Pretty Hurts
Bronze Member
i really wish you were able to provide emotional support when i need it. you were more responsive when we were on opposite coasts as friends. there was mutual desire to be more if we had the opportunity. now we sit right beside each other and i look to you as my mate for support, or input and i am left hanging often. it bothers me that now we are together in a relationship and you are often unresponsive. there are times that you speak of the strong connection you feel to me, that drew you to be here with me. i believe you feel deeply connected to me, i can tell by your actions and i feel it just as deeply as you do too....but it appears you lack the ability (or desire) to engage in person or disconnect at times. that makes me sad and in those moments, i feel like i'm all by myself in this. when you described the relationship between your grandparents the other night, i could tell that you admired their version of love. you said they had such a strong connection that could not always be seen by others, but it was obvious that although he was a hard, cold, scary type of man, she was no doubt the apple of his eye. then you went on to explain how you may have some of your grandfather's traits, but you're different, warmer, and a few other things....and i get it. really i do get it all, you are a man action and of few words. but you should also understand that for your grandparents to stay together and love one another as fiercely as they did all those years, that there were times where even he as hard as you described him softened a little, just for her. when they were alone, there had to be times she looked to him for support, reassurance or encouragement and he gave her what she needed, where she expressed discomfort or disappointment and he consoled her....where she expressed her affections and he received them....in his own way, but in a way that she understood for certain. likely in private with words you could never even imagine him saying, because they were for her ears only or with his actions privately or openly that even if she was the only one who recognized them, they made her understand....that she was the apple of his eye. my point is, in order for the connection to remain consistent all those years, they each found ways to communicate their love in a way that the other would understand, for certain. i believe we were drawn to each other because we both identified an enormous capacity to love in one another, that is something special.