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Relationship "Break" Means Time To Reflect
- By Miss Emily
- Published 08/29/2011
- Relationships - Men
Dear Miss Emily:
My girlfriend and I are on a relationship break due to my jealousy issues and our last fight. She still tells me she loves me, she's losing her mind without me, and she needs me, etc. I text her one text a day. After these few comments, the next day she won't write me. If she feels this way, why are still apart? Is she trying to teach me a lesson still?
-------------------------------Miss Emily's advice-----------------------
Maybe she's trying to teach you a lesson, but that really isn't going to work if you and she get back together and you begin to behave, in time, in the same manner. You are fraying her nerves with your jealousy, and that will, ultimately, destroy this relationship for good. Jealousy is a human emotion, but it solves nothing. It's a sign of insecurity and an obvious lack of trust. If she behaves in a way that is disrespectful to you when she's with other guys, that's one thing, but if she talks to them -- has normal exchanges -- and you feel as if she poured battery acid down your throat, that's your problem. Bottom line: If you and she do get back together, I'd start thinking about ways you can adjust your behavior -- and her, as well, if she's no angel. And you have to want to do it, not be coerced. Fights are normal, at times, but some are simply based on two people not having common interests and values, and they represent nothing more than wanting the other person to change her (or his) way of thinking, or change the very nature of her (or him). You may get back together, but unless you are willing to enjoy being together without petty fights and jealousy, you don't have a snowball's change in hell of this working out. Couples have been known to stay together, no matter how rotten the relationship is, but that's not living well, it's living a life of starvation. It's time you start thinking about what you had, and if it's was worth keeping. Apparently, she's doing the same.

