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Old Aug 15, 2013, 06:51 PM
bobby234 bobby234 is offline
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Originally Posted by hamster-bamster View Post
You are on the right track. Since you are able to realize that you would not have met her (and she is the best thing that has ever happened to you) had she not been his friend, and you are able to make that connection and feel thankful to the friend for the introduction, you appear fine. The obsessive fantasies will probably leave your mind sooner if you do not try to stop them but go with the flow. Do not try to get those images out of your head as it would likely exacerbate rather than help matters.

That you realize that she did not just appear in your life out of nowhere but came through the friend is really great. That she realizes it is also great.

The only slightly inconsistent thing in your account is that you yourself asked the friend if she was an "easy" girl but then went on to accuse the friend of being a "player" and treating women like ****. It does not compute. Plus, why is sleeping with a friend bad treatment of the friend? Look, he introduced her to you as a woman who is "great" (quoting OP) - how did that amount to his treating her like ****??

I wish you luck and applaud you for thanking her for the disclosure. She also appears really smart and thoughtful in that she realized that telling you face-to-face was better than waiting until you find out from third parties.

That you are thankful for the fact that she delayed the disclosure since otherwise you would not have fallen for her, and are appreciative, is also great.

It might help if you ask her to actually remember the details of the encounters if she can (she might not be able to, since she was drunk, might have repressed the memory, etc.). If you know exactly what happened, you might stop imagining things that could have happened. Imagination can be very powerful and fantasies can run wild, whereas in reality (as you aptly pointed out) it was probably really mediocre sex between drunk buddies. Nothing to write home about.
Hey there Mr. Hamster

firs of all, thank you for the reply, it really helps to read the things you wrote. I guess inside I also believe that within time the obsessive thoughts will pass (hopefully). It's interesting what you wrote about not trying to fight the thoughts because I read recently an article about a way to rid ourselves of obsessive thinking; the article basically said that we do not produce thoughts, its our mind that does (for example, you don't know what you will be thinking about in 10 minutes) so what it suggests is not to try and fight the thoughts but to try practice not paying attention to them , eventually making them go away.
Regarding him treating her like ****, I don't think he did it in a real awful way, more like she wanted more attention from him and after they had sex and he kind of ignored her every time, in any case, you have a point there about me asking him if she's easy etc. (I'm not sure why I even mentioned that part, maybe just to clarify that she's not a skank) I know now days this friend has tremendous respect for her.
Also, I did ask her about some details (not sure why) but like you said, she was drunk , it was 5 years ago and she swears she can barely remember that it happened so let alone details....she also assured me that it wasn't good or inky so I guess that helps too.

Thanks again for the support, I really appreciate it