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Chapter 1: How long should I hold on to a relationship?
Hi, my name is Paige. I'm 30 years old, and I'm just wondering how long I should hold on to my relationship with my boyfriend who says he doesn't have enough patience to give me.
Okay, well, that's not a good to hear. Why do you think he feels the way he does?
I think part of it is his past relationship. He was together with his ex for like five years. And they ended up having a pretty toxic relationship. Towards the end of it, they were both cheating on each other. Definitely didn't have any trust. And I met him maybe like a couple months after some crazy stuff went down with him and his ex-girlfriend. And then we kind of started dating. And...
Since then, when we've come up with issues, he has told me multiple times before, I'll be like, I feel like you don't have any grace to give me. And he's like, I don't.
Give me an example of a time where you were hoping for some grace.
I'm like, there's been a couple times, actually, the most recent one. This is like one problem that we've been having recently is me wanting to go to Europe. I booked a ticket. This is something that I've been planning for like a really long time, something that I really wanted to do for like my 30th birthday. And so we had talked about it.
He said he was uncomfortable with me going alone because I was like, if I can't find anyone, I'm going to go alone.
Did you invite him?
I did.
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Chapter 2: What to do if he has lost patience with you?
And so she ended up going like crazy, texting my roommate, like stay the fuck away. Like all this like crazy stuff. It got brought up to HR. She got suspended. She ended up going to his house, spray painting his house like liar, cheater on his house, like destroyed his electronics. She had a key to the house and like slashed his motocross tires and like basically everything that he cared about.
And they weren't even together. I can't remember if this is at the time that like.
she was she had a new boyfriend or she was seeing the guy that she cheated on him with or something i mean who knows she's yeah i care less about that i just more care about like what your awareness is so clearly you were very aware of the situation more than more aware than i realize and i guess it's just more like what when you decided to date this guy like what what were your expectations of his ability or or his emotional state or his ability to be a boyfriend and
So both of us or she she knew him better than I did, like my roommate. And she was like, you know, I think he's like a really great guy and he's a really great guy. And he was just put in like a really shitty, toxic situation and kind of like caved and was spiteful. That was me going into it. I was like, OK, like.
So your your only thought was he's a he's a good guy in a bad situation. But did you think about how that situation impacted him? What that might mean for his next girlfriend?
I mean, I definitely did. I don't think he does. Like, I feel like I therapize him a lot. I'm like, is this cut? Like when he says certain things, I'm like, is this coming from somewhere? Like, could it be like this past thing that happened? And like, this is maybe why you're reacting to this in this certain way. And then he'll like, look at me and he'll be like, maybe.
I think what you are describing is very common. Here you are, this person who got to know someone coming out of a toxic relationship and you hurt as much, right? And then you decided, you made a bet. I think this is a pretty good guy in a bad situation and I'm curious about dating him. And so you decided to date them, right?
And you were aware of the fact that like, yeah, he might have some baggage that I might have to deal with. And your dealing with it is more you just deciding or questioning, right? when he behaves a certain way, if this is just a projection or a response from a past relationship, and sometimes you point that out of him to be like, this is not really me you're mad at.
This is your ex-girlfriend and blah, blah, blah, right? And it's more about you indirectly or directly suggesting this is a him problem, not really an us problem or a you problem.
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Chapter 3: Why did he ghost me after a summer romance?
Chapter 4: Is it worth getting back with someone who ghosted me?
And you would rather, it's just easier for you to convince yourself that you're the problem.
Yes. Essentially, yeah. I feel like this is a common occurrence, though. Like, I date these guys or I talk to these guys and then they leave. And I have a friend, she has a guy, like, super hooked on her right now. And she plays a game with him. Like, she's like, just keeps him coming back.
I mean, they've been doing this for like two years and I feel like maybe I'm too easy of a catch and that's why they leave.
Maybe. Possibly. It's not so much that you're easy to catch, but you might be someone who has a hard time enforcing a boundary. And when we sense that someone can enforce a boundary, then it's very easy for us to kind of walk all over them.
I don't want to be walked over.
So when you say something that's important to you, you have to follow through, even if that means not getting what you want.
More dates.
And so the answer isn't being the girl who knows how to play men and play games with them and keeps them wrapped around their fingers for two years because it's always back and forth. But maybe you can learn a thing or two from her in terms of her ability to stand her ground and say no, not being worried about his reaction and have the confidence in herself that I'll be okay.
That's scary. Sure.
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