About 5 months ago my boyfriend of 3 years dumped me for someone else. I was and still am shattered. He was my everything. Everyone said I would get better but I haven’t. If anything I’ve gotten worse. I hate my life so much and I really don’t want to be alive. Since he broke my heart my whole world has fallen apart. I’m sad and lonely and have no hope for anything. I have literally cried myself to sleep every night since it happened. He hurt me so much yet I would do anything to have him back. Does anyone know how I feel? What I am going through? Have any advice? Please help. Every day I get closer to killing myself. I feel the world would be much better off without my existance.
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I perfectly know how you feel. Unfortunately I know.
Nature and life are by definition unfair. Individuals vary in their living their experience of love. It mainly depends on the amount of emotional fufillment they have had while babies and children. People who have “sucked” true love from mothers and parents and relatives since birth to youth, they develop emotionally well balanced and then they are more stable in their relationships with love. They dont have “red figures” in love. They dont experience the ideas of suicide or extreme depression. When they mix with someone who is on the other side of the balance, the prospects of the relationship are calling for suffering. The emotionally poor person develops what she or he interpretes as absolute love, they would give their lives for them, their everything because in their inside now they have had unchained a tremendous input of positive emotions that roll out making life an experience of extasis. On the other side, the emotionally balanced person does not experience these extremes of feelings. He can love, of course, but it is not so much triggered by a former tremendous vacuum in their hearts.
So, you may want to place yourself in one of these kinds of persons. You say that he has made you suffer a lot. For example an emotionally balanced person does not tolerate that. They usually break up without remorse if they are made suffer once. But for the emotionally dependent, that is not possible. No matter how they are hurt. They still need that person.
The sad thing about this is that they end up worse off for the next relationship and they have yet a bigger emotional vacuum and they “love” then with more intensity because there is a lot to make up for. But they usually choose wrong. Choose driven by idealization and by pictures that they attribute to the other person. But they cannot release themselves from the other person, even if it gets to them exerting cruelty. Finally they are being dumped again and they start to remain scarred.
So, in order to understand your feelings and your prospects it would do you good to see what kind of person in terms of emotional needs you are, how your childhood was and so. If you are able to profile yourself rightly you will be able to judge objectively how you are being affected in a way that actually could have been less traumatic or can be less traumatic now that you know yourself.
Psychology lies at the core of our everything. If we dont understand it, we suffer because we only perceive the symptoms or effects but not the causes.
I have the feeling you are young. That is a great asset.
See if you can grab a paper and a pen and start describing in true the pros and cons of your boyfriend. I know, I know, you would still be driven “drunk” in swirls about the extasis of love, but, does that person really merit your suffering because he was REALLY, REALLY,AND REALLY! an angel of love?
Another thing that I dont understand is that you say that the world would be better off without your existence. It is completely the opposite. It is a bless that you exist with such a beautiful heart.
What I finally want to bring as conclusion is that it is no good that you simply let the time heal. No. You have to understand what kind of person you are in those aspects to tell the subjective from the objective. How you are being affected byt hings like that while other people would have reacted differently. Get some books about it and you will be amazed at the discoveries you are going to make. Guaranteed.
I am much worse off than you. Worse off than you will ever be. I am obviously one of those “emotionally impaired” persons who have never gotten to make it and as relationships fail the deficit has started to affect all other aspects of life. Age does not offer any possibility for repair or alternative.
You are better off.
It’s better to of loved and lost then to not of loved at all.
I’m going to try to keep it short and sweet.
Every time a relationship falls apart one of the two always ends up sad and lonely mood for a while, more often to girls than boys. I’ve watch it happen way to many times, my sister lost her fiancée to a car crash. She didn’t leaver the house for months, up with the help of family and friends she came to realize, he wouldn’t want her to be sad.
Don’t you think your bf would want you to go find another significant other?
Even if that significant other doesn’t show up for a while you must never lose hope. Soon as a new person comes into your life you will be happy again, but until then to become happy you must forgive, and forget. Even if it is hard, even if you don’t want to. Smile and say, Time for a fresh start.
