I think there are times when you just have to pack it in and drop thoughts of that person, if it is damaging you, making you ill, getting you spending all your time searching out techniques to "get" them (I hate that word, it's as if you are acquiring a possession) and stopping you getting on with a vibrant life. I did it myself at 18/19, though not techniques etc as I'd no clue about LOA then, but I did waste my time mooning about someone who didn't want me. He did muck me about, to be fair, but I behaved like a child having a tantrum.
By dropping it and finding things to do for yourself that zhuzhes up your own life, mixing with people (not in a romantic sense), trying new things, doing what you love and what makes you zing, focusing on your successes - I could go on - you can change yourself and be a much healthier person for the next, or the previous, partner. Nobody is going to want a hot mess (unless, of course, they are one themselves, in which case you should exit stage left asap) as all the same issues will still be there. Change should be within and it should be long lasting and it will sometimes involve digging deep, looking at why you have what everyone calls "limiting beliefs". In my own case, I always thought I wasn't entitled to what others were, probably because as a kid we weren't allowed things like a bike, school trips, things that are taken for granted now.
That person may well return to a new relationship with the individual, once everyone has changed. But I have said this so many times.
It has to be about you, it has to be about being a healthy person emotionally and looking for the good, the golden nuggets, and consistently, not just once in a blue moon, thinking you've seen a sign and then getting down when zilch happens.
But I am banging the same old drum, I know.
Last edited by PrettyFlamingo (8/16/2017 2:49 pm)