The OcUK Relationship Counselling and Hugs Thread

Me too...

In a totally not unexpected turn of events, one can imagine that we got back together for a few months, then broke up (again) about a month ago. I wanted to give it another chance, now I know better. Inb4 magnolia and his special **********

I did the same thing, except I got in touch with her. MISTAKE! But now when I think about all the opinions they changed of mine etc I miss the hell out of her. She has tried to message me. I've been ignoring her, but seeing her at uni is really upsetting us both I think. Plus I just want to ask her how she is.

Do you speak to your ex(-problem)?
 
Hey guys and girl, kinda need some advice.

So here is the whiny pathetic back story;
I've never been classed as a ladies man, as I have the same physical attractiveness as a major road accident. So I've not exactly the most confident person in the world when it comes to the opposite sex, in fact most cases I seem to be totally ignored. So please understand when I meet a girl that’s willing to talk to something like me, my first thought is not sex or anything in that general facility.

Anyway I decided to go on holiday by myself (all my friends are married or working abroad) and was surprised by girls actually being friendly to me, which is quite a switch from my normal life. Anyway I got a few new Facebook friends and invites to visit them in there home countries but this one girl happened to live near me back in the UK.

We seemed to hit it off, spending a lot of time in each others company as we explored the city and within the hostel, hell we spent six hours just talking to each other and if I'm going to be a hundred percent honest I fell for her, she's funny, confident and has the most amazing smile and worse poker face in the world. We traded Facebook messages as I had to leave the next day to catch my train back north.

Since then we've traded hundreds of message over Facebook and funny images, one day she figured out that I really liked her and she confronted me about my feelings, I admitted that I really liked her.
She then in the most kindest way turns me down, stating I'm not her type; tall dark and handsome.
The next couple of day's and nights she spends trying to apologise and make me feel better, whilst I keep telling her that it wasn't her fault simply a misunderstanding. In the end were now friends.

Roll on two weeks, the guy she's been really into turns out to be a complete and utter male chicken in every possible way. I then being a friend deal with the emotional fallout, as I am used to it and have quite a bit of wisdom in this area and manage to make her smile and laugh again, shes now currently following my advice which involves tell him where to go and to concentrate on her life instead of seeking someone else's approval.

The problem.
She facebook'd me that she’s going to Scotland for a couple of days and asked if I wanted to go, I said yes and now I'm completely screwed up, I thought I had killed my feelings for her but they keep resurfacing every time she texts me.

I really don't want to cut off like I do when I'm normally rejected because this girl is awesome to be around, we have so much fun. Its like I’m a completely different person. But I know I cant make someone return my feelings and I don’t want to force something that isn't there or flog a dead horse.

TL: DR
Boy meets girl, boy and girl have fun become friends. Boy devlopes feelings for girl, Girl shoots boy down, Boy and girl stay friends, Girl proposes that her and boy go on holiday together, boy is completely and utterly lost in the effluent storm that is his thoughts.

Anyway what do you guys recommend

Don't change a word of this post and paste it to her on FB.
 
I decided against going out tonight. I'm only fooling myself. I don't want to change myself to make myself feel better. Another girl is not what I need right now, I haven't moved on yet.

I'm going out with some friends on the weekend instead just to have fun like the good old days. I've been spoiling myself with carbs tonight and trying to keep her off my mind. That's all I have to do and I feel great again.

I miss her tonight though. You can only fool yourself you're angry for so long. I still wish she would have given me a 2nd chance for being an idiot and taking her for granted. You know the expression, “You don’t know what you've got until it’s gone,” right? I wrote that. I wish I learned that earlier.


Wish I'd of watched this earlier. We were in the comfy stage, then the tolerance stage came and it ended after only a few months. You never see it coming because you think you'll always be together.

Abraxaz1 - Just go on the trip, nothing wrong in the friend zone, I was there for entire year with my ex which lasted eight years. Women can become attracted to you which turns into physical attraction, ever see women with ugly dudes compared to them?
 
I'm getting there! My friend is making sure I'm not staying in and I'm getting out there. I'm helping him to get over the little trivial problems he's having with his girlfriend. It's a good arrangement.
 
I'm far too busy ticking things off my bucket list these days to worry about anyone but myself. Being selfish for a change feels amazingly good! :D

Not really read much of this thread. But Amen to this brother !

That said now in a relationship with an Italian girl I met here in Belgium :p Italian was on my list, its just carried on longer than expected :)

Now for the soppy part. You simply cannot force love, it will happen when it happens. After my break up with my last "proper" gf I was devastated to the point of depression but once you get over it you end up wondering to yourself why you felt like that in the first place. At least I did.
 
So tonight ive been having a seriously good look at myself!
to be honest i need to grow some balls and back bone! its 10 months, this should all have been put to bed long ago! i was perfectly fine before that Saturday night!

why did i let something so stupid, turn me in to a pathetic idiot again!
all over someone who couldn't give a toss about me!
my relationship is dead, it was never going to happen again so i don't know why my brain got so worked up over it and let her back in to my head! i shouldnt feel anything for it!

