The rope thing seems much more difficult. If I'm understanding correctly, dropping of the rope means stop hoping / waiting / expecting him to choose me & come back? How do you do this whilst still being positive about the chance of reconciliation?
I’ve had anxiety my entire life. My anxiety comes from the unknown in bad situations or situations I consider are bad. because my self esteem was so low I alway thought doom. I been working on my self esteem with my IC and through a self help book and daily assignment from that book and meditation, exercise, eating better, eliminating alcohol. I have improved, not where I wanna be, but at least in a position where I have a healthy mindset that allows me to focus on now. Focus on improving myself now focus on making myself a better model for my kid now. I know now that if I don’t improve myself, I can’t be in a relationship whether it’s with my wife now or another woman. I now know that thinking about it cannot resolve it. I now know that I must let the unknown be. kinda like planting that unknown seed in my brain and not messing with the soil let it grow let it germinate and it will resolve itself and I will soon know about it. But I cannot mess with it. Meditation to me was a joke or are you kidding me no thank you but when it was brought to me by my IC and I was in such a bad mental state, I had nowhere else to go so I tried it and now it’s my tool I use to bring me back home, home being my body. Bring me back to now and what’s in my control. So coming from somebody with extreme anxiety of the unknown and only thinking doom and not being able to work sleep or eat at my worst times. If I can do it, you can definitely do it. I hope the best for you I hope your day is good. I’ve mentioned this before on my sitch about calling out gratitude checks to people, so I’m calling you out on a gratitude check basically what you need to do is list 10 things you’re grateful of and specifics. say it out loud say it in your head let me know how it makes you feel afterwards. I do it when I’m not feeling great and every time I do it, it makes me feel better
I forgot to mention that gratitude is a learned behavior, unlike negative thinking, which is hardwired into our systems. I do forms of gratitude checks regularly to to learn it. If I don’t, I go back to the negative thoughts