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    Anonymous
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    Dear shanola:

    You had a bad experience with the therapy you had- the experience could be very different with a competent, caring therapist who will listen to you with attention and empathy. Good therapy is not about “holding on to harsh feelings”- but examining all feelings for the valid messages behind them, so that you can be guided by a combination of your feelings and logic.

    I understand you want to see the young woman, but she didn’t answer your last communication and that is very telling. I wish she answered but she didn’t. So … have to accept reality because if you deny reality… well, reality will not accommodate your denial.

    I am sorry you are in pain.

    anita

    #109783
    Shane
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    You’re right and I’m also sorry but that’s just me. I did have a bad time that time but I may have a good experience if I was to take a step and try therapy again, at the moment though I can’t really afford it and I’ll be going to visit New Orleans for a little bit to take my mind off of things before its time for me to move for school so that’ll have to substitute for my therapy. The reality is that no matter how much I love her or how much I want her in my life, she’s not and that’s a choice that she made, I shouldn’t have to force anyone that loves me to be with me. To be quite honest, At times I’ve felt stupid for still wanting a relationship with someone who would hurt me by betraying my trust and then leave me alone because I think of how much I blamed myself and how little I thought of myself. I’ve learned to forgive myself kinda like how I forgave her but I want to live my life to the fullest and the only way for me to do that is to work through it.

    I know that I probably sound dumb but I still have hope and that gives me some sort of relief because I do still want that us one day, And if its meant to be it’ll be, maybe in a couple of months we’ll speak and patch things up but until then I think its best that I do whats best for me and keep on trying to find out what I want to do with me for the rest of the time I have breathing.

    #109794
    Anonymous
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    Dear shanola:

    I don’t think it is dumb to hope to be loved by someone. It is a natural need, one that we are born with; one that never goes away, as long as we are breathing.

    One day, if you can afford it (low cost, sliding scale), therapy with a competent, empathetic therapist can do a lot for you. Not now, maybe someday.

    For now, I hope you have a good trip to New Orleans. Then you move to Florida- hope you focus on your studies there and gradually make a friend here and there, some positive socializing. Maybe there will be a change with this young, young woman. Maybe not. Maybe another will pop into your life.

    Post again, anytime.

    anita

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