Are You Using Relationships As A Band-Aid?

Get tips to navigate frustrating male dating behavior

I've been seeing a guy for 1.5 months and we met through mutual friends. Things were going great until he stopped texting me back for almost a couple days.

I expressed how that made me feel and he apologized. He told me that he's been distant because something happened that made him sad and that he was isolating because of it. That made me feel better but he is still being distant. It sucks because i really had a connection with him but now he's being weird.

I've been through so much trauma from men so my question is: how do i stop taking their mistreatment of me so personally? It hurts me so much. It makes me feel hopeless and worthless.

There’s no way to know what’s really going on in his head. All you can do is take him at his word that he’s dealing with something emotionally upsetting and keep living your own life.

What you’re not going to do is continue to pour your heart out to this virtual stranger. He’s allowed to take time for himself to work through whatever he needs to be emotionally available and healthy. And so are you.