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apakabar

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Dear All,

i was together with her for 7 years, allmost 4 of those we we're married. We were the perfect couple and would say "soulmates". She's gorgeous, intelligent, passionate, empathic, lovable, likable and all over a very warm and sociable person to be around with. She is a disappointed dreamer.

We are now apart for 3,5 months. The relationship went downward spiralling because of my personal unhappiness (numb in feelings) and drainage from overvorking. We were madly in love for 4-5 years, but the last 5 years i have worked my ass of building a company (from 8am - 1am for 3 years), she was unemployed for 3 years (on and off) in the 7year period in the time. And she told me that if I will not take time for her for us, that we will grow apart. I convinced myself that i need to work so that we will be able to eat and left myself and threw my feelings in a cage down the drain. Slowly over time she began to get colder and colder loosing respect toward me. And did not have a lot of fights, but mostly the fights were either me pissed of when she did not do something we agreed on or a stupid fight where I saw how much unsrespected i was in her eyes - literally putting me to 0. But I was still the ego maniac and convinced my self all will be ok, that we just move on and we'll have much more time and fun when we are financially stable. She told me several times that once its over its over and that this is important. Well turned out that last year we went on a trip and after the trip we broke up. I was literally running from my shadow being tense and inauthentic. We got back together after 2 months, after i courted, had some great dates, with her not avoiding me, although she was back at her parents house. When we got back together in a matter of 2 days i was back to my old self not caring much for her and taking her for granted. I did not see that she was unhappy. And this made the energy more and more negative in the house. We had only conflicts regarding her not working and what to do. 2 months before the breakup she called from the job urgently to say to me that she thinks i am betraying her. When I explained that my acts were because of the job and the stress (coming home to put on a dress, having more activities, or coming home 5-6p.m.), we we're like an old couple in full love for 2 days again when we talked it over - as if we kind of fell in love again. We went to look for parcel for house etc., but quickly the energy faded in a matter of days and boredom, unhappiness returned to us both. She mentioned that she was crying when she was alone at home and that she was unhappy. I did not support her endeavours or even negated her lust for gemstones, tarot, talks. We did mostly communicate on routine - what to eat and small things..I was numb in feelings going on living the routine. 3,5 m ago she came to me and said that she does not want to be together with me any more and would like to debate and clear what went wrong, saying ending marriage was still indefinite. My reaction was panic and began to debate with her about gemstones and made some stupid remark, she got angry/offensive and i got pissed off and said its over and better to pack her stuff. Went totally numb and went away next day for two days while she moved back home.
1st week she called me once if i had a new girlfriend - and me with my ego smiling and sayin no...After a week she began to flourish and realised that she was a lot happier without me and after we got together to "analyse" what went wrong - 3 weeks after the breakup, it was me who was crying in remorse and apologizing to all the bad feelings i caused her. And she did not sweat a tear and said sorry my tears were all drained before and don't have any more feelings for you. I would of left 2 years ago if i had more self asteem. And that she still wants to be friends with me, because she holds me dear in her heart - but no more feeling of love. When we parted the hug was really cold and friendly - shivers ran down my spine.
After then I was back to a wreck - on a mission to get her back. Did little to no contact, and after a month she left to work for 4 months abroad. And we only heard each other the last day before she went. Me begging if there has a micron of hope in her heart not to give up. After that i did NC, and broke contact after 14days with daily messages of sr i should understand that its over and that i should move on (in our relationship she told me once it's over in her its over - really a woman with strong character and constantly working on herself), then did NC for a month taking a trip to find myself and change myself - gotten to know a lot of women, models, all kinds of girls, a couple of which fell in love with me but I was not able to move an inch in matter of romance or anything - still beeing faithfull to marriage...When i got back i did contact again but with no reply.
After talking to her parents to bring them a gift from the trip, and sending her a message (thought of you how we danced etc) i got a call from her to leave the parents alone and that my messages dont make her happy but sad and to book a date for the divorce when she gets back - that that is her only wish. Me saying I will still fight for you calmly and said, if you will tell me 1000x no i still will fight for you. She said you can send all the planes and romantic gestures and nothing will change a thing - I have no more feelings for you.
I feel/realised that she is really indifferent in her feelings toward me, not angry and am panicking if there is still a way to get my soul mate back...I really need magic. I know I can be alone in life and I am kind of happy like that. But I want her. I thought a lot about all of this (I neglected her feelings, criticised her, did not defend her in public when beeing forced to tell why not children yet, and a lot more), and I wan't her and make her happy 100x more as she was. She is by far the best woman I ever met in my life! I changed a lot and know how how to handle a new relationship. But to warm her heart again, to open her a little to me - here i am lost...

