Oh my! It hurts! Do I nee to be single forever after that depressing experience?

Philippines
December 6, 2012 5:16am CST
Moving on is the only way I can do to forget that bitter past. It hurts but what else can I do if she do not love me anymore? I can never force her to love me and that is the reality that I need to accept. Though the feeling is extremely depressing me inside, all I can do is to face it and move forward. Th question is this, should I stay single forever so that I won't feel the pain anymore or do I need to find someone else? Oh! It really hurts!
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@sriroshan (2585)
• India
6 Dec 12
When you love some one from the depth of your heart such feeling do comes up but my friend why you have to be so serious? You may think to say so for me it is simple but for you it is very difficult since it is you have fallen in love and got hurt and not me. Look at the life with open eyes. You there is eclipse that comes once in a while that too for few hours and then everything comes to normal. Same way thinks such eclipse had come into your life and gone. So look forward for better and bright tomorrow and I am sure one day such a girl will come into your life who will love you instead of you loving her. Keep my words everything will be fine in your life.
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• Philippines
6 Dec 12
Your right, and it is a learning process though. It may heal the wound yet there will be a scar left on it. But that is fine for after this process next is learning.
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@dragon54u (31636)
• United States
6 Dec 12
There is nothing wrong with being single, I enjoy it but it's not for everyone. You should take a break from being in love and enjoy being by yourself. Once you enjoy being alone, any relationship you have will be even better. Plus, you need to examine why your love left and figure out how to prevent it in the future. If you don't, you'll get your heart broken again and again. We have a lot of relationships before we finally marry in order to learn how to maintain a lifetime commitment. If you don't look at your role and learn from your failures you will never be happy with anyone. Good luck to you!
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• Philippines
6 Dec 12
After all this is a wonderful world and everything that is in it is beautiful. I must enjoy it for the moment and pause a liltle.
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@free_man (7330)
• United States
6 Dec 12
Hi Alias_Paul and welcome to my lot. God created all of use to have someone special in our lives so don't give up. Each and everyone that is born goes through everything that anyone else goes through. I know it must be hard on you right now but God created a special person for you so keep your eyes wide open and pray that God sends this special woman to you as soon as it is HIS will and it won't be long before God will send you some special woman to you. I have been married and divorced several times and none of them seemed to be the right one. One day I met that special someone in the one place that I never would have thought. I am 58 and just found that special one that will share my life forever. I asked God if I had done anything right in my life that God would give me this special someone. It has been going on 6 years of this marriage and it is just as special as the very moment we met. So turn all your life over to God and your prayers will be answered. Believe me but don't take my word for it trust in the LORD and you will see for yourself.
• Philippines
6 Dec 12
There is really a time for everything and when that time come, when my wound already heal that maybe the time for me to find another person to love. Thank you for the advie!
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@voracious (624)
• Philippines
6 Dec 12
1 Corinthians 7:15 If the unbeliever leaves, let her do so. A believing man or woman is not bound in such circumstances; God has called us to live in peace. If she left you then you should be happy because you're no longer committed thus she will regret for living you one day.
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• Philippines
6 Dec 12
thanks! it is very inspiring! maybe im not the right guy for her.
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@ungu89 (1999)
• Malaysia
6 Dec 12
i know its really hurt when you love someone, but she/he did not love us. but still there is a lot other woman u can find. maybe she is not the right one for u. don't make drastic thought like this. u will never know, when the time is come, u will find her. the one God made for u my friend don't give up because of 1 rejection u get
@ungu89 (1999)
• Malaysia
6 Dec 12
there is love everywhere. just don't give up
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• Philippines
6 Dec 12
Noted Maam!
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• Philippines
6 Dec 12
thanks for that booster! i am happy to know those thoughts from you guys!
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@vibimi (34)
6 Dec 12
No way, staying single forever. Are you kidding? Anyway, it's quite impossible not getting involved in it again. It just happens. Life is so beautiful, it deserves to be lived and not put aside. Love is the most wonderful thing on earth. You'll be disappointed many other times. But this is not the reason to give up. You'll surely find your other half and you'll have an amazing love story. So take what comes to you and just enjoy.
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• Philippines
6 Dec 12
Thanks Vibimi for that wonderful advice! I know that the time will come for me to recover emotionally.
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@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
6 Dec 12
These things happen for a reason, you may not realize it at the time when the pain is so raw and tender, but in years to come you will realize that this girl wasn't for you. You weren't meant to be together, it also frees you up to find someone else, I think you are being a touch pessimistic thinking you will be single for ever. Personally I don't see anything wrong with being single and it shouldn't be a stigma to be single, I love being single, I wouldn't have it any other way. When I was younger I would dream of having a relationship, I have had two disasters of relationships, now I wouldn't dream of not being single. Time is a great healer, a cliche I know but it's true. You will move on and get over her. Just be kind to yourself. It's one of life's experiences we have to endeavour and learn from.
