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  • in reply to: Timings not matching or total illusion? #84032
    rookie
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    Dear Anita,

    I’m sorry for the late reply, but I had a full schedule (actually more than full) and I didn’t feel like writing here if I couldn’t have the necessary time, focus, and energy to do so.
    Even though my schedule was quite full, some advances still managed to happen in the meantime. The guy contacted me to ask me if we could meet on his way back home (he had a layover of some hours here) and I said yes since I felt like I had to tell him some things. I had thought about everything and I wanted to say it.We met, and I told him that i’m looking for a person that doesn’t treat me like an option or a “safe bet” and that accepts the uncertainty of my profession and accepts me as a person who is here learning, like all of us are. he told me what he looked for in a guy (we definitely don’t want the same things) but in the end of the conversation he said that he would like to keep in touch with me, to which I told him that I had no problems with that (as long as we talk as friends). I felt sad after because I felt like I still haven’t found the connection and intimacy I’m looking for, but I also realized that this good friend of mine who is here and I told you about has been amazing with me and to be honest I never had a friend with whom I had such a good connection as with him, so overall I’m pretty happy and grateful for that. I feel like I’m getting what I need to get over this and to develop myself as well even though I still would like to have the connection I’m looking for. He not only helped me a lot (with things as simple as good and meaningful conversations) and has been one of the best friends I’ve ever had.
    For now I guess I should stick to what you told me in the last post 🙂

    Tell me what you think about it if you have the time, I would like to know what you think

    Hope everything is well and hope to hear from you soon!

    Rookie

    in reply to: Timings not matching or total illusion? #83487
    rookie
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    Dear Anita,

    I’ve been trying to apply what you’ve told me on this past day and I must say your words really helped, yet I still find resistance in some of the beliefs. Maybe I just need some more time because for sure I won’t change a bad habit in one day right?
    The funny thing is that the guy texted me yesterday,at first I felt a little bit angry about him only saying something a week after, but then I realized that in the end he didn’t do anything wrong, he was never rude or bad to me. He did happen to not have me as a priority at all. He just happens not to be what I’m looking for. So I answered and checked how is he doing and told him that I hope he is doing well. I’m really happy to have had this attitude of realizing a pattern and telling myself the truth and act accordingly to what is there, to what is real. I hope that he finds happiness to be honest. It’s just a bit sad that he wasn’t what I expected. But now I know better.
    I also thought that I tend to think that people need to be happy by themselves before they can be with someone else. But I always have those moments that I feel lonely, and then I have troubles to discern if it’s me that just wants love, or if I’m not happy with my life/myself. But since I started “digging” on this and dealing with it I just found myself to be really happy and grateful for everything, everything that whether good or bad shaped me into who I am. And I even had some people telling me that I seem so genuinely happy these days, which was quite pleasant to hear to be honest. The real question is am I not being too eager to have that connection? Shouldn’t I be more patience towards it? Sometimes I do feel like I want it too much.

    Thank you so much for your help

    Rookie

    in reply to: Timings not matching or total illusion? #83384
    rookie
    Participant

    Dear Anita,

    Thanks for your words. I would like to tell you once more that I’m deeply grateful for all of your help. It has helped me to understand a lot of things better.Thank you.

    About your input I just have to say that you are right about all of the above, I guess now it’s time to address my situation of not believing that such man exists (its a really deep one because as I said and you quoted, I didn’t even think before saying it which means that it’s a really deep belief). I’ve been trying to address that now, but until now no results, I see that I’m more positive towards life and I don’t think that everyone is bad anymore which is a really good start ( I used to think that everyone was bad and people always had a ulterior motive for liking you, like as if it would be an exchange of favors).I’m really happy about this development, but I would like to develop myself more. To understand that it’s OK to long for closeness and intimacy,but that I don’t need to go for anything less than I deserve. And I deserve to be happy. That it’s OK to be alone, but not OK to be lonely. And to work on this deeply rooted beliefs will help me achieve my goal.
    If you have any ideas of how can I work this better please let me know

    Thank you so much once again

    Rookie

    in reply to: Timings not matching or total illusion? #83316
    rookie
    Participant

    Dear Anita,

    I took some time to think about it and you’re right, deep down I was expecting to get more intimate with him after having physically intimate with him, and it seems that the opposite is true (since that phone call I told him to call me when he is able to (my profession allows me to use my phone at almost al times) and I did it to see if he was really interested in pursuing this or not, since when we were together he always had found time to text not only family to say that he is ok but work matters and such, so in the end I just wanted to see if there was a will to connect or an excuse not to (maybe this is not the most correct way to act from my side but I felt like I should do this). Needless to say that there was no more communication since then. I’m trying to find closure in this way, he’s just not looking for the same thing as I am. But that raises another question. I talked with a really good friend of mine who is actually here (he has been an amazing friend and he even knows my life story which is something that I usually don’t tell anybody) while talking about this told me that maybe the reason why you attract these kind of people to your life is because you love their freedom. He also said that I would probably like a person that gives me freedom to just be myself and that accepts me for who I am on everything including my past and the uncertainty of my profession (I never know where I’m going to be actually, I do have some control but not always). I automatically answered: ” I don’t believe such person exists” without even thinking. That scared me and only then I realized this. I’m conformed that I’m not going to get what I want in a guy, let alone having a real connection and intimacy with him so I just settled for less (which is not respectable to myself at all). But I realized as well that no matter what I try to think I just can’t believe such people exist. It’s sad and I would like to change that, but I honestly don’t know how should I deal with this one. If you please can tell me what you think about this I would be deeply appreciated. I know dealing with this kind of heavy stuff probably drains you, so just answer when you can and if you don’t mind to do so.