Any really quality help, additional questions from you guys is much appreciated.

Sincerely thankful - lost 1/2 of my soul...
 

ray_zorse

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Re: Getting my soulmate back when she already is indifferent in feelings toward

TL;DR but there's many similar posts on this site, general pattern is she withdrew because you didn't have good relatiinship management (got needy and dependent instead of dominant and sexy), you then chased to try to get her back, she withdrew even more. She left you for a reason, so even if you get back together you'll still have issues. Forget her. Move on. Read the site material, there are plenty of articles about your exact situation, you can find them!
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Re: Getting my soulmate back when she already is indifferent in feelings toward

Hey man,

Your situation is unfortunately not that uncommon, there are many many guys with similar problems...

You also did several big mistakes as many men do, which lead to the current situation of her leaving you. I am going to point some of them so we can have better insight into the whole situation.

I assume that you will not like much what I have to say, sorry for being harsh but I can't help it, I'm sure there are other guys who will show more empathy.

So if you get really pissed by reading my answers, good. If not, you should:

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"The relationship went downward spiralling because of my personal unhappiness (numb in feelings)
>>>> Why were you unhappy? At first you are describing "perfect couple", "soulmates", that she is gorgeous, intelligent, passionate, lovable and likable - and then you write that you were unhappy... So the problem is right there, perhaps you were idealizing this girl too much, you wanted her and the relationship to appear better than she really is, yet somewhere in the background you just knew that that is really not the case.... You idealized her too much....


"...and drainage from overvorking. We were madly in love for 4-5 years, but the last 5 years i have worked my ass of building a company (from 8am - 1am for 3 years),"
>>>> The same issue: You are in love, the girl is perfect, lovely - and you are spending all of your precious time at work? Sorry, that just doesn't make any sense. If you love somebody you want to be around as much as possible, you don't want to "run away" to work (or church, fitness,...)...

"she was unemployed for 3 years (on and off) in the 7year period in the time"
>>>> HA! So you are working your ass off 24/7 for 3 years - and she is 3 years "unemployed"? Dude, there are plenty of jobs around for people who want to work. They are not the best jobs, true, but there are jobs. There is no reason why a guy should work his ass off 24/7 - while his soulmate stays home not for months, but for 3 years.... You took a role of PROVIDER upon yourself, and if you read something on GC site you should know that Provider is something we are trying to avoid....

"And she told me that if I will not take time for her for us, that we will grow apart."
>>>> So let me be clear: you are working your ass off, you are providing for her, you are feeding her and paying rent for her for 3 long years - and as if that wasn't good good enough, now she is telling you that it is your fault because you don't have time for her? I don't think so. Dude, she is blaming you for her own feelings. At this time she already grew apart from you, otherwise she would not talk about it. That is unfortunately a fate of many great guys, many great providers - they do their best to support their wives, they break their back so she is happy, they scarify their time... but what happens is, she will eventually dump such because she doesn't have any respect for him, and if not she will cheat on him...

"Slowly over time she began to get colder and colder loosing respect toward me ... I saw how much unsrespected i was in her eyes - literally putting me to 0."
>>>> Exactly. Given the above, this was inevitable. She slowly grows apart, she becomes cold, there is no more sex, there is less and less love, then she starts disrespecting you - and at the end it is all the guy's fault. If you read stories of other guys you will find out that this happens quite often. It is like a snowball, it starts slowly and innocent, yet by the time it comes to the bottom is is unstoppable avalanche...

"But I was still the ego maniac and convinced my self all will be ok"
>>>> Nope, she is gone, you are only fooling yourself...

"Well turned out that last year we went on a trip and after the trip we broke up."
>>>> Nope, she already broke up with you way before the trip. She only "let you know" during the trip. As a matter of fact, the likelihood that she made it SEEM that you broke up with her is high. She probably pissed you off till you couldn't take it anymore emotionally, and then you said something that resulted in the break up... Now you are the villain, you are the bad guy - and she is just a poor girl who was hurt... Nothing new under the Sun, that's quite common...

