Hi there.
I don’t think I have posted before on your thread. I wasn’t even sure you were real at first (sorry, I don’t do reddit).
Anyway I just wanted to chime in and say something simple.
Stop trying.
This is all on her to fix. Honestly. You need to only focus on you. And let her know that.
She keeps telling you what YOU need to do. Stop letting her do that. Stop engaging. Stop responding.
She hurt you. She cheated on you. She disparaged you. And in a way, she is still doing it.
And here’s the part you may be surprised about. Most people here would tell you I’m typically pro-R.
But I’m only pro-R when the conditions are right. They are not right with you and your WW. She’s not making you feel safe at all. She’s not showing she feels awful about the pain she has inflicted on you. She’s shouting “can’t you see how much pain I’m in over this, get over it, I’m taking responsibility “. But that’s not the same as being Remorseful. It’s only a show.
She’s can’t conceive of the pain and she can’t take responsibility because she doesn’t understand yet what she’s even done.
So stop trying with her. Stop responding.
Just tell her:
You have issues that need addressing. I cannot help you with them. You’ve cause me immense pain. I DO NOT TRUST YOU RIGHT NOW. That’s something you are going to have to decide if you want to earn.
Going out and saying “just trust me” is not being a safe partner. It’s acting Wayward.
Right now you are not showing me at all that you love me. And I’m not surprised.
You have a lot to unpack and work on with your own therapist. Someday, when you feel ready to care more about my pain than your own, we might be able to try again. But right now, I see nothing that tells me you even want a second chance, let alone deserve one.
So I’m moving on. You can go be with him. Or not. I am not in a position to make that important to me after what you have done.
I am no longer interested in going to MC with you or discussing this with you. I’m moving on. What you do going forward will tell me if someday we have a chance to be a happy couple. Right now, with who we both are, I think we have no chance.
So I wish you well. I’ll be moving on to work on myself and healing.
Honestly, she has to drive this recovery. You cannot do it for her. That’s hard to hear we all know. But the only way for you to truly believe she has become someone you can trust, is for her to figure out how to become that person on her own.
You can’t fix her and you can’t tepair the destruction she has caused for her.
So just stop. Stop trying. She may realize you’re not going to spar with her anymore and she’ll decide it’s time to grow up, grow a pair (hopefully not literally) and buckle down and do the work to win you back.
If she doesn’t, then you’ll have dodged a bullet. Because life with someone who constantly blames you for their own bad acts, is not really a life at all.
I hope you will consider that and take it to heart.
Good luck.
[This message edited by Stevesn at 10:24 PM, July 24th (Wednesday)]