@TheDuke55 I agree and thanks for your response. I’ve hardly spoke to people about the problems in this relationship so alas I feel pretty alone on solving it but I guess that’s how it goes.
Yes yes other people shouldn’t solve all my problems for me… it’s just I’ve always felt like I’m fighting for myself because even my parents push their problems on me without giving a damn for what I actually say. This relationship is another reflection of that… My partner is just there, we don’t really conversate or solve things or share ideas as I would like… It’s gone on long enough that I forget what I want for a moment sometimes and I just don’t know what to tell them anymore. I don’t want to act like the high and mighty one but I am more emotionally mature than my partner and this is their first relationship. It’s just truth.
I thought I was pretty emotionally mature when it started and in the last couple of weeks I tried having serious conversations with my partner. I can’t remember how I got to this point in the conversation but that’s irrelevant, I asked if they thought their problems would go away if they had a relationship, and my partner said yes to me. Stuff about how they thought if they had someone, they’d be happy and things would be simpler.
In our group I’d openly shared a lot about myself and my view on relationships… I thought if someone asked me for a relationship they’d have known that. I thought that would be a basic idea. I said over and over relationships aren’t a silver bullet to problems, just sharing thoughta about relationships in early random conversations. Lesson learned. But it sucks because now I feel even more reclusive, untrusting, and doubtful of people, when someone who loves me still looked over
the things I was actually saying. I know I’m not stupid but it’s felt that way because I didn’t see my partner was like this sooner… I gave them the benefit of the doubt and trusted them because I thought this would be common sense and they’re a good person despite being an ill-fitting partner.
More or less, that isn’t really news to me, but it helps me feel a little less crazy so thanks… This seems one of the worse kind of breakups where neither of us is really in the wrong.
Every other one ended with manipulation or blackmail, this time we’re just different people. At least I could write those guys off for being awful to me. But I want to stay friends with my current partner which is more complicated /:
Edit: if this conversation continues I guess it would be better in PMs, so I’ll leave it at that but, either way this relationship is definitely bothering me so I’ll likely post about it again soon /:
Edit 2: if I can’t be friends with my partner in the future this would also separate me from my only real friend group and I’d be alone grieving over it and the end of it. I’m not good at making friends and unfortunately I also seem to attract people who use me to dump their rants or problems, or people who manipulate me, unless I just stay a recluse. So, I really don’t want to lose that friend group, at least I don’t think they would choose sides between us.