LaLUNACubana :
Oh lord… I have been single for years, since I left my sons father & before I met my boyfriend; and once I found myself in a relationship… I discovered how harmful all the “relationship talks and advices” from therapists as well as from content creators actually were. A lot of times they are taking into account only one persons feelings & perspective and it constantly comes from wanting to protect one self instead of protecting something that is worth building. I just put it this way… if the roles were reversed… would I like it? Would I appreciate it? Would I want to engage any further? Would I feel appreciated? Would I expect my partner to communicate? How would my actions make me feel if I was the other person? And I realized all of this on our first conflict. Truth is… all relationships aren’t the same, nor can be measured with the same cups. For example… many would say to avoid texting to the max, but in my case.. my boyfriend is deaf & I don’t know sign language. There’s obviously a communication barrier on its own, so… if I don’t partake in texting.. how could we build and/or resolve anything? How would he know what I’m feeling if I don’t try to express it? even through text when I have never been a texter, but a phone caller. Even when we would facetime… we still relied on texting while on FaceTime. I felt as if I was unimportant and as if he didn’t care about me anymore, not because he did feel that way, but because he was so burnt out and busy from work that he wasn’t as pending to me as he usually is. but because something was triggered in me and I have a wound that I still continue to work on, as well as all the insecurities others have instilled in me… I retrieved, I drifted away, I even cried. In that time he wondered what happened, if he did something to me but he couldn’t think of anything, he felt as if I didn’t respect him for “ignoring” him for almost two weeks when he was trying to reach out. I was ready to leave him behind, I was so upset, but I was upset because I was hurt. until I sat down and started putting myself in his shoes because what I was feeling and thinking, didn’t go with what he has been showing me with actions consistently
2026-08-04 17:16:20