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One time long ago in my 20s. We were engaged to be married though. She broke it off just one week before our wedding. I ended up being traumatized for a whole year after.
Something weird happened for that following year. I'm normally really empathetic and feel a deep connection to other people. I seem to be what some people call "empath" as in I experience other people's emotions to some degree.
Then for the following year or so, I felt absolutely nothing. Everyone seemed like robots to me. Their mouths open and they made words but they all seemed like robots, even my best friends. I felt absolutely nothing towards them. They seemed all like machines.
It was the weirdest thing. Once I got over it, I started to gradually be able to feel other people's emotions again and see them like living creatures and not machines.
02 Reply@red324 I managed to find my wife some years later who actually made me think, "What did I ever see in that ex?" Although my wife might be my first true love.
With that ex, she was bipolar and anemic and I think I confused what I felt for her as true love when it might not have been. It's like I fell in love with the idea that she needed me to take care of her.
With my wife, it's like I fell in love with how we take care of each other and can talk to each other about anything.
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For the first few months yes. Then I was falsely accused in college where the woman gave herself the power to have me thrown in jail through use of an ex parte PPO and now I don’t even attempt to meet women knowing they have all of these political privileges to use at their disposal meanwhile things like women’s history month, Valentine’s Day, international women’s day, feminism, ext are empowering both good women and women like the one who falsely accused me for power. Yet all men are demonized and still have to love and empower women in general? Nah, I’m done living under the boot of women claiming they’ll never have power over men when we’ve been living in a matriarchy for years
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It doesn't matter how much I love someone. I don’t cry for longer than 3 days to a week. Deep down i may hope they pop back up later that year asking for another chance but when they do, my ego always says no even when i really wanna say yes
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Yeah same here, there were a few instances that I saw her and could have waved her over to come day high because she stopped in her car when she saw me, but I just froze. It's weird it's like your heart skips a beat and you don't know what to do. Was hoping she was going to cone over and say hi but I bet since I didn't do anything she probably decided not too.
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Yes, it took me a bit over a year but finally I am beginning to accept and get over it. I thought he was my soulmate but clearly I was deluded lol.
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We all learn from our mistakes
Mistakes are the best teacher - 1 y
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Sure, my first breakup was that way, which is what happens to most people. It is a "rite of passage" almost 😅
As for relationship pain, it still feels like daggers stabbing your heart when it hurts. There is a deep weight there even if it's years later. Am I still sad over it? No, you react better to breakups with experience, but it still hurts a little even if it's years later.12 Reply- 1 y
The ex or a new person you are dating?
I did cry months later. But not because I loved her, it was because of the trauma!😂 Might've been the PTSD was catching up and had to explode somehow. I look back on that whole relationship and realize I really wouldn't even want her back in my life now. Rear vision is clear vision.
00 Reply- Anonymous(25-29)1 y
I had this with one girl. We had some experiences together in Croatia with a trip. We had a lot of moments together till like 3 AM in the night. I loved her so deeply. It had put me in a deep depression when I saw her with someone else and hearing she lived together with him. Two years later I was finnaly able to let her go from my heart and move on. But I believe it sometimes still have an effect on me when I see her.
10 Reply - 1 y
Why break up with a good thing? Or was it the kind of breakup where it's like kicking a drug habit?
https://www.youtube.com/embed/lUh2EYX-RPE00 Reply - 1 y
Some people are better at handing this than others. I think childhood upbringing (and trauma) can impact this. Has to do with a healthy upbringing vs abandonment issues.
10 Reply - Anonymous(30-35)1 y
lol no! I am still gagging from the guys that I use to date! can't believe they were attracted to me lol I am doing a great job now keeping up with my eye exams
00 Reply No. Never get that invested in someone unless you are 110%
00 Reply- 1 y
That's normal. It takes months sometimes even years to get over a break up.
00 Reply I have but it wasn't a relationship like that. She was a friend. Taken too soon.
10 ReplyMonths? Lol. Rookie. I'm old enough to pass Yeats and decades. That's more than one clip of 10 fucking Years.
00 ReplyI never let myself get that close to anyone
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You're my favourite for a reason 😘😘
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No drama no fake...
- 1 y
Whore are my favourite..
On weekend your house or my house?
- 1 y
Nope. One was a mutual breakup, and the other one I was just happy to get rid of her
13 Reply- 1 y
She was the worst lol I'm an idiot for staying with her as long as a did
- 1 y
Yes, still trying to get over her. It doesn't help having a child together.
00 Reply - 1 y
5 years to be exact.
10 Reply 1.4K opinions shared on Break Up & Divorce topic. No. Never. I have never been in love.
00 ReplyYeah deffinetly me I have
00 ReplyA month, nah
my heart cried for over a year01 Reply- 1 y
Ouch.
- Anonymous(25-29)1 y
Why u love her
01 Reply- 1 y
Whom?
Yes I have and it sucks
00 Reply- 1 y
I hate when people use shitty metaphors.
00 Reply Yes it’s horrible
00 Reply- 1 y
💀💀💀
00 Reply 445 opinions shared on Break Up & Divorce topic. Yep.
00 Reply- Anonymous(36-45)1 y
Absolutely.
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