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Old 12-24-2023, 05:58 PM
 
Location: Vancouver
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Originally Posted by ContraPagan View Post
Only person you should be mad at is yourself for acting in so juvenile a fashion. Stop leading with your emotions and assumptions, and START leading with logical thinking and facts.
This is the most laughable advice I've heard on here in a long time. You've clearly never been in a romantic relationship.

Love is not a logical thing, but rather a pure emotional experience.

And jealousy is an emotion, that involves negative thoughts and feelings of insecurity, fear, and anxiety over a possible loss of something or someone that the person values.

Being in love may cloud our judgement, contribute to a loss of clarity or levelheadedness and can block logical thinking.

Human beings are first and foremost emotional creatures.
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Old 12-24-2023, 06:52 PM
 
Location: NNJ
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This is the most laughable advice I've heard on here in a long time. You've clearly never been in a romantic relationship.

Love is not a logical thing, but rather a pure emotional experience.

And jealousy is an emotion, that involves negative thoughts and feelings of insecurity, fear, and anxiety over a possible loss of something or someone that the person values.

Being in love may cloud our judgement, contribute to a loss of clarity or levelheadedness and can block logical thinking.

Human beings are first and foremost emotional creatures.
I will have to disagree here. I find this very naive.. a response I would expect from a person with little self-awareness.. Of course, romantic relationships are part emotional but it takes more than that to maintain a healthy relationship. Acting in haste purely motivated by emotion is a lack of judgement and that in of itself is not an excuse.

You know what another pure emotional experience is just like love? Anger. It takes a certain level of maturity and anger management (logical and rational thinking process) to also control anger. No different with love, jealously, and insecurity.

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Old 12-24-2023, 07:08 PM
 
Location: Vancouver
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I find this very naive....
Oh heck, call me naive - I don't care. There are worse character traits. This is not my first rodeo, I know what love is.
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Old 12-24-2023, 07:12 PM
 
Location: Watervliet, NY
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This is the most laughable advice I've heard on here in a long time. You've clearly never been in a romantic relationship.

Love is not a logical thing, but rather a pure emotional experience.

And jealousy is an emotion, that involves negative thoughts and feelings of insecurity, fear, and anxiety over a possible loss of something or someone that the person values.


Being in love may cloud our judgement, contribute to a loss of clarity or levelheadedness and can block logical thinking.

Human beings are first and foremost emotional creatures.
Excuse me??? When you love someone you don't falsely accused them of doing things when you have absolutely no proof. Fear, anxiety, and insecurity do not have any place in a relationship and more often than not those feelings are self-inflicted, as in the OP's case. You act from those emotions when there is no need to and you WILL lose the other person, and rightly so.
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Old 12-24-2023, 07:34 PM
 
Location: Vancouver
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Excuse me??? When you love someone you don't falsely accused them of doing things when you have absolutely no proof. Fear, anxiety, and insecurity do not have any place in a relationship and more often than not those feelings are self-inflicted, as in the OP's case. You act from those emotions when there is no need to and you WILL lose the other person, and rightly so.
See post #13....I get you. I can recognize when someone is not coming from a place of love.
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Old 12-24-2023, 07:44 PM
 
Location: Watervliet, NY
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See post #13....I get you. I can recognize when someone is not coming from a place of love.
OP definitely isn't. She's doing everything that will scare a good man off.

A person does not love another person and just
attack them whenever they feel like attacking them. That doesn't happen. That's not love. A person does not threaten another person with any kind of potential harm that they feel they can do if they love them.
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Old 12-24-2023, 07:50 PM
 
Location: Vancouver
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A person does not love another person and just
attack them whenever they feel like attacking them. That doesn't happen. That's not love. A person does not threaten another person with any kind of potential harm that they feel they can do if they love them.
Agree...What's your point?
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Old 12-24-2023, 07:53 PM
 
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Honestly, I would be concerned too if my boyfriend was being “private” about a relationship he had with a female friend. I mean, what’s up with that? And the fact that she’s now engaged to another man, really means nothing at all. However, I would have had a calm and rational conversation with him and asked him why he kept his relationship with her private.
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Old 12-24-2023, 09:47 PM
 
Location: Watervliet, NY
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Agree...What's your point?
Negative energy and the behaviors that stem from it have no place in relationships.
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Old 12-25-2023, 07:54 AM
 
Location: Pennsylvania
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I admitted to him I have jealousy issues I need to work on. I'm glad I didn't go psycho on the innocent woman. I was mad at him, not her with my insecurities that needs to be worked on. Is it possible for him to forgive me within time and rebuild trust?

He may forgive you but he now sees your not so finer qualities and not want to deal with them.




They're your problems not his.
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