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August 18, 2026 at 9:23 pm #460474
anitaParticipantHey 🙂 Confused:
Wanting to help and not knowing how, or not having the time or the patience to invest in a human reply, and/ or wanting to sound fantastically (yet artificially) intelligent 🤔
The two of you are talking again 🙂
I think that she wants to feel chosen, special, to be your One and Only- in your mind, heart, words and actions.
I wonder (not that I am recommending it), what she would think if she read the how many pages of this thread where you talked about her so much. I wonder if she’d feel special.
Clearly, she’d want to be asked officially to be in a relationship with you, one where you show way more commitment than “seeing how it’s going”.
It just occurred to me that it may be a good idea for you- when you talk to her, when you say something- to pause and ask her what she thinks or feels about what you just said before saying more.
Anita
August 19, 2026 at 10:20 am #460488
ConfusedParticipantHey anita
That’s not very nice i think, better to not reply at all, imo.
Yeah, she opened the gift today to take the roses out and told me she’s gonna see the rest after work 🙂
I don’t know how she didn’t feel like it, i was doing so many things, being there for her and all, maybe it was just my words? But i thought we were trolling and we were on the same page..
I thought about that too, but i dont think i wanna do it yet, or ever, if we remain together.. I think it could raise a whole new wave of questions/doubts/insecurities? Idk..
But we did agree on that back at june 2025, we said that we will see how it goes on a serious manner.. in her mind though this convo on march left her “hanging”, for me it was just trolling around with each other, i thought my actions were proving enough that i am committed, didn’t know she needed words of reassurance. I asked her why she never mentioned anything and she said “well, arent u a princess? am i gonna be the one to ask u for a relationship?” I told her that i can’t read her mind and if something is bothering her she should say it.
The thing is now that we started talking again, my feelings are off. This is so annoying how can i change it?
August 19, 2026 at 10:44 am #460490
anitaParticipantGood Wed morning/ evening, Confused 🙂
I’ll have to look up “trolling around” when I’m back to the computer 🤔
Some women- and she may or may not be one- carry such a deep wound of not having been chosen in life, of feeling painfully un-special, that no matter what and how much you do to make them feel chosen and special, once you forget or fail to be 100% attentive (an impossibility for anyone), their wound reopens and starts bleeding.
If this is what’s happening here, it’s only a matter of time before all your loving efforts are judged as lacking, or not enough. And it’d happen again and again because no one can be that perfect (reading her mind at all times and soothing her every worry just at the right time).
If this is the case, and part of you noticed it (whether you are fully aware of it or not), it could explain why your feelings are off again.
That in addition to what we already talked about (emotional overwhelm=> shutdown)?
🤔 Anita
August 19, 2026 at 11:53 am #460491
ConfusedParticipantTrolling around means messing with each other/kidding, not meaning what we saying.
I dont know if thats the case for her, but she was hung up on our jokes @ march about “not having a relationship”, she took those words seriously because she wasn’t joking when she said “well u never properly asked me to be in a relationship with u” and i thought she was messing with me, that’s why i said it. This stuck with her and over time made her feel bad like being in a situation that doesn’t fit her, but it was all a misunderstanding.
If what she said is true, her main issue is that she can’t get over what happened back in september. I asked her how can i rebuild trust with u? She said i dont know since ive never done it again, i dont know where to point u at. I told her that this can’t be, if u really want to rebuild with someone u should know what hurts u and what u can’t trust and pinpoint it and ask from the other party to fix it. If u can’t find it then maybe u don’t truly want it? Or u just can’t get over it? She did appreciate all my efforts from what i remember.
Well, when we started texting again yesterday i started crying, then by the hours going by and us keep texting i felt my feelings shutting off again, like i am “comforted” now that we talk again or something like that. But later at night, we were wondering where we lost it and where it went wrong, what we did wrong maybe, and i cried again and told her “i just want us to be happy together, like we were before all these”.
Maybe it’s overwhelm or maybe i feel safe with her and my feelings turn off? Very weird
August 19, 2026 at 1:49 pm #460495
anitaParticipantGood afternoon/ night, Confused 🙂
It’s clear to me that trolling around is a bad idea in this relationship. She needs clarity and joking around blurs clarity.
