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This Helped Me Today
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January 31, 2014, 02:56:36 PM »
Hey Everyone,
I think I am slowly detaching. It's been almost three months since my break up with the uBPDex. I have not heard from her since she is with her recycled ex. At times I fear that I will hear from her again and at times I want to hear from her. Since I do not know the answer to that, I wrote of list of what I do know:
I don't want to be with someone who wants to hurt me.
I don't want to be with someone where my love triggers abandonment.
I don't want to be a babysitter.
I don't want to hurt like this again.
If we were to recycle and break up, I would be in therapy.
I cannot fix her. She has to do that on her own.
I don't want a relationship where I constantly worry about infidelity while she is drunk.
I don't want to be with someone who has drinking problem.
I don't want to be someone who is needed, I want to be loved.
She is low functioning and that will never change.
She cannot love me if she doesn't love herself.
I will not find happiness with her, only a struggle.
I do not want to be in so much pain where I believe death would be easier.
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Re: This Helped Me Today
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January 31, 2014, 03:29:40 PM »
good strategy, puts things into prospective to reality not memory lane which always see's things better than they were ... .
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NoCRV
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January 31, 2014, 03:58:47 PM »
Thanks CoasterRider. Just a clarification, I didn't mean to come off as making therapy a bad thing. Someone told me the recycled ex has a lot of mental issues. I just didn't want her to do that to me.
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January 31, 2014, 07:45:48 PM »
Knowing that it will be a constant struggle is a huge deterrent.
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NoCRV
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January 31, 2014, 08:11:05 PM »
They all should be Santa. I should write more on my list. I find myself wanting to reach out to her. It's a strange addiction.
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Tausk
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Re: This Helped Me Today
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February 01, 2014, 12:09:04 AM »
I'll add one to the list:
I love her. However, the only thing I have left to give her is absolute boundaries of no contact. This is because any contact between us will only cause more damage. The disorder always wins. I may be able to survive the destruction, but it will simply cause a further downward spiral in her life.
Therefore, my last and most loving gift to her is no contact... . forever.
Sadness.
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February 01, 2014, 12:43:04 AM »
Inspirational Tausk. Have you slipped on no contact? I went into directly in NC with her after the break up.
I did have a conversation with her sister but I feel like I need to get some stuff off my chest with her directly.
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February 01, 2014, 01:17:48 AM »
Excellent. I copied and pasted this blurb onto my desktop in order to refer to it on occasion.
Thanks.
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List:
I don't want to be with someone who wants to hurt me.
I don't want to be with someone where my love triggers abandonment.
I don't want to be a babysitter.
I don't want to hurt like this again.
If we were to recycle and break up, I would be in therapy.
I cannot fix her. She has to do that on her own.
I don't want a relationship where I constantly worry about infidelity while she is drunk.
I don't want to be with someone who has drinking problem.
I don't want to be someone who is needed, I want to be loved.
She is low functioning and that will never change.
She cannot love me if she doesn't love herself.
I will not find happiness with her, only a struggle.
I do not want to be in so much pain where I believe death would be easier.
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