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July 13, 2022 at 9:48 pm #403948SushmitaParticipant
I think it’s just “me”…Should I ask him for the last time or wait till I fix my career and then talk to my parents and him.But keeping this hope when the other person is not giving me commitment it will not let me be at peace for a long time. We had parted ways in the very beginning in the first week of talking . I had told him about this at that very time. And then within a week he came saying that if this is in Destiny i am not afraid to fight for it.And also that we’ll see later. I knew it will be hard for me but i knew I am going to try my best to convince my parents and I know they will be happy if i am Happy in the end. There were lot many things like this which he said that are completely different now. Like my family will trust my choice he even told his mother that he will consider me when it comes to marrige.Buf then idk what conversation he had with her made him so much reluctant and he started to push me away.I want to atleast remind him of this and ask if these were his only intentions.I have never done anything wrong throughout with him and with my parents as well. I wanted both of these people to be on the same page where we all can be at peace. I gave both of them time and waited. I am tired of this. He then says things like no one will fit into my family more than you.. you have a very poise nature everyone in my family is like that… No one will love me more than you….I am so happy that I am afraid I will not be able to move on from this if i have to do it if your family doesn’t agree. Then he says i have my brother’s marriage and no time to think about this right now.And also that I have stopped myself from loving you which idk how do he has on and off switch.
All I want to know is whether I should remind and ask him of what we started with or just let it be
How do I find peace with all these questions in my mind. How do people let go of people they once loved so easily?
July 14, 2022 at 8:39 am #403953AnonymousGuestDear Sushmita:
The key sentence in your recent post is “He says… I have stopped myself from loving you which idk how do he has on and off switch”- He can turn that switch off.
At one point he told you: “No one will love me more than you….I am so happy that I am afraid I will not be able to move on from this… if your family doesn’t agree”- he felt emotionally attached to you and was afraid that it will hurt him too much if your parents didn’t agree, so he came up with the solution: to cut off his emotional attachment to you (to turn off that switch).
He told you that “this comfort” (being with you) “is addicting and we can not talk till then” (until your parents agree)- to turn off the switch he needed to not spend time with you. He knew that physical distance helps a lot when it comes to turning off that switch.
He told you that “he’ll consider this in future if parents agree… if parents agree we’ll talk“, and “We’ll see later“- this means that he is not invested in being with you/ marrying you. His attitude is casual: if it happens, it happens, if it doesn’t- it doesn’t.
“Should I ask him for the last time..?“- he already gave you his answer, and repeatedly: if it happens, it happens, if it doesn’t- it doesn’t.
“I knew it will be hard for me but I knew I am going to try my best to convince my parents and I know they will be happy if I am Happy in the end“- On what evidence are you basing your trust that your parents will be happy if you are happy?
You shared that your father constantly blames you “for being the reason of misery“, that he told you “he’ll rather burn me if I die by suicide than consider this guy“. You shared that your mother told you the other day “that she is going to gather all relatives and get me beaten and that’ll fix my mind“, and you shared: “either ways my relationship with my parents and family is doomed… I don’t trust my parents with my life” – none of this is evidence that your parents will agree to this marriage because they care about you being Happy, is it?
“All I want to know is whether I should remind and ask him of what we started with or just let it be“- let it be, cut off the switch. He did it. Can you do it, little by little?
“How do I find peace with all these questions in my mind“- answer them one by one and accept the answers. Don’t resist and fight what is true/ that which you cannot change.
“How do people let go of people they once loved so easily?“- find the answer to this question by … letting go of him. To start this process, bring the thought into your mind that it is possible to let go of a man you once loved, and relax as you think this. Can you do that?
anita
July 15, 2022 at 7:38 am #404036SushmitaParticipantThank you so much❤️
I am grateful.Thank you for the clarity.Sometimes it’s hard to accept things.Will take me time but eventually I am going to get better.I hope I succeed.I am gonna try my best.
