Hey, it's been awhile.
I started remembering things again, things I don't want to remember. A already moved on and I should be happy for him. I am, and I'm not. Why can't I be happy for him? I really want to. I don't want to get back together with him, or so I tell myself that. I keep having these notions in my head, I keep telling myself that even if it were possible it wasn't, I'd have to restart and get to know him all over again, what if I didn't like him now, but then, I realized I still liked him regardless of who he is now. I used to believe in soul mates but after countless of relationships after A, I realized it doesn't exist. But why do I feel like he's my only one and why am I still clinging on to some stupid promise as though like it's gonna happen again, I fight it. It's not going to happen. But why do I want it to? Why do I want another chance to make amends, why? It shouldn't matter anymore.
I dreamt about him twice, in a row two days ago. I jotted it down in my sleep journal, I'll leave it here if you want to read it.(be warned, it's long. I didn't bother to correct anything either.)
Had pizza with what I thought was J and his friends. Sam was there for some reason and he was sick, we spent time finishing up walking around the mall. Sam said she was going to the doctor first. I go grab a seat next to who I thought was J but was actually A. (I wasn't surprised) J's friends were as still in the clinic. But was seated in front of us. Scott and his friends walks in and they sit behind us. A proceeds to tell me how it's been awhile and we haven't talked for awhile. He gives me the impression that he misses me. It felt like he was avoiding me the whole time to forget me but couldn't. When he finally talked to me again he seems like himself when he was happy. He seemed like the A I knew before that was happy but with his friends. We proceeded to walk outside the clinic which looked a bit old and dogey somewhat like Sim Lim but for some reason being there comforted me. The whole time being in the dream I felt really comfortable. We continued some conversation and though it I had the sense it wasn't exactly a normal dream. We ended up trying to get out of plaza sing going towards the car park, I'm not sure why but I got the whole glimpse of what the mall looked like and it was really big. We started walking around to the bus stop and it started to rain. A/J offered to send me home. (Again, in the dream it kept swapping to Aason and J and I kinda felt that A did this initially to not make me feel weird about it really being just me and him because initially J felt nice, too nice, too good to be the real J) A proceeds to send me to my AMA's house since he remembers the address, but we had a couple of weird accidents on the way that being that it was raining. Scenes kept switching from J and A but in the same place. We were in the car initially. J made a wrong turn and we ending driving opposite of oncoming traffic, we survive due to J's backward driving skills and barely scratching any cars. The last traffic almost kills us and it swapped back to A. I get out of the whatever vehicle and walked towards the pavement A suddenly jogs up beside me in a bit of pain/discomfort, I couldn't tell. I was sad but I couldn't tell at first because I wasn't supposed to know he felt that way in the dream. Scott's friend walks up and guides us to my Ama place. Ama sees A and opens her house up to him wholeheartedly. We sit on seats next to each other with a small table in-between us, had small discussions on the new me. He said since now I drink, how about I go drinking with him now. I stared at him not being sure about it since he never really liked it in the past. Ama tells A to bathe and he goes do it. One of Scott's friend sits opp me on the sofa. Scott and his friend are outside the house talking about some Singapore Zoo towel and how it smells weird but keeps referring it to the Sentosa towel. Not sure what happened but I turned my head to the left to look at my grandmother but woke up. This is the second time I've dreamt about A today.
Yeah, so that was the dream. I don't know what to make of it but it's giving me so much emotions. I felt so much that I texted A and started stalking him again. He doesn't post much but I found Instagram Stories of Elly and God, she's still so adorable. I miss her. I ended up crying for a few hours after that. I decided I would try and forget about it again. I went so far as to stalk A on his Spotify and I realized he added a lot of songs that he and I used to listen a lot to. I made him a playlist on my account but I hope he doesn't find out. That wasn't the only thing I stalked, it was his Steam account, I started Iookingthough his online status and his past game history. I ended up on his wishlist and realized he had Banished on it. It's one of my favourite games and guess what I stupidly decided to do? I spent $20 on it and scheduled the sent date to Christmas this year. I don't know why I did it. The message I set was just "Merry Christmas. Best wishes, S." I was feeling so much and I didn't know what to do about it. I hope he doesn't read too much into it. I hate having feelings for him, I know he no longer feels this way for me.
