I know how you feel, Alisha. I left a very tumultuous, sometimes abusive relationship ages ago - over fifteen years ago, just about - and at the time when it broke off, I was completely crushed because he was the first guy I ever really had feelings for. As terrible and bad-for-me as that relationship was, I didn't want it to end. For the eleven years after him, I didn't have another relationship. I didn't even go out on a date. Then, in 2006, I met another guy, whom I am now married to... but still, I often have thoughts and dreams of that ex who loved me and hurt me so very bad all the time. It won't go away. Sometimes the breakup still hurts, even though I know it was for the best and that he was absolutely not good for me. In spite of my wonderful, loving husband now, I still sometimes admittedly miss the jerk who completely crushed me mentally and emotionally all the time. It makes me feel crazy! I had a dream about him just last night, and in my dreams, we are always back together, and in those dreams, something inside me just needs to be with him. I wish I could get rid of it because I feel crazy... like I am still in love with someone I never should have loved in the first place and in spite of the great husband I have now. I truly think sometimes our first lovers take a piece of us with them, and it is a long time -- or maybe never -- that we get that piece back. That's the best way I know to explain it... but you're not alone in having dreams about your exes... or even in missing them or still loving them... I think it happens to more people than would like to admit it. It doesn't mean you don't love your current significant other - just that there are wounds that have never closed up.
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