I respect your opinion but I wasn’t projecting my own beliefs. I was giving my perspective. I think that hearing from different ones of us helps him take a bit from each and find his truth. We all interpret things in our own way.
I do strongly believe that anyone who feels that they have to “save” or “fix” another behaves as such due to early childhood programming. Codependency keeps us shackled to another person and held back; it is ego. Codependency is ego interacting with ego — enabling each other to continue on in patterns that are unhealthy.
I believe there’s a lesson in every relationship, absolutely.
My approach isn’t everybody’s cup of tea...but for a few, it is their double shot of whiskey.
I also don’t base things on Freud. I think he has a few good points and was mentioning him in a tongue in cheek way.
I can’t get on board with the codependency thing, though.
But anyways, I always enjoy your posts and appreciate your perspective.
Wow I will definitely purchase that book and have some summer reading ooh! And I'll watch those 2 videos tomorrow! Wow I agree with both of your points of view to be honest. They are so insightful!
Okay so, hmm. Let me explain my truth chronologically. I'll try to keep it short. *Lol it isn't short, sorry.*
In 2016 I prayed for my soulmate and met this guy Anthony the very next day who prayed for his soulmate too. I remember I literally FELT my prayer being answered. It felt like I knew him before. He was really only meant to "wake me up" though, that's all. He isn't my soulmate. Although for a year and a half I was OBSESSED! I had to learn to love myself. I think with him it was more martyrdom as you describe. I wanted to save him from his life.
Eventually I started to love myself. I started doing energy clearing. Soon I met Matthew! I told myself change is good, and then I got fired from my job and boom, I met Matt. Meeting him felt like when I met Anthony. He felt like ME on some deep level. He lives more in ego, I'm a lot more spiritual and try to live from my soul! This brought up complications that only got worse throughout our time together.
At first, things we NOT codependent. Things were loving, and I felt as though my life was changing for the better. I was so centered and balanced, and always wanted to help him understand his feelings better. He didn't really wanna open up though, and I accepted that. I just tried helping him the best I could.
Getting fired and having no job meant I had to leave NYC once the semester ended. I went to a summer camp to work where there was no cell service or wifi half the time. He didn't really trust the truth. Fears of separation and abandonment were brought up. Trust issues too. His mom spreads so many false beliefs to him that only soak up in his mind. He chased me to Chicago (well, that is what it felt like, but I wanted him to come so bad), and that is when he asked me to promise him to never give up on him as he bawled at the airport. He didn't wanna leave me. Ugh, so many childhood fears were brought up for him that day. I don't think I knew how to handle his pain well either now that I look back.
Anyway, things only spiraled downward from there. Eventually he broke up with me after camp ended. I didn't care. I wasn't doing energy clearing like I was before I met him, I think I was living in ego hmm. Plus that camp was tough! I needed my ego to protect me. Part of me doing the energy clearings is why I think he may be my Twin Flame. I think the initial energy clearings before I met him attracted him to me. He broke up with his ex around that time and said he just got annoyed. I think that was him starting to shift, his soul starting to realize some kind of "truth"? I remember I tried hooking up with another guy cuz well, me and Matt weren't together, but I felt HORRIBLE. That is when I realized I felt married to Matt in my soul. The sex literally made us feel *one*.
I came back to NYC, and wow so good for quitting weed for him! He turned into a stoner and I jumped back in! Lol yeah, we got back together the day I got back. He said he hooked up with another guy too but felt awful because he only wanted me. And hey *update*, it isn't like he was open and direct like I was. It took him a week to tell me. This brought up fears in me because like, why was he not just being open with me? What else does he hide from me? That is what I think! We both know we share Scorpio moon, we have so many jealousy issues!
Honestly, looking back on the past year and a half with Matt (from the beginning I met him), I acted in ways that Anthony acted towards me. Matthew acted in ways that Anthony acted towards me as well. It only got worse as the 2017/2018 academic year went on. I keep thinking to myself now, why tf did I act in those ways?! I think our energy influenced one another and it's all unconscious maybe? Idk, I'm no psychologist - at least not yet lol I got ways to go.
Anyway, we turned CODEPENDENT after summer 2017 by smoking weed all year! There was a lot of hypocrisy between us - and this weed situation is only one example. I see it all more clearly now that we are apart, now that I am my positive self again, now that I have been doing energy clearings everyday again. Things just got really stagnant, yet we kept coming back together after each fight. The weed stopped us from healing the pain on a deep and true level. The weed made us able to stay with each other without doing any inner work.
