Calliton, thank you! That's sweet.
EEK, how could loving someone sincerely ever be wrong? I agree with you.
Here's an update. Sooner than I expected. I've noticed it's at least helpful for me to write it down to other people, as it seems to force me to put things in understandable order, making it more clear in my head. And again, I would appreciate any of your replies. Since even the smallest sincere comment can at least help me of keeping my wits together.
I don't know where I am now, except for being particularly vulnerable. I just got terribly upset last evening. He wouldn't french kiss me. And I just had to ask him why he couldn't. Despite of any agreement or state of our relationship, which I'm sure I violated. To which he hugged me for a long time and I started crying as he did. He said he probably needs time and space. I asked him how much. As I felt my heart sink, because I honestly don't know how much I can give him...
We had a very honest talk after that. He's very confused over it, because he thinks I'm such a great girl. He loves everything we do together. As he put it: "even getting groceries together with you is fun!". I'm going to memorize that quote, cause I think it's one if the sweetest things anyone has ever said to me :) I asked him what went wrong and when this had suddenly become about me. First he was too tired, then he was too ill and somewhere along the way; it had become about me. And I don't understand what I did wrong. He thinks perhaps what went wrong is that at many times he now cares and worries about me too much. That this takes so much energy that there's none left for anything else between us. It sometimes makes him feel like we have a father-daughter-relationship. He can get genuinely scared of the thought of something happening to me. And on other moments; we just have so much fun together. At such time I feel more like a sister to him. Even when he sees me running naked through the house, I'm more like his sister (the sister he never had, that would be ;))
I asked him whether he's still in love with me. "No, because I think it's much more than that... I... I love you." To which he smiled and giggled. He never says he loves me. He always says that it's a too formal of a word. That it's become meaningless by how people throw it around. The way he said it now was genuine.
We've talked about what we think this relationship needs.
1) Does it need patience? I've given him so much already... "Perhaps I don't need your patience. Perhaps I need you to tell me". To which I laughed. We both know that if I put any pressure on him, he goes running or hiding and will say "no" like any toddler who's learned the powerful meaning of the word, only to avert doing anything he might possibly not want. He agreed. If I would ask him to chose me or it's over, he'd probably chose the latter. Also by his attitude towards life; that nothing is ever final. If it's meant to be and feels right, we would grow back together again.
2) Should we break up definitely, remaining friends? He never wants to lose me as a friend. I mean too much to him. Which is likewise. Also; if this does repair, it would make us genuinely chose for each other again, instead of muddling on and trying to fix things on the way. He agrees with the lot of you fine people that if I'd go out and date and try out a new relationship or even have meaningless sex, even if we'd get back together, that would just make me more experienced and nothing is wrong with that. Just as much as there would be nothing wrong with it if I wouldn't. Or perhaps I'd just find that special guy who would be as thrilled as I am to start a family. And he'd be there for me as my friend and surely come to see the baby. He thinks I will be able to look at other people in a sexual way. Before him I couldn't. But since this desire has awoken inside me, there's quite a chance I could feel it for another. He thinks it's a matter of whether I'd be ready to do so... Off course he can't be sure of how these things work as little as I am.
3) Should we seek counseling? After all; it's still unclear to either of us whether his lack of sexual desire is related to me. Or if it's related to the last time we were intimate resulting in pregnancy and early miscarriage. Whether nothing of this really is about our relationship, since for the past year he finds himself incapable to sexually desire other women as well. I'm going to see my counselor the day after tomorrow and I don't think she does couple-counseling, but she could quite possibly refer me to someone. He told me he would talk to a professional and suggested for me to ask her.
I'm thinking this may actually be a good idea. I suggested it to him before. Because I feel that either way, we'd need to fix this father-daughter-thing. I don't feel that way and surely don't want him to. Whether in a friendship or relationship with someone, I want the foundations of it to be on equality. Which was the case with us. But apparently something has gone crooked. I could live with the brother-sister-thing. I too regard him as close to me as family. Not the entire way of "family" I had wanted it, but it's equal enough ;)
4) One thing we did agree on. I was busy writing him a letter. I had planned to give it to him, even read it out loud, at the end of this holiday. It states what I want, how I feel, what he means to me. It's not quite finished yet. Though it's becoming quite to the point and even compact for my writing ;) He requested me to finish. He promised he would read it and not neglect to respond to it (as happened to the letter I wrote over a year ago).
Probably worth mentioning. He toyed with my clothes. Unwrapped my shirt and pulled it over my shoulders. Looked at my strapless dress in great approval, telling me I look good. He kept caressing my back as we hugged. Until it came to a point I told him that I didn't want him to do anything he didn't want to. But that if he would continue that way, I would surely orgasm. So if he didn't want that... To which he started kissing my neck and putting more pressure on my lower back to make me come. He smiled and whispered I was such a funny and special girl. I came 3 times in a row, soaking my underwear as I ejaculated and quivered in his arms after. Those were one of the best orgasms I've had in months. I could see he was getting uncomfortable at the time I was on his lap and kissed him. "Do you mind?"- "Well... yes, actually, I do... a little..." I told him I was sorry and asked him why he had gone on. "Because there's really nothing that terrible about making you enjoy yourself" - "So you did it for me?"- "Well... yes."- "That's sweet..." I didn't know whether to feel happy of him being so sweet to me or feel awful about myself. And I didn't know what to say, except: "I'm so sorry"- "Don't be. It's really a pleasure doing that for you. I just don't..."- "I'm sorry"- "Don't be, my sweet". Sometimes I'm like a broken record that gets stuck on "sorry" and crying in between...
RedRoses
Posted: 06 Oct 00:05