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Our Honeymoon
Our Honeymoon and the Reality
I finally asked Tina for some space to heal myself. The sad thing is when one asks for time and space from a fearful wounded person they tend to take this as rejection. I know because I had done this myself in my own early recovery. I tried very hard in many letters to explain to Tina I just couldn't handle her emotions as well as my own. I understood everything she was going through but I could not meet her needs. She had to many and was way to smothering and negative.
I knew my little girls' fears were so similar to my own fears in my early in my own recovery. So I tired not to take them personally. However she came across very demanding and pushy. If I had not of had recovery I would of ended up in giving into those demands and the trap of trying to fix Tina and make it ok for her.
I had a hard time making it ok with me at that time. I know from my own recovery I had to make it ok with me first or I wouldn't have anyone else or I will get drunk. I didn't want to loose Tina again. However I could not live in a game of being pushed and feeling responsible for someone else choices or life as an adult. I trusted that one day we would be back together again. I just didn't know when. I did know it would happen. I felt Tina needed time to work through her own 31 years before she found me. I needed to work on all my grief, loss, and emotional turmoil I was feeling around my dad's and mother's deaths as well as Tina reopening those feelings around her birth.
It was at this time Tina tried to hurt me for what she felt I had done to her. I finally said, "NO, NO, I cannot do this anymore. I am out of your life." This seemed to be the only way I could get her to HEAR what I was saying. I was sad to have to say this. I didn't want to loose her again; However, I didn't want to loose my own sanity or my recovery either.
I needed time out. I took it. I am extremely glad that I did. I had not stopped loving Tina. Love was not the issue here. My sanity and my sobriety were and are.
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