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Oct 19th, 2008

Soul Mates

I'm not sure what I believe when it comes to the whole concept of soul mates. I believe that more than one person can be a 'fit' for us in our life time. So I think part of me then believes we can have several potential soulmates - not just one.

The romantic side of me tends to lean towards the only 'one' soulmate belief structure.

Here's the deal - my ENTIRE life, even as a kid, I recall having this feeling inside that there was 'someone' out there for me - waiting for me. I continued to feel this way throughout my entire relationship with my ex hubby. And then I met by last boyfriend and fell deeply in love - felt completely connected and accepted and comfortable with him in a way I'd never thought possible for me and I was so very content and happy and felt blessed each day. I knew the difference of what I felt with him vs how I'd felt all the days prior to being with him. I realized that I no longer felt that there was 'someone out there' ... it was as if I was where I belonged and with who I was supposed to be with.

Well he broke up with me last year - early last year. However, we own a home together and I didn't want to move out of my home (I had to explain to him why I didn't want to pack up and move me and my daughter - even if I had to struggle to make the mortgage, etc. - I wanted to at least 'try' to stay in my home!). And he hasn't moved out yet.

For the first year, I thought it was because he wasn't really sure he wanted to break up (there have been major outside issues going on with both of us that interfered with our life and caused a lot of stress) and so I kept seeing it as a sign he really wanted to stay with 'me'. And continuing to be intimate, etc. didn't help help the matter, either. But all along he'd keep saying nothing changed, he still felt the same (meaning, he wasn't in love anymore, etc) and still wanted out, etc. This was a very confusing thing for me - I felt like he was pushing and pulling me depending on his mood. And because I was hopelessly in love with him - all I could do was be with him and hope he'd realize he really did love me and wanted to stay and continue building and sharing our lives together.

Well, almost two years into it - we've stopped being intimate earlier this year when I had to put my foot down and say it needed to stop unless he meant it as more than just playing around - because to 'me' it meant more and kept making me think he felt differently. So he stopped all physical affection with me at that point - even hugging went out the door. Although we still shared our oversized 'chair' each night while watching TV and sleep in the same bed, etc.

He's confided in me that he sees me as his best friend, the person who knows him best and knows the most about him, and the person he talks to the most and confides in the most and tells things no one else knows about him. And this is how I feel about him. I've always felt that way - which is why it felt so 'right'. Like I was with my best friend, lover and life partner. And we were happy truly for 5 years solid until outside things starting interfering. With me, it was a serious health issue and with him, starting a new business. He's since left the business and my health problem has become something I have learned to manage better and live with productively.

We've been through a lot together; I've been hurt so deeply by him throughout all that happened and how he handled things yet, I still love him and kept hoping it would somehow work out. Even now - I still have that hope deep down. Although now I've removed myself quite a bit, shut down a lot of my emotions and feelings for him in an effort to protect myself. But we are still able to share a good portion of our relationship that was positive all along - the close friendship, the trust, confiding, etc.

Now, he just doesn't know 'what' he wants. His last idea was to get an RV and go live in different parts of the country for a few months at a time. He 'loves' me and my daughter and considers us his family but he just doesn't know what he wants to do with his life period and unfortunately, we've (me mainly) have become a casualty in his unrest and his 1/3 life crisis.

I still miss us, I miss how things used to be with us and I know they could be that way again but I can't let myself go down that path because unless it's a permanent deal, I can't do that to myself emotionally. I want someone who's going to be around, who wants to share their life with me and build a future with me and knows they want to be with me for the rest of their life. Things I 'thought' we had together.

The thing is - I still don't have that feeling that there's someone else out there waiting for me. It's never come back since I've been with him And I don't know what that means. Does it mean I really am with the person I'm meant to be with and all that's goin on is part of it and things are going to work themselves out in the end, we'll be together? Or did I miss my one chance in life? Was he it and now he's on his own separate journey and I'm SOL? I don't know what I believe anymore.

