Aeschines: It’s pretty easy for those of us who are not torie to just say “let it go.” Looking in from the outside, and with the benefit of a few more years of experience, I can say with confidence that the best thing for torie to do is to just move on, find some new friends, forget about it. (While dealing with her particular issues with a counselor of course.)
But to the person in the situation? Especially a person as young as Torie? She can’t just let it go. It’s an ugly and hurtful situation, and involves her feeling quite betrayed.
Besides, she has to come to terms with the fact that she spent a huge amount of time and energy on these people–people who clearly aren’t worth it. Someday she’ll look back on this and think of it as a valuable learning experience. But for now, she’s dealing with a lot of anger–at Marc, at the ex-friend, and at herself. And she has a right to be angry with all three.
She’s taking advantage of the anger and hurt to work towards positive change in herself, which in the end will serve her better than just “letting it go.”
Of course, her major goal should be, and probably is, to move on, to find some new friends, and to leave this mess behind her. But that doesn’t happen overnight. Give her some time.
And in the meantime…
Torie–Just remember that we on the board are here for you, even those of us who disliked your original MPSIMS thread about the breakup. As much as I abhorred your hitting your boyfriend, I respected that you immediately went and got help. I also respect your willingness to examine your own behaviors and motivations and work towards self-improvement. I predict that you’ll come out of this strong and healthy. Vent all you want. That’s what we’re here for.
Besides that FUCKING SHITSTAIN BITCH hijacked your Dope account! Not acceptable! Nuh uh. No way. No how.
She’s a complete idiot anyway. Never mind her utter disregard for the English language–the fact that she moved in on a guy just days after his messy breakup with his live-in girlfriend shows that she has no judgement or common sense at all.
I see belladonna’s post on preview–While I agree with you about the “jealous ex-girlfriend” thing in general, I definitely understand why Torie’s upset. First of all, it’s so soon after the breakup. She hasn’t quite mentally detatched herself from the fact that they were boyfriend/girlfriend. She may understand intellectually that it’s not cheating, but emotionally, it’s gotta still hurt.
Secondly, she’ is probably feeling like her friend didn’t respect her experiences as valid. Let me try to explain. I only ever dated one guy who was emotionally abusive. I only went out with him for a few months, but even in that short time, he did a number on me. Shortly after I broke up with him, a friend of mine started seeing him. She wasn’t a close friend, but I was pretty friendly with her, and she knew about my experience with this guy. I was upset when she started dating him because she knew what he had done to me. How could she think that it wouldn’t happen with her? Did she think it was my fault? Did she think that I provoked the abuse, and that he wouldn’t do it to her because she thought she was better/nicer/more valuable than me? Did she think I was lying about the way he treated me? Of course, none of these things were true and I knew it, but I couldn’t help having those feelings.
(In the end, I think she sought him out because she knew he wasn’t a nice guy. She was one of those that kept “ending up with” bad guy after bad guy, but of course it was no accident. I hope she got some help.)