"We got back together after 2 months, after i courted, had some great dates, with her not avoiding me, although she was back at her parents house. "
>>>> False hope, she is gone. Once she is gone she will never come back...

"I did not see that she was unhappy. And this made the energy more and more negative in the house. We had only conflicts regarding her not working and what to do."
>>>> Stop blaming yourself. It is not your fault. She obviously didn't want to work, she was using you as a great provider and when you said something she didn't like it... That's not how healthy relationship works, when one works his ass off and the other does nothing... well, you already know how it ends...

"2 months before the breakup she called from the job urgently to say to me that she thinks i am betraying her."
>>>> Don't be fooled. At this time she has lots hesitations about being with you, she began to breaking up with you now.... She can't stand the feeling that she is guilty from the break up (because you are a great provider while she does minimum, and she knows you are a great guy who will do everything for her), so all she is doing is trying to turn the blame on you. This way she doesn't have to feel guilty about breaking up with a great guy who is taking care of her. So she made it seem that you are the bad guy, you are the one who is betraying her, you are the one who does nothing for the relationship... Well - DON'T BE A FOOL!

"She mentioned that she was crying when she was alone at home and that she was unhappy. I did not support her endeavours or even negated her lust for gemstones, tarot, talks."
>>>> The same issue over and over. You are out there working your ass off, she is home and not working - yet you are the cause of her not being happy, you are neglecting her.... Well, here is the news: She is neglecting the whole relationship, she is not contributing anything to it... She is only draining your emotions and blaming you, making the villain out of you - so she doesn't have to feel bad about it...

"3,5 m ago she came to me and said that she does not want to be together with me any more and would like to debate and clear what went wrong, saying ending marriage was still indefinite. My reaction was panic and began to debate with her about gemstones and made some stupid remark, she got angry/offensive and i got pissed off and said its over and better to pack her stuff."
>>>> That was inevitable man. She is 100% decided to break up with you at this point of time...

"1st week she called me once if i had a new girlfriend - and me with my ego smiling and sayin no...After a week she began to flourish and realised that she was a lot happier without me and after we got together to "analyse" what went wrong - 3 weeks after the breakup, it was me who was crying in remorse and apologizing to all the bad feelings i caused her."
>>>> Wrong. She broke up with you (for you being a great provider and taking care of both of you), she is telling you that she is happier without you - and you are still taking the blame upon yourself, you are the one who has bad feelings. Fuck that man... Grow some balls...

On the other hand, you did cause her bad feelings - by being that great guy, that great provider, by giving her everything for free, by supporting her for 3 years, by doing EVERYTHING for her... You (any guy) think that you are doing good because that is what is what society expects from you, but the reality - as you can see yourself - is totally different: She will lose respect for such guy and eventually she will dump him. And if not she may make his life quite miserable so it is him who breaks up with her...

"After then I was back to a wreck - on a mission to get her back"
>>>> Not good. She left you and you are on a mission to get her back. You are chasing her, which is the total opposite you should be doing.... How do you feel if you don't want to be around someone, yet the other person is constantly going after you...?

"Did little to no contact, and after a month she left to work for 4 months abroad."
>>>> Ok, she got some job, good for her. But note where - far far away from you. She is moving away from you, abroad, she doesn't want to be close to you... Another sign that it is over...

"Me begging if there has a micron of hope in her heart not to give up. ... with daily messages of sr i should understand that its over and that i should move on .... When i got back i did contact again but with no reply"
>>>> Stop begging man. Man up, she is gone. You should move on, she is not coming back...

"I know I can be alone in life and I am kind of happy like that. But I want her."
>>>> You can be happy alone, or you can be with another woman. It doesn't have to be her...

I thought a lot about all of this (I neglected her feelings, criticised her, did not defend her in public when beeing forced to tell why not children yet, and a lot more),
>>>> Hell no. You didn't neglect anyone, you were providing for her for 3 years, remember? She was criticized righteously because she was not working, remember? You did the right thing criticizing her, as a matter of fact you should have criticize her more. Never forget that, and if you ever see her again, make sure you remind her that too... Send her a bill for those 3 years, tell her that she owes you!

