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October 26, 2016 at 9:49 am #118960AnonymousGuest
Dear Suzanne Baker:
Tough situation for you: feeling a strong attachment to Nic, seeing another girl infatuated with him (on social media), being told by Nic that he is also strongly attached to you and sees a future but not yet. There is no future date or suggestion when a getting-together will happen.
Wait, how did I miss this: WHY is he not “not in a place to try and work on us right now”- what does it mean? He is not talking about a geographical place, is he? Why not “work on us” right now? Did you and I communicate about his reasons, I don’t remember? Did you ask him?
anita
October 26, 2016 at 6:21 pm #118989Suzanne BakerParticipantHey Anita! Again thank you for your response.
Well based on what he has said in the past, he’s not in the place to work on us because he is so engrossed in this film program he is involved with. It’s almost like a cult like setting where he just works with his team of 12 others and they are filming like 6 days a week. He has said that he really wants to put all of his focus into this film project they are working on. And when we broke up our relationship was VERY complicated. There were lots of hurt feelings and honestly it was all very heavy. I think both of us have a slight fear that when we get back together we will again feel some of that heaviness as we may have to work through some stuff, as everyone has to do in relationships. Me and Nic are both very dramatic and we both feel a lot and everything. Which is why we experienced some of the greatest feelings in life together and some of the hardest. I think for these reasons he doesn’t want to get back into everything right now while we live across the country and are very involved in new school programs.
Also, one of the reasons we broke up was because he was having second thoughts about marriage in general. And at the time I was very dead set on marriage and us setting a date. I put a lot of pressure on him for a lot of things. Honestly, I look back and don’t feel I was the best partner. Maybe for some of these reasons he also feels he is not ready because he is thinking I have those same expectations as before. And at this point I really don’t. I just want to be with him because being with him was the best part of my life and I miss him everyday. I would like to just sit with him and talk and watch movies and dance. I wouldn’t even care about getting married like I did before. I’m not as attached to that idea of marriage.
It’s just hard because I can’t even tell him all of this stuff because “he’s not ready.” It sucks. I guess I just need to move on and if it is meant to be it will be.
October 26, 2016 at 7:11 pm #118991AnonymousGuestDear Suzanne Baker:
My impression, from your posts, is that he left the relationship with you with a bad feeling, what you referred to as heavy and complicated. So, I figure, all animals move away from pain: it is an instinct. If he views the last part of his relationship with you as painful, and he has moved away already, and he is very busy with his film project, living far away, new friends, maybe a girlfriend… all these make it seem to me not promising for a future relationship between the two of you.
Back to what I wrote to you before following his suggestion that you date: do that, and if you meet someone special, a good match for you, a very good match, then move forward with that man. If I was you, I would put the hope to be with Nic to sleep and like you wrote in the last line above, move on.
Do post again..
anita
October 26, 2016 at 9:07 pm #119001Suzanne BakerParticipantAnita, wow you are very wise. Thank you for your support.
Sometimes I wish we never had that email exchange with Nic because I actually had put the hope to sleep. Until we exchanged those emails. Then, because of what he said, it just refilled me with all the love I’ve ever had for him all along. It was just so frustrating because for the past year I had been dating and dating and every person I met did not even hold a candle to Nic. Or if they did, they weren’t interested in me. It just never seemed to work with anyone else. I guess I only really tried dating for one year before I reached out to Nic through those emails. Maybe I just need to try and date more. It’s just very hard because my heart isn’t in the dating. It’s still very connected to Nic. Which I am seeing is not serving me so I must try and let go. But how… When you had something so beautiful with someone? It feels crazy to let that go. But I guess it’s crazier to hold on to something that is non existent that is just causing me pain. But why did he say all the things about us being together again and his feelings not having had changed a bit and bla bla bla? Why would he say all of that? Is he just using our relationship for a future drama he wants to make cause it sure feels like I am in a depressing, sad, lonely movie. One that makes me cry all the time.
October 27, 2016 at 8:25 am #119021AnonymousGuestDear Suzanne Baker:
I was wondering as well, yesterday: “But why did he say all the things about us being together again and his feelings not having had changed a bit and bla bla bla? Why would he say all of that?”
And I too thought it might be connected to his film pursuit: “Is he just using our relationship for a future drama he wants to make”
If he is an honest man, then he is not purposefully trying to toy with you. Maybe, like you, he separates the good-times from the bad-times and is not connecting the two very well. And so, he was speaking from the good-times part of the separation. Maybe.
I hope you do date more, but take it, if you will, as a learning opportunity: who is that man in front of you? Get to know him, for the sake of knowing. Let curiosity motivate you.
Holding on to the good-times memories with Nic is just that, holding on to memories. Shift your loyalty from memories of the past, to creating present-time experiences.
Till your next post, take care.
anita
October 27, 2016 at 9:01 am #119022Suzanne BakerParticipantThank you for all your great insights Anita! Till next time.
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