You know what sucks more? I told J about it today and he was somewhat upset, it's a given of course but he's being nice to me about it. He comforted me the whole 4 hours while I cried. He said he couldn't be A but he'd try his best to be whatever I needed. I don't want that, I can't bear to hurt another person all over again. I really don't know what to do anymore.
I started feeling a lot of shit again at around 3am, it's currently almost 6am but yeah. I went on Reddit on r/BreakUps and I posted on Reddit for the very first time.
Hello, this is my first Reddit post.
I've been trying to get over my first real relationship for almost 5 years now. I was 16 when I first got into a relationship with my ex, we've known each other for 2 years before we started dating and we've been together for almost 4 before we broke up. During the course of the relationship it wasn't smooth sailing, I have been dealing with depression since childhood and he had been helping me cope through those years. I wasn't the easiest to deal with and with those kinds of negativity, it's bound for someone to lose patience. I'm not sure if it was me who caused it but, he has shown signs of anger issues. I don't exactly blame him for it. He doesn't get angry often but when he did it would be pretty bad. Outside of his anger he's probably one of the most patient and nurturing guys I've met, even until today.
During the course of our relationship, I felt like I was being restricted, he doesn't restrict me necessarily, he would tell me things he didn't like. He didn't like clubs, drinking, me hanging around with my guy friends. I restricted myself out of consideration initially. I don't like being restricted at all. I wasn't the kind to cheat either, I needed the freedom to know that I could do things. I needed to know that my partner trusted me to do those things and not harm myself or the relationship because of it. I wasn't the person to cheat, initially. I say initially, because I did. After a year of being together, I couldn't take it whenever my depression hits and he wouldn't be patient about it anymore and I felt like he didn't care.
I live in Singapore so it was an obligation for men to serve National Service, a basic military training that young male adults had to serve for about 2 years. During the beginning stages he would have to spend time on an offshore island for about 3 weeks, I couldn't see him for that duration. It had a toll on me, I was so dependant on him. The only thing I had was a call he could make during the night. He was the sweetest, despite our distance he would try his best to soothe me over the phone, sometimes it wouldn't go well, most of the times we end up arguing and being upset. He would call me around 10-11pm and the call would last till 2-3am, meaning he only had 2 hours of sleep each day and he just did it, just to keep me sane. He sacrificed so much for me. One day, our calls got really bad, we started arguing and we didn't have the night calls for a few days. I felt so lonely, I felt like I didn't have anyone to talk to about my depression. At the time, he had a best friend whom I was close to, his best friend had depression too and I'd talk to him sometimes when my ex was busy. At the time it felt nice to know someone was going though something I was. He comforted me when my ex couldn't. Sometimes I would hang over at his house, with the permission of my ex. But one day his best friend, an avid porn addict, decides to talk to me about a fleshlight he just bought. I indulged a little in the topic, being open minded about sexuality but quickly changed topic to my ex after. I started crying in the midst of talking to his best friend about it. I was telling him how I felt that my ex didn't seem to care about me as much anymore. His best friend hugged me, it sent me mixed feelings but I shrugged it off thinking he was just trying to be nice to me. A days later, his best friend hangs out at my place and I can't exactly remember how it started but he started cuddling me on my bed, and don't get me wrong, I was really weirded out by this but I didn't know what to do at the time. He started taking my clothes off and tired to penetrate but he couldn't since I wasn't sexually aroused at all. We stopped, I told him I was uncomfortable and he said that it was okay and we would just talk. A few hours rolled by and my ex was in front of my house door. He wasn't mad, I let him in and he just talked to my best friend like everything was normal. His best friend decides to leave after awhile and I told my ex what happened. He was shocked, angry, upset, basically everything. I remember we tried mending things but we ended up taking a break after awhile.
We couldn't bear being apart from each other so we got back together after 1-2 weeks. Everything was normal for the most part, but I was so guilty. I couldn't live with the guilt of hurting him. I started feeling more depressed and I didn't know how to talk to him anymore. I couldn't deal with how I felt when I was with him and my mind decided that I couldn't hurt him anymore and I had to break up with him so he could find someone better. Every argument we had, I would find an excuse to break up, but everyone I did he would apologize and asked how he could fix it and be better, it ate me up more inside. I couldn't break up with him.