July 15, 2022 at 7:50 am #404039AnonymousGuestDear Sushmita:
You are very welcome. Your best is good enough, so doing your best will bring you success. Post again anytime you want to post and thank you for that heart emoji, back to you!
anita
July 17, 2022 at 9:55 am #404145SushmitaParticipantHi there again
I am trying to be at peace with my parents.Although I calm on the outside I talk to them but things have changed.Yes there are things in our family,my parents do have issues. It’s 24/7 of fighting and blaming each other, using abusive words. But in all this chaos me and my mother we were close I have been listening to her stories all over again and again whole my life. After 5th standard i was sent to live with my maternal grandparents. I completed my studies there. Because my father was working in some far away place where he couldn’t take me and for my mother it was difficult to take care of me with work as there was no good school nearby. Still I was close to them. But now after this incident even when i talk it has left this void that doesn’t feel like it’ll be filled ever again. I don’t have anyone. No one except my parents in the name of family.And with them too it feels so superficial not to them but to me. I feel so lonely.My throat is hurting even writing this but i am finding it very hard. I know I am not going to have fights or discussion about this now but i haven’t been able to hug them or call them maa papa after the incident. Everyone says don’t spoil your relationship with your parents atleast. I try. I try and try but then I fail. I have become indifferent towards their emotions as they have become towards mine. And this indifference has left me lonely kind off. I have no sibling . I have friends but how many you can tell someone same thing again and again. I have lost interest in the things I used to like. It’s just like I am carrying myself and dragging myself with no sense of connection to anything. I even considered a doctor because I was finding even getting up from the bed very hard. She said I had symptoms of depression.And gave me prescription. I didn’t take the medicines as I don’t wanted to suppress my emotions and sadness as it was there for a reason. Friends say eventually things will sort out work on your career.I am capable of things But my mind it just keeps me in this state of confusion that I don’t know what i want to do further. Then it feels like i want to sleep atleast for a month. Earlier i used to meditate and loved gardening but it’s not same anymore. I find it very hard to concentrate on one thing. It just feels like having a body with no sense of self and connection to God to anyone around.
July 17, 2022 at 10:05 am #404147SushmitaParticipantI feel scared that If i don’t get out of this i will be left lonely forever.My father used to say earlier too that I’ll end up in divorce because I have high standards.he says things like I don’t deserve anything in life.i tried to help my parents again and again by trying to make them understand that issues they are fighting for are not worth it but they don’t understand.
Even they agreed to what I said but then did the same thing. I have given up on them now. I consider myself very empathetic person but it now feels like curse to me. I used to see love everywhere around me. In the animals flowers but now love scares me. Or maybe I force myself to resist it and not to feel it.
July 17, 2022 at 10:14 am #404148SushmitaParticipantSometimes my father says things like this that are very mean and hurts me so much then in the next moment he is completely opposite.He himself have struggled with same issues with his parents.And my father doesn’t talk to my grandfather for more than 20 years now.History is repeating itself and my father doesn’t seem to correct it.He is doing the same things I guess what my grandfather used to do.or to some extent.I don’t know where to start from to atleast not ruin this more.Many times previously before this incident i tried to sort things out between me and my father.it so happened that for a week things would be okay but then one fine day we’ll end up in a heated debate then only when we stopped talking to each other there was peace in the house.I feel shattered. Don’t know what i wrong with me as well. Why can’t I be at peace even after accepting that this is how it is. Why do I feel I’ll never end up with a good person and peaceful life. And so much burdened by the pressure of taking care of my parents as I have no sibling. And that too with so much of indifference towards them.
July 17, 2022 at 12:02 pm #404153AnonymousGuestDear Sushmita:
“My parents do have issues. It’s 24/7 of fighting and blaming each other, using abusive words”- having parents who fight 24/7 has been bad for you, but you found a place in the chaotic scene of your parents, the place (role, job) of The Counselor:
“in all this chaos me and my mother we were close I have been listening to her stories all over again and again whole my life… I tried to help my parents again and again by trying to make them understand that issues they are fighting for are not worth it“- you provided your mother with individual counseling and you provided both your parents with marital counseling. This job gave you meaning, it made you feel that you have an important place in the family.
“Many times previously before this incident, I tried to sort things out between me and my father“- as The Counselor, you tried to fix the relationship between you and your father.
“but then one fine day we’ll end up in a heated debate, then only when we stopped talking to each other there was peace in the house. I feel shattered.. so much burdened by the pressure of taking care of your parents“- your job as The Counselor was impossible to succeed because even if your parents attended couple counseling with the most competent, professional marital counselor, she/ he n(the counselor) could have easily failed to cause any long-term positive change in your parents’ chaotic and aggressive relationship.
I think that you recently realized that you failed at your job and that you therefore lost your place in the family. I hope that you don’t try to resume the job of The Counselor in the context of your parents.
“I was close to them. But now after this incident even when I talk it has left this void that doesn’t feel like it’ll be filled ever again. I don’t have anyone…with them too it feels so superficial… I haven’t been able to hug them or call them maa papa after the incident… It’s just like I am carrying myself and dragging myself with no sense of connection to anything…It just feels like having a body with no sense of self and connection to God to anyone around“- I think that you lost your job and place within the family, and therefore you lost the CONNECTION to them and to yourself. That loss of connection is the void you mentioned.
