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- From: rjudy@dime.cs.umass.edu (Judy Ruot)
- Newsgroups: soc.bi
- Subject: sympathy and advice sought
- Message-ID: <56477@dime.cs.umass.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 23:22:54 GMT
- Sender: news@dime.cs.umass.edu
- Reply-To: rjudy@dime.cs.umass.edu (Judy Ruot)
- Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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- I've been broken up with someone for about 1.5 years now. She's seeing
- someone else (yes, that hurts a lot) and so am I. I feel tired and
- frustrated with the feelings I still have wrt not feeling over it all
- and not understanding at all. I've tried getting busy and doing things
- and making new friends, whatever. Nothing seems to help. Some background
- info: when we were together, it was not ideal for me, I wasn't getting
- enough of what I wanted (lots of touching and affection, open
- communication ) so, initially, I broke off (several times. things would
- improve a little but then deteriorate again). Then, I guess she gave
- up too though it wasn't clear to me at the time that this happened. Then
- the icing on the cake, she tells me she's seeing someone else. After
- hearing that (about 9 months ago), I've been feeling all kinds of
- intense and painful emotions, sad, angry, scared. I don't understand
- this because this person wasn't what I really wanted... why should I
- care that they are with somebody else now? Why should I be feeling so
- strongly about them? I mean, I feel like they left me but the reality
- is, I left them, initially. I feel left, though, because they're seeing
- somebody else now. None of this makes sense to me. I've heard that the
- feelings from the loss of the relationship could be triggering some
- older feelings that were inside me from some other loss (which I hadn't
- let myself feel at the time of that loss) but I don't know if it's
- true and even if it is, what am I supposed to do now? If someone has
- any advice, I'd love to hear it... like, how long am I going to feel
- this way... should I just forget about her (the person I broke up
- with)? She says she still wants to be friends but for the most part, for
- over a year now, she hasn't done much with me or made any kind of effort
- to do anything with me.
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- frustrated and bummed
- jd
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