Aug 20, 2023
Aug 11, 2023
Aug 11, 2023
I am really, my own worse nightmare. Let me explain. Through both paid therapy and just overthinking things, I realize no one can do to me what I don't allow. I let all these people in. Now granted. They are my nightmares and always will be. they did what they did. But it always started with me. Ok, Ok, I am taking too much credit. They did manipulate and all that and I bought into it but just read on and let me explain more.
When these people come into my life, granted I have 0 clue who they are, what they are about, or what they may/may not do. But once I know I know I need to make the choices on if I will get away or what I will do. Right? This will go on all throughout the “first round” they are around. But after they are gone the first time, why do I allow them back. Hubby said it is because I have issues with letting people go. I can see that. I always had issues with that even way back when. But If I have let them go, like Joyce for instance, why do I let them back. Because they “say” they change. Why am I not making them prove it? These are things I am learning more and more now. And it took so many years to get here. And so much abuse. I use to say I am not a masochist but now I wonder. (Nah, I still didn't enjoy the mental pain, -.-) Bcs I repeat a lot of the same actions. Allowed the same people back over and over. Insanity - repeating the same thing expecting a different result. And yet the person has never proven they actually changed while they were away from you. They still blame everyone else for their problems. They didn't change, and I definitely did not change and they knew it that’s how they were able to do what they did. Which is again why I said I am my biggest nightmare.
I learned with some, but not many. And boy have I learned now. As everyone I have and will be writing about is not part of my life any longer. And will not be allowed back. There are still some people in my life that still do some stupid things, but they are so determinantal that they are removable. But I watch. I will not end up in the same cycles I have been in so many times. If fact lately I have been getting smarter after having more conversations with my therapist, and I spend less time on the computer. More time with the family or simply myself. Watching TV and sleeping. Hey, it's good for losing weight. You don't snack when you sleep lol. So people have been worried as I haven’t been around as much. For a week I pretty much just slept or watched TV with hubby. It was so weird. But good. Even my family thought I was going through depression. I didn't tell anyone that it was a “requirement” for me to be away in front of the computer. I wanted to see if I could do it on my own without help. Just do it, and I did. Or course bcs I wasn't used to it I did sleep a lot, so I get why they were worried I was depressed. But this week Hubby was told more and explained that it was a test to see if I could be away from the computer. It felt good. Back to the nightmares. Being away from the computer has given me so much time to also think about it all. And the whys. Why did I give all these people so many chances? Why did I allow them in my head, my heart, my family both real life and virtual? Why did I allow them back in after they were gone? Why did some of them I never kick out and believe “they just need help”? So many whys, and yet there will never be an answer to any of them. Well maybe. Guess if I think about it long enough and each person enough I could figure it out. But do I want to? I write these blogs so I can get my thoughts out at the time I am thinking of them, and maybe if I have enough at the end of it all write a book called “She is My Nightmare”. Funny they are all females I allowed to do this t me over the past few years. Lol. Guess that is bcs I am happy with my Hubby and did not need another man in my life. Don’t think that was always the case. Up till I met hubby there were TONS of guys that were my nightmare. Originally when I was going to write the blog, before the title came to my head I had a list of alias that went back to my 20s of people I knew. Lol, I was going to write about everyone. And still may. But this one recently take up so much of my mind bcs of the recent history. I mean death threats, threats of my house being burnt to the ground, fake suicide attempts, a fake stroke, being told we “groomed” someone that had more influence right there in her own yard. Like, come on now. I have enough from these last few years that my mind is overloaded enough.
But again the ADD got ahead and goes on a tangent. The reason I say I am my own worse nightmare is some of these people had more than one chance. Why? I knew what they were about? Why did I give them more than 1 chance? Why did I not say no get out. And be done with them after the first or second time. One of them in particular. I never even dated her. The biggest con of them all and I bought into it all. And in the end, I just said “I wanted to help her bcs her mom did so much for us”. That was her mom, not her. She tried to ruin us multiple times. She tried to ruin my RL family multiple times. She attacked my virtual family. And always blamed her mental illness. I even bought into her “getting help”. I look back on it now and realized she didn't want to get the help she got. She was forced. Which means she learned nothing. But at the time I heard “was hospitalized” and thought “Oh got help’. Kinda like my ex-girlfriend who also was hospitalized. Yet she had set while in the Hopi patrol and had a pregnancy scare. REALLY? That is totally getting help. But at the time all that went over my head and I heard it but didn't absorb any of it. So many things I didn't absorb. I believe she was put in the hospital twice, not of her own free will as well. Once for sure. And yet again, I just heard “She got help”. OMG, I was so dumb. The stuff I was buying with a $3 bill. I mean they are just as fake as the help these people were getting.
Ok, ok. You are going to say I don't know what they really got I am not in their shoes. you are right. But I know from an outsider what I saw when I was both on the inside and the outside of it. Looking back on convos that were had. Remembering what was said. Remembering what was done. Someone only gets as much help from something as they WANT to get. Like I get tons of help from my therapy sessions. Maybe not as much as I should have in the beginning bcs I still got into a lot of these messes but I sure as hell am getting a lot of help now. I am happy about where I am. Except for one thing. And that is why I still am writing and in therapy.
Well except one thing. I still blame myself for Marjorie. The biggest of all the mistakes. The one that was both RL and virtual. The one that conned/ scammed us out of so much money that my credit is bad now. Because half of that went on my and hubby's credit report. The apartment, I will not pay. It can stay on the credit. Bcs if that is paid then Violet will have a positive for herself, and I just can’t do that yet. Since they lived in the apartment. I'm stuck paying the rest, I need to take it all to court, but that’s for another day. Back to what I was saying, I still blame myself for that one. I should have had her out of our life multiple times. I wanted to always believe she got help. There is so much on this one. She tries to say we did stuff to her mom's place, but yet when we talked to them on multiple occasions things were fine. As for her mom, I will always be grateful to her family and hold no ill-will towards them. They are not at fault for what she does. I put myself in the position I did when I allowed her into our home. Whatever will fit her bill when she needs it to be fit. But then again that is what narcissists do.
I write these blogs as they help me get out what is in my head, and maybe it will help someone to not end up in a trap when they see something. There is so many types of nightmares. Some are born this way. Some are made this way by what happens to them. Either way. If you know you are one, and you say you are "getting help" over and over, when does it become true, or false. When people around the world comment on the same thing saying "We have heard/ seen this before when "triggers" but it doesn't change" ... Is a trigger BCS you are not getting your way? Bcs looking back that is what happened, I couldn't spend any more money. Now I was at fault for some things. I warned people about her around us. I would be told "It wasn't my right" but whose right is it. lol, Amazing what you learn in the end.
Narrisistic and user behavior. Two key components most of my nightmares had between them. But like I said, I blame myself for many of the things. Not all bcs I don't make them users. I just allowed them to use me without stopping them sooner. But it is ok, I would rather be without "friends" than have ones like them. And since I am so bad and seeing the signs, staying in a bubble and just doing school or playing games is a much better option for me at this point. At least I am not lying to myself or everyone around me anymore like so many I know.
Till next time....
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