I had to cut him off.
After the last set of emails last week, I talked to my mother. She has been in frequent contact with JMSG since I left. On Wednesday he called her (sometime before or after he sent me the email that he could not access my Facebook page):
“Blue has denied me access to her page!” He cried.
“She wouldn’t do that without telling you!” my mom exclaimed. She tried to reassure him over and over.
He was in a panic—convinced that I had something to do with why he couldn’t access my page. So my mother tried and couldn’t access my page either. She said this seemed to ease his anxiety a bit, but nonetheless one thing was painfully clear: He still doesn’t trust me to NOT do things behind his back. Although I had nothing to do with why Facebook was not allowing him access to my page, he had convinced himself it was me. Why? Probably because again, he thought I had met someone else and wasn’t telling him.
Several times since I left the country he has suspected “another man” when I have tried to confront him on things. He thinks I am using a round-about way to get rid of him so I can be with someone else. Again, he doesn’t trust that I am an honest, upfront person. However, I have never done anything of the sort behind his back, or anything of the sort, period the entire time I have known him. To this day, there has been NO OTHER MAN. He has no reason to suspect that I would keep important information from him. This is all because of his past relationship.
Anyway, when he got my response he wrote back calling me “defensive” and “presumptuous” in my comment that I “wouldn’t do such a thing behind his back.” Essentially, he was denying any culpability that he was suspicious of me. So he flat out lied to me in that email, because when I talked to my mother, there was no mistaking that he indeed believed I had done something behind his back. So, in my e-mail he was caught. He panicked and tried to backpedal, blaming me for seeing him as just an “insecure little boy.” Although it was true, he never admitted to mistrusting me. He just deflected and attacked me in the process – likely trying to throw me off this path of his own suspicious behavior, which I could obviously see.
I was furious. My mother confirmed what I already knew – that he simply can’t get past the trust issue from his prior relationship and he keeps projecting that on me by letting his imagination create his own scary reality.
So I wrote him again, this time with the clear intention of cutting him off. I told him I no longer wanted to be the target of his mistrustful, suspicious, or anxious behavior. I told him again, these feelings were misdirected and he needed to refocus back on himself and put that energy back toward his prior relationship were it all began for him. I told him I no longer wanted to be the recipient of his harmful projections that I was lying to him and betraying him.
With that I said I would then take him my friends list on Facebook, as well as off my e-mail distribution list and that I would not read or open any response from him FOR THREE MONTHS so that he could stop focusing on me and deal with his problem. I told him I hoped we could be friends based on mutual respect and trust and that I didn’t want to hear from him again until he felt he could actually trust me.
He didn’t respond back. Which is good, because I don’t want to read anything from him right now knowing that he might just deny his behavior and turn everything around on me. I told him I don’t need any of this and simply don’t want to deal with it anymore.
Of course, he is likely to assume that I have met someone and that is why I am cutting him off. He can’t imagine that if I don’t want to be with him, it’s because of him. He can only imagine that if I don’t want to be with him it MUST be because there is someone else. That is always his first reaction. He is also likely to feel betrayed anyway that I am cutting him off and therefore prove his feelings that I do in fact betray him. Ugh. I know I can’t win here.
So be it. I am tired of trying to talk him out him of the negative illusions he creates for himself. He can believe what he wants, and I don’t have to be a part of it anymore.
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
My Adventures with JMSG, Part 6
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
My Adventures with JMSG, Part 5
A little more detail
Today I got an e-mail from him:
“It seems I no longer have access to the pictures of us on Facebook and I couldn’t access your page. Is this just another Facebook malfunction or is something up?”
Ugh.
This irks me to no end. I can see he is trying to appear just “curious” if “something is up” but I know him. His FIRST thought about it is that “something is up.” I don’t know why he can’t access my page on Facebook. I didn’t take him off my friends list. I also wouldn’t prevent his access without telling him I was doing so. The fact that he even thinks I would do such a thing is just yet another example of his mistrust of me and his chronic insecurities in general.
Something similar happened when we were breaking up. Without telling ME, he changed his status on Facebook to “Single.” Because we were listed on each other’s pages as “in a relationship with (boyfriend of Blue)” when he changed his status it automatically affected my page’s status. Mine defaulted back to just a simple “in a relationship”. I had to go in and manually change it back to “single.” However before I even knew I had to do that, I got this e-mail from him:
“What the hell? You are already in another relationship and announcing that on Facebook? I can’t believe it. I am going to vomit. I feel betrayed.”
I had no idea of course what he was talking about. So I went at looked at my Facebook page and saw my status as “in a relationship” then checked his page and saw that he had just recently changed his back to “single.”
I was sooooo annoyed by his stupidity and reactive willingness to assume the absolute worst, and then feel all the feelings as if it were true.