"and I wan't her and make her happy 100x more as she was."
>>>> You are not responsible for woman's happiness man. Get it out of your head... Learn to be responsible for your own happiness, make sure that YOU are the one who is happy first, before you make any other girl happy....

She is by far the best woman I ever met in my life! I changed a lot and know how how to handle a new relationship. But to warm her heart again, to open her a little to me - here i am lost...
>>>> Yes, it is tough, but you'll get over it.


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Anyway, here is some advice:

Stop blaming yourself. It is not your fault. You did your best, you were supporting her for years, and now she was still making it seem that you are the problem.... Again, that is nothing new under the Sun, this is common behavior of females.

What does she do now when you are not supporting her? Did she get a job and her own place? No way bro, she may have a job for couple of weeks, but then she won't work again. She ran back to her parents, and they will take the role of great providers for the next couple of months, or years - till she finds another great guy who will feel sorry for her and who will be providing for her... Her, poor little girl...

And stop putting her and other girls on a pedestal. You did your best, you were supporting her for years, and it didn't work out. She is not that innocent, she knows exactly what is she doing, and she made it seem that you are the one who is guilty for her bad feelings and bad relationship... She needs to accept responsibility for her own behavior, and you need to stop acting like it is your fault. You need to man up, stop feeling sorry for yourself, grab your balls... There are plenty of women out there...

Also stop contacting her and her parents, you are only making it worse. Much worse, you are acting like a little child, you are making them feel bad for your immaturity.... She is gone, look for another girls, and try to avoid being that Great Provider who provides and provides - while she does Nothing for you and for the relationship to work out.... That is the true Magic...
 

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Re: Getting my soulmate back when she already is indifferent in feelings toward

Good post Drck, I was writing quickly at the school dropoff so I didn't pick up on the provider issue being the reason for the r/ship breakdown, actually the neediness and chasiness did not really kick in until much later (the second breakup). So, apakabar probably doesn't have such a bad frame, just needs to make some minor adjustments.

apakabar:

Working on your business 8.30am to 1am is a good thing to do, if that's your passion and especially if it's setting up an income stream for later. However, you still need balance, you can work like a demon and just have a nice girlfriend who comes over for a day or so each weekend to care for you and connect with you and then leaves you to your own devices for a week, if that's what you want. You don't need a marriage or a soulmate, in fact that's actively bad if your true passions are elsewhere. Also, if you don't want a girlfriend you can just have someone (or multiple someone) who comes over for a few hours a week and has sex with you. It completely depends on your needs.

What you need to do though, is invest some time and work into making yourself more attractive to women. This might mean putting less effort into your business for a while, and systematically going out to meet women. Treat it like a second business you are running on the side.

After 1yr of this, in my case, with GC help, the situation is reversed: I have multiple women trying as hard as they can to please me and do everything for me, in order to try and tie me down. One of them just texted me now, as I am writing this, to say she ate engawa sushi and she thought of me because she remembered it is one of my favourite foods, I dunno how she knew this cos I don't remember eating it with her, must have been MONTHS ago... her remembering stuff like that and spontaneously texting you is called investment.

Anyway, having tons of girls in your life and the ability to get more, is called abundance. Why you got all needy and clingy and crybaby (apologizing, wanting to buy her gemstones, thinking she's the love of your life etc), is because you don't have abundance. Having gone through life finding it hard to get attention and sex from people, particularly pretty girls, you've become conditioned to thinking it is scarce and extremely valuable. It's not. High quality dick is scarce and extremely valuable. Girls have abundance but they never feel they have absolute abundance unlike a high quality man (I'm quoting Franco, a moderator on this forum).

Ray
 

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Dear Drck,

thank you soo much for your honest answer. I really appreciate it and lots of respect my man!!

