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Q: Delusional Girlfriend?
asked by: joebobdiddly on June 23rd, 2009
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Hey there,
I've been going out with a girl that I love very much for the past two years. We've been living with each other for over a year now, and she just pulled some crazy stuff. The night before the fight in question happened was a great night; we were holding each other, which led to kissing, and eventually a very passionate love-making session. The next night things seemed fine until she started whining about how I always destroy her pillows (I'm a restless sleeper, sometimes I'll wrap the pillow around my head to block my eyes and create total darkness, etc...). Anyways, that somehow turns into a metaphor for how I always destroy things (which I don't) and my inability to change my sleeping habits implied my inability to change as a person (I have changed significantly, in extremely positive ways, since we started seeing each other). Eventually this turns into a fight about how she's suddenly not happy with the relationship and wants out. I only have three guesses here: (1) She's bipolar; (2) The Asian (she's Chinese btw) dramas she watches are creating extremely unrealistic expectations for our relationship and myself (she watches these dramas back-to-back nonstop for hours on end) causing extreme delusions about reality and how things are supposed to be; Or (3) She really wants out (which I don't really believe).

Any thoughts would be nice.
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kdlee
replied on June 24th, 2009
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Sorry honey but you forgot just plain old
#4 bordeom..It matters not that she is Asian or whatever..Watching TV all day is not good for anyone-that sounds like a form of depression..People need a life and the tv though distracting isn't reality and you can't get feed back from it..
Or she really wants out..Maybe a job might help..If her family is not around she probably misses them greatly and needs to be out int he asain community..
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peepnostril
replied on November 4th, 2009
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She NEEDS more positive hobbies, Combined with the soap opera thing, Yes she's probably depressed as well. She's got alot of problems which she will unload on you all at once and you'll say..."what the $*^% was THAT about,. BUT it's REALLY about a build-up that you had NO idea about,In her own mind, and she just chose that time and seemingly small topic to blow up on you about. In her mind it was about everything leading up to that but, you see it as nothing (which it very might well be) But to her it's a huge deal! She's probably demented and she's just got alot of problems that you should NOT have to deal with.
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MyrahU
replied on November 4th, 2009
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You forgot possibility #5: There really are problems in your relationship.

It's easy for us to agree say that it's her issues, but we only have your side of the story. Maybe you really do destroy things, even though you say you don't. Maybe you do have habits or behaviors that are detrimental to the relationship. I'm not saying that you are 100% to blame, but without hearing more, I'm not convinced that she is either.

You've been together for two years. I think if she was bipolar or "demented", this would have come up before now. Have you guys had fights like this before? You really can't think of anything that could have brought all this on? Something earlier in the day?

You said you love her very much and you don't really believe that she wants to break up. I'm guessing you don't either. The best way to handle all of this is to sit down and talk CALMLY about things. Tell her that you don't want to fight and if she is having issues with you, that you want her to tell you about them without you guys fighting. The only way this is going to work is if you both make concessions about things you are both doing that are causing problems. Blaming her 100% is not going to work. After all, if she were really that destructive to your relationship, why would you want to continue with her anyway? You know she at least made some vaguely valid points. Stay calm, even if she gets angry. Don't throw things in her face (don't bring up the soap operas) or blame her for all of it. Just try to get to the reason why all this happened and try to fix it.

Please let us know how things work out. Good luck.

Oh, by the way: As for the needing total darkness to sleep, have you tried a sleep mask? My boyfriend has the same issue and it works for him. He had to try three different kinds before he found one that fit right (at the drugstore in the eye section). Just thought I'd throw that in there. Smile
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