Love help: Broke up with my Girl Friend a October 1st of this year, hardest thing ive ever done in my entire life. - Help.com

The King Of Spades
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Broke up with my Girl Friend a October 1st of this year, hardest thing ive ever done in my entire life.

We had been going out since June 14, 2007, 2 years i loved her so much, but after I went to boot camp over this summer at Fort Knox Kentucky for the U.S. Army, something happened. The Army Stripped me of who i was, what i love, who i cared about and changed me into something else. I Left home positive and urning to get to boot camp and missing my girlfriend so much, and i couldnt wait to see her when i got home. But after a week or two went by, i started getting deppressed. I missed boot camp, i miss the active duty army life, i miss my 54 outlaw brothers and my 3 drill sgt. fathers and would do anything to go back. I came home to my friends not talking to me anymore, finishing my senior year in highschool and it was just so deppressing. I came from a perfect, organized sociaty of pure military orginization, and returned to this horriable civilian life where im just another joe. I had a purpose in boot camp. But after two weeks of crying, depression, and lack of motivation, i stopped loving my girlfriend like i did before bootcamp. Its not that i disliked her, its just, there was no love, no nothing. Derek Alan Hopper didn’t make it out of boot camp, only Pvt. Hopper did. So i couldnt play her, i couldnt lie to her. So i told her the truth. Baby i dont love you like i did, Im not derek anymore, i still care about you and think about you, but i dont love you, and i cant go on like this, its not right. After two year she broke down in tears. She knew it was going to happen, she tried so hard to kepp me happy, to cheer me up, but could sense it coming to an end. Derek is dead, and only this assimilated soldier remains. I still think about her, alot, when im alone, I go home from school every and go into my room, and think WTF and i going to do with my day, my week, my month, year, life. I dont know anymore, until i graduate highschool and finish ait, i get deployed next year, i dont have a purpose till then. I met this girl, who i have, who i love, i love ok, i can say that because its true, I really love her i have feelings i have never had ever exsperianced before with Tarah. I love her so much and would do anything for her. She makes me so happy, she, helped me find my smile, when i smile, i know what it means to smile. I blush when i talk to her, when i hear her voice i melt into goo. She has the same feelings for me. Shes attracted to me, loves me, loves the sound of my voice, my smile, just me and who i am. She never met Derek, Just the Private out of basic. She loves the new me, who i am now. But as happy as i am. My ex says everything is fine, i still think about her, i wrote a page long pape of confession to her saying i want her back and would do anything to get her back, earn back everything, start over. I wrote it in the morning, and had it in my pocket all day, and after school i was going to give it to her, and tor it up. I didnt care about the letter, i was like i dont feel it anymore, i dont wanna give it to her. Now is it my emotions just running wild making me write these things, still think about my ex. Or am i still in love with her, idk, i mean i love tarah, i plan on marrying her, With tarah, for the first time in my life i thought, when i go to afghanastan next year, i smiled and said to myself, i know ill have someone to come home to. I never felt that way with my ex, i didnt care if i died over seas, but now, i have a reason to live. But it still brings up the fact of my emotions about my ex. What is wrong, why am i still thinking about her, why do i miss her still, I didnt leave my ex for tarah, even though my ex thinks it. I left her because i didnt love her. So what are your opions on my problem, idk, i think about my ex, and wanna get back together, and then after a while goes by i say no, i dont i love tarah? Sincerly your Protecter of Freedom, Pvt. Hopper

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linuxya offline Verified User (2 years, 8 months) Long Term User Shouts: 15 #
An Undisclosed Location | 3 weeks, 2 days ago (14 minutes after post)

Dude, here’s a secret.

What boot camp did for you was provide a way for you to cope with anxiety— anxiety about life… what to do, how to live… boot camp provided you with a solid predictable structure where you knew who you are and what to do at every moment in your life. Your superiors would tell you what to do. Your brothers would respect you simply for being a brother. You did not have to create an identity or plans.

Boot camp was a perfect way to deal with the anxieties EVERYONE faces at your stage in life.

What happened after you left is you suddenly had to face all those fears again… who are you, what will you do in life, what is expected of you, etc.

That anxiety robbed you of your feelings of confidence… confidence is the essence of feeling like a man, it is the essence of attracting women and being attracted to them.

Your best bet is simply to start addressing your anxiety issues head-on instead of hiding in situations where you can ignore them. Otherwise you will always have serious problems in any situation where YOU must make decisions. Even in the army you won’t be in boot camp your whole life.

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mumstheword offline Verified User (1 year, 6 months) Long Term User Shouts: 72 #
An Undisclosed Location | 3 weeks, 2 days ago (26 minutes after post)

You know what happened ?

You left home, you became a man and realised that what you thought you wanted wasn’t really what you wanted at all.

The thing is, it sounds like it is actually ok isn’t it? Don’t feel guilty about it. It’s clear that everyone else is ok with how things have panned out. Writing the letter was a good idea because it probably helped you to clarify what you felt, thought and wanted. Not sending it was the right thing to do because it had served its purpose and defined your thoughts.

If you are happy on your chosen road, stick with it. Be proud of who you have discovered yourself to be. We don’t “change” so much as find the true inner self that’s been hiding away unseen for too long.

Good luck with your career and future. Don’t forget to use the resources available to you for family and friends support during your deployment. You can find out more about that here: http://deploymentlink.osd.mil/deploy/… and here: http://www.armymwr.com/ :)

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3 weeks, 2 days ago (51 minutes after post)

A summer in boot camp and you think you are prepared for war…. that it has changed you. It hasn’t… you didn’t want to be with your ex… you dumped her…. get on with your life and don’t mess her around… she didn’t do anything to you… she doesn’t deserve you messing with her head.

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Helper626 offline Verified User (1 month, 1 week) Shouts: 11 #
An Unknown Location | 3 weeks ago (2 days, 2 hours after post)

You keep trying to make things better with your ex cause you feel bad about what you did to her after your long time together. You have to realize that she is a thing of the past. The relationship is dead along with derek. You have a loving girlfriend that loves you and you love. Don’t screw it up by writing letters to your ex and having her find it. That will make her think your chheating on her. Realize that your future is ahead of you and you have one with tarah. NOT your ex she is in the dead past. You sound like you have a great future in the military and future wife. Don’t screw it up cause of something thats already done and over.
Good Luck my friend

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