Depression is what fills the void left after losing connection to people.
“I feel scared that If I don’t get out of this I will be left lonely forever” – you will not be lonely forever. It only feels this way.
“My father used to say.. “- it shouldn’t matter what he used to say or what he says now because there is no wisdom in what he says: if there was, his marriage wouldn’t still have issues 24/7.
“I have given up on them now. I consider myself very empathetic person but it now feels like curse to me. I used to see love everywhere around me. In the animals flowers“- counselors need empathy so to be able to help their clients. Your empathy grew and grew through the years you acted like a counselor. Empathy feels like a curse now, but it will serve you well in the future. Your interests in animals and flowers, in gardening, etc., will return. Give it time.
“I have friends but how many you can tell someone same thing again and again”- you are welcome to post here the same thing again and again. I am interested in reading from you and will reply whenever you post!
anita
July 17, 2022 at 12:42 pm #404155SushmitaParticipantCan’t thank you enough ma’am.
Thank you 🥺❤️🌺
July 17, 2022 at 5:01 pm #404165AnonymousGuestYou are very welcome, Sushmita. Anytime! It felt nice to be referred to as “ma’am”, by the way, makes me smile.
anita
July 18, 2022 at 4:06 am #404177SushmitaParticipantMy parents are coming to see in two days…..I feel it’s hard for them but they do love me……I tell myself again and again not to talk about this to them.But still giving up isn’t in me or what idk.My mother has said one two times that we are with you.My physical health has also deteriorated over this period.will seeing me like this make them change their mind.I am sorry if I am being too adamant or selfish.I just can’t see anything beyond him ..like my brain has shut down on so many things. I am forcing it too much. I feel like discussing it with him if there’s any possible way. His family has only one concern as far as I know that is my family’s acceptance. my mother sometimes says she and my father we are with you focus on your career then if you want to get married to him marry him. I relax and start focusing on career but then next day she says again she can’t do it and I hate them more for manipulating me or what. I guess nobody can help me. There’s no hope. No one of them is understanding what i am going through. HE on the other hand tells me time tells me time will heal this and then wears the watch I gave him everywhere. Even in his brothers wedding he wore that watch and does stupid things like putting my hair in his wallet when i said I am having lot of hair fall. It’s making me feel more idiot as I am writing this. BUT everyday is hard. I feel like talking it out with him and my parents who say focus on the career which is very hard in this fear he’ll get married to someone else.
July 18, 2022 at 9:12 am #404180SushmitaParticipantMy parents are talking about taking me to their home.That place suffocates me.I don’t even have my personal space everything around that place haunts me. They are denying to keep me here. What should I do?
July 18, 2022 at 9:13 am #404181SushmitaParticipantWhen i ask for my certificates they don’t give me my certificates …i don’t know what i want to do in career.i am so confused
July 18, 2022 at 9:14 am #404182SushmitaParticipantI have no patience left to even hear their voice … please help me
July 18, 2022 at 9:24 am #404183AnonymousGuestDear Sushmita:
“My mother sometimes says she and my father we are with you focus on your career then if you want to get married to him marry him. I relax and start focusing on career but then next day she says again she can’t do it and I hate them more for manipulating me“- appears like your mother lied to you so that you start focusing on your studies. This is dishonest manipulation because when she told you “if you want to get married to him, marry him”, she didn’t mean it. It was a lie.
“My physical health has also deteriorated over this period. will seeing me like this make them change their mind“- on your end, you are trying to manipulate your parents to agree that you marry this man. If you will be exaggerating your physical unwellness or adding symptoms that you are not experiencing, that will be dishonest manipulation as well.
“HE on the other hand tells me time tells me time will heal this… and does stupid things like putting my hair in his wallet when I said I am having lot of hair fall“- I am guessing that you told him about your hair falling out partly because you wanted him to know how you are suffering without him. His solution to your falling hair and to your suffering is not to take action toward a marriage.. but to carry your hair in his wallet, a symbolic act.
“I feel like talking it out with him and my parents who say focus on the career which is very hard in this fear he’ll get married to someone else“- this may not be a bad idea: why don’t you arrange a meeting between the four of you: your parents, yourself and the man, have a group discussion on what matters to you so very much (marriage with this man)? A meeting like this may be very revealing as to what everyone really thinks and feels on the matter.
anita
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