Don't Want to Lose the Only Man I Ever Loved Twice

October 1, 2001

Question

Dr. Love,

I was with this man for a year and a half. We were happy and everything was great except for the fact that I have fibromyalgia and I'm a lupus carrier.

Well at the time of our relationship I was in and out of the hospital alot and he couldn't handle it. At the time he was 19 and I was 17 now almost 2 and a half years later we are starting to talk again. I have thought about him the whole time we have been apart and I have thought about him almost everyday. So this past couple of weeks we have been hanging out and having fun again. I think that we have both grown up alot and are now getting to know each other for who we have become. I just need some help on whether or not I should go for it again?

I want to just see where this could go because he is the only person that I have ever loved and I miss him so much. I have been with people since him and dated and what not but I always compare everyone to him and I can't help myself I know that is a bad thing to do. I just haven't meet anyone who is like him before. He was the greatest, the sweetest most caring person in the world and I was never mad at him for leaving I understood that he was young and needed to have fun with his friends and be a teenager instead of worrying about his sick girlfriend.

Now we have been talking again and I know that he has missed me too. So do you think that I should give him a second chance and see where things could go or should I just stop it know? I need your help doctor love, I don't know what to do. I know what I want to do, I want him back. I just don't know if that would be the best idea, only because I don't want to lose the only man I have ever loved twice.

But they say it is better to have loved than not to have loved at all. What should I do I am so confused????????


Answer

I can see why you are scared. You need to open your heart and talk to him. You need to say, 'How can I be sure that you won't take off on me again this time when I become ill?'

He needs to convince you why you should give him another chance. He needs to convince you that he has changed, and not by giving empty promises. You need to play out 'what if' scenarios and ask him to try to imagine how he'd feel and react. Make the hypothetical scenarios very detailed and realistic so that you have a good chance of triggering his true reactions.

You are right to go very slowly until you are sure that he has matured to the point that he can stick with you through the rough times. Let me know what happens.

- Doctor Love


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