Laws of Attraction:
You said:
NOTHING can bring me happiness right now other than knowing I'm with a man who 100% wants to be with me, who is 100% right for me and whom I can rely on 100%. NOTHING.
Unfortunately, Narcs can smell this a mile away.
To repel the NARCS, I suggest you change your way of thinking.
I think if this guy rings me next week, I will just decline to meet him, unless he has an absolutely sterling excuse for not calling this week. I think I will just say that I don't deal with people who can't be trusted to keep their word and follow through.
these women have to go on with life as well. Or should they all kill themselves and live unhappy for the rest of their lifes?
Why we so much want children, I am truely convinced, cause it gives us a deep satisfaction to care for someone. There are other ways to do that. You can care for many people, or pets!
I know what you are going through! But please don't panick now! Maybe you first have to drop the idea, let go of it - for now. You can be happy in many other ways as well, and who knows what will happen, you still have time, there are woman who got children in their late forties!
thank you so much for the reply, Yes, that is what everyone says to me, there is still time, women can have children later and later. But every year the stakes get higher. Every year I meet someone and think "Finally!" And then it all goes to shit again, albeit in spectacular fashion this year with the narc.
The only thing I can do differently is just give up. Either on life altogether, or on bothering to try and meet new people. Nothing works, so do nothing.
Then nothing is going to bring you happiness, and I am sad for you that your grief is making you feel that way. There is no man on earth that fits that description. So, if you think you do find him, and get married, you aren't going to be happy then either. In fact you are least likely to be happy being married, because you have made it into the Holy Grail and into something it isn't going to be.
You seem like such a great person, with so much going for you, it's heartbreaking to see you think none of it is worth anything.
You said you've been ready to marry for eight years now but what that really meant was you were so "ready" to marry that you overlooked the red flags from a strange guy, and ended up with narcissistic psychopath because he fit your perfect man description. Like no kissing after the third date? Because that's better than being single next Christmas? Is it really?
I am not under any illusions about marriage. I have been in long term relationships before (non-narc ones) and am fully aware that they are not some sort of magic formula that makes everything better. I don't need to be told that. All I want is something resembling a normal life with a normal family. I really, really don't see how that seems to be just too fucking much to ask. But year after year, it is. It's not like I want anything stupid, like to be some stupid bimbo Hollywood star, or a pop star, or a fucking model or anything.
I JUST WANT A NORMAL FUCKING LIFE. My parents have been married for over 60 years and are still happy together. That is my model for relationships. So why in hell is it so fucking impossible?
Sorry for all the cursing but I really could put my fist through a window right now. I CANNOT STAND this wondering whether some guy is going to call or not. As the week progressed, it pressed on my mind more and more. He seemed really keen. But no call Tuesday. I said to myself, oh well, he'll probably leave it to midweek, ie Wed. No call Wed. Then I said to myself, he probably doesn't want to look too interested so he'll leave it to Thurs, because Friday is too late to make plans for a weekend dinner. No call Thurs.
What am I, fucking 16? WHY IS THIS BULLSHIT STILL PART OF MY LIFE? Why can't I just live with my husband and kids like a normal woman, like all of my friends, like all of my family? Am I just not meant to be with anyone, ever again?
As a wise friend once told me, normal is just a setting on the dryer.
And with respect, you are under enormous illusions about marriage, or else it would not be the be-all, end-all of your life. Is it wrong to want that? No, of course not, but if you don't start looking at what you HAVE instead of what you don't have, you are going to stay miserable. You will judge each and every guy as "Finally?" You aren't looking at men with clear eyes.
And you are claiming you HAVE done things with friends and family and are sick of it... but that doesn't sound like you were really building your own life, you've just been waiting for it. You are waiting for life to happen instead of living it.
My parents had their 50th anniversary, and I was sick through the whole celebration thinking if I have to go that long with this person I'd rather just lay down and die. While hubby is gushing over them saying what an inspiration they are. And my mom telling me to gut it out. AAAHHHH!!!!!
Anyway... this is cliche, I know, but listen, one of my good friends' husband (and he IS a good one) got a brain tumor and is permanently disabled. Not the same person at all now either. This is one of the good guys. Now why in the hell did that have to happen?? But it did. But it made me pull up short and think, what if this is my last good day? Not what if I die, but what if this is the last GOOD day I have to live well, and I wasted it?
AS IF IT'S NOT ENOUGH THAT I'M TRYING TO PURGE MY MIND AND HEART OF THIS C**T WHO EMOTIONALLY RAPED ME. NOW I CAN'T EVEN TRUST ANY OTHER MAN TO ACTUALLY FOLLOW THROUGH WITH A FUCKING PHONE CALL?
Let it out!!! He did. He emotionally raped you. I have screamed in the shower and screamed and screamed into pillows. Maybe it's a good thing you are in your apartment by yourself, because you might need to do some screaming. You know that you don't really care that some schmo didn't call... it's just the tipping point for what the narcissist did to you.
Holding you up in my prayers...
I totally scream in my apt the whole time. I dropped some chocolates on the floor tonight and screamed in fury. When my laptop is too slow bringing up a website, I scream. When there are too many clothes on the floor of my bedroom because I just can't be arsed to pick them up, and I trip over them, I hurl them across the room and scream in fury. Sometimes I wonder am I going to be angry all my life. I think the anger is the worst because I don't know what to do with it.
is just a catalyst for the screaming.
