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it helped because it allowed me to put the focus on me.


where it needs to be.

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i think you understood that pounding the same thing in to my head wasn't going to get through. the only way was to change the subject and make me talk about me. smart tactic and it worked.


I DB'd you. it works you should try it.

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why doesn't he understand the emotional connection that i need when we are intimate?
he can't expect me to understand his bond with his parents and not understand that i need to feel that bond between me and him in order to be intimate?


he's not you. how can you hold him to a standard that you can't meet? that's why loving someone the way they feel love is so important, if it's important to you then it is important to me.


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in reality, i was once laid off from a job i was really good at.
i never got over it. to this day, i am still very angry.
i moved on to other jobs. but i was never fully invested in any of them.
this is how i feel about the possibility of a future relationship.
i would never be fully invested in it and therefore, i wouldn't even try.
i do see the pattern. and that's what people don't understand about me.


I think we all understand it because you communicated it to us very clearly.


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i want to be lost in good conversation.
i want to laugh until my cheeks hurt.
i want to look at someone and nothing else matters.
i want to be with someone who makes me want to be a better person.
i want to be with someone who says i'm worth it.


I see WOA and QT.


So what is your plan for your b-day?

Ask your IC about how to set boundaries.

What do you get when you cross a insomniac, a dyslexic and a agnostic?


M22,H45,W45 S21/18D12
Retain faith that you will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties and at the same time confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.