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Wayward Side :
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 LonelyGuilty (original poster member #87155) posted at 10:18 AM on Wednesday, October 7th, 2026

I don’t know where to start.
I feel depleted.

I don’t know what shifted in me, but I feel distant 1million years, powerless, hopeless, unmotivated, deeply sad.

Even if by a miracle, tomorrow my H woke up all healed and forgiving, I think I’d still feel shattered because… there is nothing left to rebuild. And I would knew the healing is a rouse.

I had this picture in my head, that our relationship was in rubble but we could use that material to rebuild something new. But now I feel like the rubbles have been pulverised. So I am lost, the cord has been cute, all that remain is the pain and anger (my BS’)

Members of this community used different metaphors in the past to make me see how things are (e.g. the cake one).

But the above capture exactly why I feel how I feel.

Nearly 1 year has passed, and it’s just all worse. All worse. We had a peak in intimacy for some time, better communication, I learnt things, worked many things through. Bla, bla, bla.

But now, it’s just worse. Are we even still human beings? Or just the BS and the deeply flawed wayward.

Even work is going sh*t. I have been missing so many days and important stuff (because they were triggers for my BS, although I am in a different setting now, miles and miles away) that also that part of me doesn’t exist anymore (being excellent at my job). And I don’t care about work itself right now, I don’t care about my career, what hurts is that another part of me is becoming flawed.

Until a week ago, after bad days, getting closer with my BS made me feel always happy and hopeful for the future. Now it’s like a void and nobody has anything left to give. There is only pain all around.

I look at my BS and I feel so bad for what I did to him, but I also feel tired of being a punching bag and having almost every conversation turning into another argument exercise of how it’s all my fault, how shitty I am, how the original sin was also probably caused by me. (My BS is not abusive)

And I know it’s all true.

My therapist gave me some exercises for re-centring myself when I start spiralling like this.

Please note, I know I am not the victim. I know all of it. But I needed to let it out.

I am not putting a stop sign because there are some BS members that I respect and always have wise words.

But please, if you can, don’t call me out like "well, what did you expect?" Because I am already telling myself that after re-reading my words.

WW

DDay Oct 25 - Trickle truth until beginning of April 26

Final DDay (all out) 14 Apr 26

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Unconventional ( member #87720) posted at 12:34 PM on Wednesday, October 7th, 2026

I'm newer here than you, so what insight can I share? Not much. But, I am sorry that you are hurting and glad you were able to express your feelings. I hope others here--wiser than me--will be able to put a more encouraging framing on your experience for you.

I do wonder if you might be at a point where a therapist might not be help enough for you? Your therapist can probably guide you more ably than me. It's not my intention to judge--but if you are not already under the care of a psychiatrist, this might be an important and helpful time to seek psychiatric care--because it sounds like the difficult experience that you are suffering at home seems to have spread to a different setting--your workplace. I am a physician, but not a neurologist or a psychiatrist, and so: not truly a medical expert on the point I am about to allege, but--without having seen formal studies proving what I am about to allege, I believe it is possible for brain chemistry to get out of whack, creating a very bleak perspective, and to need a prescription nudge back toward better order--but I also believe it is possible for a bleak environment to alter brain chemistry such that a prescription nudge back toward better order in brain chemistry is needed. Far be it from me to allege that your experience of the world as you see it right now isn't real--but even as I grant the reality of the bleak outlook you perceive, I suspect that (further?) medicinal help might give you the strength needed to focus and endure right now until things get better. And sometimes, patient endurance is exactly what's needed to effect a brighter horizon.

Take care. Heal swiftly. I will say a prayer for a better tomorrow for you. I wish I was wiser for you.

Sincerely,

Unconventional

[This message edited by Unconventional at 12:44 PM, Wednesday, October 7th]

Sincerely, Unconventional

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