I will try to answer and maybe elaborate on all you points stated below:

1. happines: Tottaly concur with you. Idealizing her too much... She was the lazy one and did not try enough to make her part of the investment. If i look from the point of view that an ideal man for a woman is a friend, lover and provider. I was a lover, provider and a father to her. Regarding sex she never not even once said no. But I did not have my fantazies met. As she did not have a goal in her life i tried helping her with ideas and succeeded in some way, but she did not follow though. And from that the fathership role was born - me looking down at her and neglecting, that she needs a friend to understand her fear of failure - i never saw that she had this fear. So when talking she needed a friend to motivate her, understand her but i just got pissed of, or had an aggressive monologue thinking she will get it and move her ass. And that caoused food for ego, but not food for the growth of the relationship. We smoked a lot of weed all the time, so she also resented me that i never stopped, she did it 3 times and knew this is making her lazy and foggy in her brain (indecisive) and that she began to smoke back because of me. Me smoking caused that i got number and number in feelings and ran away from reality - idealizing her and not solving problems as they appeared - smoked them away, lowering my selfworth and not showing her i am not afraid to leave her if she wont invest. I was afraid of loosing her. Also women test men if they are emotionally stable and the smoking caused me to be reactive and unstable so i reacted to her tests and that lowered her respect toward me. Making me feel even unhappier - i was dependent on that and thats a big no go.

2. Overworking. Well here I decided (because in our country we did not have any chance to succeed in a job that i will build a company and get us out of the rat race - become millionares which i can say i succeeded. To then have enough time and help poor people - which was our goal. I said to myself she loves me so much that she will stay by me this hard time and i can forget about my personal needs for the time. I had a steady job from 8-16h and then my company. I said to her that she takes a hobby to make some money a little just symbolic to have her self esteem and actualize her - not overthink stuff and go into lazy mode at home. I invested all the love for her into the company into our goal. Here i still don't understand that she was saying that this is my company and not ours - not seeing that i am working for us, not me. I never could bring her to the state of mind, to appreciate how much im working my ass of for our better future. Bought me unhappiness from her not seeing the picture. When i was not working we were together and got stoned :( watched tv and had a good time but time flew away and we did not look into each other - things gotten slowly more and more routine. Me not knowing how to deepen the relationship, the trust, the respect...

3. unemployed. Yeah she took it for granted and thinking (also me saying we will have enough money) and her to just make some hobby to make a little to fill her time and needs for selfactualization. She was to lazy to do it and because of low self esteem and fear of failure she did not try enough. Also being "unmotivated" from my side as i did not understand her emotional state to be able to motivate her or just be by her side - her knowing it's ok to fail and ill pick her up if she falls. Father ship role instead. We had recession and work was hard to come by and her beeing in years (30+) when a woman has a baby, to get a job was freakin hard. On the other side she did not try to get "lower" jobs (waitress or similar) that she could of. Here her self worth was too high. I supported her laziness too much...

4. growing apart: Yeah totally concur with you!!! Should I have shown her that i will go if she does not invest or what? Or divide our household costs so she must take care of her part?

5. getting colder and loosing respect: yup. Brilliantly described. What to do so this does not happen?

6. Ego maniac: this was in the relationship, me convincing myself she will understand it after i got pissed of and her concurring with me - me thinking ooh now shell do it. Fuck she did not do it with full throttle and passion to solve it. Me loosing respect toward her and lowering my selfworth in my eyes not understanding why...But this i understand is with all women - what to do?

7. After trip braking up: She saw i was emotionally unstable and running away from myself - not looking into her as a friend and a lover. She did not piss me off - just said that she thinks she needs some time as she is not happy - 14 weeks back from the trip approx. And we decided to break up (fuck i dont remember how exactly it went). She did it with respect and did not put me in the villain state, not bringing her self worth higher because of that. She was not happy. I felt there was still hope and her trying to solve things but not knowing how...

8. Got back together after 2 months.
I did not understand you here. Or if i understand you correctly, even though we got back together there was no chance in succeeding to solve the relationship?

9. Her not working - yeah described above. She did the chores at home - cooked the best food i could imagine and taken care of the household, so i did not need to do nothing.

10. accusation of betraying her: Yeah from your point of view this is logical and awesome answer again! These two days (after accussation and talk, where i told here i was not betraying her) we were really like in the beggining - blissed and after two days bam all back to normal. Like i lost her again...In these two days was like I fell in love with her all over again...

11. her crying: yeah again truth. She convinced her self lots of things, only not to let herself convince what a failure she is in the investment into the relationship. And only invested into herself. This gets me pissed off :)

12. 3,5 month ago. Yeah. Truth she only was not 100% sure because of her low self esteem and knowing what a great man I was that she would maybe not find such a good one again...

13. 1st week she called me...: :)) truth. Thanks man!!!!

