!!I DON’T WANT ADVICE OR REASONS YOU THINK HE DID IT, I JUST WANT SOME COMMISERATION!! I am safe and not suicidal!!
He didn’t say it as such, but that’s what I think has happened. He said to me that he was hit with the question in his mind of “I don’t know if I love you the same way you love me,” and that we’re at different points in our lives. I helped lift him up out from rock bottom and got him back on his feet, and just as I was starting to become more independent, getting my license, getting a part-time job, and not needing him as much, then he just dropped it on me at the very end of a very nice, normal day. 7.5 years down the drain, and he didn’t even give me or us a chance. Said he felt it wasn’t fair to me, but I think it’s even less fair to not talk to me about it and discern if it was just a lost spark or a total lost cause.
I’m 31 and feel like my life is over, I have to move back in with my low key ableist parents who still treat me like a child. I am self-employed but don’t make enough to live on my own. I am back in my home town with no friends and I have to show my face around people I went to high school with. I organized so much of my life and future around him that now I just feel completely aimless. Anything that came our way would’ve been okay because we would’ve had each other. We were making the finances work, but now I am just back at square one with a dead end degree (thanks anthropology), having moved away from all of my friends and connections, I just feel like I have nothing.
I am so close with his mother and sister and our friends I met through him, and they keep telling me that they aren’t going anywhere and they’re here to support me, but all I see in them is everything that reminds me of him. Everything about everything reminds me of him. Everything I enjoy I want to share with him. I didn’t get any physical affection from anyone but him and I hate being touched by other people. I just want to scream and rage and collapse into his arms all at the same time. He wants to stay friends and tells me I am still his favorite person on earth, and he’s being so supportive and caring but it is infuriating because those are the reasons I love him so much.
Everyone keeps telling me the same things. That I’ll start to feel better soon, that I will adjust to this new normal, that you never know what the future holds, that I need to focus on getting myself on my own two feet, but all I want and need in this moment is him. They keep saying maybe he wasn’t the one if he couldn’t return the same love I had for him, but we had it before! He said he started to feel it less and less the past few months while we were under the extra financial stress. He was absolutely perfect for me and I cannot express how much my whole body and soul feel like they’re being ripped in two at the sound of hearing the absolute love of my life say “I don’t think you’re the one for me.”
I keep on thinking to myself “we’re not fucking dead, why aren’t we at least trying? Why not just take a break and regroup? Why so sudden and why not just talk to me about it first?” It just all seems so rash and I hope the next few days apart from each other really make him reconsider the circumstances, but I really just can’t hold onto hope right now. I keep on thinking “I need to get myself right” but I can’t shake this nagging hope that I’ll get more self sufficient and we’ll be able to revisit us in the future. Hope is what is going to string me along. It is what is going to make me only further disappointed in the future if things don’t work out.
I just get House in Nebraska by Ethel Cain so much more now. The feeling of wishing I could’ve just died his partner instead of living without him.