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Q: How do I get over my ex and move on with my life
asked by: Kimbi_ on June 22nd, 2009
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I broke up with my ex over a year ago after being with him for 6 months, it all ended very suddenly even though he had said I was the 'one' and he could never imagine being without me, I was totally in love with him and so happy. The only issue I had was he was scared to tell his ex about me but had his reasons because they had a house together and he was worried she'd want more money off him. He said he didn't have feelings for her and wanted to be with me and we were so happy. After we'd been going out for 5 months his ex found out about me and went crazy at him. We split a month later we split because he said he wasn't ready for a relationshi and nothing to do with her (this turned out to be true and had nothing to do with her). I was heart broken because I was 24 and he was 25 and itruly thought I'd found the love of my life. He said he was so sorry but couldn't talk to me because he was too confused about things. We exchanged texts and said I wanted him back but he just kept saying he was sorry and had never intended to hurt me because he had thought I was the one. Anyway over the past year we kept in touch, text each other saw each other out and ona number of occassions slept together (iknow I shouldn't have slept with him but he made me feel so happy and everytime I hoped we'd get back together because he'd be so loving and we'd go out for meals etc and he'd always say it had been good to see me and we needed to stay in touch - I'd feel sohapy for a few days after seeing him but then I wouldn't heR from him and I'd feel so down and deressed. I'd not been with anyone else and he always said he'd not been with anyone else, I truly believed him and couldn't understand why wd couldn't get back together. I knew I couldnt carry on So at Christmas I decided that the new year would mean a new start abs would not include him. So sods law when I got back from holiday he text saying he missed me and wanted to see me - I should have been strong and said no but Iwasnt. The same week I went out with my best mate for a night out and my mate got with my ex's best mate and they are still together now, very much in love. To begin with I thought this was great because we'd go out as a four and have agood time. As time went on I started to hear about girls my ex had met through things my mate had found out from her boyfriend (his friend)and on a night out I saw him kiss another girl and it made me feel so sick and I also found out he'd been talking to his ex and been helping her do up a house she'd bought. I couldn't stop crying and it was at this point I knew I really had to get him out my life. So from about march till the middle of April I did my very best to forget about him but itwas difficult.
especially cos my friend would tell me she'd seen him etc. Then one night he asked her if I still had feelings for him because he'd heard that I'd met another guy and my friend told him I did because I really did and I couldn't forget him. For about two weeks we had a lot of contact and I really thought wedget back together but when I asked him he said he didn't know what he wanted even though he had really strong feelings for me he didn't want to hurt
me. I was heartbroken again and knew he was going on a lads holiday soon and the thought of what he'd get up made me sick so I once again I decided to try and distance myself and get in with my life. Two weeks ago when he was on holiday he was texting me saying he missed me and wanted me back and wanted to talk when he was home so when got back last week we met up to talk about us - he made a point of saying he'd not pulled on holiday etc but when I started to talk about us and what was happening he went very cold, I asked if he meant what he'd said when he was on holiday and said yes it had made him feel very emotional and he knew he needed to sort his life out and didn't want to hurt me that's why he didn't know how to deal with our situation, I said I was prepared to take a risk on order for us to have another go and he suggested we started dating again - I can't explain how happy I was. Anyway last week a friend said there were things I needed to know that she had found out - basicaaly after everything we agreed last week it turns out that he has been seeing his ex, slept with somone on holiday and is intending to see her and also has another girl on the go in this city who is claiming to be his girlfriend, he has also been saying some horrible things about me - I'm absutelty devastated and feel so hurt, betrayed and used! This sounds stupid but I love him but know what he has done is so wrong and I have told hi
I know everything he has been up to and that he has been lying to me and to never contact me again because I don't want him in my life. I can't explain how hurt and lost and lonely I feel right now, he hasn't even replied to me to say sorry or anything so everything I have found put is obviously true. I know have done the right thing telling him to
leave me alone but I just miss him so much, I really don't know what to do with myself or how to move on - he's never going to be out my life because my best friend goes out with his best friend. I hate what's happened and just don't know what to do- does any one have any advice?
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lizzy_09
replied on June 23rd, 2009
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You’ll find that the hardest part about surviving break up is getting over this painful predicament to accept that there is someone else out there for you. All it takes is a little determination without making it look more like it’s out of desperation. You must have idealized your ex making it complicated to move on. This happens when you meet someone who fulfills all your desired soul mate qualities and yet does not deliver his soul mate potential which can create difficulty. The valuable thing about your previous relationship is that you’ve learned something from your man and that is knowing what you want when you move on. You aren’t doing this to shoulder all the blame for a love that didn’t work out but to take control of your future love life. Take time to develop yourself and be the right one for a future someone. Once you’ve identified and embraced every part of your personality, you can put every trait you wish out into the world. You have the authority over you. Don't look back, look forward. As much as possible stop asking questions to your gal pal about him. Stop all communications with him. Find a new place or new environment. Always, keep your mind busy with work. Find some mental challenges that takes your mind off him. Get a new hobby. It worked with me. All it takes is a lot of effort and you'll get your rewards after.
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Kimbi_
replied on June 23rd, 2009
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Hi, thank you for such a positive and helpful response, it really means a lot to me for you to have taken time to respond. I think the hardest thing is knowing I put all my time, dreams and love into somoone who turned out to have not felt the same otherwise he wouldn't have treated me like he did, it hurts because he kept me hanging and he kept me in his life making me think that once he'd had some time and space he'd want me back. It turns our he was a very good liar and a very un trustworthy person but at the same time was very clever at making me feel like I meant something to him and he knows I would have done absolutely anything for him.
I have deleted all my contact details for him so I have removed all temptations and abilities to speak to him because I keep having weak moments where I want to talk to him about what's happened and how it's upset me but I know if I do I will only make myself look weak and desperate and I don't want to do that because he has already made a fool of me. What's really difficult to deal with too is knowing who two of the girls are that are in his life, especially his ex.
I'm definately not ready to meet anyone else and likeyou have said I need to find 'me' again and put myself first and start doing things that make me happy. I know there will be a day when i bump into him when I'm out and I want to make sure I'm strong in myself and happy when I do. I just want to be happy and not have this hurt, sad feeling inside.
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Kimbi_
replied on June 29th, 2009
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Hi lizzy I really hope you don't mind me emailing again but it is realy helping me to talk to somone as as much as my friends have been supportive I think they are starting to have had enough but I still feel I need to talk and not bottle my feelings up - what i am also finding difficult is my friend who goes out with my ex's friend had started to shut me out het life because of the relationship
she is in and I'm jealous that she still gets to see my ex and spend time in his life - it really feels like I have been cast aside and i truly believe my ex won't have given me a second thought since I text him last week telling him I had found out everything he is up to. I really wish I had walked away from him when we first split up and not carried on hoping and thinking that we'd get back together, he was just so good at making me feel like he still cared and wanted me in his life and that after a littl time we'd get back together, it hurts that he used me and lied to me about there being no else in his life. I'm such a fool to believe that! If I'm honest with myself I'm angry at myself for wasting a year of my life waiting! 
I've decided to go and see some friends this week to get away from where I live, Im hoping the distraction and un familar surroundings will take mind off him because I'm so scared I'm going to contact him and if I do contact him I know he will just laugh because I've gone back on my word of telling him not to contact me. I feel especially down today because on my way into work I saw a girl he is seeing and she knows who iam and she looked at me ad though to say ha ha I've got your ex! I actually could have been sick because of how it made me feel! 
I hate feeling like this, I just want to be the happy care free me again! 
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Silentd
replied on July 30th, 2009
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Kimbi: I would like to share my story with you, thank you!
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lizzy_09
replied on July 31st, 2009
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No problem Kimbi. If that's how she shows you. Then give her that look which say you can keep him. He's not worth it cause he's too fickle. This means that if he can easily replace me, he can replace you. Who has the last laugh then. LOL. I'm so evil. So, how are you Kimbi? How's the recovery?
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foundsome1
replied on August 1st, 2009
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@KIMBI : this is for you! hope it helps!! it helped me alot ..


