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HOW DO I GET OVER HIM?

My boyfriend and i were together for a year and a half, maybe more?
But we had both agreed that it would end when he moves away to university.
However, he broke it off a few months before that, and i was heartbroken.
Two months down the line and he rings me in tears, begging forgiveness.
I get back with him, knowing we have only a few weeks together before he moves away…so i should make the most of it.

But now, i’m terrified of losing him forever.
I cry just thinking of him with another girl.
Im desperate for him to not forget me.
I feel overwhelmingly jealous of any girl he talks to….and i hate it so much.

Its so easy to get angry and blame it all on him…but i don’t want to bear grudges.

And i know i’m still young, and have the world ahead of me…..but i’m so desperately upset.

please help….

How do i let him go…???

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Engleby77 offline Verified User (1 year, 6 months) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
GB | 3 months ago (3 minutes after post)

Why must you break up?

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jodie_lak offline Verified User (3 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Unknown Location | 3 months ago (7 minutes after post)

well because he’s moving so far away…
We had such a tempestuous relationship - we just agreed it was better to end it on good terms, than to struggle and fail at a long-distance relationship.

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Engleby77 offline Verified User (1 year, 6 months) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
GB | 3 months ago (11 minutes after post)

But you love him.

If you guys really love each other, things should work out well regardless of what happens in the end..

Talk to him about it, and tell him how you feel. Only then will you know.

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Engleby77 offline Verified User (1 year, 6 months) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
GB | 3 months ago (12 minutes after post)

I feel for you.. it’s a tough one.

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jodie_lak offline Verified User (3 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Unknown Location | 3 months ago (17 minutes after post)

Thank you.
I thought a similar thing….if he loves me too he’ll come back for me…wont he?

i guess its the old….if you love him let him go….

we have spoken about it, but all he says is “I dont know….i dont want to make any promises, in case i can’t keep them”

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Neutra offline Verified User (4 months, 1 week) Long Term User Shouts: 83 #
An Undisclosed Location | 3 months ago (20 minutes after post)

Why don’t you write letters to each other or email each other.

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jodie_lak offline Verified User (3 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Unknown Location | 3 months ago (23 minutes after post)

Im sure we will…..im used to being alone, im not afraid of being lonely.

Its the jealousy that bothers me.
Is there a way to stop me feeling like stabbing any girl he touches?

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Neutra offline Verified User (4 months, 1 week) Long Term User Shouts: 83 #
An Undisclosed Location | 3 months ago (29 minutes after post)

Maybe he won’t. Maybe he will only think of you, he could be thinking of you right now.

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Adrenaline! offline Verified User (3 months, 1 week) Long Term User Shouts: 5 #
An Undisclosed Location | 3 months ago (34 minutes after post)

I dont see why u have to break up.. If u really love eachother.. Dont u trust him??.. Personally I find it rather pathetic to break up becoz one part is moving away for a while.. Real love can resist a hell lot of problems.

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jodie_lak offline Verified User (3 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Unknown Location | 3 months ago (37 minutes after post)

Well thats the thing. im getting the feeling i love him far more than he loves me.

I would love to trust him, and i used to completely…But he hurt me a lot, and its not as easy to forget as it is to forgive.

I don’t believe a relationship, especially a long-distance one, can survive without trust.
I also think thats why i have the jealousy issues….

you know what they say…once bitten-twice shy.

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jodie_lak offline Verified User (3 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Unknown Location | 3 months ago (38 minutes after post)

and its not a while…its three years….

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Neutra offline Verified User (4 months, 1 week) Long Term User Shouts: 83 #
An Undisclosed Location | 3 months ago (42 minutes after post)

Why don’t you two talk, not just a small conversation but a discussion that you two can tell each other of how you feel and work out any trouble you two have from all views, you can get to know how he feels completely about you and you can get him to understand your feelings.

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jodie_lak offline Verified User (3 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Unknown Location | 3 months ago (47 minutes after post)

oh lord i have tried.
i open up and tell him everything as honestly and frankly as i can.
He sometimes says he feels the same….but mostly he will avoid telling me how he feels by pretending to comfort me.

he doesn’t look me in the eye.

i’m starting to get the feeling i’m being used….

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Neutra offline Verified User (4 months, 1 week) Long Term User Shouts: 83 #
An Undisclosed Location | 3 months ago (54 minutes after post)

Well, if you don’t feel a connection, you can only keep on trying, relationships are suppose to have negativity, this is how the couple grow together, if you two can “really” understand each other, then it’s going to work. Worse case senario, no connection and you have to let him go, but in a way that may be just as good because you two still grow and learn from your experience.

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jodie_lak offline Verified User (3 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Unknown Location | 3 months ago (1 hour, 13 minutes after post)

You’re right.
I do feel something with him. Something above and beyond any normal relationship i’ve had before.
I guess if it’s meant to be, it will be.
If not…maybe something better will come of it.

thank you so much for your thoughts.x

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nurse_rose offline Verified User (3 months) Long Term User Shouts: 18 #
An Unknown Location | 3 months ago (9 hours, 23 minutes after post)

he shouldnt even break up with u if hes goin to uni…if he rly thinks ur worth it and the relationship is perfect then he wouldn’t letu go- loads of people go thru long distance relationships, im sure he will go back and visit his family and u whenever…if he chooses to be single at uni he’s not bein very mature. i think u should move on and make him rly feel what life’s like without you..dont wait for him.. xx

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jodie_lak offline Verified User (3 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Unknown Location | 3 months ago (1 day, 9 hours after post)

yeah i guess you are right. thank you.
i would love it to work, but i know i dont trust him enough….and yeah i spose he is being immature about it all.
Im going to try my hardest not to let him control me. I have to live just for me now.

table for one.

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nurse_rose offline Verified User (3 months) Long Term User Shouts: 18 #
An Unknown Location | 2 months, 3 weeks ago (5 days, 2 hours after post)

good girl. i know, it’s tough but at least he didn’t stay with you and go to uni and cheat on you right? it wold have hurt so much more. i think he made the right decision if he’s not ready to be in a full on relationship. don’t worry, i’m sure there are other lovely lovely men out there :) x

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nurse_rose offline Verified User (3 months) Long Term User Shouts: 18 #
An Unknown Location | 2 months, 3 weeks ago (5 days, 2 hours after post)

and being single takes getting used to…i’m sure u will notive all the guys’ attention and have a lot of fun with your mates before u know it. who needs a man? x

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