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Its more like, I am too physically exhausted to self-sabotage by not getting enough sleep. The human incarnation of depression is just what I was thinking. And all those cultural messages about Kids These Days Giving Up and In Our Day We Didnt Divorce, and Thats What For Better And For Worse Means make it really, REALLY hard to believe that this relationship is making me stressed and unhappy is, in actual fact, a perfectly reasonable cause for exiting a relationship. WELL I WONDER WHAT YOU WOULD DO AFTER 20 YEARS MARRIED TO SOMEONE YOUD PROBABLY JUST BLITHELY DUMP HIM THEN TOO. *cough* Nah, it just made me more sneaky and creative, what were they going to do, strip search me? Im going to read it again as soon Im done with this comment. Dynamitochondria, I really have nothing useful to add to that link, except I have been there, and it sucks. didnt care to be badgered about things and it needed to stop. Run. I agree. Hell, take steps to meet some new people anyway. This is emotional abuse designed to make you feel incompetent and bend your will to his. Luckily, John Howell has already worded it beautifully , http://thoughtcatalog.com/john-w-howell/2013/05/a-narcissists-love-letter/. Maybe the simplest (and best, to be completely honest with you about how Im feeling about this dude) answer is:You dont make each other happy anymore, and youd both be happier if you ended it and found someone more compatible. Its amazing the first time you realize the difference between actual happiness and just being not-completely-miserable. Now! Hmmm, actually, that wasnt the post I was thinking of. Sometimes weve done well when he asks me what I think Im doing. I hope so. Sometimes I clean, sometimes I knit, sometimes I go for a walk, but I feel like the fastest way to undermine him is to should at him. until I stop caring. You can also use the online chat. What happened to the man who always had his arm wrapped around your shoulder and never looked at another girl as long as you were both together? What kind of phrases should I NOT say? You know the fight that led to the end of our relationship? Do not wait until the stress of dealing with him makes your fingers itch for a sharp object (or whatever). Obviously YMMV, but Ive added that to my ever expanding list of red flags, right after people who proudly announce that they have no filter!! Try and find the root cause of why your partner is taking it 2. Terrified. It can sometimes be really helpful to challenge yourself, whether thats to exercise more or read more or keep things cleaner around the house. So every time he drove me to a surprise, which slowly morphed into _every fucking date_, I had all this tension and stress. It sounds like hes making you miserable and hurting your recovery. YES! Probably better to stop and say why am I angry about this?. It also reads a bit like hes trying to control her looks as opposed to her happiness, though again, my vision may be a bit skewed here. He comes on strong. Affection is not only limited to physical touch -- he may also avoid showing affection through words. My ex-husband was horrible about trying to fix me and getting really mad when I didnt want his help. I dont try to argue other people out of their feelings, because unless I develop telepathy (avert! My thoughts are with you, LW! You didnt give details, but you did say that for much of your life, youve struggled with being constantly undermined. Usually in the interest of my mental and physical health, but also a little bit because living with someone who has panic attacks can be exhausting especially when they dont always take the best care of themselves (guilty). The reason why he stopped making an effort might be because he no longer feels like theres a future between the both of you. LW, I agree with a lot of the commentators that this may be an irredeemable situation, but it may help to tell your boyfriend what he can do to help. Is he happy? Things are a lot better, although sometimes I (or my other partner) have to remind him. 10 He Doesn't Ask You Questions. Make sure that he has an end game in mind and that he is willing to fight for you as you are for him. As a friend once wisely told me, theres a difference between helping each other grow and one person pointing out your flaws in detail after knowing you so intimately with the excuse that its supposed to help. Thank you for getting me out of the house!. All good things. It didnt! Listen to his response and try to . I said I agreed, and we broke things off by mutual agreement. Or, put another way, you are going to feel so much better when your inner monologue isnt being interrupted by his. They are raw cookie dough and you can see the cookie and you want the cookie, but the cookie dough is just not done enough, but you really want that cookie so much and you know how much better it would be if it were finished baking.and so you are mad that they arent doing what it takes to be a cookie. The delivery guy must have thought I was pregnant. Him: Im disappointed that you arent trying to improve your diet the way I said. You: NOT YOUR CALL.. Is there anything you need to bring up?" It is possible that he can be moved out of the fixer mode, but, if he stays in fixer mode then nothing will ever be enough. +1 absolutely, always. Its not that men suddenly become secretive when they lose interest in their relationship, its that men are not by nature sharers of information in the same way females are. And I am proud of him for taking a step toward being healthier. I usually agree with our captain, but this time I see all those scripts as an exercise in trying to change him into a reasonable boyfriend even as hes trying to change you into someone who eats her vegetables. You are not the target demographic. Because my fianc and I worked things out and are in a good place now, I am hesitant to just say ~DTMF~, but your boyfriend needs to realize that monitoring someone elses habits (even your eating habits!) Set the boundary with your boyfriend, let him say whatever hes going to say, and try not to internalize any