I'm Not Quite Overreacting
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I'm Not Quite Overreacting

Sometimes it's hard to articulate your feelings when you're emotionally charged, so here is a general letter from a very unhappy girlfriend.

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I'm Not Quite Overreacting
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If you think that I’m overreacting even though I've tried to talk to you about it as calmly as possible, I hope this can help clarify our situation.

There’s a possibility of me being pregnant, and you're making me feel as if I’m going through it alone, which makes me angry. Just because I’ve been taking care of my body alone without you just fine, doesn't mean that I think that it's fine. I don’t think you’re sorry enough for all the times I worried about my condition by myself, and definitely I don’t think you feel bad about making me feel this way. Of course I need support with this. You’re not letting yourself feel what I’m feeling, so I’m missing empathy in this relationship, and that's very important to me. I feel that only I think and alone, and that you don’t feel the need to do anything to prove to me that you care for my health like the way I do for yours. I try to always put myself in your shoes to feel what you were feeling, but I can only wish that you would do the same for me. These are justifiable emotions. Throw out all logic when trying to treat an emotional situation, they are only oil and water. They cannot interact.

If we are on the phone and you can’t show me physically that you care, the least you could do would be to make me feel safer through your voice. You might understand the situation, but you're doing nothing to understand me, so it shows through your incapabilities of comforting me. You’re telling me to “just deal with it later because there’s nothing you can do about it besides complaining”. Even if it’s true, you’re failing to show me the feelings I should've not been just hoping to receive. Empathy is such a great quality in a boyfriend that I am always going to be looking for. I don’t want to feel that I am being emotionally neglected, and definitely, I don’t want to feel like I’ll be happier and safer after talking about it to some guy that’s not you. It breaks my heart to think this.

You should know that I’ve been stressed out about this, and I hope to God that you really know to be more caring than what you are currently doing with me. If what I’m saying makes no sense, and you feel uncomfortable as much as I do about me bringing this up over and over again, then this relationship is not working regardless of all the apologies and sex. It's is the most basic thing that I wish you could do for me, not only as someone who's helped to put me in this situation, but also because as my boyfriend you’re supposed to be able to comfort me when no one else can. You’re not a man if you’re scared of having a sensitive side; it only makes you pathetic and unlikable because you’re too concerned with looking weak to those that don’t matter. I don’t deserve someone who only displays logic out of fear, I need someone who can be both logical and sensible when it comes to understanding that I require strong emotional responses from my partner. It’s the best way for me to understand that I am being attempted to be understood and cared for. I’m someone who has these standards for a relationship, and I'd hate to see it in someone else other than you. So If you want me to love you more, show me first that you understand it.

When I’m feeling bad, and I feel that you don’t want to hear about it or talk it out with me, what kind of man are you to not respect or acknowledge my emotions. Once again, you're not being supportive right now, and it’s affecting me. I needed someone to comfort me, but it wasn’t you who was able to do it for me. Please stop giving me reasons to doubt that you’re a good man for me. I don’t want to be logical about this question because I can only tell someone this so many times before I get tired. If you do care, make me believe that you would only want to make me smile, and that seeing me hurt hurts you, even if it’s through the phone. Be creative, surprise me, these little things mean the world to me.

I understand that some things require effort: that some people need more patience when nurturing, So me overreacting towards you? ...Not quite what I would like to hear about my feelings, efforts, and patience.


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