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August 9, 2013 at 11:33 am #40062BiancaParticipant
I recently met a female online via a well-known dating website, and, although we didn’t talk much initially, after our first phone call we became pretty close, very quickly. It was VERY intense, and the whole interaction lasted around a month. However, our first meeting ended with us sleeping together, and her deciding that, no, she didn’t want to continue. I became quite upset, perhaps slightly angry at her, which I think put her off even more and confirmed in her mind that she was somehow right to end it. I didn’t become vicious, but I was visibly upset that we had slept together, and she was all of a sudden acting cold.
I left it about a week, and then I sent her a message in which I detailed the fact that I missed her, and wanted to start again. Her response was basically that I should “let it go” and see if it makes it’s way back to me.
I suffer from anxiety toward relationships, and when there is a comment such as that, I do find it hard to let go. It isn’t even as if she had said “look, it’s over, go away”. I am constantly hoping, and daydreaming of things to say to her in a few weeks, or hoping that she will return, when, in actual fact, I don’t think she will.
I know pretty much everyone says this, but I feel as if she could have been “The One” – I haven’t had much luck with past relationships, and we seemed a perfect fit. It amazes me how people can just switch off and forget all the wonderful things you once said to each other. Once I have become romantically involved with a person, I find it very hard to then pretend they never existed.
I know all the things I need to do to forget about this person, and no doubt I will meet someone else in the future, but I just can’t seem to switch my mind off and go and DO these things.
August 9, 2013 at 12:20 pm #40065maitri2allParticipantBecause you do not know the things to do
in my completely uneducated opinion there are some things about you that you are not wanting to face.. she thankfully interrupted these
Love is about understanding
I think many people struggle to find the balance between a relationship that remains just sexual and friendly and a relationship you are trying to groom into something like a marriage
You let your confusion become anger and then allowed yourself to display that outwardly..
There are tons of emotions and thoughts to choose before anger and a female who first meets someone would never want to feel controlled or fearful
My life says it is best to understand whatever it is you may have done.. don’t call and ask or email and ask.. if you are serious about her you will look seriously into you to find how to
Better please a woman of your dreams.. if she was one then now you know what to look for..
Maybe earn her forgivenessMy recent inquiries about anger tell me that I most often get angered when I am trying to control someone other than myself
Feel joy that you had the ability to attract the one and that you now have a better sense of what you really want.. Take time to see if you have some things you can do that you know will make you even more attractive and more of a keeper…
August 9, 2013 at 2:41 pm #40079BiancaParticipantHi,
Thanks for your reply.
I don’t know – I was fearful that she was going to leave/leaving. I am very serious about her, but she has left. I emailed her a message, apologising and talking to her. She replied with basically two sentences.
I can understand what you are saying, here – but it isn’t as if I cheated on her, or displayed violence to her. She could have chosen to be reassuring instead of being so close to me, to suddenly switching as if she didn’t know me after something so intimate as sex. I have tried to earn her forgiveness, but as I have only know her a month, I don’t know what else to – I have now left her alone since our last exchange.
My anger doesn’t manifest itself with violence or name-calling. I’m not saying I am right to display those emotions, but surely I can be forgiven?
A lot of my friends tell me that I choose the wrong types of women – attention seekers, dramatic women, unavailable women – I think this is true. It’s just that she told me so many things – we even discussed marriage!! And then all of a sudden she was acting as if she didn’t know me. It hurt. I tried to understand, but she shut me out, and wouldn’t tell me what was going on.
August 9, 2013 at 3:04 pm #40081MattParticipantBianca,
I’m sorry for the confusion and difficulties you’re going through, relationships can be exasperating to say the least! Take heart, because there is always a path to joy. There are a few things that came to heart as I read your words.
From the way you described the fast fall and quickly moving into planning marriage it seems as though there might be some codependent patterns in your life. Pia Mellody has some books that might resonate with you. She also has some stuff on YouTube, which you could check out and see if what she is describing fits. Whether it fits or not, feel free to ask more questions. The path of letting go is often about find where we’re sticking.
With warmth,
MattAugust 9, 2013 at 3:19 pm #40082AnonymousInactiveHi, first post so apologies if I’m out of order here. If you ended up falling for someone with that has borderline personality disorder then you have my greatest sympathies. Too many similarities that I feel compelled to respond, extremely intense, lots of very personal information shared very early, seriously discussed marriage, kids, moving continents to be together all in the first month. Visited for a second time (in her country) then within a week – done, cold as if I never existed. I can relate to the first reply in that there may well be things about you that you don’t want to face or may not even be consciously aware of. Just my two cents, hope it helps.