So I explained to him what happened – that he created the whole thing – then created his own feelings by reacting in an irrational manner – to his own doing!!!!
I really wanted him to see that his insecurities, his mistrust of me, his fear of betrayal by me, were all created by him. It has NOTHING TO DO WITH ME because I wasn’t the one who cheated on him.
Over and over, it just seemed like he was waiting for the moment that I would betray him in some way – lie to him, do something behind his back, you name it. The email above which I received today is just another example. He thinks I am cutting him off without telling him. That he goes there first shows me the nature of his negative thinking, which I have seen from the beginning.
He is all too willing to go to the worst case scenario then stay focused on what is happening right here, right now. It made it almost impossible to solve problems with him because when I would bring up a problem he would assume I didn’t want to be with him anymore when I never said such a thing. I was just trying to solve a problem and he would blow it out of proportion.
That tendency is part of the reason why I decided I could no longer be his girlfriend. I couldn’t tolerate his reactivity and how then I would have to talk him down, just so we could focus on the original problem. Exhausting.
So I wrote him back this morning:
“I have no idea why you can’t access my page on Facebook. Last week I couldn’t access your page then later I could. I just chalked it up to problems with Facebook or my internet connection. I would never change your ability to access my page behind your back.”
I am feeling lately that I have to have ANOTHER break-up conversation with him, because really, if I didn’t want him to access my page, that would be my right.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
My Adventures with JMSG, Part 4
I am still here, although no longer in the US. I shipped overseas back in March and while I have been receiving your comments, for some reason I cannot post them. I will try again later.
As for JMSG, things have been...well....up and down, and down....
While I wrote about him before, I kept to myself the troubles that were brewing. Maybe because I really care(d) about him and didn't want to plaster all my personal stuff about this relationship to strangers. But also, with my leaving the country, I have had little time to spend time blogging. When I was in town, I was with JMSG and when I wasn't, I was away training and preparing for my year abroad.
Things came to a head with us back in March after I had left. Once I had time to myself, many things began to surface, or rather these were things I could no longer ignore. During the first few months of our relationship, incidents began to occur which caused me to raise an eyebrow and ultimately change my feelings about our relationship.
Rather than rehash all the details, I will do my best to summarize:
He knew I was leaving. He knew this at the onset of our relationship. I could tell he was trying to convince himself this was okay. He wanted to maintain our relationship while I was away. At first I was okay with this, but after a time, I was not.
He began showing signs of insecurity, which seemed to be connected to his last relationship (she cheated on him) and triggered by my imminent departure: in several ways he began seeking my validation, my reassurance, my promise that I still loved and wanted to be with him upon my return. Once or twice okay, I played into it and tried to reassure. But this didn't help. His insecurities kept mounting and several times ended up in a serious meltdown of his emotional functioning. All it did was push me away. Each time, I wanted to go away from him further and further. The last time it happened on Valentine's Day, I realized I reached my limit.
Each time he would "freak out" about us and go to excessive emotional lengths to get me to reassure him, he would then feel bad and promise it wouldn't happen again. But it kept happening and when it did, it created a dynamic of me having to calm him down, having to make him feel better, and having to "take care of him" emotionally like a mother would do with a tantrumming child. It was effecting my affection, my love for him, and ultimately my sexual desire.
I had none left. I kept avoiding sex. I was no longer attracted to him. He would then feel rejected and the whole cycle would start over. He coudln't understand that his emotional neediness was a turnoff. It spiraled and it all hit me after I left and been separated from him for about a month. While I was with him, it was like I was constantly putting out the fires of his emotional disregulation. So when I was no longer doing that, my feelings about the repeated episodes finally had a chance to sink in. I finally had the chance to self-reflect on how the whole thing was impacting me emotionally.
I was no longer happy in the relationship. He seemed needy to me, constantly asking for more instead of looking at the reason why he wasn't getting what he wanted. I just wanted to escape him, run away, and get space.
So finally I talked to him about it. It was a tumultuous time for him - me giving him the news of my feelings, because it was the very thing he had feared: his frantic efforts to keep me from leaving him actually created the thing he feared the most.
We ultimately decided to no longer maintain a committed relationship while I am gone. Although things have cooled down and we are talking on a regular basis, I no longer feel the burden of having to maintain something that was shaky in the first place.
I feel relief, but also some sadness that things did not work out better. I have not completely written him off, as we have both agreed to see how we feel when I come home.
That is of course, if neither of us falls in love with someone else in the meantime.
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Sunday, January 25, 2009
Yes, I am still here....
Remember when I said a while back that I would be leaving PoDunk for a while? And that my work was taking me out of the country for a year? Well, that process has begun. While I am not out of the country yet, I am currently in training to get ready to do the job I will be doing overseas.
