please give me tips on how not to get attached

genie
genie Posts: 2,222
edited June 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
ok, so i've started seeing this guy recently i think we are going out now for about 3 weeks. we kinda hit it off quite quickly and i've been seeing him every weekend. the thing is, due to some personal issues into which i'm not going to go into, i think that our relationship might work but might not...

and i'm scared cause i think i falling for him quite quickly. i mean i'm trying to restrain my feelings as much as i can, but i can't fool myself for too long, one day i will give in and let my feeling over power me.

so is there anything i can do not to fall in love with him?

and no i don't need such advices like "go with the flow" or "love is good, be happy if you get such feeling".
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  • libragirl
    libragirl Posts: 4,632
    Stay the fuck away from him.

    Do yourself a favor.
    These cuts are leaving creases. Trace the scars to fit the pieces, to tell the story, you don't need to say a word.
  • OffHeGoes29
    OffHeGoes29 Posts: 1,240
    I've been in two relationships with women who were just like you. It sucked, it always felt like there was a wall, and in the end I felt angry and hurt, because they desided not to give enough in the relationship to get hurt. Instead, I got dragged through the mud with the whole thing and feel like I wasted my time and effort on them when I could have been with someone who cared about me.

    My advice to you is to not date anyone seriously, because you are currently not able to be in any kind of relationship. Let them know this, because thats what an adult does....

    Good Luck
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  • genie
    genie Posts: 2,222
    OffHeGoes29 wrote:
    I've been in two relationships with women who were just like you. It sucked, it always felt like there was a wall, and in the end I felt angry and hurt, because they desided not to give enough in the relationship to get hurt. Instead, I got dragged through the mud with the whole thing and feel like I wasted my time and effort on them when I could have been with someone who cared about me.

    My advice to you is to not date anyone seriously, because you are currently not able to be in any kind of relationship. Let them know this, because thats what an adult does....

    Good Luck

    oh, don't you worry i put a lot of effort into our relationship. and i anyway he told me upfront that he's been hurt so many times that he doesn't have a heart anymore, he will care for me but will take a lot time to love me...or maybe never love me at all. and i'm cool with that, i personally just want to postpone my feelings and if after a year we are still together then i will stop restraining myself.....it's not like i'm going to be like this always. i just want to test whether he is going to stick around for more than few months that's all.
  • genie
    genie Posts: 2,222
    last time i've looked at my life and life in general it doesn't look and don't look like a bed of roses.....actually that's what life is, its a bed full of roses it looks beautiful and enticing but as you lay in it you get hurt by it's spikes, and the pain outweigh any kind of beauty.
  • sponger
    sponger Posts: 3,159
    honestly...if you miss soulsinging, then I'm not sure if you really are capable of knowing how to spot anything good in a man to begin with. All he ever did was open his mouth and allow a bunch of senseless drivel to come spilling out like sewage from a drain pipe. He was like Ahnimus, except with excellent grammar and rhetorical style. He was a hero to those who lacked personal conviction, and this is because he made an artform out of compensating for a lack of logic/reason with what basically amounted to well-articulated e-belligerence. I don't think he's missed by anyone with common sense.
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  • OffHeGoes29
    OffHeGoes29 Posts: 1,240
    genie wrote:
    oh, don't you worry i put a lot of effort into our relationship. and i anyway he told me upfront that he's been hurt so many times that he doesn't have a heart anymore, he will care for me but will take a lot time to love me...or maybe never love me at all. and i'm cool with that, i personally just want to postpone my feelings and if after a year we are still together then i will stop restraining myself.....it's not like i'm going to be like this always. i just want to test whether he is going to stick around for more than few months that's all.

    Sorry, but this won't end well for the both of you. Been down that road, its not fun.
    BRING BACK THE WHALE
  • Collin
    Collin Posts: 4,931
    No freakin' idea. I tried to not get attached for so long until I finally realized it was killing me, then I told her how I truly felt, we had a wonderful month together and then something came up and we broke up.

    So, I don't know... I'm beginning to think you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't...
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  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    Sorry but this sounds ridiculous.. 'Hold off' your feelings until you trust him?

    You're clearly not ready to be in a mature relationship. I've been strung along by a few girls like you who dumped me when it became difficult. And btw, LOL @ the Soulsinging comment. Touche.
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

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  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    Take a chance. Great lives are lived by those who dare to take risks despite the odds or possible outcomes. There is only the present.
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    Genie, why are you even bothering to go out with someone if you don't want it to go anywhere?

    It seems to me that if you want to see someone you should be willing to fall in love if you feel you can. Otherwise, it's sorta like putting food in your mouth, chewing it, and then spitting it out. You might as well eat instead! :)
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  • polaris
    polaris Posts: 3,527
    How not to get attached: Date me ... :p

    seriously tho - you can make up shit in your head about the guy about how he'll cheat on you or break promises or that he's really not who he seems OR you can do what abook says and live life - love doesn't happen without risk ...
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    if you dont want to get attached genie you have to walk away...NOW. despite ones best intentions there is a part of one's person that over rides common sense and blinds you to reality as you know it and that has to be circumvented at the earliest convenient time. it sucks i know, but the longer you hold on the harder it becomes.
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  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    OffHeGoes29 wrote:
    Sorry, but this won't end well for the both of you. Been down that road, its not fun.
    Agreed!

    You can't make someone love you. I've tried that one before and you probably won't take this advice but it sounds like you're gonna get hurt. How do you think you could last a year with someone who claims they don't have a heart and will probably never love you :( Don't do this to yourself Genie... we all deserve somebody who loves us! You're not gonna change him or save him.
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
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    Had I not found this love with you
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    justam wrote:
    Genie, why are you even bothering to go out with someone if you don't want it to go anywhere?

    It seems to me that if you want to see someone you should be willing to fall in love if you feel you can. Otherwise, it's sorta like putting food in your mouth, chewing it, and then spitting it out. You might as well eat instead! :)
    :D I really like that. Eat Genie EAT! :)
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    :D I really like that. Eat Genie EAT! :)

    Thanks. :D
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  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,203
    you cannot control love
    it controls you
  • DeLukin
    DeLukin Posts: 2,757
    Well, you can't control love but reason can temper it a little. Remember that nobody's perfect and although things may seem that way time will tell if it is indeed as good as you think it is now. Jumping in may feel right, but it's not always what is best for the relationship. Give it a little time, go through some trials together and see if it has what it takes to be something special.
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  • DOSW
    DOSW Posts: 2,014
    sponger wrote:
    honestly...if you miss soulsinging, then I'm not sure if you really are capable of knowing how to spot anything good in a man to begin with.

    Nicely done sir. :D
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  • he still stands
    he still stands Posts: 2,835
    LOL

    Nobody on this planet can help you, honey!!! Everyone here has been fucked over, had their hearts stomped on, felt like dying because someone else didn't want to spend the rest of their life with them.

    Then most of us got LUCKY and found the person who loves us back.

    Be honest with the guy. He will either stay or he will leave you. If it is meant to be then great! Otherwise you are simply avoiding the inevitable!

    "Don't waste time looking for the PERFECT lover, CREATE the PERFECT love." -- Tom Robbins
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  • genie
    genie Posts: 2,222
    justam wrote:
    Genie, why are you even bothering to go out with someone if you don't want it to go anywhere?

    It seems to me that if you want to see someone you should be willing to fall in love if you feel you can. Otherwise, it's sorta like putting food in your mouth, chewing it, and then spitting it out. You might as well eat instead! :)

    oh, i do want it to go and progress, it's just due to the circumstances he might be the one who will dump me. and i just want to protect myself.

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