Career has been going well lately so during the day I don't really have time to get angry. But late at night, alone, bored, nostalgic and bitter, is a different matter. Add in some alcohol, and some guy who SAYS he wants to have dinner with you but clearly has no clue what he actually wants, and it just tips off the scale.
i don't mean at all to diminish your thoughts or pain of being alone. I have been on my own now for 27 years. Yes I do have a 28 year old son that is my life savior and the luv of my life. I truly don't know how I would have survived to now without him. But he now lives away from me and I don't speak to him everyday by any means. I had him when I was married to his n father, who left me when my son was 1 year old,,,I can tell you there is no promise that if you do meet someone and have a child with him that the relationship will last. That wasw always the last thought on my mind back then. But my EXNH left me for some OW and I was left to raise our son on my own. Times were tough but yes I was glad to have my son to take the focus off my divorce. That was 27 years ago and I still have no romantic partner in my life. i have had 2 more N relationships ( 1 for 11 years and 1for 4 years) since then and if that is all there is out there then yes I would rather be on my own. After my EXNH I took 8 years on my own to regroup and did some couselling to try to heal. Then after the next Narc I took five more years off and did some more counselling and went to group therapy about Learning to heal after a realtionship break up. I met so many hurting but good people just like us wanting something better for our lives. I too have formed many good and lasting relationships over the years through this group therapy,,because we all know what each other is going thru,,because we have all been there before and can help each other thru these rough times.
And to tell you the honest to goodness truth is that even when I was in my last 2 N relationships,,I definetly have shared the best times over the years with my friends. We are all still dealing with the hurt and pain our breakups caused us but we do not dwell on that ANYMORE,,,We try to just get together and have girltime fiendship. We plan trips,suppers, birthdyas, holidays, movies, coffee etc etc. WE have a bond that cannot be broken. I have had to get rid of some of my toxic friends lately,,but at least I know and still have my true friends. Maybe you could look into something like this,,I cannnot express how fortunate I was to find such a group of people,,,both male and female. I have remained friends with only one of the men and I can actually say he has become my best friend ever,,he is gay,,,but you know he always calls to check in on me several times a week and has told me he can sense when I am down and that he will never stop just giving me those random phonecalls.
Please don't hook up with some man just to fulfill your options of having a baby,,,yes it is the greatest experience God has given me, but maybe you can look at other options. I guess you can sort of say I,just had a sperm donor also,,but I would definitely be looking at other options for you,,I would be myself but I am so over the hill now and can't consider this for myself at all,,so I am off to buy myself a dog,,,LOL
You are on this board for a reason and you are not alone,,we are all here for the same reason and need to keep up our suuport to everyone. We all need some confirmation that we will get past and beyond this,,,and I know we all will,,,been there done that and i have had to turn the page a few times on my life now. Like an old friends always says to me,,,you have always had to find new ways to reinvent yourself,,,,so I know this is just a down period for me now,,,but I will survive and be victorious once again. BIG HUGS to all of you on this site!!!!
I just got involved with the same N for the second time.
What was I thinking? Because I have put myself back to the same point where I am blaming myself again. And for what?
I want to get rid of these feelings again.
My narc started dating up a storm. Fling, AFF, swing sites, radio stations (think howards stern type) and had 6000 texts in a month.
I did date for a while, to prove that I could. Got dressed to the 9's, made him jealous, wore the heels he bought me. And it was freaking exhausting. It is NOT my style. I am tall, tan, leggy and blonde. And is dating skanks and already had an STD scare!
Still, even though I did have the looks, guys wouldn't call ME back. After two dates, I wouldn't get a return call and I wasn't chasing....So, I deleted them. Not what a wounded person needs Post Narc, as Michele said. She is right. I deleted my dating profile.
Focused on me.
So, I got tired of trying to keep up.
It was killing me.
I started doing stuff I liked. I went one day and caught butterflies for the metroparks for the butterfly garden and got to release them in the butterfly garden. I was running around the fields like an idiot with a net catching freaking butterflies.
And it was quiet peaceful in the garden with butterflies all around. And I made some nerdy butterfly friends, it was free and I didn't think about my stinky soon to be ex at all.
It was good for MY soul.
Also, that law of attraction? It is TRUE!
My last ex I divorced, it was ugly. I asked for it,(I filed) he was a cop and he married his mistress of whom I got to find out about their affair in the local newspaper as she was a witness in the case...,not a good way to wake up...
Anyways, we have kids together and I worked very, very hard to not hate him, pray for his happiness and work together for the sake of the kids.
And when I told him I was divorcing the N, he could have had a AHHAHAHHAHAH told you so moment, but instead, I got more support from HIM in 30 minutes on the phone, than in 7 yrs of marriage with my narc telling me to NOT give up on love, that I am young still and beautiful and that he will help me with the kids schedules and that he knew I didn't enter into it with the intentions of it not working out.
It isn't easy to throw out the energy you wish to attract, but fully believe, if you love yourself and don't carry around a whole lot of anger in your life and focus on the good in each day that life gives you back what you put out there.
Hang in there, kiddo. We love you! :D
“These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”
William James
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.' --Mary Anne Radmache
You are worth it.
I am nearly in tears
It's True
Morty, totally.
ask betty for my e-mail address
Morty
Someone up top said it....
Yep,
No no no.. just say, oh? I
HAHAHAHAHA! LMAO!
there are women who are unable to get children
Jen sweetheart
:-(
better off,
As a wise friend once told
As a wise friend once told
AS IF IT'S NOT ENOUGH THAT
Let it out!!! He did. He
better off,
Stop screaming about a slow
The slow internet connection
Funsize
I just got involved with the same N for the second time.
What was I thinking? Because I have put myself back to the same point where I am blaming myself again. And for what?
I want to get rid of these feelings again.
You CAN get thru this....
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.' --Mary Anne Radmache