The fear that makes you stay in a relationship isn't only because no one might want you anymore, it's more because of ruining your stability, the depression, the losses and how it's going to effect you and the kids if you have many, plus you might wanna give it a chance believing that your spouse might change with time, plus it's because if you believe that marriage is sacred than you don't want to make a sin, especially if your spouse isn't cheating!
Some men are 100% loyal to their women, aren't able to love any other woman, but they have big issues with their wives, some of them even beat them, it's really complicated, how they never cheat and love only their wives and yet manage to assault them physically 🤷🏻♂️
My aim on GAG is to help you untangle love, fear, and all that messy in‑between stuff 💘
Yeah, I’ve seen this a lot in my coaching, and I’ve done it myself in my early 20s. Stayed because I feared being “unwanted.” That’s not love, that’s scarcity. Huge red flag. When you heal your self-worth, you realize: being alone is never worse than being unloved beside someone.
I haven’t and those people point blank are called cowards. I’m not getting into people in abusive relationships because that’s another topic. But people in relationships with someone they know genuinely loves them a lot more then they do are absolutely cowardly people. They are wasting sometimes years of someone’s life because they are too afraid nobody else will want them, cheating on them because obviously they’re looking for someone else, and sadly this happens to many people both men and women.
With that being said many people have done shitty ass things and later in life deeply regret and feel bad about what they did. People aren’t perfect but if someone can recognize what they did was wrong and not do those things anymore it means all hope isn’t lost for them. When someone’s gotten to the point where they excuse and justify their bad behavior and continue to double down on it, in the end many times they end up with exactly what they deserve.
My best friend was like that until she found someone new several times after her divorce. Kinda weird since there was a guy or two in our class that wanted her, I wouldn't have minded having her for my girlfriend, the professor seemed to be chasing her, her boyfriend, whom she met online, fell in love with her and enticed her to move here to be with him and the guy that lived next door to her once she got here wanted her!! How could she figure no one else would want her if she left that abusive, sick assshole?
A lot of people fall into that trap because low self-esteem makes you feel like you won't find better. But staying in an unhappy relationship out of fear only prevents you from finding someone who actually appreciates you. Being single and peaceful is always better than settling out of fear.
I didn't think so at the time because I thought since I was in it for so long, the next logical step was to do x, y or z. In the end though, it was fear; fear of being alone. Fortunately, I didn't end up with her and later found the best person for me and she reciprocates.
I have, but there are kids involved. So it was a little more than being worried if someone else would want me. It was starting over, leaving the familiar (even if the familiar was miserable), the kids, etc. Once we split, life has been hard, but wonderful. I would never do that to myself again.
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