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April 12, 2016 at 8:07 pm #101681
NicoleParticipantI have codependency issues and my boyfriend is insecure. Our emotional issues play off one another. I’ve come to the point where I can’t do this anymore. He says he can’t either. We love each other and want to make it work. We are going to meet with a couple’s counselor this weekend. However, I don’t even know if I’ll make it to the weekend. He drives me to the point of hating him sometimes. We only see each other on weekends and Wednesdays. When we’re together, everything is good. When we don’t see each other, we text or talk on the phone and that’s when communication turns into fighting. He takes a lot of things to heart, then I have to spend the rest of the day over explaining and reassuring. It’s exhausting and destructive. I love him and hate him. I want to walk away because he doesn’t communicate with me in a healthy way. I want to stay because he’s making an effort by seeing a counselor. I’m frustrated and don’t know what to do. I’m torn.
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April 12, 2016 at 8:29 pm #101684
AnonymousGuestDear nicwhips:
Why don’t you and your boyfriend not talk on the phone or text or anything until the therapy session this weekend?
First thing in therapy, I hope the therapist will help you and your boyfriend come to certain rules of interacting, for example a limit on how many times you talk or text in between get togethers. What you are describing is easily solved if there are certain rules in place, to start with. Please do post again.
anita
April 12, 2016 at 8:40 pm #101685
NicoleParticipantThank you Anita! I had planned on taking a break for a while. I just didn’t know how to go about it without breaking up, and I’m not sure I want that. If I suggest it to him in that way, it won’t be so hurtful to him, I hope.
April 13, 2016 at 3:04 am #101692
Jaz DonovanParticipantI too am having a really hard time. Just found out that my husband of 18 years has had an affair. He has told me that he loves her & wants to be with her but I don’t seem to be able to process it. Keep calling & texting him. I feel so weak & stupid.
April 13, 2016 at 7:17 am #101701
AnonymousGuestDear nicwhips:
yes, the middle ground: instead of breaking up, simply take a break until the session. When we get distressed, we tend to look for all-or-nothing solutions. Since most of your trouble with your boyfriend happen in between the times you are physically together, eliminate and when you can, limit calls/ texts time wise.
anita
* Dear jazdon: would you like to start a new thread with your challenge? If you click FORUMS above, then choose a CATEGORY (“relationships” in your case, could be), then go down that page for the empty box for your thread. I would like to reply there.
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