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Old Apr 20, 2009, 04:45 AM
valexand valexand is offline
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We broke up 4 years ago. We didn't have a great relationship and he didn't treat me nicely. He was my first so I fell totally in love with him. After all this time I'm still having trouble getting over it.
He's engaged now. He treats her so nicely, it is hard to believe that this is the same person. My problem: he maintains his own personal website. I go to that website all the time. I find myself hanging off the pictures of them together and of the fun things they do. In some of the pictures I see things that I'd given him as gifts, like a frame, a pillow, books, etc.
The images haunt me at night before going to sleep and they are the first things I think about when I wake up in the morning. Is this an addiction? I am aware how this is hurting me but I just can't stop visiting this website. How do I stop it? Anybody out there doing the same? Have you found a solution to this?

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Old Apr 21, 2009, 10:08 AM
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I don't think you're stalking him at all because you haven't contacted him or bothered him in any way! Looking at his profile his perfectly normal because you still have feelings for him, it must be tough, I understand. Try to stay busy doing a lot of productive things to get your mind off of him so you can move on with your life. Maybe in the future you'll find someone who will treat you with the love and respect you deserve, it seems like this other guy never did and you most certainly deserve to be happy too.

I hope you get over him soon and that you meet someone very special as well.
Thanks for this!
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Old Apr 21, 2009, 02:45 PM
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I also don't think you are "stalking" him, but it seems obviously unhealthy. I have not had it to this extreme (for years) but I've engaged in similar behavior, and sadly I don't really know how to explain how I got over it. I think it feels like I just found someone else and moved on that way, but I don't think that's healthy either. There must be a way to find peace within yourself that you don't feel like you need to do this. I don't really know how to offer that kind of support, though, and i'm sorry for that. I hope you can find some relief somehow. Hopefully you have other trusted people or a doctor or someone?
Thanks for this!
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Old Apr 22, 2009, 09:54 AM
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A good way to change most any unwanted habit is to focus on developing a new healthy habit instead. This works for me and has worked with stopping compulsive stuff online.

I've learned that often when I only concentrate on stopping something (like recently no longer eating ice cream) I can end up feeling deprived, which makes me want to do the bad habit even more.

So I need to change my focus. I use the idea of "turning the mind" towards something else.

I could develop a new interest and reward myself for following through. I could make all this a fun thing, an experiment, a friendly challenge to myself.

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