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• Philippines
6 Dec 12
If that time come and I am ready to be in a relationship again I will give my very best so that my nightmare won't happen again.
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@challs12 (548)
• Malaysia
6 Dec 12
For me, it's very interesting to face heart broken. It's a nice melancholic feelings. I always remember my fail love and I always get motivated by them. You don't have to feel sorry for that, it's a good experience for you. I would advice you to go ahead with what you doing now and make improvement to yourself. Actually you could overhaul yourself to find out the reason why she refuse to accept you. Then make improvement on your weaknesses part if you can. If cannot, just accept it as you are. My second advice is to look at love breakup as an opportunity for you to look for a better one. I always told myself, if I fail with my present lover, I will for the replacement younger than the left one. I think I have answer the same way in one members question here in Mylot. My first lover say 25 years old, if she left me, I will look for more younger one. At last, now I have one that 14 years younger than me. If this one also end up with breakup, I will look for the one 20 years younger than me.
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• Philippines
6 Dec 12
it is amazing to see people like you who sees things very easy while in a situation of being broken. i admire you for that!
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@artemeis (4194)
• China
6 Dec 12
Breaking up is never easy and it is natural to feel hurt for a period of time. However, like all open wounds it will need time to heel where the pain will be eased and gone away. I know you are familiar with every encouraging word from your friends, peers and even family members. But, you need to realize that all of us have memories that could never be easily erased like our computer hard disk. Like scars of all healed open wounds, memories will reappear every now and then. So, it is important that you need to remember this and let your consciousness of the scar subside with time, too. As for your future, I don't think anyone including yourself could tell what it would be like and whether you will enter into another relationship again. However, I am sure another door will be opened for you and it will be up to you to enter it or not. So, whether you remain single or not is really dependent on how you decide when the opportunity and choice arrives. There's another area which will involve yourself and that is for you to open the floodgates of your life to allow back the opportunities for yourself. Breakup is not the end of one's social life and definitely not a lost. It is simply another traffic light at one of our life's crossroad which needs us to stop and require us to change our directions on a planned destination. It is not a lost considering the experience the both of you have gained, learned more about one another especially yourselves on what you actually believed and loved. Sometimes, this is where I always disagree with people when they take that they have lost everything when they breakup. So be open and remember that in love, we can give without loving but we can never love without giving.
• Philippines
6 Dec 12
Thank you so much for that inspiring advice you have there Artemeis. I really appreciate it.
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• Philippines
6 Dec 12
Oh, you should not stay single forever. I guess she's just the wrong girl for you. I hope you'll find Ms. Right soon so that you'll be happy. You have to realize where did the relationship go wrong. You have to change yourself for the better. I guess you've learned something from your relationship. I hope you'll not do the same mistakes again next time. For the meantime, enjoy being single.
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• Philippines
6 Dec 12
sometimes i think that i contributed something to push her away, the more the time goes by the deeper the pain it engraves. i better settle it down rather than seeing myself in a pit lifeless.
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• Philippines
7 Dec 12
Yes, you have to forget the past and move on. That chapter of your life is already over. You have to open a new one. Wish you the happiness and strength to face life trials.Enjoy life. It's too short to waste.
@sajujohn (1005)
• India
6 Dec 12
Hi friend, I am also in the same situation. As I said I cannot beg her to love me even though I did. But now I have decided why should I disturb/irritate her if she no more loves me. But that doesn't mean that I stopped loving her. In fact even now, I love her more than anyone. Therefore I have decided to stay single forever in my life. Only she said to me that she doesn't love me but still I love her and will be loving her only. Anyway it's my opinion dude. I am not good to advice. Do whatever you think is good for you.
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• Philippines
6 Dec 12
Yes, i also think the same way. But then there is a part of me which says that i need to go forward and don't stop loving and believing. Maybe im still on the state of balancing things.
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@jenny1015 (13366)
• Philippines
7 Dec 12
Definitely not, alias_paul! Your happiness should nit depend on that particular person. So what if she is no longer with you? So what if she does not love you like the way you do? Life isn't over yet. You still have a big life ahead of you. Don't lose hope on love. the right person will come at the right time.
@jenny1015 (13366)
• Philippines
7 Dec 12
You do not have to worry about it. I just hope I have somehow shed some light on your gloomy life! Smile!
• Philippines
7 Dec 12
Thank you for yhat big advice my friend! I will apply it in time.
• Philippines
7 Dec 12
Thank you for yhat big advice my friend! I will apply it in time.
@nezavisima (7408)
• Bulgaria
6 Dec 12
strange it hurt and I did not know what to say. maybe I'm hurting this feeling and I can only put in place a person at this time. it's nice to have a father and a man who can tell Dad but should not forget what is the real father, namely to care for the child because anyone can make a baby but not everyone cares for their child. nice day!
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• Philippines
7 Dec 12
Thank you for sharing your thought.