I think that she suffers from what I’d call an “unchosen wound” and needs clarity, steadiness and reassurances from you. Problem is that even if you never troll around with her, never (ever) mention an ex, and you reassure her A LOT, she’s likely to still feel unchosen (and keep it inside for some time before she lets you know) because the wound is strong and it predated you.
I just noticed that you wrote “maybe I feel safe with her”- do you feel safe with her?
🤔 Anita
August 19, 2026 at 3:23 pm #460497
ConfusedParticipantBut we have been trolling around plenty of times and there was no issue, perhaps its some specific matters that trigger her.
Hmm, how could we know that? She told me to videocall around friday/saturday to discuss all the things we have to say and what bothered us so she could look at my eyes too and get something more than texts, she said that there is a lot of contradictions that she saw from me over the year, that she hadn’t paid any attention to, that they were piling up without her realizing and now she wants to tell me. She doesn’t know what will the outcome be for us right now because she feels torn, she wants to talk but at the same time she doesnt, kinda like me, we just have to discuss with honesty and lay everything on the table because now we’ve got nothing to lose.
Hmm, as safe as i can feel with anyone since i’ve never felt “fully” safe around anyone, i always keep to myself, even with friends. Or maybe familiarity?
The thing is, now i feel like “i dont want her” and it confuses me a lot because yesterday and the whole month ive been crying so much, missing her, wanting to be with her and all, but suddenly it vanishes. I also feel exposed now that she got my letters..
She also wrote letters/notes about how she felt and she sent me one, wow anita, it was very similar to what i was writing in my letters, how we miss each other, how we see every day mundane stuff and we think of one another, but i felt a bit sorrow and suddenly nothing, then i felt like a heartless idiot that strings her along… Even the song she’s listening to nowadays is the same i am and we’ve never talked about this song, so many similarities with this woman.. How can i find my loving feelings again? It feels like something is blocking them.
August 19, 2026 at 3:48 pm #460498
anitaParticipantB Back 2 U in the Eve, Confused 🙂
August 19, 2026 at 8:48 pm #460504
anitaParticipantGood Wed Eve/ Thurs Morning, Confused:
“Perhaps it’s some specific matters that trigger her”- Yes. Can you make a list of those?
The 2 triggers I know about: (1) Any EX talk. (By the way, I think it’s a trigger for millions and millions of women around the world, although I don’t have the exact number 🙂).
(2) Any inconsistency in what you say that she may think to be a lie- that’s a tough one, if I got this trigger right. Did I?
Because if I’m right, you’re in trouble. It’ll be (or already has been) like walking on a minefield, everything is fine and fun, trolling around.. until it isn’t.
* I wrote the above before I read this part of your message: “She said there’s a lot of contradictions… piling up”-
Contradictions she thinks may be lies.
While the two of you discuss things around this Fri/ Sat, pay attention:
In her mind, are you innocent until proven guilty (of lying), or are you guilty until- and if- proven innocent?
If it’s the second, and you didn’t earn that kind of distrust, you may not want your feelings back.
🤔 Anita
August 20, 2026 at 4:44 am #460509
ConfusedParticipantHey anita
Haha i know but i am a bit different on this matter/innocent thinking. When i talk “about an ex” it’s not about my ex, i usually tell a story that was funny or creepy and an ex of mine could happen to be participating in this event (i dont even have many exes).. I am fine with a girl telling me about a story that happened to include her ex, my problem would be if she was nostalgic about them. But i know most people dont think like me so this is up to me to adapt to.
I think she said many of them are white lies or something, but i dont remember me lying to her, thats weird..
Well i feel like it’s the latter, i am guilty until proven innocent, but i am planning on putting my foot down on this one. After all, she did say that she never got over the september incident and that she still doesn’t believe me. I told her that this is not my issue, i told u the truth, its up to u whether or not to believe it.August 20, 2026 at 4:50 am #460510
ConfusedParticipantBtw i read her note again and i cried, how she misses me and how much i hurt her with this stupid “lie” 🙁
I remember how good we were before i woke up like this in November and i miss that, i wanna go back to this and better with her..But she has to let go and trust me 🙁
August 20, 2026 at 11:13 am #460520
anitaParticipantGood morning, Dear Confused:
You wrote in regard to her senditivity to you mentioning an ex (nostalgically or not),
“This is up to me to adapt to”-
I agree. I think that it’s reasonable for you to adapt to this very common sensitivity. I’d dare say that women in general do not like their partners talking about exes.