Hence the reason I have not posted in a while. I had to move all my crap, arrange all my financial issues, and basically scramble to get everything done. My routine just hasn't been "routine" enough for me to blog on a regular basis, but I anticipate it will be "regular" in the near future.
Anyway, I will give you a quick update on JMSG:
These past few months with him have had lots of ups and downs, but those downs were mostly due to the fact that I am leaving for a year and he has had a hard time reconciling that fact and what to do about our relationship. However, in the end, we have both decided we want to continue our relationship while I am away - to not have a break - but to continue to allow things to develop.
That will be difficult while I am gone. We may be only to see each other one time during my absence. We will have some phone contact, but it will be mostly e-mail and maybe even snail mail. Just depends on my internet availability.
Anyway, he is awesome in many ways and I can see a future with him - a good and happy one.
We will see how this temporary separation influences that future.
So while I am away I will post on any progress about JMSG, but I will probably also try to catch up on other stories from my past.
I still need to finish the Persian Prince!
Cheers!
Your ever faithful,
Blue
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Friday, December 19, 2008
Phone Poo
Remember computer poo?
Well now I have a new one - phone poo. Yeah, that's right. Every time I am on my cell phone I have the urge to poo. What is this world coming to?
Depending upon who I am talking to, I might just take them with me to the toilet. If it is Sexybest friend or JSMG - sure....but my gynecologist or my accountant? Not. What if they hear me pooing or hear the toilet flush? Ah, too embarrassing.
I first noticed Phone Poo back in November when I was away for training. I would talk to JSMG on my phone at the end of the day and couldn't talk long because I would have to poo real bad. I couldn't take him with me back into the building because there was no reception. Since then, when I am on the phone with him I have to poo.
Maybe it's him and not the phone?
But just a few minutes ago it happened when I was talking to my gynachiatrist (if you get that reference you win a prize). So I didn't take her to the bathroom with me. Um, no.
Sigh. I can't get away from the poo.
Seriously, I am beginning to wonder if electronics are messing with my digestive system:)
I even tried putting something in Google to see if I am alone..."my computer makes me poo" or "electronics make me poo" but I didn't get any articles on the subject.
I must be an alien.
An alien who poos when introduces to electronic stimulation.
Hmmm.....
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Friday, November 07, 2008
Why do I Love Blow Jobs?
Blow job, 'o blow job,
Why do I love you so?
You make me giggle
When you bounce
So nicely up against
My mouth when I
Kiss and kiss
Your warming shaft
And caress your skin
So taught, I've been
Dreaming of your
Purple head so plump
And Yum
I want to fill my tum
With your juicy jizz
That with ample force
Shoots with glee
With trajectory
Down my eager throat
But that's not all...
I love to see
Your mini acrobats
Sail through the air
Sometimes hitting
The wall, or maybe
Your face, even in your eye
I love that most, I can't deny.
But there is nothing
Better than to feel
You pulse and throb
Inside my mouth
As I suck your nob
With my lips and
Tongue I feel
The blood of you
Through your veins
As you struggle
In vane not to come
And come and come
So I slow down the pace
As I love the
Control of how I
Make you feel
Out of breath, lost
To my touch
Under my spell
You tense and twist
Your muscles tight
So when I get
To decide, is when
You blow, not before
And I love to hear
"That was the best ever"
Escape your lips
After I have taken
Your wits, your
Intelligence, your mojo
All you can do is
Thank me
And dream of the next time
I get to serve you well!
--Dedicated to a faithful reader who asked, "why do you like to give blow jobs so much?"
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
My Adventures with JMSG, Part 3
Cabo was prefect. JMSG was perfect.
My friend Witnit and his wife have said to me several time:
"When someone is right, they always say the right thing, and never say the wrong thing."
Now I know what they meant. JMSG is like that. I get it now.
We had a great time in Cabo and he met my friends, who all loved him. I knew they would.
But now we are home and my training out of town continues, so we have little time together until I leave in January. It is a bit overwhelming but I feel we are trying to form an important foundation.
He feels like my person.
I'm not saying there aren't glitches, there are, but they seem doable at the moment. In the past I have seen huge red flags by this point - huge deal breakers that I always struggle with.
Not this time.
Part of me is thrilled he seems like such a good fit for me. The fearful part is waiting for the other shoe to drop: The one thing that will rear it's ugly head and push that dealbreaker forcing me to choose being alone, once again.
So far it has happened everytime, so on some level I expect it to happen with JMSG as well, even though a bigger part of me doesn't actually feel that is going to happen.
Time will tell.
Remember the Four Questions?
I have answered them all "yes" for the very first time in my life:)
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