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Post by neonspace on Aug 21, 2017 14:35:23 GMT -5
I'm curious how people compartmentalize the rejection from their spouse and any associated resentment from any other relationship?
I know that I have become overly sensitive to rejection and sometimes very basic rejections that happen to all of us every day I find challenging and frustrating when I probably shouldn't. I try to be mindful and remind myself that these interactions and relationships aren't my marriage and shouldn't bother me, but it still happens sometimes.
I could also see it making a relationship with an AP or future romantic relationships difficult if this isn't something that is addressed.
How do you compartmentalize and separate out the SM rejection from normal everyday rejection or rejection in a healthy relationship?
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Post by h on Aug 22, 2017 5:05:01 GMT -5
I'm still working on that. I know what you mean though. When friends brush me off after making plans to go do something, even if their reasons are valid and understandable, it still hurts way more than it should. Especially since I already don't get to see them very much anyway. This whole SM mess has screwed up my head. It amplifies the lonely feelings in any other interaction.
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Post by dinnaken on Aug 22, 2017 10:29:48 GMT -5
Hi neonspace This is a really good question that has got me thinking.
Rejection in everyday life isn't pleasant but I can deal with it. I think that I could deal with it better but the shortcoming on my part is probably as a result of the lowered sense of self-esteem / self-worth that spring from a long SM.
Oddly, I think that in many ways I dealt with the rejection in the sexless marriage quite well. I always saw the unwillingness on her part to engage in sex as her problem, at least when it came to resolving it - as clearly it was my problem as well but in a different way.
As time went on she revealed serious problems over body-image, as well as the consequences of a very religious mindset. I came to realise that for her sex was 'something that nice girls don't do' (beyond procreation). So for me it was a 'bait and switch' manoeuvre that I came to realise I was caught by.
That made me angry and resentful but they were very much HER problems to sort out and so I think that is how I dealt with the rejection. I always saw her turning away from sex as the consequence of her failure to deal with her skewed, deviant perspectives.
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Post by hopingforachange on Aug 23, 2017 7:16:48 GMT -5
I took compartmentalization to the extreme and put the bedroom issues in a separate box then the rest of the relationship. The boxes have been coming apart/ merging in therapy and it hasn't been fun.
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