Ending Bad Relationships & Letting Go. Which Are You Holding On Or Letting Go?

United States
June 15, 2007 10:51am CST
In the road of life there are no sure things and the least of all is how a relationship is going to go and end up. Is it going to last a long time or is it going to be a bad relationship and you have to break up with the person. We don't know the answer to this at the beginning of a relationship. A lot of times the people we are going out with are on their best behavior until well into the relationship. Sometimes even until that final commentment is made. So the best a person can do is make the experience a learning experience and learn to benefit from the mistake. Look at what went wrong and don't follow that path again. Read this and tell me if you agree with it. I do. "Relationships that do not end peacefully, do not end at all." -- Merrit Malloy ******************************************************************** It takes a lot of energy to drag a relationship around after it has ended. Sometimes we hold on to the anger and shame because we've become so used to it, it's the only way we feel alive. Sometimes we hold on because we want to punish the person or persons who hurt us. But in reality, holding on to the memory of a painful relationship after it has ended does us about as much good as carrying the enemy on our back everywhere we go. The enemy gets a free ride and we get a sore back. Doesn't seem quite fair does it? There is another way, of course. We can acknowledge that the real purpose of the relationship is for giving us an opportunity to grow, and then let go of the hurt and move on. May your always be willing to let go of what no longer serves you.
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• United States
15 Jun 07
I am a recovering addict of bad boy syndrome. I was involved with this guy for 10 years and it wasn't perfect but for some reason we both stayed in the relationship. We had kids together and in 10th year...I knew I couldn't stay in the relationship anymore. I left, he begged me to stay but I couldn't do it. I was already seeing someone else. He was too but never admitted to it. It's been 5years since the split and he finally admitted he was cheating (with someone who always visiting us). That hurt so much that I cried for days. I hated him but was thankful that my female intuition told me to leave then. Since then I have let go of all those memories good and bad. It only keeps you down. Now he is expecting a child from his girlfriend of 4 years and he has told me he has cheated on her too. He doesn't take care of our kids. But I let go of everything...including the expectation of him being a father to my kids. My husband now, who I met in my 10th year with the other is a great friend, a fantastic father and it just shows me that things happen for a reason.
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• United States
15 Jun 07
A long time ago many years before I met my husband a situation I continued in. As you I should have left a long time before I did. But I call that hind sight. For awhile it colored my relationships. But then one day my very best friend and I had a discussion and she made the comment to me that I could either dwell on it and be miserable or get passed it and start living again. I chose the second and after a piece of time met my husband. Come this August we will have been married for 35 years. He is a much better man in all ways than this other guy was. As you say things do happen for a reason.
@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
16 Jun 07
Yes those words are very true I still have to learn that I will be not be verbally abused and run down anymore, that I am not going to be called names, that I am not just a part of the furniture who has nothing to say It is very hard to try and realize that it is not happening anymore and just because is mad, that they are not mad at you and that People respect you and not disrespect you Once the Insecurity is there and I had the Insecurity even as a Child it is very hard to believe that I have no need to be insecure anymore I hope that one Day I will be able to let go of the Hurt and let go of it
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• United States
16 Jun 07
I am definitely a let go person. I will not do it impulsively but I will not live ot stay in a relationship that makes me unhaappy. (I have had two ex-husband and many ex b/friends.) LOL
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@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
16 Jun 07
This is something I struggled with for years - when a relationship ended I would hang on for years thinking there might be something I could do or that something would change and the relationship might work. It is useless though - it's much easier to let go and get on with life being open to new and fresh opportunities.
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