August 9, 2013 at 4:59 pm #40087BiancaParticipantThanks Rog – I appreciate your input. BPD was mentioned when I spoke about this on another forum – this woman apparently exhibited high BPD traits. Exactly what you have mentioned, Rog – the intense closeness, then the sudden distance and cold behaviour.
As for the co-dependency thing, I do think this is me. I have chosen a lot of very similar relationships that don’t work out.
I currently live alone and don’t really know many people – I am frightened of growing old alone and dying alone…. I think I tend to attach very quickly and very easily, in the hope that the person becomes my partner, and then I will have companionship. I have entered three potential relationships in the last two years, none of which last more than a month. I do think as well as my own issues, there is a pattern with the females I am choosing to date. They are often very emotionally or even physically unavailable. They are always met online, too.
I lost my mother seven years ago – we were very close, and never spent a day apart. I was an only child, too so very spoilt with affection. When she died I felt lost, and I still feel a void in my life. All this chasing women behaviour only started after she died. It’s as if I am trying to fill that void with love from an external source, but it clearly isn’t working.
I did and I still do like this woman, but I feel as if she has her own issues to be working on, too. I think it was wrong of her to sleep with me, when she knew the connection it would create for me. I felt it was wrong for her to have a go at me for not showing empathy toward her and her feelings, and berate me for it – she has shown NO empathy toward me, instead left me alone to deal with these feelings, going out to clubs and posting pictures on FB and everywhere else that I can see them. I told her I was crying the other day, and she dismissed me, yet when she told me that SHE was crying, I was expected to drop everything and feel sorry for her. We spent a month talking about very personal things, and now I don’t even know what she’s doing from one day to the next. I mean, it’s OK, she is not obligated to tell me anything or to be with me, but I would have at least appreciated a concrete answer, instead of vague comments such as “see if it makes it’s way back into your life” and “I don’t feel that way or am not ready right now”. Treating me as if I’m some sort of pest, when in fact it was a mutual thing, and she’s just dropped me, with no real explanation.
OK, I’m rambling now, but yes – I really do appreciate all input I am getting. I only signed up to these forums today and I am already finding your replies very helpful.
August 9, 2013 at 5:09 pm #40088BiancaParticipantI just want to be able to accept that she’s gone, and stop this hoping.
I think, deep down, I don’t want her to return – but the fear part of me wants her to come back, now, now, now.
I am so much happier when I am not involved with anyone, romantically.
August 9, 2013 at 5:44 pm #40096MattParticipantBianca,
Have you considered talking to a counselor? Sometimes it can be helpful to sit and talk to someone about our feelings who is objective and well versed in difficulties and overcoming them.
In the mean time, consider picking up one of Pia Mellody’s books. Its not a magic solution, rather a way of shifting our patterns. One of the most important aspects of recovery from codependent behavior is self-nurturing. We can do this in any number of ways, such as meditation, yoga, bubble baths, going for a walk in nature, creating art, reading books. As we do nice things for ourselves, we begin a process of generating self love… which is deserved and needed!
With warmth,
MattAugust 9, 2013 at 8:15 pm #40109BiancaParticipantHi, Matt.
I have, but I am not sure how to go about contacting counsellors right now.
I managed to look at a few of Pia Mellody’s videos on YouTube, and so far she does seem pretty interesting – I will research her and her books when I feel a little more awake 🙂
You’re right, it IS all about looking after ourselves, and loving ourselves. I much prefer spending time doing things such as those you have suggested, than perhaps going to clubs or things like that. I need to get into the routine of practising those things, that’s the only obstacle.
August 10, 2013 at 4:51 am #40125MattParticipantBianca,
If you need a little help becoming motivated down a path of self caring, consider that as we become good to ourselves, we naturally attract loving partners. Perhaps when you look at the way you were treated by the girl, there are some parallels with the way you treat yourself? Said differently, it is far easier to engage and maintain a healthy intimacy when you look for it from a place of inner stability and self-nurturing… much like a chef is better at crafting food after she has eaten, because her hunger influences her perceptions of food.
I wonder if your dream girl would have looked and felt much different if you had not been so hungry. Perhaps that hunger caused you to gorge and get indigestion? Doesn’t it feel painful enough that shifting into a practice of self-nurturing is the only thing that makes sense?
With warmth,
Matt -
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