"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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Is this "break" different from the rest?

NYjets45

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Let's get down to it. I've been dating my girl for 3 years, 2 short breakups along the way (my fault), and now she needs the dreaded "exploring time". She said she wants to see other people, since im the only one she has ever been with, before things get "serious". As in, me getting my own place and her moving in.

I think that scared her? Mind you we are a young couple, but I feel its a mature issue. We havent talked in 2 weeks, except for about 5 minutes on the phone. Then she emails me saying "she wants to talk to me on the phone but it feels wierd so we will in 3 weeks".

From the start she said we would be back together in about a month.I dont know whether to believe her, but part of me does, since I pulled the same **** on her and knows what it feels like. What confuses me is the deadline and saying we will be back together. She is special to me so I cant just move on, I want to make it work.

Forgot to mention we would se eachother about 2-3 times a week during the relationship. So its not like I was suffocating her.
 

"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"

You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.

And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.

Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.

The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.

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Ignore the post, posted in wrong forum on accident. reply if ya want though
 

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I don't know

I dated a girl for 3 years and had the same thing breakups.

We broke up for good last September and if you follow some of my postings since then I dated a party girl with a seedy past and then a girl that was great and that I truly still love but she dumped me when i moved to this new town. Ugggh.

That being said, the girl I dated for 3 years still calls and she wants to get back with me (I made the mistake of saying it wouldn't be so bad, but i really don't want to get back with her adn she does).

The moral of the story? Once a girl has that much time invested in you, she isn't going to just kick you to the curb unless things get really bad.

I always enjoyed the space and dated other girls behind her back during the 3 year relationship. And I have stories to tell about it!
 
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