Thinking that maybe the reason ive been getting so worked up over it, is because i want to be with someone, not her, just someone in general (sounds cheesy) but i miss having that someone there and i do get lonely, but there's nothing wrong with that, everyone does at some point.

so now its time to Man the hell up! re-focus on myself as i was doing before, get back to the place and state of mind i was in a week or two ago, try to address my confidence issues with women, and also my self-esteem and who knows, hopefully ill meet someone one day! just going to be myself and enjoy what ive got instead of missing what i had, clearly wasn't meant to happen so i shouldn't even give it a second thought! ill save the effort for someone who is worth it! as much as i would love to meet another girl, its not all there is to life!

onwards and upwards!
 
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So tonight ive been having a seriously good look at myself!
to be honest i need to grow some balls and back bone! its 10 months, this should all have been put to bed long ago! i was perfectly fine before that Saturday night!

why did i let something so stupid, turn me in to a pathetic idiot again!
all over someone who couldn't give a toss about me!
my relationship is dead, it was never going to happen again so i don't know why my brain got so worked up over it and let her back in to my head! i shouldnt feel anything for it!

Thinking that maybe the reason ive been getting so worked up over it, is because i want to be with someone, not her, just someone in general (sounds cheesy) but i miss having that someone there and i do get lonely, but there's nothing wrong with that, everyone does at some point.

so now its time to Man the hell up! re-focus on myself as i was doing before, get back to the place and state of mind i was in a week or two ago, try to address my confidence issues with women, and also my self-esteem and who knows, hopefully ill meet someone one day! just going to be myself and enjoy what ive got instead of missing what i had, clearly wasn't meant to happen so i shouldn't even give it a second thought! ill save the effort for someone who is worth it! as much as i would love to meet another girl, its not all there is to life!

onwards and upwards!

Amen brother...

Pretty much everything you have written here describes how I have and am feeling... funny it's been 10 months since I ended things with the ex.

Not wishing them away, I wouldn't change them for the world but I wish kids were not involved. It's just a constant connection neither of us want and has made moving on a lot harder... I've done some stupid things to get back at her in retaliation for all the heart ache she keeps causing me.

Well not any more, like you my friend I've come to the conclusion I need to man the hell up again and restart my recently stalled recovery. Get out of my comfort zone again and keep building a good life for myself.
 
Basically each time you pick up the phone, or login to your email to write to your ex, think of me laughing at you and calling you a ****.

Because that's what you are.

It's tough, but everytime you contact you are picking that scab off. Heal by moving on. Just don't contact.
 
don’t want to force something that isn't there or flog a dead horse.

TL: DR
Boy meets girl, boy and girl have fun become friends. Boy devlopes feelings for girl, Girl shoots boy down, Boy and girl stay friends, Girl proposes that her and boy go on holiday together, boy is completely and utterly lost in the effluent storm that is his thoughts.

Anyway what do you guys recommend

Go for it! never know what might happen and if the event that nothing does then at least you know so this wont happen again
 
Yep if she ever wants to talk to me she will contact me herself. Contacting her only reminds me how unimportant I am to her right now. It's all I can give her now and it's no use to me.

I wish I didn't have to learn to lose someone to realize how important they are.

**** it they're not important. Sorry, but they're someone elses little princess now. They get to **** her, but they have to deal with the emotional baggage.

Not you.


Don't let her contact you. Because she probably will at some point. It'll mean NOTHING to her but it'll turn your world upside down again. You don't need it.

Block COMPLETELY, no little routes which you can quickly look at when drunk, completely.

Then take the damn advice of what me and others have posted, and make yourself into more a man.

Don't put it off for any longer. Fire yourself up and get started or admit that you were gotten rid of for a reason. ;)


Yesterday you said tomorrow.

Just do it.
 
Take it like a man? **** that. I got a better idea, I'm gonna wait right here while everything takes it's course. Keep away from her and work on myself and grow in the meantime so you're right there.

I would have done all this on the first day she told me she wanted to break-up. But I hurt her so she is still important to me, I understand why she doesn't want to be with me. She gave a lot more than she received. If things were going smoothly beforehand then I'd be angry. Then I'd be manning up. So yeah I admit I got dumped for a reason, I actually knew I was going to get dumped a month before it even happened. I wasn't even bothered at the time, I was thinking of ending it too. Then reality kicked in, I'll never see this person again...

There is no way she's going to want to talk to me.

I would be the same way, it would take time for my anger to boil down. I don't know what's truly running through her mind or how hurt she is/was.

It's just hard, she had to do it.

*oh yeah and she doesn't have any baggage, she's always been there for me. Yeah I'm an idiot for not being there for her.
 
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