14. On the other hand...awesome explanation...What to do that this does not happen?

15. mission to get her back: Me going after her? she is running away even more and loosing respect even more?

16. This job she has gotten before (3 months before we broke up) and truth as you say it to run away and find new hope.

17. i can be alone and with another woman. Shit is that we were friends before and great sex and she is gorgeous and fuck i've never met one even close to her. I am so fuckin scared ill wont get a better one...and fucking myself of not managing the relationship correctly to thrive....

18. Criticizing her: yeah deep down i feel you are right.

19. 20 - thanks!!!!

---- advice:

Well now when she is not dependent on me any more her role to provide for herself will surely flourish and she will build the idea she has and do it. Cause she has to. This i am pretty certain.
She said she could sue me for the money (the company) but she wont do it. I know she wont. As you said - sending her the bill - i dont need to but also if i would do it maybe she sues me and we have a shit of a divorce, attorneys etc. I dont know if this fair or how it would make me feel...

The true magic as you say it correctly. Thank you soo much for ur reponses!

so now i'm again more pissed of at her ;) thanks!!!
But want to learn that i dont make the same mistakes again...

Soo much appreciated! thank you!

Sincerely yours...

@ray_zorse:
Thank you also for your thoughts and empathy. Regarding work, described above so you can understand. I am retired in 2years...
I want a warm family with true love. Work on poverty projects. But now lost all the drive...:(

Thanks for the high quality dick quote ;)...i'll do it..
On vacation i took, i had abundance (models falling in love with me,..) but did not do anything. Also now a model living in my apartment but still i'm not emotionally there and in the state of mind - not over her yet...:(
I am fucked to see how all the chicks are so lightly wowed to have sex.- and how with my wife this was not the case...Where are the gorgeous smart girls with character...???

Thanks you guys!!!!
 

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Hey mate it's good that you're taking the advice on board, although I think you are still over analyzing... for example, saying things like you drove her to smoke weed, well that may be so, depends how you look at it, another viewpoint is nobody chooses what we put in our bodies but ourselves... totally a question of your viewpoint... so my conclusion is who cares, the only real takeaway here is you probably shouldn't be smoking weed yourself if you want a healthy relationship... actually, as a former workaholic who used to work 16hr days and then come home and smoke weed every day, and had my first (live-in) LTR fail because (in large part) we were both stoned all the time, I can certainly identify, but anyway, just stop thinking about it man! It does not matter!

The other thing I want to emphasize is the site philosophy, why don't you read "How to get girls -- the last post you'll ever need" on the main site... when I said abundance you may have misunderstood, because in your post you said "I'm frightened I will never find another like her"... this means you do NOT have abundance. Just because you partied with some models while on holiday does not count, you said at least one fell in love with you, but did you get in her pants? No! So you don't know for sure if she was for real. To have abundance you have to actually be having sex regularly with lots of different women. From a position of abundance you would never have written a post even remotely resembling the one you did, I absolutely guarantee it. When you have abundance this is what it looks like to lose a girl, you just say well, FUCK, she was cute and smart and I invested in her, but she got away... and then the next day you've forgotten about her and moved on to new girls who actually want to be with you instead of blowing you off. That's what I mean by having abundance.

Ray
 
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Re: Getting my soulmate back when she already is indifferent in feelings toward

Hey Apakabar,

Ray has a good points, we are basically talking about different mindset; it is no longer "how to get that one special girl because she is the only one", it is more about "there are lots of special girls that can be a great match"... From that point of view, there is really no need to over analyze your situation; this simply happens to many guys, and there are some common things that lead to relationship failures... So it is not about "how to fix what was already broken", it's about developing new skills that prevent things to break at first place....

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I don't have a receipt for a great relationship or marriage. There is no such thing like do this and that, and everything will be perfect. The interaction between two people is dynamic, many things change over time, different things happen during relationship, people change their minds or start believing different things... That's simply life, everything is constantly changing, evolving,.... None of us is the same person we were 5-10 years ago..... sometimes it works for couple, the partners are changing and growing up together, other times not... So if it is not working, the couple can stay together rather artificially, just out of the habit and friendship - or they can simply split, go each their own way...

