That whole "everything happens for a reason" shit is making a bit of sense to me here. There were some issues with my last chick and I that may have led to problems in the future, but I was so enamored with her and the sparks we had that I was willing to overlook them and had just started trying to convince myself that I could marry her some day despite those issues. And if I would've stayed with her there are a lot of lessons about myself, love and life that I never would've learned.
And of course if we'd have stayed together I wouldn't be with this current chick, who as I've said, is completely awesome. As amazing as my last relationship was, I'm already convinced that this one has the potential to be a million times better. We have even more in common than I did with my ex, and our personalities definitely mesh much better. My ex came from a very wealthy family and had been extremely sheltered and coddled her whole life, which led to a lot of naivety on her part, and feelings of not really being understood on my part, since I come from a dysfunctional blue collar family and have had to work for everything I've ever had.
I can relate with that big time. The only one of my girlfriends that I still think about and was sure (at the time) that we'd spend the rest of our lives together, was a spoiled brat and my family is also very blue collar. She definitely wasn't from a rich family, but she was the baby of her family (large family too, 6 kids) and her whole family just molly coddled the fuck out of her and gave her anything she wanted. She was also attractive enough that men would just do whatever she wanted.
She was only 19 when we got together, I was 23 at the time, and she struggled with depression that I thought I could pull her out of. But you can't fix people, that just isn't the way it works.
I was so dedicated to our relationship that even though I could clearly see the downward spiral that we were both creating for one another, I was dead set on just sticking it out and making it work. Finally after 2 years of being engaged I broke up with her simply because I could see she wasn't happy, I knew I wasn't, and we hadn't had sex for a couple months, which was really the biggest indicator that it wasn't working. I was starting to be super attracted to other women too.
Even now I have dreams about our relationship. I've had prophetic dreams my whole life, so I take them very seriously. I know some people would call bullshit on that, but it's the truth, and you can explain prophetic dreams in a logical way in a number of ways that I don't want to explain right now, but they've always been a part of my life.
I dreamed that I was sailing away from a gorgeous city surrounded by mountains when we broke up. In the dream I was on a boat and didn't want to leave the city, but a close friend (who was steering the boat) told me not to worry, that I'd return again, but it was best to leave right now. Before we broke up I dreamed that I was with her and was packing her through crowds of different people and all of the people were very trashy, doing drugs, drinking, etc.. By the end of the dream I was trying to keep her on my back as she just relaxed nonchalantly. I was trying to go up a ladder and force the both of us through a trap door that was stuck partially open, but the both of us wouldn't fit. As these people were trying to grab my legs and pull us both down, I had no choice but to let go of her and go through the door myself. I stopped on the other side and tried to offer my hand, but she was being carried off by those people and was still just relaxing and letting them carry her where ever they wanted.
I know I learned alot of valuable lessons from the relationship, but now I'm frightened at the prospect of a serious relationship. I'm actually a really sensitive guy, which no one around me would guess because I appear masculine and tough, but I think that sometimes the people who appear that way are actually the most sensitive and put up a wall for instinctive self defense. I'm trying to get over that fear, but any time I think about being serious with someone, that fear just creeps up and I don't know how to deal with it.
Sorry for the long post, once I get to typing I just get carried away with details lol.