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Old Dec 14, 2024, 03:05 AM
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Originally Posted by TylerHolmes View Post
Yes I think you are right and part of it is the fear or at least uncertainty of being alone, but more specifically, not knowing what to do with my life. I have been planning on, and really have a longing for, just living out on the road and being homeless - or nomadic is a better word for it - when/if the relationship ends. This is for many reasons, but mainly because I want to use it as a way to kind of 'rejuvenate' myself and just 'rest' at least for a while. You know, just live and 'be', without any obligations or responsibilities and everything for a while, like I said just to relax and rejuvenate my energies, at least for a while.

But I'm just not really sure or 100% confident on how that may turn out... I don't really prevail in the confidence area very well, so, I think the vast majority of this concern and uncertainty and fear, comes from just self-doubt and little confidence in myself, and being able to do something like this very well. I've been homeless before, at a much younger age even, and didn't even have a vehicle then like I do now, but I just like I said don't really have much faith in my ability to 'handle' it now.

Mainly because I want the freedom, the complete freeness and openness just living and being alive with no attachments, obligations, responsibilities etc. etc. But at the same time, I feel like knowing how I am and how my mind is, I'm going to still feel like I'm just wasting my life and time and being lazy and unproductive and all that kind of stuff. Kinda a paradoxical catch-22 I think...

I feel like the relationship maybe provides more structure and 'a life', and leaving out on my own especially like how I've explained, I feel like will not have much structure or meaning and productivity especially... My mind is so back and forth and conflicting with this stuff... I feel like I don't want structure and obligation and all that stuff, but at the same time, if I don't have it, then I'm so critical with myself feeling like I'm not being productive and wasting my life...
You're using the relationship to fill aspects of your life that you are not fulfilling on your own. You're using the relationship as a crutch. That's not fair to your partner. If you lack structure, purpose, and meaning in your life, do that on your own. That's the responsible, adult thing to do here. A relationship shouldn't be a crutch or used to provide these things in life for you. You're supposed to fulfill these things for yourself. Don't stay in a relationship just so you have structure and a life. That's not fair to your partner, and does come across as using the partner for your own benefit. A relationship is meant to ADD or ENHANCE your life, not provide a life for you. You've got to do that on your own.
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Last edited by Have Hope; Dec 14, 2024 at 04:21 AM.
Thanks for this!
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