So. J did rip and tear and leave me aching. So i can think again, somewhat more clearly.
i feel like i am on the verge of some sort of major breakthrough. Long discussion with GP has made me realize that i probably won’t be able to get all the way to the goal on reasoning alone. In the end, there is a leap of faith involved, and i don’t know if i’m at that point yet. But lets look at the pieces of logic i’m struggling with anyway, shall we?
The first is my periodic panic that J doesn’t love me, can’t love me, is about to leave, blah blah blah. i don’t believe that this is actually caused by any difference in J or his feelings for me. i believe that i have always equated love with pain and sacrifice and suffering on my part. Not on any conscious level, but down deep where it really counts. And, when a long time goes by without any of that… i start to feel that he cannot love me. And, the panic sets in.
Some time back i talked about how i objectify myself during sex. i don’t think i truly grasped this even then, but it was progress. i think, for my whole life, i have objectified myself, period. If i am not actively doing something to make others love me, they cannot. J is where this is the hardest, because his love is the most important to me, but i see this in lesser degrees in every single one of my relationships. my overwhelming need to be pleasing and useful. Being pleasing and useful isn’t a bad thing. Its a part of who i am, and i have no desire to change that entirely. Feeling unworthy and unloveable if i cannot find a use for myself has to go though. Not sure how to do it… but this is something i have struggled with my entire life without even knowing what the problem was. Now that i do, finally, perhaps i can find ways to change it.
Second is my constant fear and worry that i am somehow hurting the people i love just by loving them. Or at least by letting them love me. First of all, before you start howling about how ridiculous this is, hear me out. i have a lot of demons and they often splash onto my loved ones. For example, i scream the whole household awake at least once a month. That has to get old.
But, the thing is… i think everyone has baggage. You cannot make it through this crazy dance called life without it. Maybe my luggage is a little more cumbersome than most folks… but, i’m not sure that makes me unworthy of love.
Honestly, i think that what has always made me feel like that is that i continue to see myself in this objectified negative way. Actually, i think there really is no need to go on any farther with these points of logic. Because it all comes down to that at some point.
In the end, all roads lead to that. i have to find the one that leads away from it. i have to find a way to stop seeing myself as a bad girl, a cunt, a whore unworthy of love or friendship. It not only makes me crazy… it makes everyone around me crazy. So i have to cut it out. But, how?