For those of you that follow my blog and know who V is, you
are about to get pretty frustrated with me.
Of course, I have been talking to him again. Yes, this is the same V that I have written
about quitting numerous times. It seems
he’s not quite as easy to quit, as I would have hoped.
In my last blog entry I wrote about taking my life
back. I wrote about getting healthy,
mind and body. I have been losing weight
(slowly but surely), some days I struggle more than others to stay focused and
motivated, but I’ve not gained and I’m still losing. I didn’t talk to V for three weeks. I stayed strong, and didn’t contact him, even
though I really wanted to. Until one
night when I sent him a text, asking if he had missed me. He responded telling me that he had, and he
wanted us to talk again. I told him we
couldn’t talk again, nothing had changed, and I shouldn’t have text him. He then told me how much he had missed
talking to me and he had missed my laugh and my positive attitude. He swore that he had learned his lesson and
that things would be different this time.
No more being cruel for cruelness sake.
No more mean jokes or mind games.
We began talking again, and he really did keep his
word. He was sweet, kind, comforting and
wonderful. He would still make jokes,
but that is his sense of humor, and he was no longer mean to me. He would even ask to call me, and tell me he
missed me or missed my voice. He would
talk to me for hours and then tell me that I had made him smile. He still maintained that we were just
friends. But we txt all day every day,
and called each other two or three times a day, whenever we could. Talking to him made me so happy, I looked
forward to hearing his voice, and I swooned knowing that he looked forward to
hearing mine.
A week is all that this wonderfulness lasted for. Of course I began building romantic ideas in
my head once again. Ideas of love and
being together, and, one day even, ideas of marriage and children. I was a fool in love all over again. Telling myself that he MUST have feelings for
me if he missed my voice and my laugh. I
mean, I love my friends, and I miss them, but I don’t miss the sound of their
voice. His is the only voice that I miss
like that. I deluded myself with
thoughts of him realizing his love for me.
I duped myself into believing that we were in some sort of relationship,
and would one day be together. I did all
this, in the full knowledge that we were “just friends”. I believed that he really did have feelings
for me, but was just afraid of them.
V asked me to call him after work last night. I knew he needed to go to bed early for work
the next day, so I rushed around getting my things done so that I could get out
and call him. When I txt him, he
responded telling me he was with a friend, and was busy. He didn’t txt me again after that. Something in me snapped. I convinced myself that he must be with
another girl, which is why he couldn’t text.
It’s important to know that I am not the jealous type, I am very
trusting of my partners, and I never worry about them cheating. But with V it is different. We are not in a relationship; he can do
whatever he wants, with whomever he wants.
So I snapped. I was mad that he
didn’t let me know that we wouldn’t be able to talk. I was mad that he was (maybe) with someone
else. I was mad that he didn’t want to
be with me. I said some things I
shouldn’t have, and I have not heard from him since.
I realized something today.
It doesn’t matter how nice or supportive V is to me. His meanness was never the reason why he was
bad for me. I am the reason V is bad for
me. It is my one sided love for him
which is why he is bad for me. V was
never the one responsible it was always me.
V was mean to me because I allowed it, when I put my foot down and
refused to accept that kind of behavior from him anymore, the behavior stopped. V was never the problem it was always me. V might have feelings for me and be confused,
or he might genuinely not have any romantic feelings for me whatsoever. None of that matters at all. What matters is that he does not reciprocate
the feelings I have for him, and therefor I must move on. Being friends doesn’t work. I can’t handle it; I get hurt, angry and
jealous. V is toxic to me, because of
how I feel about him, not because of how he feels about me.
It would be lovely if one day I could be V’s friend. But I can’t right now. I can’t burry my feelings, and it’s too hard
for me to talk to him. When he tells me
he misses my voice, or me or compliments me in any way, I read too much into it
and convince myself that he has feelings for me too. That is toxic thinking, and I can’t have it
in my life. In an ideal world, V would
love me and move to Florida to be with me.
But this is reality, and I need to stop living in a fantasy world,
convincing myself of feelings that just aren’t there.
My mum told me that I am the center of my universe and I
need to love myself more than I love any other person. She instructed me to take all of the time and
energy I put into my feelings for V, and put them into myself instead. I deserve more than to have feelings for
someone who doesn’t feel the same way. I
am a wonderful person. I need to focus
on getting healthy, and the self-confidence and love for myself will come. Until that comes, how can I expect to ever be
in a healthy relationship?
V is a good person, and he has it right. He knows what he wants (his career) and he
focuses on it. All he ever did was try
to be my friend, it was me that chose to read too much into every little thing
he said or did. I wish him all the best
in everything he does. I just need to
move on from him now. I have to take
responsibility for my own feelings and happiness. I need to focus on what I want, just like V
has done. And if being friends is not
what I want, then I need to move on from him, no matter how difficult it may
be.
When you know better you do better. You are a wonderful person and need to spend every second of every day making sure that you put your needs ahead of everyone else. You deserve a healthy mind body and spirit and only you can provide this gift to yourself
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