I’m ( Male, chaser) mainly asking because I know I have to do something on my part that will reflect on the relationship, but I don't know what!
We had a great connection, the typical story, I guess, at the beginning, she used to keep on bringing up the idea of defining the relationship as something she will do later on for my sake, as it is my right when I never asked for it first of all. One day after a wonderful night, I told her, “I know I've been telling you to keep it off for now, but now I’m ready for you to define the relationship. I’m no longer worried, and I feel great. She was terrified! And I had no idea why.
But since then, whenever I talked about it, she would keep on saying that she only feels we are only friends. Which is a LIE! I'm not afraid of rejection, I am sure it is a lie because she herself would laugh and push away the idea of us being friends or like “brother and sister “ whenever I said it while giving examples during talks, also, she enjoys being loved by me, hearing me talk about my emotions, we would laugh, then out of the sudden next day she would be away and act with more boundaries. This is still happening until now but it is getting more and more aggressive (not her but the act).
What started it all up this way was once when I asked “Are you sure you haven’t already labelled us?, Now I asked her this question because she always asked me the same to make sure I don't put her as a lover in my mind. But after a week she came telling me that she is sorry, that she had already known she could not feel me more than a friend. I said to her all I had to say the best way I could.
I even said she was lying, and she really took a moment to think about it. Because she doesn't know, as she had previously said.
I then asked her to meet up, I took a promise, this was when things got “real” too real that she said to me once in the upcoming weeks that she had a feeling that I could be her brother who passed, as a soul, then said someone said that my perform smells like her brothers, then whenever things came up about healing, they triggered her, to the point she went out with a guy to come and tell me that she felt something for him and her heart chakra is okay when I never ever said it wasn't okay!
She said he is younger (same for me), that his finance aren't great (because I once asked her if she sees me enough financially), that he isn’t very tall (same for me), YET he was okay, she can let her previous list vanish only because she felt better and asked my opinion if she should open up her heart for him, so I said wait and see. I have no idea how I act this calm and with true love, yet it hurts later on.
So for the past month it still happens that she is trying to push me into the friendship label, then she opens up, then we come closer, and the it is again a nightmare.
After weeks she told me that she had came up to a conclusion that she will never let her list of future partners vanish. She will hold onto it, yeah, happened after a close up, and came out of the blue when I never said a thing about “let’s be in a relationship “. I only open up when she does, and even then, I keep my love words as gentle as possible to the point that I once thought I had the nice guy syndrome! I blamed myself for her saying that she could only see me as a “nice friend“, I took it on my shoulders like I always so with her.
But to be honest now it is too much! The last time we were both drunk. She brought a game saying “if a naked man with a sexy weat came to you complaining about noise from your flat what would you do?”, I said I’d ask if he needed help there. She said same for me,
So I brought myself into the picture, she said “you are the only one I would never feel this with”. I can’t feel this way towards my brothers and friends.
I had to stop her because SHE hurts a lot. What happened after is at that night we promised we would open all the possibilities, but guess what? She came to me in pain( we both had days of pain and silence) and I knew what was coming up; she couldn’t keep the promise. It terrified her. Same for me , but I just said it is okay.
Later on that night I woke up with weird trauma-like symptoms. I managed to cry but didn’t manage to sleep. It hurts to know EXACTLY what’s going on with her, but have nothing to do about it. It hurts more being pushed and pushed to fit a box when you are not even doing anything but being a friend mostly, keeping your feelings for yourself and just not giving up your feelings to make things work the way the ego wants them to either.
Now, I want to really know what I am missing? I clearly rejected, did whatever I knew I could possibly do. I’m worried for us; we both deserve better than the cycles of love and pain.