RedScorpion
Senior Don Juan
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Sounds like you're doing good, despite it probably feeling very hard. You're getting out there, looking at new people. Keep strong.icanseeclearlynow said:So, today he texted me his moms mailing address. Guess that's it. I deleted the text. After writing the address down. Its really over. Oh well. I'm at a bar waiting for my pof date to show up. By the way, I didn't respond to his text...whats the point?..Day 2. Have a fun Friday everyone.
Today I relearned a valuable lesson to keep to heart. And that is to continuously cut off any new information about her.
The last day I've felt good, fairly confident, strong, and at last refocused. I decided to visit my mom for a night, and the ex's roommate (mutual friend) came over for a visit. Talked about the breakup at one point, and I felt it was a good presentation for the whole post breakup thing. Said I didn't hold any grudges, don't want to see her. I admitted I went through the stages of getting over her, but there's definitely key personality flaws between us. Didn't blow it into a big deal. Etc. It was good, I felt.
Then after she went home, my mom updated me with stories of what happened (during a two day course trip) and I heard stuff about her (which I asked her not to tell me already, and reinforced it again) and was enough to get me steamed up about it. Getting back to my zen now, and it's not like anything severe happened. Just her having fun. Don't need to know now, don't need to know ever.
It's dumb in a way, and I know it's precisely the reaction of no contact back. I don't want to feel angry about her. I want her to go on, be happy, whatever. I just don't want to know about it. The dumb part is if she's having fun, and I know it, it's a blow to my ego. Actually that's not so dumb after all. The ego's just being hurt at how apparently little I meant to her (even though you can have fun while being hurt, etc. Doesn't matter to the ego.)
So yep, getting information (especially new) is really counterproductive to the healing process. In fact, I'll restart the challenge for it. Even though I consider myself in the 'Acceptance' stage, I backtracked with the info. So... Day 1.