• Philippines
6 Dec 12
a big NO! dont let yourself be doomed by putting yourself in singleness. live your life to the fullest.. move FORWARD.. you deserve to be happy. you deserve something better. someday you'll thank God for making this things happen to you. just keep your faith high.
• Philippines
6 Dec 12
relax. time will heal. as of now just enjoy and count you blessings. take this opportunity to have time to enjoy with your family and friends
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• Philippines
6 Dec 12
yes. i think so. thanks jamie!
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• Philippines
6 Dec 12
i appreciate those words. maybe i just need sometime to let go of the pain.
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@bellis716 (4799)
• United States
8 Dec 12
For right now, you need to stay single. In time, the pain will lessen somewhat, and you can let it be known that you are available.
• Philippines
8 Dec 12
This is noted! I must enjoy my life to the fullest. Thanks Bellis!
@andy77e (5156)
• United States
7 Dec 12
Well I've been single for 35 years. I can't imagine having someone else around. As for you, well just keep doing good, and working hard, and I'm sure someone will come along. Just don't go for an easy girl. Easy girls will ruin your life. You'll wish you were single, if you get an easy girl. Go for the ones worth fighting for. As for me, single for life! :)
• Philippines
7 Dec 12
Good thing to know it from an expert. Lol! Well, dor that matter I dont usually entertained girls who are happy go lucky. Not being judgementalbut being aware of falling for them.
• Philippines
7 Dec 12
Good thing to know it from an expert. Lol! Well, dor that matter I dont usually entertained girls who are happy go lucky. Not being judgementalbut being aware of falling for them.
@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
7 Dec 12
You got a haircut, and your once-long hair is now short ... OH NOOOOOOOOO! The solution: let it grow back out. With the singleness problem, a slightly-different solution: Let it /GO\ back out! (i.e. let it go & go back out) I have a friend who told me (and told me his wife knows too) that--while he DOES love his wife--if she gets in the way of his work, she's gone! Maybe she is doing this for you, she loves you TOO MUCH to 'put the crimp in your style' as she would if you turned from your work to make sure she's satisfied. (Or is that 'cramp'?) Point is, you're not "single" nor "plure" (of "plural," like 'single' is of "singular" I guess ... a word whose history-roots I might "search" for); you're (I know it sounds 'campy,' but here it is) 'a child of G*d'---which means not so much "you're his kid" as it means 'he sent you to fulfill a part of his Kingdom.' If you're sure what 'your part to fulfill' is, then that's all you need to focus-on. If there is a 'help meet for you' (as the Bible calls Eve for Adam), you will find her by fulfilling your part in the Kingdom. That's partly why I'm still single---I'm not sure if I "do" anything, so being my wife would be like 'tying water in a knot.' Another reason lots of couples meet on the job.
• Philippines
7 Dec 12
I like it! It is like a corn soup for the soul. Thank you so much!
• United States
7 Dec 12
Hello and I am sorry for what you have been through. (HUG!!!) I've been there too so I empathize. :-) Like you, I decided to move to a different location so I could begin my life again and not have constant reminders. I also had the right people to help me. For the time being, I'd say stay single but hang out with friends. Many people try to date soon after a break-up and find themselves in a relationship for the wrong reasons. Keeping reasonably busy and staying sociable does help people to stay connected for the right reasons. When you feel its the right time, start meeting some new people; perhaps double date so you can get some feedback from people you know and trust. Hang in there and you will meet the right person. Took me a while and I did.
• Philippines
7 Dec 12
I think your suggestion can be applied. Thanks for that one.
@Aja103654 (5646)
• Philippines
8 Dec 12
Find time to heal. I've read in one article that the time you heal should be more or less equal to the amount of time you were together with that previous love. Don't hurry to find relationships. Let love find you. You don't have to be single you know, If you just become single for the rest of your life because you are afraid of getting hurt, then I pity you and I will officially call you a wuss. I was through a heart break before and didn't seek relationships. I was glad to be single and free. I love being single but there was a guy who confessed to me and I liked him so I started a new relationship with him.
• Philippines
8 Dec 12
I agree to that and I think I should find ways to forget her. Thanks!
@else22 (4317)
• India
7 Dec 12
WELCOME TO MYLOT. I can't understand how and why you should even think of remaining single for the rest of your life.You were married.Then something went wrong and you decided to snap relations with your husband.It must be a nightmarish experience,but certainly it is not the end of your life.You must have got wiser having undergone that bitter experience.Now that you know what poisoned your relations,you can go for another life partner for you.Life is full of ups and downs,my friend.And you can learn from both.My best wishes.Get yourself prepared for a better life.
@else22 (4317)
• India
8 Dec 12
Yes,read,write,do a job or,for that matter,a part time job,try to earn online....do anything creative you can.Don't waste your time in useless things.Time will heal everything.God is with you.Believe in Him.I wish you a dazzling success in life.
• Philippines
7 Dec 12
Your right, I am learning from it and as time goes by i diverting myself into something creative to heal the wound quickly.