To me, love and family and friends are the most important things in life. It is what life is about; the rest of life is meant to be enjoyed and shared with the people we love and care about. I want to have my soulmate, my best friend and lover and partner by my side to share all the wonders of this life with - I want to be there for them and know they are there for me. I want to have someone to go through all the ups and downs and twists and turns with. To have that intimate and special connection and bond with that one other person in this world who really 'gets' me and loves me just the way I am; and whom I 'get' and love just the way they are.

is that too much to ask? I hope not. I just don't want to keep watching my life pass me by while I'm feeling so alone and lost and wishing I had that special person with me to share myself with again. It's hard to know what to do. Do I listen to my heart? Am I even hearing it right? Everything has led me to stay where I am still - is that really where I'm meant to be? If so - when does this torture end and when will he love me again?

Will I be loved again?


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Oct 15th, 2008

Out of the Clicks

The one thing I don't like is that people tend to be 'clicky'. We group up and form little safe bubbles of 'people' and separate from other 'bubbles' of people or stragglers.

I'm a straggler. I just don't ever end up getting mixed into any of the clicks or 'bubbles' as I've just now come to label it! And it drives me nuts that even on websites, it feels like there's still bubbles - everywhere you go! You can't seem to get away from it.

Like some big popularity contest. Whoever has the most people in their bubble wins. And most sites encourage this type of behavior by tallying your number of friends, your 'prizes' for this or that, and so forth.

It's like we constantly have to label and group everything! Including ourselves. Whatever happened to just being people? Being individuals with a lot in common but not feel the need to separate ourselves by those common things or by our differences?

I've joined a couple of 'support' websites for some heavy issues I've been facing in my life and I found myself feeling as if I didn't 'belong' because everybody on the site already seemed to know every body else! There was like this small group of domineering members (and I don't mean they were domineering 'people') that were posting all the time and responding to eachother with comments that kept referring to inside knowledge. And the newbies were just kind of left out to dry unless we worked to forge our way into the group.

At a time when I was feeling anything but 'strong' and 'outgoing' and just needed a place to go to find some support and learn about others experiences, etc. - I just felt like I had to work too hard to even participate. And I'm not someone who is going to spend every day on line, on a site posting and replying. So that just added to how far I didn't belong!

It was like walking into a bar and you run into the 'regulars' and they basically run the joint - only this joint is a cyberjoint and comes in the form of websites and chat rooms and so forth.

So far I like EP because of all the various stories and experiences that people are sharing but it's hard to connect to anyone unless I'm going to spend all my time here and really work on 'making' it happen and I don't have the time to do that. I have a real life I'm living, too, and that comes first. This is just a place to escape to for awhile.

I'd like to connect to others but not when I feel like I have to force my way into their bubble or create a bubble of my own! I just want to find a place where you can come and go and everyone's welcome and there's no 'inside' jokes or knowledge that is referenced in the general 'playground' shall we say. Go off and have a private conversation if you want to but when you are with the mass keep it open and inviting for everyone who happens to be there that day or at that moment and not just for the regulars that seem to live and breath the sites!

Okay - that's my two cents for today! Off to the mall with my daughter for a bit of materialistic indulging!

My mood: extremely sleepy
My health: OK

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Sep 14th, 2008

What's the deal?

Really confused today. The live in ex bf - whom broke up with me early last year but yet, hasn't moved out and continues to want to be friends - and me, the dumbshit who didn't move out at first because I thought after 5 great yrs together, owning a home and the fact I felt we were committed to growing old together, that he was confused and would wake up and change his mind. After a lot of shit in between now and then - many downs and a few ups and a lot mindfucks I've been through - we still live together and get along like great friends (like before we became an official 'couple'). Because he needs me and the support and friendship I offer him and I'm still in love with him and even though it's been hell, like dying a slow death watching the one you love become a stranger in front of you - live their 'new' life in front of you and so forth - while my life has basically just stopped and got stuck in limbo and deep, dark depression. Just making it through hour to hour some days was a challenge I thought I might lose. But I have stuffed a lot of my feelings on a day to day basis to make things 'easy' and cut the stress/tension as much as possible as my daughter also lives with us.