Nothing ever worked out. Our one year anniversary was a DISASTER. Christmas was a disaster. Disney World never worked out, that only brought fears in me too! On 11/09, around 11/11, we got into a HUGE fight..... over pajama pants wtf.... He broke up with me in May when I accidentally brought up this fight! We were with a friend, and that fight slipped into my mind (the conversation just made it pop up) and I didn't think before I spoke! That is the last time I saw Matthew. It shows ME that we NEVER healed that pain. I also let my hurtful emotions control me. Well, we both did, and it was INTENSE as our emotions are magnified around each other.
Oh, when he found out I'm studying abroad in March, things got even more worse from there - fears of separation and abandonment once again. I wouldn't listen to his emotions as I wanted things to be perfect. I'm telling you, the weed really inhibited us. He doesn't want to be away from me for 9 months which is why he's with a new boyfriend now
With him being in ego and me being the aware one, he had enough of this pain and ran. That is why he is with a 27 year old now. I am happy for him, he deserves more happiness. Yes, at first I got jealous and acted in ways I'm not proud of. But I am genuinely happy for him. I realize we didn't have anything good going for us, at least not in this state of being.
Even being apart I can still feel his emotions when on the phone. WTF! Is that normal? That only gives me more reason to believe the Twin Flame thins is true between us.
I think I need to have faith that things will work out in the end, just as they did in the past. We will come back together just as we always did, but I cannot fixate on this. I can't obsess, I have to love myself on an EVEN DEEPER level. I have to keep working on forgiving not only myself, but him as well. I work on it everyday actually. I have to dig deep. I have to cleanse all these fears away that I have - and he mirrors them to me I think. I'm not saying he's my "twin flame mirror", but if he really is the other part of my soul, then any energy work I do will automatically affect him I don't care though, I just know I deserve better. I guess we both just need to learn life lessons apart. Maybe I'm ultimately meant to be with someone else, I don't know! Or maybe it is him, which I *think* I feel deep down.
Maybe I am turning my feelings into thoughts? Idk. Time will tell. When his ego dies down and he's ready to face his past and EMOTIONS and be open with me naturally, THEN we will work out. He was never ready to fully open up to me, I always felt like I had to force him to be open.
Hmm, I wrote this all for you guys to hear MY truth and MY story. I think sharing moons is GOOD because we can sense each others emotions. It was too much to handle and weed had a big part in our downfall. Especially being Scorpio moon, I just see now that we cannot be together unless we are BOTH aware and awake.
I have inner work to do to awaken even more. And ultimately, maybe it isn't him. I accept that. But from the beginning I always told myself in my mind "I CHOOSE HIM" "I AM LOVING HIM LIKE HE IS MY TWIN FLAME". But in reality, it just doesn't matter. Let me just do my inner work and live freely!
Oh, and my mother did yell at me as a kid, I remember a specific incident. She had me at 20. I recall that I was 2, I accidentally put my feet on her hair and she YELLED! Maybe I don't feel that pain NOW, but I need to do an inner child healing and heal that because I remember that caused a lot of pain in that moment. My mom was single for some time too, I took responsibility and practically raised my little sister. I felt responsible, she would go out partying and there I was watching my two younger siblings. My dad was out of my life for a bit. His dad got deported to Colombia. We both moved around a lot. We both have some similarities but our lives are definitely NOT parallel. But they ARE similar.
Idk if he's my twin and I truly don't care. Okay I'm done typing for now lol. Hmmm also, maybe he is just a kind of "sexual soulmate" idk. I really don't care if he is my twin flame. I never felt true openness from him, but I am able to realize that challenges don't mean we aren't compatible. Only when he is living in authenticity. And hey, was I living in authenticity the past year? No. Only time will tell what the truth is. But also he isn't the brightest person on the planet, but love has no boundaries. My ego wants a smart college educated man that is ambitious. Also, yeah I'm ambitious too, so as my twin shouldn't he if he is? Was I acting on my ambitions though? NO!!! OH and I quit weed a month ago by the way. Like I am really set to dig deep. Okay lol I'm done! Sorry for the length I hope this is at the very least entertaining lol.
Thank you all for the wonderful insight!!