- Hello my friends, Kaitlyn here.
And what happens after a relationship ends?
I mean, there are countless videos out there about breakups
and how to get over a breakup and yada yada yada.
I have contributed plenty of them!
But what about the parts of a relationship
that stay with you long after the breakup?
The post-relationship scars?
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So I've had three relationships
that I would consider serious in my lifetime.
And one of the things I found
to be consistent with all of them,
is how I found myself with scars stemming from them.
What I mean is,
ways the experience of the relationship has influenced me,
maybe good, maybe bad.
You gotta remember that scars aren't necessarily bad,
they're just physical indicators
of things that have happened to us.
Although I think the bad ones
are what tend to stick out to us over time.
Even though it's been years
since I dated my high school and college boyfriends,
there are still things that happen and will remind me
of something from so long ago and just, oh it can hurt!
I think what's important to remember
is that every relationship you're in, influences who you are
and how you act in future relationships.
Like right now,
I'm finding lots of bad habits and coping mechanisms
that I created in response to being with my ex.
And bringing those into any kind of new dating situation
that I'm in now
is making me realize how messed up they were.
And it's a lot of dumb things too.
Like my ex was very disorganized and forgetful
and so I kind of became the "Keeper of the Keys."
I kind of took on this responsibly
to know where his keys and wallet and stuff was at all times
and to know his calendar
so I could remind him of important things.
Because I learned when I didn't
then bad things would happen.
Like he'd lock his keys in his car, or get his car towed,
or lose his wallet in airport security.
All of these things really happened.
It was a mess sometimes.
So then I find myself being extra reactive with any guy now,
assuming that I'm going to have to be responsible
for his keys or stuff or whatever.
I had to have a pretty frank conversation recently
where a guy was like
"You are not responsible for my stuff, okay?
"It is not your job to be my keeper."
And that's just so revolutionary to me
because I spent so many years
being the one that had to be responsible.
So there's dumb stuff like that,
that just kinda sticks with you
until you kind of run face first into it
or someone points it out to you.
But there's also tougher stuff.
Stuff that sticks with you for a long time.
I talked about, in my "We Broke Up" video,
that I had to do a lot of emotional labor
in our relationship
and the fear of having to do that again
can be really overwhelming sometimes.
Like wanting to always stay an arm's length away
or basically overreacting
and being afraid of dealing with any emotional stuff
for fear of it all being dumped on me eventually.
Or like how ugly and unloved I was feeling
by the last year of our relationship,
and so it's really difficult for me now
to see myself as attractive,
as a person who someone would want to be with.
And pretty much if someone tells me
they think I'm attractive,
I assume that they are lying
and/or have have some sort of ulterior motive.
Because obviously they're wrong, right?
If my ex fell out of love with me
then how could anyone else find me attractive?
You see, that kind of messed up thinking?
Whoa, okay!
Not to be all super negative!
Because the positive side of all of this
is that once you start to see the scars and wounds
you have from a past relationship,
you have to take them and learn something from them.
Which, ho ho ho ho, I know is hecka hard!
But this is why self-reflection is great!
And super important in life.
So I am slowly finding all these scars
from my most recent relationship
and I'm trying to figure out
how to make them a lesson and not a detriment.
Not using them as an excuse for the way I act,
but instead trying to grow and change.
And not letting past hurts make me bitter or angry
or afraid of being in a relationship again.
It's a process, ya'll, but we can do it!
So for the question today,
I wanna know what some of your post-relationship scars are.
But, you gotta think of ways that you have learned from them
or grown or changed from them too.
Turning a negative into a positive!
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And I'll see you guys next Thursday!
Bye! (blows kiss)
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