So after too many times of him doing things/saying things that seem to be signs that he's 'trying' and interested in working things out w/me and then them getting smashed to the ground - I'd finally reached my last straw and snapped. I knew it was never going to change, this horrible circle I've allowed myseld to live in for more than a year and half now, and he's not going to leave - so as much as I think it's unjust/unfair and just plain cruel to be the one who has to pick up my entire life, my daughters life and move out of our 'home' because he decided he didn't want to be with me anymore - it was the only way I could change this situation for myself because it's not healthy. I've known this all along, just didn't have the strenght to walk away from the person I loved and any bit of hope that might be alive; to the point where I've directly almost 'begged' him to please LEAVE me and set me free because I can't do it. So, finally had enough hurt and let downs and was mainly pissed at myself this last time for being a dumbass for the umpteenth time thinking his actions mean anything at all.

I started looking for a place live - preferably buy. Didn't tell him at first to avoid pressure of expectations I'd be moving out soon. First, I have to find out what I can afford, if I can buy and find a place I'll feel good about moving into. But we finally did talk and it was a calm discussion even.

He's been going to counceling on his own as this whole thing has been him basically stepping away from every aspect of his life because he suddenly isn't happy anyway or with anything and doesn't know what he wants or what to do. I was extremely hurt and damaged that I was something that got thrown in that bucket. People who are truly in love will at least know they want to be with you - if nothing else. And can look to you to help them through their struggle & journey. But not the case here.

Well it seems he's been changing more and more, returning to his previous self  - when things were good with us. And seems to be saying more and more things as 'testing the waters' to see how I respond or is trying to tell me something without actually telling me. ?? But it's the boy who cried wolf - I've been through this too many times and now I'm extremely guarded with him. It's really sad to see how I feel with him change to him being the closest person in my life, the one I trusted fully, felt safe with, accepted by and just totally open and vulnerable with to now having all these hurtful experiences in my heart and still working through it all and feeling now I have to protect myself from him - emotionally.

But I broached the topic of the places I've looked into buying possibly and made a 'teasing' comment, which was part serious that I've been looking at these since he's kicking me out of my own house. He said he wanted to talk to me about that but has been hesitent because usually those kind of talks haven't gone well with us. But he hasn't said whatever it is yet. Only seems to be making more and more comments that take it down the line of things he'd have said/done when we were together and what hes avoided all this time between. And he's become a lot more touchy/feely - playfully trying to tickle me, pat me, hug me, etc.

It's like he's trying to flirt all over again and show interest but doesn't have the 'whatever' to actually 'say' what's going on. And with me, until it's been made crystal clear as to what his intentions are and what he's willing to do and commit to - I'm not biting.

So it's been confusing and I'm curious as to what it all means. Of course I enjoy being treated this way again - it's been forever since he's said and done such sweet and affectionate, ego boosting things with me - but it's just hard to relax and truly enjoy it because I've got my guard up so I dont get hurt yet again - when I'm still not healed from everything else that's happened yet.

Why does life work this way? I don't understand. I really don't. I'm tired of being 'tested'; I feel like I've had numerous tests in my life time and have 'passed' them. So what is going on!!!???

My mood: a bit curious

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Sep 3rd, 2008

It's late...

It's late and I'm tired and wish I had more time and energy to 'explore' more about EP.

It's been an interesting couple weeks for me. I've been up and down and all around emotionally, mentally and physically so not only am I tired from today, I'm tired from all that's going on in my life, my body, my head, my heart and soul.

Not only do I need to rest myself with sleep - I need to rest the 'rest' of me so I can feel refreshed and ready to live and maybe even thrive again!

I'm tired of 'making it through today', I'm tired of being depressed, I'm tired of being sad, I'm tired of being lonely, I'm tired of being scared, I'm tired of being frustrated, I'm tired of being hopeful then let down, I'm tired of falling on my ass and picking myself up again, I'm tired of struggling, I'm tired of complaining, I'm tired of myself, I'm tired of being angry and harsh with myself for having reason for being tired of everything else.

I'm tired of being tired!

I so wanted my life to be inspired and inspiring. I still do. I want love, laughter, joy, happiness, good health and wonderful experiences to fill up my days and nights. I want to feel happy and content in my heart and soul and to share THOSE things instead of drowning in all the things that weigh me down and hold me back and to fight so hard against them and/or give in to them so as to just end up being 'tired'.

Time to sleep - maybe my dreams will inspire a way to refresh my life.

 


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