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@kayabbott

If one is going to a therapist and is still stuck, then that therapist isn't helping anymore. Messages on this forum are snapshots that only give partial pictures. We respond to them based on our lives and healing/hurting experiences. What I see is that neither of you is giving/accepting what the other wants right now. With healing and time that can change. Decades ago I was stalked after breaking up with an abusive boyfriend, so that colors how I read your message, fillybuster. That he was obsessed with me in no way indicates that you are anything but caring for her. It is why I recommended some time to focus on yourself, Because of my past, it would add stress if I had a boyfriend that was so focused on me. As it is, I have a husband that is focused on electronics and helping with the dishes and cleaning (a good tradeoff). You deserve to be treated well, and covid/life hits all of us differently. Life gets better once you are out of the tunnel.

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I pray that all of us who are affected in one way or another will find that tunnel and encourage others that there is indeed a light there. I have had very hard things in my life. This is in many ways the toughest because there was no warning and no way to prepare for the depth of impact it made on my partner and our relationship. I am trying to maintain the daily affirmations but say less about "us." I realized I had gone through stages of grief but had not come back to rejoin life. That is an insight from therapy, so I would be very cautious there to critique that for which you really can have no insight. That is the goal. I don't want to do it without her. I realize it may strangely be the only way to get her back if this disease relents. It is counter-intuitive, but then again, what about Covid in any way is intuitive? Take care and thank you.