On the other hand, it would not be reasonable for you to adapt to “guilty until proven innocent”- that would be a miserable way to live.
Being repeatedly accused for not saying things just the ‘right’ or perfect way, in her mind, and having to defend yourself again and again.. and again, can easily lead to emotional shutdowns.
Am I understanding correctly: she keeps telling you how much your lie has hurt her, you keep explaining and apologizing, and she keeps saying or implying that your explanations and apologies don’t make any difference to her,
And she’s saying there’s more than that one lie, that there’re more inconsistencies in what you told her in the past that she thinks may be lies?
🤔 Anita
August 20, 2026 at 7:36 pm #460526
ConfusedParticipantHey anita
I know most people dont like hearing about exes and stuff but my mind has a different way of thinking, that if i am referring to a story and not focusing on the person, its okay, but apparently its not..
No this is gonna be the first thing im gonna clarify before we begin talking, that im not here to prove myself innocent since i havent done anything.
We’ve been over this like 30 times already so we stopped discussing it. I regret doing it but i explained to her why i did it, i also realized that this was a reaction from me, like to get back at her, but mostly it was “nonsense”. But i explained to her that this was no “lie” to cover something and maybe she can see it from my position.
She said that she spotted a lot of contradictions, also times that i violated her boundaries. But guess what? She has a lot of contradictions too.
August 20, 2026 at 9:18 pm #460527
anitaParticipantHey 🙂 Confused:
The following made me smile:
“But guess what? She has contradictions too.”-
That’s Confused standing up for himself 👍 👏 👍
I have no doubt that she’s not a bad person, just a person with an unhealed emotional wound, a wound that took place way before she knew you even existed.
So, there’re all the good times you had with her on one hand, and on the other- you having to prove that you’re not a liar.. why, that’s unfair to you! (It makes me 🤬)
I know you for how many pages? I’m not sure, a 100, 8 months? I know that you are not a liar and that you shouldn’t be treated as if you were one.
“Also times that I violated her boundaries”- did she specify?
🤔 Anita
August 21, 2026 at 8:50 pm #460535
ConfusedParticipantHey anita
Yeah i sat down and thought of all the times i was telling her “i miss u” for example (it was mostly me expressing feelings first, 99% of the times) and she would say “me too”, but never booked tickets to come see me or made any plans for videocalls/movie night, or the times she said she has no money/time but still found some to pay for her friends train tickets/airbnb/food on april and on may for her siblings when they visited for the concert. But someone could say “well, why didnt YOU go to her if she wasn’t able to?” And they would be right, but i too wanted to feel some effort and feel wanted here and there, it was also the ocd that was giving me a hard time. Then i offered to pay for her tickets and she could just pay for mine when i would visit her and she refused saying “i dont like owing money”, which to me shows again that she isn’t willing to change/evolve for the greater good of our relationship. It seemed like she wouldn’t get out of her comfort zone, maybe she was too scared to take steps forward or i wasn’t a priority in her life right now? i dont know.
She’s a kind and loving soul but yeah, she has some trauma which i triggered probably without wanting to that makes her so defensive and distant/closed off. We texted today a bit, asked her how her day went, about some other things she’s planning for her bestie’s marriage and stuff, showed me the dress she bought. She is still like 70% cautious/distant but is kinda warm at times.
You and i know it but a person with trust issues and insecurities is very hard to trust from a distance and see those things clearly when they’re in their head and are so afraid of getting hurt, i guess. The first thing i am gonna clarify before we begin talking is what u said before, that i am not here to prove myself innocent, we’re here to open up about what bothered us and feel heard.
She specified on the “ex” part (idk if there are on other domains too). She said i talked about exes too many times. But tbh i dont remember because i dont care about them, i might drop a story here and there but it was mostly stories about creepy things or things that made me grow in a way and i was explaining how the growth worked. Maybe she has a different eye for those things than me, after all most people wouldnt be ok with this and think different than me.
August 21, 2026 at 9:02 pm #460536
anitaParticipantHey Dear Confused 🙂
“The first thing I’m gonna clarify before we begin talking… is that I’m not here to prove myself innocent, we’re here to open up about what bothered us and feel heard”- 👍👍👍
Sincerely, Confused, I am impressed with you!
.. I’ll b Back in a moment
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