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Is it normal to feel this way?

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PartyPenguin · 07/08/2019 20:17

I was dating someone for only 3 months, we split up 6 weeks ago. I asked him if he was willing to try and work things out about 2 weeks after it’d ended. He said no so I deleted his number, blocked Facebook etc. So not spoken to him or seen anything of him for a few weeks.

But I still feel heartbroken everyday. I think about him all the time. I still hope he’ll change his mind and say he wants to be with me. I know this will never happen and I feel like I’m being completely delusional letting myself think this still. I feel like I’m obsessed and going crazy from missing him so much. I don’t understand how I feel like this from something that was barely a relationship. My last relationship lasted 5 years and I didn’t feel this bad when that ended.

AIBU to think there’s something wrong with me to be feeling like this? How can I stop myself thinking of him or from feeling so hurt?

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anxietyhelpplease · 07/08/2019 20:21

I have suffered similar in the past. I honestly believe it's easier if it's a longer relationship because it's ran its course usually by the time it ends.
When it ends after such a short period of time it's usually because one person just isn't feeling it, which I think hurts so much because it feels like a complete rejection.
You keep telling yourself "If only they'd given it a little longer" etc etc, and I was just as heartbroken as you sound.
A couple of years later I can honestly say it is the best thing that's ever happened to me. It made me so much stronger as a person, made me realise what I want in a man and what I would not put up with in a relationship.
I have a family now and we are equal, completely in love and there is no mind games or "what ifs". Honestly, hang in there OP, spend time with family and friends or cry as much as you need.
Just know it gets better Smile

user1493413286 · 07/08/2019 20:21

Some break ups can hit harder than others especially when the relationship never really got started. With a longer relationship things have often run their course so by the end you’ve already had all the break up emotions and it can almost be a bit of a relief. With shorter relationships it’s easy to romanticise it and imagine what might have been.
However this man is not right for you and the relationship is not meant to be; telling myself that has always helped, that and time I’m afraid.

PartyPenguin · 07/08/2019 21:40

Thank you for the replies. That’s what I keep thinking that we never really got a chance to see how things might be and all the promise of what could be was taken away.

This will probably make me sound a bit crazy. But I always ‘knew’ we would end up dating. From the first time I saw him I felt it. It took close to a year before it happened but it did. Now that I feel the same way about getting back together with him I can’t get it out of my head. The rational part of me knows it’s because I liked him for so long and wanted things to work with him but I can’t stop thinking about it still. I need to practise keeping telling myself it’s not happening and he doesn’t want me.

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