for understanding her.

    in reply to: I just randomly and suddenly fell out of love #453174
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    There was a conversation though that i didnt feel very good about at the time. She asked me if i would be able to live in another country, leave my friends and family behind, then stated that she can start a business in her country and she gave me an example of a friend of hers that was LDR with a guy from my country that didn’t work out because of the distance. All the while, she never mentioned that she would consider moving to my country as much as i would consider moving to hers (i mentioned that and she said “well, u never asked” well i never did but idk..) Maybe at that conversation i felt unsafe to invest further and my subconscious shutdown ?

    in reply to: I just randomly and suddenly fell out of love #453173
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    Hello again Anita
    How does my body relate this relationship to the one with my mother? I can’t comprehend that, i saw no similarities there..


    @thomas168

    I definitely have the memories from our moments, also the memories of the feelings, it’s just that right now i can’t seem to be able to access those feelings and feel the warmth/joy/longing once again. I believe this girl is great and there is potential so i would like to rebuild it (even tho its much harder with long distance) but i wouldn’t give up like that. It’s just, i feel like there is something blocking me from being myself and i can’t figure it out.


    @Alessa

    Yeah the total apathy and depression really hit like a truck on that November morning, but it’s not like i hadn’t experienced it in the past (4 years ago). Back then i just went through the motions and it went away by itself, but now it feels worse. No, the only stress was taking the trip to meet this girl.


    @anita

    I have read about all those and it comes down to dissociation/numbness but i can’t really pinpoint what could have triggered it. Perhaps the uncertainty of the relationship that someone has to move somewhere (possibly me) and the fear of abandonment (I am disorganized attached) could have done the work? There were some suppressed negative emotions that i expressed to her but it didn’t change much, so i suppose that wasn’t the case.

    in reply to: I just randomly and suddenly fell out of love #453162
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    Im sorry for the late replies, i only use my PC once a day because of work.

    Well, right before that day,i was head over heels, thinking of her constantly, feeling great while doing so, feeling content and connected.
    But that changed in one morning and i dont understand why and how.Is this real or am i blocked by something? I feel like all of my love feelings have vanished, even for my friends and family, i only feel familiarity and “obligation”.

    I thought it could be the distance and that i want something close, but i was in it for 8-9 months, i guess it would have occured way earlier. What i’m feeling when we talk is like im talking to a stranger, feeling cold and apathetic.Like my mind erased her in a way, or she has done something bad to me, which she hasn’t.But i feel apathetic towards everyone right now, not just her. (Yeah i would really like to explore and find out what’s going on)

    in reply to: I just randomly and suddenly fell out of love #453151
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    Yes i agree with what youre saying.. My question tho is, was what happened to me because of that? Or is it a legitimate loss of feelings all of a sudden? Hasnt happened to me before.

    in reply to: I just randomly and suddenly fell out of love #453147
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    Hello anita

    Yeah this is what describes me for the past two months almost sadly..Could you maybe shed some light in my situation in order to gain some clarity myself?

    Idk if thats the correct term, but i felt like i was frozen, i wouldn’t leave my bed, barely getting up to shower, like my mind was not in the right place, missing words in sentences and stuff, i dont know if thats the appropriate word for it.

    In my case too, the relationship with my mother was very chaotic, violence and arguing constantly, throwing some awkward affection here and there, then rinse and repeat. I cant remember if i was dissociating when i was a kid, definitely trying to escape in imaginary worlds and games though..

    in reply to: I just randomly and suddenly fell out of love #453080
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    Hello, reading this thread gave me relief since i’m suffering from the same thing for the first time in my life in the past 1.5 month.
    Being madly in love with my LDR girl for 8 months –> sudden loss of feelings overnight for no apparent reason, dissociating, being numb to everything, depressed, not enjoying activities that i used to enjoy before, constant rumination for my feelings, feeling like a burden and like i am responsible for her feelings, rocd themes and the list goes on.
    It kinda gave me hope that i might be able to work through those awful feelings and thoughts and maybe find love for her again, because she is very loving and deserves it, but now i feel like my emotional capacity is very low.I have started therapy with someone that specializes in ocd/depression/relationships but i cant feel any difference. Maybe its too soon.

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