Need some advice and support.

Dank Juan

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I had been with the LTR for almost two years now, we had met my senior year in high school. She's the smartest girl I've ever seen, and for 5 months or so things were perfect. I was her first partner, she was my third. For 1.5 years, we were together every second of every day. Sex once a day. A little ways in i became a sort of dik and flirted with girls every now and then, but nothing serious. Just enough to bother her. stopped shortly after. Things were a little different after that, but it was all still very good. We had plans to marry and stay together.
Exclusivity was never an issue. I always felt like i could trust her (she had been cheated on by her only previous boyfriend). The only problem was that she never expressed herself. She lived in a sort of shell that she hadn't ever considered coming out of.

About three month's ago, she started at the state university, with me at a community college. We saw each other less and less, and she would start drinking more and more and party every Friday and Saturday with her friends. It came to the point where we would be hanging out once or twice in two weeks.

We broke up a few days ago, and it's been pretty hard for me. I realize that over the course of time I've reverted back to AFC, and hit hard during the actual breakup. Lately I've taken up skateboarding and am hitting the gym more often.

We both love each other very much. I still cant imagine myself staying with another girl. It was her idea to break up for a while (after fighting and almost breaking up every two weeks or so. she still is retarded when it comes to expressing exactly how she feels.), and that we'd get back together in a year or so where we left off. I agreed. I have been going through some family issues and haven't been having a good time with her away. I don't know how i fell about her drinking and hooking up with people. I'm very old fashioned in my convictions of monogamy and purity, however gay that sounds. I just like nice, clean girls. I understand the fear of only having one sexual partner for the rest of your life, but i do feel like i may have been safety netted a bit, even though now i'm placing the same feeling on her.

A week later, memories of her are still integrated into with everything i ever did before we broke up. We had talked and shared and done everything together. All of my old video games make me think of the times we spent together talking about them. I can't enjoy them any more. Everything i usually do just gets me down. I still think that she is a good person, and that things would be so perfect if we had met three or four years later.

I'm coming back to sosuave to reboot. it helped me alot during high school achieving confidence and self respect. I'm just looking for some thoughts on what to spend my time doing. I've severed my ties with most of the girls i knew, but I've got a date coming up on tomorrow. I've been wondering if i should stick with her when the time comes around. I don't know if i'd forgive her for leaving, but i know that i had hurt her in the past and that she was more vulnerable than i was. Just having a difficult time with this. I don't really care about hooking up with chicks, I've always been just looking for love. I like the idea of having a close partner.

Ill answer any questions you all have.

Looking for some general advice, and anything else pertinent.

-Dank
 

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Dank Juan said:
We both love each other very much.
Let's say someone else was in your exact position right now, and you were watching him from your TV. You know nothing about what's going on in this guy's head.

You only see that he's having a rough time with some girl who never spends time with him.

Would you say, then, that they love each other very much?

You wouldn't say that. And nothing about why she's not seeing him, or why they broke up, or any of that stuff will be able to change the fact that if she loved him, she'd be with him.

You might be tempted to describe his situation as "complicated." Nothing is complicated. Everything is simple. Things only get complicated when you try to change 2+2 into 5, or explain why someone who "feels a certain way" is behaving in a way that indicates something completely different.

Realize that first, dude. You're young. The first thing you need to learn is my personal rule zero:

Love Shogun's Zeroth Rule: You must ALWAYS know exactly where you stand, even if you don't know why or are powerless to change it.

Reality first. Women, later.

I'll write you some more comprehensive advice later in an edit to this post.
 

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wow i dont post much but loveshogun you really give some good advice. now..can you explain your signature is funny but i dont get it lol
 

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Dank Juan said:
I had been with the LTR for almost two years now, we had met my senior year in high school. She's the smartest girl I've ever seen, and for 5 months or so things were perfect.

About three month's ago, she started at the state university, with me at a community college.

We both love each other very much. I still cant imagine myself staying with another girl. It was her idea to break up for a while
You're barely 20 and you're talking about her like she's the only one for you.

Newsflash: This relationship is over. She's telling you that she wants some time on her own and then she'll get back to you as a way of testing the waters. If the waters suck, THEN she will come back to you. You are Plan Z.

Please, do me a favor and enjoy college and enjoy the rest of your twenties.

