Question

[firecat]

(inspired by a comment I made in jodawi's journal)

When you break up with someone, do you feel stupid?

As in "I should have known this would happen, why did I bother getting involved," or "I should have prevented what led to this breakup"?

(This is not about anything currently happening in my life.)

Comments

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Historically, I've had more problems with the kind of thinking that could be described as "I always fuck up relationships, I know I'm going to fuck this one up, too, so I might as well get it over with and fuck it up now." Talk about your self-fulfilling prophecies.

When that's your relationship model, the "I should have known ... " part, when it finally arrives, is almost redundant.

I've been working on outgrowing this particular habit for a good long while now, though, to the point where I hardly ever get caught up in fabulating How It Will All End...