EVEN THIS WILL PASS AWAY

Once in Persia reigned a king,

Who upon a signet ring

Carved a maxim strange and wise,

When held before his eyes,

Gave him counsel at a glance,

Fit for every change and chance:

Solemn words, and these were they:

'EVEN THIS WILL PASS AWAY."

Trains, of camel through the sand

Brought him gems from Samarcand;

Fleets of galleys over the seas

Brought him pearls to rival these,

But he counted little gain,

Treasures of the mine or main;

'What is wealth?' the king would say

"EVEN THIS WILL PASS AWAY."

'Mid the pleasures of his court

At the zenith of their sport,

When the palms of all his guests

Burned with clapping at his jests,

Seated midst the figs and wine,

Said the king: 'Ah, friends of mine,'

Pleasure comes but not to stay,

"EVEN THIS WILL PASS AWAY."

Woman, fairest ever seen

Was the bride he crowned as queen,

Pillowed on the marriage-bed

Whispering to his soul, he said

"Though no monarch ever pressed

Fairer bosom to his breast,

Mortal flesh is only clay!

'EVEN THIS WILL PASS AWAY."

Fighting on the furious field,

Once a javelin pierced his shield,

Soldiers with a loud lament

Bore him bleeding to his tortured side,

'Pain is hard to bear," he cried,

But with patience, day by day,

"EVEN THIS WILL PASS AWAY.'

Towering in a public square

Forty cubits in the air,

And the king disguised, unknown,

Gazed upon his sculptured name,

And he pondered, "What is fame?'

Fame is but a slow decay!

"EVEN THIS WILL PASS AWAY."

Struck with palsy, sore and old,

Waiting at the gates of gold,

Said he with his dying breath

'Life is done, but what is Death?"

Then as answer to the king

Fell a sunbeam on his ring;

Showing by a heavenly ray,

"EVEN THIS WILL PASS AWAY."
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painfullexperience
replied on August 2nd, 2009
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re: troubled heart
Its been three days that i struggle having related issues of breaking up. its was painfull experience like some of you had felt.... sleepless nights.... its like end of my life to loose someone i loved for a long time.... i dont understand why someone has to be happy while the other is in pain..... advices are hard to accept, music that suppose to heal.... was such a noice to me... But, reading your experiences is such a relief.... Im glad you are through.....
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