At this young of an age you shouldn't even be considering an LTR. You shouldn't even be thinking about marriage or the implications of it before the age of 25...

In your case, wait til you are 30.

I know you have your beliefs about monogamy, but how are those working out for HER?

Time to find new WOMEN (YES, PLURAL).

This one is done and over with and the sooner you realize that, the sooner you can move on with your life. Don't be Plan Z, become the Plan A for many other women.
 

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^^^^^ Listen to the boys.

Been there myself 2 months ago. The memories will keep lingering for some time now.

As for her, sorry man. She's gone. And if she indeed does come back after one year my advice would be to IGNORE HER! Stay away from her. Unless she kept herself pure through this whole year (Which I seriously doubt, because she broke up to have a taste of more men). Most girls are like that. 1 d1ck isn't enough for them and always have the impression that they're missing on something. Lucky for you the break up occurred now and not in the far future.

Think about it, what if after many years of relationship, marriage and maybe children, she wakes up one morning and says to herself: "I want to see how sex is with other men!". You just dodged a bullet my friend. It really is a blessing in disguise. Read the post about my break up. I feel for you and your idealism about monogamy and wanting only pure women. Wake up and smell the roses :) tho

Now go out and have fun :D
 

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loveshogun said:
You only see that he's having a rough time with some girl who never spends time with him.
I was gonna say something about how she justified everything by saying i make her feel crappy by giving her sh1t, but now that i think of it, me feeling bad about something should've been enough motivation to stop.

Ive realized that i'd been hanging on to something that wasnt there. I just wanted something nice to work out for myself.


And Thank you.

I feel like i should add that she suggested i try out the waters with specific girls i'd told her i was into. It was more of like a lets escape the fighting and live for a while sort of thing.
 

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I went through the same feelings and frustration when my GF left me earlier this year. I couldn't get my head around being with anyone else and thinking of her moving on was crushing.

You are doing the right thing by skating and using the gym. Use this pain to motivate you to improve. Release your frustration in the gym and vow to become a stronger and better man.

This is exactly what I did after my break up and several months later, I'm in the best shape I've been in for years, I'm more confident than I've ever been and life is much better than it ever was while I was with her.

It takes time to get over a break up and to see past the haze of emotion, but keep pushing forward and before you know it you'll be grateful for the fresh start.
 

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Is there any situation where i should get back with this girl?
 

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Dank Juan said:
Is there any situation where i should get back with this girl?
If the world ends and you two are the last human beings and the future of the human race depended on you two getting back together...

MAYBE then you can consider it.

Stop looking for situations to justify getting back with her, there aren't any. Why would you want to anyway? She dumped you.

MOVE ON.
 

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My brother had a similar situation a long time ago. He dated a girl for two years. She broke up with him and told him she needed space and they could still stay friends. She said maybe they would get back together in a year. They never got back together. She kept jumping from guy to guy. My brother eventually moved on, met someone else, and couldn't be happier.

My advice is don't hold your breath. I know it hurts, and it will take time to accept it, but you will have to move on and let go of any delusions of getting back together.
 

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Dank Juan said:
Is there any situation where i should get back with this girl?
If you happen to see her in months or a year from now and you're looking good, feeling confident and positive, who knows? A lot depends on how you handle the breakup. If you keep pestering her and acting needy, you'll scare her away forever and she'll never want to risk going through all that again, but if you're cool, move on and get yourself together, she'll see that you don't need her to be happy and that's a very alluring quality in a man.

I remember running into a few exes after a year or more of self improvement and seeing them almost drooling over me. Great feeling, but by that time I was not even slightly interested in getting with them again.
 

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I've just been really having trouble shaking the feeling. And i think about it near constantly.
 

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how long has it been now Dank? doesnt appear to have been long at all, these things take time, it cant be fixed by re learning things online, get out, keep busy, allow yourself to feel the pain, learn about yourself, why your feeling pain, why this is causing you pain, this is one person who has dumped you, you need to learn from it, you need to dismantle the illusion that this girl 'was the one' cos as sure as hell she obviously isnt, you built her up in your mind, elevated her above yourself and she has thrown it away.
hurts like hell and will for some time...but it wont last and if you handle it the right way, you will be better and stronger
 
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