Dear User34:

“During the relationship.. even if my body would tell me it was not fine and I had to get out, I felt like I had no choice and have to give all my best in order to make it work”-

– no choice, as if keeping the relationship going is a matter of life or death. This kind of desperation is what a child experiences when in danger of the relationship with the parent ending, because we are animals and in nature, if a very young animal, like a fawn is left without her mother, it is a death sentence (without the mother feeding  and protecting the fawn from predators and the cold, the fawn will die).

Your relationship with this young man never was a matter of life or death, but it felt like it to you.

Thank you for wishing me a wonderful Sunday! I wish you the same. And post again anytime, anyday.

anita