I'd love to get your advice on this further. I always get stuck thinking if I'm only good enough, if I'm the perfect man that she won't leave, won't act up.
I think that's what gets a-lot of guys, definitely myself, stuck, i.e. she told me who she was but she treated me so well initially that the reason she's now acting up is because I must not be good enough to keep her behaving.
How do you break away from this line of thinking? I get stuck thinking about this all the time.
Ok well it seems you have a few inner game issues stemming from negative beliefs....
For example, you appear to be equating your own self worth ("I must not be good enough to keep her behaving") based on her
behavior towards you.....
This is an erroneous belief. This erroneous belief needs to be reframed.
If I was you I'd try to use mindfulness to observe these sort of beliefs, write them down so you can see them clearly.......then rewrite them (reframe) so that the serve you in a more powerful way.....
You may have to repeat certain beliefs and go through a paradigm shift until they become part of you and start to manifest in your physical world...
I know it might sound corny......but you've got to really condition yourself to believe that your self worth is not defined by anyone's behavior towards you.
Don't be fooled by anyone......like the quote from Fight Club goes "A tiger can smile, a snake can say it loves you, lies make us evil..."
Develop a healthy skepticism.......I read that piece of advice from a travel book on South East Asia many years ago.....the advice was the following ..."there are so many scams and people trying to rip you off that it's easy to get paranoid. You don't want to be completely paranoid while traveling. What's necessary is a healthy dose of skepticism"
I've never forgotten that advice. It's too easy to swallow the red pill and get paranoid that "they are out to get you" and that there's a huge conspiracy theory. But it's no way to live.....
However, every man needs strong defined boundaries. You cannot be a push over with anyone or else you will get walked on. It's a fact of life......
Therefore......a healthy dose of skepticism....
Remember, you can influence a woman's interest level towards you......
But you cannot change her character.....what you see is what you get.
A strong buffer between you and your plates needs to be developed. Like a bicycle wheel. You are the hub and your women are the outside wheel spinning around you. The spokes are maintaining a clear distance. Attached but detached at the same time.