Thanks for responding. It's amazing how many people are unable to form healthy relationships with others - whether it's love, frienship, family relations or whatever. I'm sure that the way my ex treated me was a pretty faithful copy of the way she had been treated by her own mother - I met the lady in question, and boy, was it a discouraging experience.:/ And the fact that my own parents never seemed too fond of each other certainly didn't help me figure out what a romantic relationship should look like.:|
But anyway... most of us get past it somehow, sooner or later. I just wish someone had grabbed me and shaken my shoulders right at the beginning, and said hey, what on earth are you getting yourself into, get out that door and RUN, for heaven's sake! But then, maybe I wouldn't have listened. After all, if a suicide attempt wasn't enough to send me running... (she did that right after we became involved, and it was aimed at her mother, not at me - but still...) Maybe I got what I deserved, in a way. Maybe it helped me grow up somehow. *sigh*
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Date: 2010-02-22 01:30 am (UTC)But anyway... most of us get past it somehow, sooner or later. I just wish someone had grabbed me and shaken my shoulders right at the beginning, and said hey, what on earth are you getting yourself into, get out that door and RUN, for heaven's sake! But then, maybe I wouldn't have listened. After all, if a suicide attempt wasn't enough to send me running... (she did that right after we became involved, and it was aimed at her mother, not at me - but still...) Maybe I got what I deserved, in a way. Maybe it helped me grow up somehow. *sigh*