    Just so you know I’m really grateful for all the help I got here from you and everyone

    Rookie

    in reply to: Timings not matching or total illusion? #83229
    rookie
    Participant

    Dear Anita,

    No problem, I totally understand, just say something when you feel better. Happens to all of us.
    I don’t know what I can tell you about me that might be helpful to this situation in particular, so if there’s anything that you wanna know just ask and I’ll gladly tell you.

    Thanks and hope you are feeling better!

    Rookie

    in reply to: Timings not matching or total illusion? #83202
    rookie
    Participant

    Dear Anita,

    Yes of course the question is for you too 🙂 (I should have wrote that better) Ok I think I start to grasp what you mean with patience. If it would have been before I would probably “wait” for his decision and not be open to meet other people. I’m usually a really closed person in the sense of not telling anyone personal things even to friends (i’m starting to change that now, one of my good friends even pointed it out, still a long way to go) and then sometimes I open up to someone in a relationship and they don’t care/ go away (I’m not saying i’m perfect or that its their fault, I guess we just don’t want the same things). So I think that right now I need to figure out better what I want, and how to respect myself a little bit more by taking more time to get to know people and to actually see them and not what I want them to be (seems easier on paper than done haha, but I’m going to give my best). Can you tell me what do you think about this and give me some advice if you have any?

    thank you so much you have been a huge help 🙂

    rookie

    in reply to: Timings not matching or total illusion? #83186
    rookie
    Participant

    Dear Anita and Janeames,

    Anita thanks for your words,i’m trying to practice and learn as most as I can with the situations as they happen, but you are right, I do need to learn to be more patient.

    Janeames thanks for your words as well, and to be honest now that you pointed that out you made me think, I haven’t seen it from that perspective, maybe he is definitely looking for something different from what I want, I’ll try to pay attention to the signals as they come and Hopefully I will see the reality of things. As to go back to dating the whole idea of dating is kinda scary to me, because these days and in my generation (i’m 23) most of it happens trough apps and online dating which I did tried but it didn’t go very well and i felt like that wasn’t for me so I stopped. since my last ex-bf (which I met through online dating) I have been pretty much focusing on work and reading a lot (books and articles from here as well) and developing myself. Actually this guy came to talk to me trough social networks and dropped me a message and that’s how we started talking. I was pleasantly surprised (even though super skeptical at the beginning) and then the rest of the story I already told you here. I don’t feel like going and try to date other people, but I guess that I should be open to meet people and stuff if the situation arises and I want it. does that seem reasonable? What do you think?

    Rookie

    in reply to: Timings not matching or total illusion? #83171
    rookie
    Participant

    Dear Anita

    Thanks for your words

    And yes that is something that I’m not that good at,but here is the perfect opportunity to practice it. This whole situation made me realize other things as well for example at a point after I sent the text I started to tell myself that I wasn’t that interested in knowing him better anyways (obviously a lie,I was just trying to defend myself against the prospect of rejection). At least I realized it and told myself the truth, that there was no problem in telling him how I feel, if I would face a rejection, well, at least I would have known that the problem wasn’t lack of communication.
    I just feel that the more I learn, the more I feel like there’s even more to learn. About the other things I guess I should do another post in another area of the forum for that, but I don’t even know how or where to start

    Once again thanks for listening (in this case reading)

    Rookie

    in reply to: Timings not matching or total illusion? #83167
    rookie
    Participant

    Janeames yes I can have an idea, I live on the other side of the world as well (was born in Europe and I live in asia now) but I almost have no communication with my family aside from my sis (I’m better with my family issues but I still have a lot to work on). And to be honest I was expecting him to not reply or to think that I was insane (I know I should have expectations whether they are good or bad but I couldn’t help it), at least it taught me that there are some good people in this world not everyone is that bad, but I still feel like this is complicated to handle.

    in reply to: Timings not matching or total illusion? #83166
    rookie
    Participant

    Anita if you still want me to write what I said just tell me and I’ll write it here

    in reply to: Timings not matching or total illusion? #83165
    rookie
    Participant

    Hey guys
    Before giving my update I would like to thank you guys once again for your answers 🙂
    So I texted him and I was as honest as possible and said that I really liked to meet him and that I would like to try and see him more often (he’s going actually to be one country away until Christmas and then back to where he was before) he took a while to answer (which I totally understand because I would probably do the same to think as well) and he said that he was glad that I was this honest but at this point is too soon too tell and that he would need to spend more time with me to form an opinion, that he wanted to stay I touch with me and see where this will go (our conversations and eventually our placements). It does seem reasonable, but I guess it’s hard for me not to feel like I’m going to get iluded with this, we already talked on the phone after that and we talked normally and it was nice. I know I shouldn’t stop my life because of this and at the same time it does feel reasonable, but I would like to hear what you guys think

    Thanks 🙂

    in reply to: Timings not matching or total illusion? #83138
    rookie
    Participant

    Thanks for replying Jodi, yeah you’re right I should try asking and seeing what he says, I’ll update when I’ll ask him about it

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