I have posted here before about my own relationship with someone who has made me very unhappy and received a lot of support from MNers (saga of the broken ankle etc). There seem to be a lot of women out there who suffer the most horrendous and/or unsatisfying relationships yet they keep soldiering on for whatever reason.
All my relationships with men, starting with dad, have been difficult and often abusive to some degree and I think that's what I have got used to.
I have always felt that I have to have someone 'there' so have put up with a lot of stuff I shouldn't have. I have been seeing a counsellor who has raised the question of whether these relationships have made me 'happy' and if not, why am I there? Big question.
Are relationships supposed to make us happy? If they don't deliver or make us positively unhappy, do we get out?
I know this is a ramble but I am feeling down today as I have been trying to face up to fact that someone I thought cared about me just doesn't. Looking for grains of comfort I suppose.
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A question about happiness
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tametiger · 25/05/2010 07:37
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