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  • #99052
    Jonnym
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    Hi Anita,

    More hers, I let her down early in the relationship which I’m not proud of but we got through it. Mine now because of the house purchase and now me having to deal with that as well as a new job. I don’t want it to end with bitterness and that we can find some common ground that allows us at some level to be able to talk to each other.

    Jonnym

    #99054
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Dear Jonnym:

    Not wanting to miss more stuff I just re-read all your posts on this thread. Being a bit distracted, I will be thinking as I am typing, literally: At the beginning of this five years, or so, relationship, you were the “alpha male” which meant you made mistakes with her as that alpha male. But you worked through it, or so you thought, or so it appeared, but ” in the November of last year she finished it citing my past mistakes and moved out almost immediately.”

    That “alpha male” mistakes then came up again, unexpectedly to you, following her later-in-the-relationship psychotherapy. There was some communication after she moved out but even less than that now, and presently any sporadic communication is about the house you bought together.

    You both have “high flying jobs”. You are good enough with money and she is not, so the mortgage is on your name. It felt to you like a more equal relationship than any in your past because she too has a high flying job, I suppose.

    You focused on the material aspects of the relationship, the purchase and work on the house while she focused on her therapy, perhaps, on the mental aspects of the relationship.

    She has contact, or more contact, with her ex husband… but isn’t this because he is the bio father of her children?

    In her therapy, maybe she got in touch with how her childhood affected her in her relationships with men and she figured out you are … either like her mother or her father and so, she ended the relationship with you quickly, as if she was ending her childhood troubles once and for all, a quick fix to the overwhelming inner troubles she got in touch with in therapy.

    Wow, how did I come up with the above? It is a theory, a possible explanation, nothing more (still, I am sometimes impressed with myself…)

    I tend to think that her leaving quickly is because she thought/ felt that her moving out will solve her problems, will simplify her “complicated head” the fastest, faster and easier than any other way.

    I am taking a break from my thinking and will be waiting for your input on it, if you will, when you will.

    anita

    #99055
    Jonnym
    Participant

    Hi Anita,

    In essence you’ve hit it completely on the head exactly. The only part is that her moving and leaving quickly follows a pattern repeated many times rather than confront the issues. My early mistakes were held against me as a reason to go,forgetting all the good things I had done. Its all very sad really and a waste of what in essence had lots of positives.

    Jonnym

    #99056
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Dear Jonnym:

    You also wrote in a previous post that you used to think (still?) that she may be a Borderline Personality Disorder person. Elaborate?

    anita

    #99058
    Jonnym
    Participant

    Hi Anita,

    Her lack of control over money and her impulsive behaviour regards it. House is classic example, major financial and emotional commitment and then walked away from it assuming that I could carry it. She likes the big plans but then the reality doesn’t always live up to the expectations for her. However most of the time she was very lovely and generous too. She said to me that she had demons she couldn’t shake and not sure whether the therapy helped or not.

    Jonnym

    #99061
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Dear Jonnym:

    So you think she left you, moved out impulsively: sure looks like it from where I am. Did you not ask her about her demons? I mean she told you she had demons: didn’t you ask her to tell you about them? About her “complicated head”, complicated with demons, figuratively? And did she answer or otherwise tell you (other than the facts of her childhood that you already shared on this thread in a couple of lines or so)?

    anita

    #99066
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Dear Jonnym:

    It just occurred to me as I was thinking about your thread, away from the computer, that…

    When she was a child, and her parents fought, she heard them both fighting… both her parents were heard, she heard them. But there was one person in that “home” that wasn’t heard, and that was her. She wasn’t heard.

    And maybe…

    When she lived with you she was used to not be heard and appreciated a lot of what you offered her. When she attended psychotherapy, she had some experience there being heard.

    She became quieter with you because she was realizing, that unlike in her therapy sessions, she was not heard by you. Once again, she was not heard at “home”.

    She realized she was not at home, because a home is where you are heard.

    As a child, she was not able to leave “home”- but now, as a grown woman, this was the least she could do, leave “home.”

    So she left.

    If this is so, close to being so in reality, and if you are able and willing and are highly committed to hearing her (no matter how uncomfortable and inconvenient to you) with empathy, compassion, patience… then let her know, now, that you understand that you did not hear her before, and that now you desperately want to hear her. You can ask to meet with her and let her see that you are capable and willing to hear her now.

    And over a little time, maybe, the “home” you prepared for her, could become her home, where she can be heard (as well as you, and her children).

    ???

    anita

    #99067
    anxiousangel
    Participant

    U had been an alpha male..as u said.

    Lately u started paying a lot of attention to make her happy..make the house look lovely dr her..out of the grown love in u fr her.

    Emotionally u feel robbed as u het on her as a stable support and partner…and she left. She had her own reasons..u cant do nethng bout it.

    Move on..meet new ppl. Accept she s gone.
    Emotionally get stable normal..
    She s not lyf. If now u pay attention elsewhr u ll do well.. Lover is the only one side f ur self. Look to grow on other sides.

    Financially..deal wid the shit as it has to b done.

    My personal view only.

    #99068
    anxiousangel
    Participant

    U had been an alpha male..as u said.

    Lately u started paying a lot of attention to make her happy..make the house look lovely dr her..out of the grown love in u fr her.

    Emotionally u feel robbed as u het on her as a stable support and partner…and she left. She had her own reasons..u cant do nethng bout it.

    Move on..meet new ppl. Accept she s gone.
    Emotionally get stable normal..
    She s not lyf. If now u pay attention elsewhr u ll do well.. Lover is the only one side f ur self. Look to grow on other sides.

    Financially..deal wid the shit as it has to b done.

    My personal view only.

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