Was looking thru some old texts with my ex and it made me realize how inadequately I was being treated. I’m embarassed and hurt that I put up with someone that didn’t give me anything close to what I needed and even after the breakup I’d been thinking that it was a loving healthy relationship.

Having trouble processing this. Were they not the person I thought they were? Who did I even fall in love with? Can’t tell what was real and what wasn’t

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Here’s some hard truths…. You (like me) fell in love with who you wanted your partner to be and not who they were. Our brains are very good at creating imaginary futures of our lives and, when we fit our partners in those imaginary futures, we assign them qualities we hope our future partner has. Those imagined qualities then transfer over and get applied to our partner in the moment. This is something I’ve learned I need to work on rather than a fault in them. They showed me countless times who they truly were and I chose to ignore it because I too thought we were in a loving healthy relationship and was insecure about losing them. My advice… be kind to yourself, give your self time, and deeply reflect on what went wrong; do this both alone and with a trained professional (therapist). There’s also no better time to radically commit to yourself.. so.. see you at the gym 💪. You got this!

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Sounds like you are making growth and processing through self reflection. What’s the saying—“Love is blind”? Don’t be too hard on yourself, when you are that close sometimes it’s hard to see. When you take a step back as an outside observer, it seems so obvious.

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