But there is a certain behavior the man can adopt in order to increase the likelihood that the relationship will last, and you can find lots of it described here on GC. So just a quick overview:

* A guy shall have a frame, short term and long term, and he should always sticks to that frame, no matter what. Your frame was a frame that most guys in society are using, they just passively fall into a provider frame, and they hope that if they provide for the girl the relationship will somehow work out. Sometimes it does, but for most of the time it doesn't... Because of this frame guys can't get quality girl, and if they do they can't keep them around. Once the girl leaves, they are chasing her and chasing her for years, but she will never come back anyway. The more they chase, the more miserable they feel about themselves because they are in constant rejection... So you want to change this frame from more passive to more dominant, more leading, more active...

* A guy shall invest into the relationship less than the girl. She needs to be investing into the relationship more, she needs to be actively doing things in order for the relationship to work long term. She should be doing more than you, say you do 45% and she does 55%. In your case, you did way more as she did, say 80% to 20%, and as you can see it doesn't work. I don't mean just financially, rather overall mental, emotional and physical involvement. In other words, she needs to be doing things to keep you around, the more she does the better for you... There are girls who are takers, and girls who are givers. Yours was a taker, no matter what you did it was never enough. Find a giver, a girl who is happily giving and giving, actively contributing - and don't forget to reward her for a great effort...

* A guy shall be ready to walk away from that girl any time. And she needs to know it, she needs to feel it. Which is simply part of your frame. If she doesn't do what you want (meaning actively not contributing to a relationship) you should let her know that it is not working out, and you are ready to leave if there are no changes. In your case, you did the opposite - in stead of making her invest more, you took everything upon your shoulders, and then where she was leaving you were actually trying to get her back, you were chasing her. Chasing means that she has the power, she is on a pedestal, she is the one with higher value... You don't want that because that doesn't work. You want to be the one with higher value, you want to be the one who holds the cards in the relationship...

* A guy shall be less emotionally needy, less clingy, and more independent. He needs to learn to be happy on his own, with girl or without her. If he can't do it he is acting immaturely, weak, he is too much emotionally attached to that girl - which lowers his value as a man, and because of that she then leaves him or cheats on him... But this also means that the perception of women has to change. The change comes with realization than NO woman is "the one". There are no soulmates, there are no ideal girls, there is no goddess waiting just for you. They are all just girls, silly, cute, sweet, sexy and funny - but still just girls... By changing this attitude you will remove yourself from your current mind set "She is the only one, I've never met one even close to her, I am so fucking scared I'll won't get a better one". This mindset of yours is just a limiting belief, and this belief is what makes you needy, clingy, and unable to go out and find even better girl than you ex was... And you better start believing that there are much better girls... This also means that a guy should develop Abundance Mentality, which in essence is a simple belief that there are hundreds, thousands of great girls out there, within your reach - thus there is no need to limit yourself to one girl only...

* A guy shall not Chase. It is probably quite difficult concept because at first it doesn't make much sense, everything the guy knows wants him to chase even more because he believes he can still get her, but it is a must. Don't chase, let her go, wish her all the best in her endeavor, wish her a happy and long life - and focus on another girls... The reality is, that you can chase her two, three or even more years, and you will never get her anyway, the chances are minimal... Yet in the mean time you can easily seduce 10 other girls who have the same or higher quality... So be smart, in stead of putting 90% of your effort to get one girl who disrespected you and left you, put all this effort into 50 different girls within the next two years. When she calls you again and asks what's the name of your girlfriend, say that it depends on which day of the week is...

* A guy shall have a life. Hobby, job, travel, bike, whatever he likes, regardless whether she likes it or not... It is great that you worked hard and built a company, you should be proud of it. If she doesn't understand, it is her problem, I wouldn't really worry about it. And it is YOUR company only, nobody else's, she has no part in it and she didn't contribute to it. Don't be afraid to be selfish, you achieved a great thing that most guys only dream about... Go out and celebrate your achievement, find the most expensive place in town and get a biggest steak you can eat. Don't be cheap, there are many different things in life other than one silly pussy...

* A guy shall believe. Believe that you are a great guy. Believe that there are lots of good girls out there that you can get. Believe that lots of girls are looking for a guy like you. Believe that you don't need any girl to be happy, you can be happy with or without any girl. Simply believe... Most people think IQ is the greatest thing a human can have, but it is belief; a person who strongly believes in something and goes for it will accomplish much more than a guy with high IQ...
 
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