I finally started working at an events place where I met a guy whom I got close to and he had convinced me to break up with my ex. He would tell me how it was unhealthy for me and for my ex. He said he would help with whatever I needed after the break up, as friends, he stated. After a few days, I went to my ex's house, wrote a letter and left. I started handing out with the guy I met, let's call him R. We would hang out regularly because he lived closed by to where I did and he knew how I had issues being alone. We were at the mall trying to get food when I noticed my phone got locked. My ex had used my Google "Find My Phone" tool to lock it. On the notification after in bold letters it read, "I want my stuff back, you have 36 hours" my heart sank. I completely forgotten that I still had his iPad. I went back home to unlock my phone with the account and changed the password. The next day, knowing that my ex would be at work I went to his house and left his stuff on his computer table, with a letter I wrote about how sorry I was for breaking up with him.
During my break up process, R decides to ask me to be his girlfriend. I declined, telling him how I needed time to get over my ex. He threatens me with depression and I give in because I was naive at the time, I didn't want anyone else to have to go though what I did so I accepted. Being not completely over my ex, I still cried. R had promised he'd be there and give me time. It took me a year to have affections for R, but during that year I was still texting my ex on and off, checking up on him since I cared for him deeply. Things started getting sour for me and R, he became abusive and hated whenever I talked about my ex. After about 1 year and 8 months, we decided to call it quits.
I started working and talking to my ex again, we got close and decided to try dating each other again. We were eating for about 3 weeks. Thing were great, I was over the moon, I was so happy. Until, R threatened me again. He found out I was dating my ex and used whatever secret or knowledge he had on me, he told me he would tell everyone about it unless I got back together with him. I left my ex, my heart broke. His did too. I had broke his heart for the second time. I was devastated, upset and having major depression.
I went back to R and we lasted about 3 months, he has abused me for the final time. I found out that R cheated on me. Not taking the news easy he decides to kick me in my stomach, throw me around and hit me. (Whenever he hit me, he would tell his parents that I did it to myself because of my depression) I had the final straw and I called the police. They came to his house, questioned him and asked if I wanted to press charges, I declined because I didn't want to hurt R's future. Police assisted me with packing my things and bringing it down his house.
The first person I called was my ex, I cried and told him how I needed help(he would always be there regardless of what happened), he told me he couldn't come down right now. I was shocked, I told him the situation but he apologized and said he couldn't help and hung up the phone. I called my brother next, he took a cab down and found me. We sat at the table nearby and he told me he was going through a break up with his ex as well. He told me that he was always there for his ex's father who had a stroke, constantly taking care of him and feeding him in the hospital. He told me that he was upset today and I asked why, what he told me left me dumbfounded, he said he went to the hospital to find his ex so he could take care of her father but instead he saw his ex and mine holding hands at the hospital. My brother didn't know what to do at the time, he was angry, but he kept his cool and left the hospital. I didn't think both our exes would be capable of doing such a thing to us. I treated my brother's ex like my little sister and my ex definitely treated my brother like his own, evening buying him a PS3 on his birthday. We didn't have much else to do but move on so we tried.
I'm sorry for the long read but if you've made it this far, I appreciate you taking the time.
It's been years now, but the memories still haunt me. I'm no longer angry with my ex. But I'm worried for sure, I wonder if it was truly me and brother pushing them together for the longest periods of time. I wonder a lot during the first 2 years after the incident. But I met an amazing guy who treats me well and takes care of me. I told him about my past and he's trying to accept it(I'm his first girlfriend). I haven't been thinking about my ex for about 2 years and just a few days ago I dreamt of my ex twice in a row and all the feelings rushed back to me all over again and I have no idea what to do anymore. I feel guilty about having these feelings while I'm in this current relationship. I have no idea what to do. I just want this pain to go away. I don't want to think of my ex anymore.Edit: and yes, both me and my brother's exes are still together till today.
It's one fuck of a rollercoaster now but I'll try my best to make it though. I hope I'll get over it soon. It's been too long, 4 years too long. Sigh.
Song of the day: Old Hotel - The Adjective
“There we were, sitting quietly on the edge of the world, and no one could see us. I just wanted to stay this way forever. I knew that was impossible – our life here was just a momentary illusion, and someday reality would yank us back to the world we came from.” – Haruki Murakami
Ciao.
