I had been dating my ex for over 5 Years and I broke up w/ her approx 4 months ago because I couldn’t stand her verbal abuse any longer and we fought like cats and dogs… We both love each other a lot and still do! She is a few years older than me and much more experienced than I am as she was my first for nearly everything including a real relationship. We’ve had our ups and downs and at certain points our relationship became extremely unhealthy and even at certain points have become abusive physically and other.. She has a very troubled past and was a very broken person when she came to me, its truly very sad… I guess I probably felt I could rescue the damsel in distress… Her biggest flaw is that she trusts nobody not even herself.. and she cannot tell the truth for very long… and due to this becomes very destructive. I understand that we are in a much more healthy situation now and that our relationship had a lot of built up resentment do to the things we did and ways we had treated each other, which was the ultimate recipe for failure.. After some serious prying and pleading she has told me that she is now with other men and has moved on or is trying to.. and that I should do the same.. and that she loves me and will always love me but she isn’t the one for me and she will just hurt me, but also tells me that she is very confused.. even then I still have a hard time letting go and want her back in my life soOooo badly! I cannot function properly and even though she isn’t directly causing me stress now I am under so much stress now and in so much pain without her I cannot tell which was worse! I know that I need to give it time and that I need to move on but It hurts me so badly knowing that she has moved on every time I close my eyes I think of her with someone else and everything i do, hear, or see reminds me of her. I want to remain friends but it is so difficult…. What will allow me to let go? How do I move on? Will I ever be ready to move on? I honestly have nearly no interest in anyone else and always am thinking of her and how I can make her happy.. but then greed takes over and I want her to be with me and only me! She told me that she is doing this for me so I can move on and that I need to experience a heartbreak and that she is just a stepping stone for me to get something better.. She also says I am her closest friend and an awesome guy but that she doesn’t feel romantically for me any longer.. It hurts so badly… Its been 4 months and Its hurting worse each day.. shouldn’t this be getting easier!? What can I do to truly let go and be at peace..? Please help I really need some honest advice from someone with life experiences… and I am not looking for an answer like go have sex! because that’s not what I am looking for right now.. I need to fix myself before I think about that..
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