The reason that this is at the for front of my mind recently is because I have recently or well for a while now had problematic relationships with women and for a long time thought it was me picking the wrong women or the women I met were strange in some way or they changed when they began dating me. There was hundreds of reasons I came up up as to what the problem was and why all the wrong women were drawn to me!
However only recently say a couple of months ago did i realize that it was in-fact myself, my mind and my actions that were actually seeking out these women who, had confidence issues, self worth issues, and negative subconscious feelings towards men! And this is probably because I could relate to them because i had the same issues to. The same childhood trauma or incidents and subconsciously I was seeking these women out because we could relate. Unfortunately thats all we seemed to have in common!
There was one relationship in particular that really left me high and dry and very hard to bounce back from. I was round 17-18 when I was seeing this girl and within weeks fell madly in love with her. I began to jump through hoops to keep her happy as I thought that if I didn't then she would leave me. So the cycle began driving her to and from places. Taking her shopping, doing things that I particularly didn't want to do but knew would keep her happy. Spend more time with her and less with my friends and family. All the while trying to keep her happy and making myself more and more miserable.
This was in the main my fault and not hers and now I realize this I can begin to let go!
One thing I have realized over these past few years is that if you spend your time trying to please everyone and not your self, you will not have enough time to please enough people and still be left unhappy and unfulfilled.
I have now began making sure that what ever I do is what I want to do and is good for me. Now if you read this and think I have become selfish, let me explain.
If you decide on the things you what to do in your life and the goals you want to achieve and then you set your sites on these and go and achieve them, then there is no way that you will feel unhappy or unfulfilled. As a by product of this you will become a better person, more grateful of the success you have & most importantly you will be an example of how to be treated and how to treat others.
This comes from learning to treat yourself with respect, loving your self and being thankful of the person you have become or are aiming to become.
Strangely enough I only today received a txt from this ex of mine saying she wished she had treated me better and she's sorry for all that happened and she only wished we could be friends again. but this time instead of ignoring the txt or sending and short rude txt back i replied with " Hey, glad all is well, don't worry your self with what has happened or feel guilty, it was a difficult time for both of us and we both delt with things differently, I'm glad you have done well with your degree and I wish you all the best"
I cannot explain the relief that I feel all that locked up, hate, and regret and animosity towards her has just floated away and I feel someone more centered, understanding about what I want from a relationship and weirdly more confident about saying what I feel!
Now feeling this I had to fire up my laptop and let you all know, this realization i have had, so that you can go and apply it your life and get rid of the unwanted trapped feeling we carry around with us subconsciously.
my next post will be centered around fear and how to use it to get where we wanted to get and stop it from holding us back.
Remember
"Life Is What You Make It"
Darren
