Boards Reconciliation How can I make her believe again?

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    Jeremy8655
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    Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

    I was with my girlfriend for one year and eight months. We are both 27 years old. She was the love of my life. She was great to me in every way you could imagine. She found a house close to my apartment and asked me to move in with her. I was so excited to take the next step in our relationship. I was thinking marriage and children down the road. I’m a firefighter in a large city so I decided to work as much overtime as I could to help pay for things around the house. I lived with her for 7 or 8 days and worked four 24 hour shifts during the span. One afternoon I walked in and saw her crying. She told me that for the last 2 months she felt that there was something missing in our relationship and wanted to break it off. She thought me moving in with her would solve the problems she saw. She even told me she didn’t see us getting married. She gave me 3 days to move my stuff back out. My last day I was at the house I wrote her a page and a half paper explaining that our communication was lacking, I didn’t show enough affection as I should have, and that working so much gave me a bad attitude. I apologized and told her how much I loved her. Later that day she sent a text saying, ” I read your letter and I do appreciate it. I don’t want you to think it’s any of the little things that happened recently but I just know there is something fundamentally missing between us. That isn’t anything that either of us can fix. I am a better person for knowing you and someone will be very lucky to have you.” That was like a knife to my heart. I just know I could’ve fixed it if she told me. We had so many great moments together, and rarely encountered problems. I began no contact August 10th. My opinion is we didn’t talk about our deepest emotions enough and didn’t confront our problems with a constructive conversation. So how do I make her see this and make her believe we can fix this?

    Jeremy

    #5823
    Darren60
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    Jeremy, Very sorry about the news…I know that feeling very well. You MUST have NO contact and STICK to it. She is confused and you have to follow the five step plan. It will give you hope and she needs to experience life without you in it. It will be VERY tempting to contact her or receive her contact but that will hurt your chances in the long run. Short term pain—long term gain. Good Luck

    #5831
    Jeremy8655
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    Forgot to put this in there. But when she was breaking up with me another reason she gave me was that she didn’t miss me when I went to work. So I’m feeling doubts about that.

    #5840
    SuzyL
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    With you working so much, it’s imperative that you show her intimacy while you are around her. That doesn’t mean just sex, but letting her know all about your thoughts and feelings and you listening to hers. Maybe I’m stating something you already knew, but maybe working so much had something to do with the disconnected. Maybe try LC. If that doesn’t work, then NC for 30 days.

    #5843
    Jeremy8655
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    Susy, I thought that could’ve been a reason as well. But to me that’s something that could easily be fixed by communication. I don’t understand why she couldn’t express herself and let me know that. When she told me it was something we couldn’t fix it made me think it was something deeper than that. I could use a woman’s point of view. What do you think? Also what is LC?

    #5846
    SuzyL
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    Just an after thought.. some people get scared. They’re so afraid that no matter what you say won’t change their outlook. That’s why you have to SHOW them. Many people succumb to fear, and that’s why it’s so hard. Show her.

    #5872
    meantime
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    Jeremy8655
    Sory you are going through this. I can relate to your scene evry much. Do teh NC – it is teh best way to turn things around. I did not havd created a big mess. The less you say the better. Hang in there, it’ll feel better in a few weeks

    SuzyL
    Your last post is very good insight. Thanks. What is the best way to show her in this situtaion? By doing NC them re-address the issues later? I am on the verge of writing a letter to apologize for the angst I have cause my ex by trying to talk about what went wrong. But maybe I should wait?

    Thanks

    #5904
    Jeremy8655
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    Suzy, what is LC?

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