of it. Except now the LW is in therapy, things are getting better, the LW has a handle on it allbut Boyfriend still hasnt internalized this. I have learned to back way off, although he tends to not to interact much at his worst and I have a hard time dealing with that. Boyfriend is still back in the pre-treatment you have no idea what youre doing because depression has fucked up your brain thing and is still in triage mode. Boyfriend stopped calling me cute pet names. (But again, I do think its an excellent tool to help evaluate a relationship.). This boyfriend does not sound like good news to me. Jedi hugs, if you want them. and exercise a few years ago. Or is his logic/reason for believing this just that it makes sense in his head and should therefore make sense in the real world? It doesnt sound like the boyfriend is helping the LW at all in this area; if anything, hes making changing food and exercise habits into a huge source of stress. 5 Be Friendly Some exes are best handled by treating them in a friendly manner. Dont. If I lean my head the other way, I can see a guy who is panicking about his partner being depressed and going about it all wrong. And when Spouse or I are depressed, the other one will say Hey, lets go for a walk! And sometimes we go, and the Depressed One says I feel better. Just looking at those two sentences beside each other without anything else made me realize how ridiculous they sound. And it shouldnt sound like shes opening the floor to discussion on that one. People do get used to roles, and if youve been in the role of the sick one who needs help and your partner got used to the role of the competent one who knows what should be done and should be listened to, then you are challenging those roles by getting healthier. Sure, for some people hearing about the severely-depressed woman who climbed Everest without oxygen, ran a multi-billion-dollar corporation, had a movie-star husband and five kids, and still managed to look fabulous straight out of bed, all without medication or therapy of any kind, is inspiring. When I said, I would find recognition for the progress I am making much more helpful than notes on what I could do better, he initially balked. Your workout didnt count according to my standards is a vague inference. And exercise does help me it does! One of the best dates I ever went on was to a cheap jazz concert in my neighborhood; we danced the night away and ended up as great friends. He took this as a personality defect that he had to badger me into fixing. is toxic and controlling, and this: Ive asked him to stop trying to get me to change, that you cant change other people, but he refuses to accept that, to the point that he says its the stupidest thing hes ever heard., It makes me feel like nothing I do will ever be good enough, that he will always focus on what Im not doing instead of what I am trying to do. Im also in a place where I need to learn to feel good about myself and yet am in a home environment where I hear waaaay more criticism, scrutiny, and you should/shouldnts instead of support. He wanted to call the shots. Even if you end up staying, youll be on much better footing if you know youre not bound there by circumstance. Theres a difference. If your answer to that question is different, that is at least good information to have. It sounds like the bf has two other specific things he needs to work on for this to be a healthy relationship: 1. And if its sunny then thats even better because I may have seasonal affective disorder (working on finding out with doctor) and the bright sunlight is just wonderful for my mood. If your social group feels patch and thin, take steps to meet new people. A Redditor has been slammed online for trying to dictate to their sister's boyfriend how they should eat their dinner. Thats one form of love, I think: trusting the other person enough to let go and let them figure it out on their own. Consider date nights too. He was always enthusiastic if i learned a new skill, or developed an improved routine, or got a new job, but didnt hassle me when I wasnt improving. But I guess its cool because he never got DIVORCED *gasp*. Oh god, my parents did that toothey made fun of my (snack) food choices all the time, which was severely hypocritical as they were the ones who taught me that that behavior was absolutely not okay (when directed towards an adult). People who get controlling about appearance are the pits. But I know we never get the whole story with these letters. Your jerkbrain beats you up enough when you have depression. The impression Im getting from your letter is your boyfriends goals are mostly about him, and making him feel good and making him look good. (From knowing my mother I now if shed had any reservations she would have allowed herself to tell me about them as many times as she could. But I have vivid memories of having take-out chinese one night, then reheated leftovers the next, with soup from the freezer a third night, back in the day. You know everything he said is true. Reasonable. This guy is manipulative. If he can hear criticism and change his behavior accordingly, then maybe thats a partnership that can be forged. What does your therapist say about the way your boyfriend tries to continually act as your self-appointed monitor/life coach? Soup kitchens. What Im getting at is its shitty when my father does this crap to me, its extra double wow shitty if your partner does that to you. Feeling bad when you are in a stressful situation doesnt make you bad, it makes you normal. His schedule may simply become too full and leave no room for romance. Yeah, he sounds like the things my Jerkbrain says when Ive drank too much and I feel so gross enough that I just want to get everything out of my stomach. Oh LW that dude is not being nice to you. He sounds like a couple dudes Ive known in that he likes to be a fixer, which is not inherently a horrible quality in a person. Whenever my boyfriend goes out of town, I deal with missing him by cooking all the things he doesnt like, such as spicy food. 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