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    prakashraj
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    Hello Everyone. I’m a Regular College Student. I was always a happy person with no worries. I was an Introvert and couldn’t make friends easily.I spent most of the time alone or with few people. Being alone didn’t bother me much as i was always happy with my self company. I was interested in love and girls but i couldn’t talk with a girl because of my shy nature. All this things didn’t bother me much because i was really Happy from inside. Unfortunately Everything changed from November 2015 when i happened to fall in love with a girl near my house who’s studying in the same place as i do. After a week of talking with her I confessed my feelings to her but she rejected my feelings and said that she likes me a friend. Days passed but things didn’t change, my sadness was just growing more and more with the feelings. As a result i couldn’t perform well in my academics. Unable to stay in the friendzone i left her many times saying that i cant be her friend. Even a little step of her towards a boy would break me from inside. The only reason she stated was that she wanted to make a good career for herself to support her family as she has a financial crisis and falling in love would disturb her. But my feelings for her kept growing more and more as she continued talking to me. Even though i left her and maintained distance from her on purpose she would still talk to me as a friend. She understood that I’m avoiding her because of these unrequited feelings. I made sure that she’ll never speak to me again and avoided her for few months. She still talked to me the same way as she believed that i was a good guy and considered me as a good friend. Few days back i started talking to her and i confessed my feelings to her again. She said that she cant love me back because she was not right to me. For sometime i was mad and angry on myself, my feelings and her that why she couldn’t reciprocate my feelings after everything i did to her. I always thought of her being unsuccessful in life and thought of hurting her so she would accept my love. I know its all wrong thinking from my side. But i couldn’t help myself, i was wasting time thinking about all this. The fact is I couldn’t even look straight in her eyes while talking and my anger just vanishes when i see her.This continued for months together and i was never in good terms with anybody during this time except her. I took a horrible decision of hurting her on purpose so she would leave the idea of being a friend with me. I told her that she was staying as a friend with me just to enjoy the help i would do to her and she didn’t care about me. And i told her goodbye. The next day she met me in college and she told me that “I’m not there with you for any needs, From now on i wont even give you a chance to talk to me. Goodbye” As she spoke i saw hatred for me and i was in tears. I went to her and apologised later but she wasn’t willing to listen. I know that things will be different from now. Most of the time i whined near people about how my feelings were not reciprocated and maybe i tried to prove everyone that she was heartless, which was the worst thing i did.I hurt her so she would cut the friendship with me and so that i could move on, as these unrequited feelings were doing no good to me, apart from making me lonely and depressed. Perhaps i felt unrequited love is a curse in my life.
    During this time my relation with neither friends nor family grew stronger. I became more of an introvert and lost the interest to communicate with others and i didn’t take my life and academics seriously. I was immersed completely in her that i lost myself now. I know that its not her fault but i was helpless, as i was attached and bonded by feelings. I took terrible decisions during this time. How do i move ahead in my life now? It feels like I’m stuck with a huge problem in my life. I want to give up one her and i want to forgive myself for all this i brought upon her and myself. There’s no going back to who i was an year ago, I brought miseries to myself. I feel guilty and ashamed of saying those words to her.
    Most of the time we had less talks as we texted each other much. Could this be that I love the idea of being with her rather than being with her? Will i ever find someone again?

    #116125
    Inky
    Participant

    Hi prakashraj,

    Feelings are just that: FEELINGS. Next year you might not have feelings for her at all, who knows? Feelings do not mean you get to stalk her, harass her or make her feel bad. Because guess what? She has feelings too. No matter how strong your In Love feelings are, her Indifference trumps that. Every time.

    This is what most men do when they know a girl’s out of their league. They “put something in the bank”. They grind. They kill 1000 Level One Rats and in a few years they go up a Level. Which means that whenever they see the girl they smile. Give her a compliment. Wave. Tell her about the party coming up. Help her with her homework. But they do only one of those in a casual way when they bump into her. And never everything at once. And they don’t stalk her.

    The other thing people do is give it TIME. She may be all that when she’s in school and young. But after she graduates? Maybe not so much as she’d like to imagine. And later at 30? She’ll be GLAD to run into you as you won’t be “that guy” at college anymore! You will be up several Levels by then!

    So let her go for now and maybe in time (I’m talking a year plus) see where she is.

    Blessings,

    Inky

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by Inky.
    #116133
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Dear prakashraj:

    I think it was a good choice for you to express your feelings to her when you did the first time because as a result you found out that she didn’t have similar feelings for you and therefore a love relationship was not to be.

    Then you found out that continuing to have a friendship relationship with her did not serve you well: that it distressed you. So you made another good choice: you told her that you can’t be her friend.

    Here is where the problem is: you continued a friend-relationship with her even though you already figured out it was harming you and even though you asserted yourself with her, telling her you can’t be her friend. She insisted on being your friend- it suited her- but it didn’t suit you. You should have done what was right for you, not what was convenient for her.

    You continued the friendship, your anger grew and you released it in ways that you are unhappy about. You tried to make her un-friend you (an indirect strategy that brought about more problems).

    The assertive way would have been to be very clear with her and tell her that being her friend hurts you, that you will not respond to her contacting you- and then follow through with not responding to any effort on her part to contact you.

    How do you make your life better? (title of your thread)- at this point, have no contact with her (other than randomly seeing her around, which you cannot avoid). Do not talk about her to anyone. And then learn from the experience, to be assertive and direct.

    What do you think about my reply to you?

    anita

    #116174
    prakashraj
    Participant

    Hello Everyone. Thank you for the advice Anita and Inky. I appreciate that you’ve spared time to read my situation. And perhaps Having No contact and Distancing myself is the only choice i have now. I’m quite attached to her that i still have the desire of being in love with her and staying with her but i feel it’ll only make things worse for me and her. I’ll distance myself and move ahead. Thank you for taking time.

    #116183
    Anonymous
    Guest

    You are welcome, prakashraj. Post anytime you need to express your feelings, as well as if you need input.
    Focus on doing every day what is beneficial to you- place your well being first.

    anita

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