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timothydelioncourt t1_jab8fpg wrote

I feel like I misunderstand alot of things in very similar ways. I take everything wayyy too literally so I genuinely feel like this is a mistake I would make. Kudos for having the cajones to call him back and explain yourself. I would just take the L and think about it every night for 10 years, probably waking up in cold sweats thinking to myself "Why didnt I just pet the damn dog?".

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dplafoll t1_jab7x15 wrote

I read your original post and felt like you both made honest mistakes and weren't trying to hurt anyone. I'm very glad to read that you both have admitted and realized the same thing about your own and each other's mistakes, and are going to try to work it out. Just remember: it's OK if it doesn't work out. I hope it does, and I can easily see how it would since now you both will be working actively at building trust and communication with each other, intentionally, to specifically avoid another such situation (plus, therapy). I just want to point out: "It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.”― Jean-Luc Picard. The important thing is that you're not giving up now, at the start, when not quitting matters very much, maybe the most, because this is when your investment is lowest, and the losses to cut smallest. Keep working, and if you believe in the future of the relationship, choose the relationship and the future as much as you can without compromising your integrity or safety.

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[deleted] OP t1_jab7cfx wrote

That’s the joke in our friend group,

winning a championship is = sleeping with a girl

Winning a game = when she agrees to go out with you

3 peat - getting a three someone or 3 girls 3 days in a row

3 pointer = 3 dates in 1 day

Championship player = whoever pulls the most

1st overall pick = the player of the friend group

And so on

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Suitable-Pirate-4164 t1_jab6i46 wrote

You think it's normal to talk about how your late husband killed himself and that's how your previous relationship ended is a normal thing? There's nothing logical about that, only pain and only masochists like pain. I doubt he's a masochist.

Honoring someone by celebrating what they enjoyed to talking about them are two different things too.

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mostlygray t1_jab4t4l wrote

When I was in high school, I had a cough that hurt so bad that every time I coughed or sneezed I literally screamed in agony. So I started holding in the cough like a fool.

After a day of this I was having trouble breathing so I finally let myself cough. It was the most disgusting loud gurgling bark. I horked up an entire mouthful of phlegm and blood. Scabrous and green.

Suddenly, after the agony died down, I felt so much better. I probably should have gone to the hospital because I definitely had pneumonia but I figured, if it was coming out, there wasn't much they could do for a viral lung infection. It worked.

I was back at school the next day with a trash can sitting next to me to spit my green lung butter out. One teacher complained but the class had my back and told her to leave me alone so she did.

Apparently I grew up in a different time, I don't think I'd get away with that now.

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Empire2k5 t1_jab4nrr wrote

Makes sense. I haven't really lost anyone serious in my life, but you do have to eventually move on. Talking about it with a loved one might even help with that. And she also mentioned in previous thread, that they hold a memorial every year for him, that's what caused this. So aren't totally forgetting about him in that way either.

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