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Default Mar 03, 2019 at 10:18 PM
 
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Originally Posted by LonesomeTonight View Post
I think maybe I figured out part of what's going on with me. I think when I told him that I wanted to be "all in" with him, I hoped for a particular reaction. Something about him appreciating my putting my trust in him. Maybe saying he'd be "all in" as well. I don't know. But instead I got his saying that maybe he'd be an asshole, which would lead me to leave, and that I should accept my ambivalence. So maybe that's what some of this is about? I mean, there's sort of continual conflict in personality types, in that I tend to be more of an idealist, I guess, while he's more of a realist. Maybe that's what's coming into play here? I don't know...
That makes a lot of sense. In Gottman terms, he didn't really return your "bid."
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