I hope i could help, even a little……please don’t be sad =’)
Feel free to email me…whoareyou2416@yahoo.com
i’m always willing to try my best to help.
i was the same way and now im happily married
Hehe i just went through a similiar thing, about 6months ago… I’m sorry for what happened, and i know you get that alot, the i’m sorry thing and you might even be sick of it.. and my advice might be completely useless to you.. but please atleast take it into consideration…
It was once said “in life when one door closes another one opens,but sometimes you spend so long looking at that closed door, you miss the one opening infront of you”
I know you hurt, i know you feel alone, i know that at night you can barly stand it cause you just want to cry because of everything that has happened… I know that your chest feels heavy, and your heart almost feels like a piece of it is missing, i know that your breathing feels weird and that you are prolly for once in your life honestly scared…
I know you loved him, i know he crushed you, but you cant let him hold you back from your chance of happiness… You deserve to be happy (despite what you think at this moment) and look at the other comments down here, these people they understand how you feel, i understand how you feel…
Its going to take ALOT of time, and its going to take quite a bit of crying before you feel ready again, but dont give up… I know it seems so easy to give up… Cause death, deaths easy, giving ups easy… life thats hard :/
that it sucks that its so hard…
If you need to talk, or want to, please please please feel free to email me at dartintiro@hotmail.com at anytime… (: ill always be willing to listen if you ever need it
Every person is different and pretending to compare her with your own case is wrongly aimed. That would mean being insensitive and ignorant of her particular characteristics. I think the point to work on here, and that is how I extracted it, is that she says that her boyfriend made her suffer a lot. Why would a lovely person make suffer a vulnerable person? That is the clue I took. This lead me to think that that relationship was not a healthy one but that there was a an issue of emotional dependency from one side. If he made her suffer through the relationship that does not speak much in favor of him, let alone the fact that he left her for another girl, which is despicable! because that meant he was planning or playing two cards at the same time. That is why I suggested the girl should “study” herself and understand what she is.
I know what your going through. Loosing the one person that means everything to you, I know you might think that you’ll never get over it, and you may not but in time it’ll get a little bit better. I fell in love, and got it all taken away from me for someone else too, that was over a year ago, and at the time, I wanted to kill myself. I tried to kill myself, but I realize now, that if I did, he would be effected. Even though he dumped you for someone else, he loved you for three years, you don’t let someone go. If you kill yourself, he will be hurt, but if you stay you still have that little chance of it getting better, maybe one day he’ll turn around and see that he needs you. I know you feel like, it’s not going to get better, it’s just going to get worse, that you’ll never get over him, never love again. But, just try your hardest to keep on living and see if those things stay the way they are now.
Trust me, you’ll find out what I’m slowly finding out.
It shatters me again to say that “even though he dumped you, he loved you for three years” Jesus” that is precisely where the tragedy lies! because she needs that love forever! do you think that it is of any consolation at all to remember someone loved you for some time!
Let me say this: if someone really loves you. HE OR SHE NEVER STOPS LOVING. N+ E + V + E + R. True love, true, true love never stops. On the contrary, it grows everyday. Sorry about my guess but I believe most of you people here are Americans and with such a society based on just consuming goods and valueing the person from a materialistic point of view and so much focused on hedonism and pragmatism, I believe you should retake the very basic of principles and build your society again. From the American point of view, you should replace your wife if she dies by another one, because it is pragmatic. You should divorce if it is not fun anymore etc, and you should count your relationships by the aggregate function of how much time each of them “loved you”. Well, it is a big NO!
If the person I love died whether by accident or illness I would never ever replace her by anyone. That would be violating the unbrekable bond that unites me with her.
The moral of the story here again and my point is that if the boy had really true love for her, he would have never dumped her. In other words, I think that the big love for this girl is still to come.
justalvaro your recomendation for this girl is that she does and “studies” herself in books. I tell you now that this is the wrong thing to do, yes she may discover the scientific sycological state that she is in, it might even have some fancy long latin name, however this will go no way towards her understanding it, and understanding is the key. i went to a counsilor, and she identifyed the root reasons i was feeling the way i was/am. But did this help? NO. it never will untill we discover it for ourselves.
You are correct about our western values and how they serve simply to cripple us emotionaly and socialy, our only reward being a company car and a plastic card. I am Brittish, not American, and you i belive are spanish? If so then your society is not much different from mine, thanks to the american invasion across the globe.
And just to say about a hypocritical point you left that annoyed me. You finnished your first post with “You are better off”, then had the audacity to tell people not to try to identify their own experiences with this girl, in a later post.
Brokenshadow your very right in that diagnosis cannot help us. But you are very wrong – Britain is very different from Spain and has not been too badly affected by America. Britain is the best – and this is coming from New Zealand. Sorry, but it had to be said – irregardless, it is good to see some have the decency to defend those who are attacked with the idea that knowing is better than understanding.