there are several reasons partners choose to end a relationship in this way, which we’ll examine in this post, along with alternatives to overlapping, and ways to grieve if your partner has chosen to end your relationship by “overlapping”. and, once the overlapper begins to get close to someone new, they may unconsciously start to pull walls up or feel guilt or pressure to end the relationship because of promises to – or honeymoon stage dreams with – a new partner that feels much more exciting and attractive. most often, overlappers are unable to sit with the pain and discomfort of a breakup and the void that exists following a relationship ending.
alternatives to overlapping are really new coping mechanisms for a breakup, which include: examining how friends, family, nature, and even animals can fill the void left by a relationship ending, or how you can fill that void with self-care and self-love over the last few decades, many new approaches to ending relationships have emerged, including ghosting, benching, overlapping, and rebounding. if you have been trying to find a partner for some time, … feeling bored in your relationship might feel inevitable. she has experience in the following issues that co-ccour or contribute to relationship issues: trauma, abuse, ptsd, anxiety and depression (including postpartum depression and bipolar disorder). center for shared insight is a safe place for clients and families of all ages, genders, cultures, religions, sexual orientations and walks of life.
you experience a myriad of emotions, and sometimes, you feel guilty or even blame yourself for why the relationship ended. the people they move on to are bridges providing an excuse and an exit out of their current relationship. a week later i was at our old flat collecting stuff and listened to the voicemails most of which were for me except one from 5 am the week before. you want your relationship to mean something, but the fact that your ex moved on doesn’t mean that the relationship is and was meaningless; they just don’t want to face anything. you know, i really thought it was weird for me to feel this traumatized by the experience with the exmm, but i think it may go deeper. learner, i’m glad and also flattered that my homespun philosophy has been a help to you. it doesn’t have to go so far back as something that happened in your birth family — no, sometimes just a man you loved who lied to you and then deliberately shredded your heart and stamped all over your soul while making you watch him do it is quite enough to inflict the damage. i was in a very abusive marriage and the person i ‘overlapped’ with gave me the support and strength i needed to get out of a horrible situation and on to better days. but i have known women in this situation, and i would never in a million years look down on them for what they did. for me, the struggle is the humiliation that i feel and the sense of unfairness that he was willing to drop me so easily for someone he barely knew. but i woke up to the fact that this was no way to treat people and changed my ways to break up properly with people. i haven’t posted in ages, but my ex-husband is the global spokesperson for overlappers. given that i was his ow, then his “girlfriend” between online dates and securing the new victim, is it a shock that cheating was imminent? i would have had no idea he was attempting to start an affair just before he married victim three, had she not emailed me out of the blue and sent me a text he sent her, asking her for a date, and he didn’t mention victim 3 at all. now that i am near over him, i am being faced with all the issues that were there before him and that lead me to him in the first place. wow, i initiated a break that sounds a lot like your situation and have had to come face to face the same realities of my past. i’m in that space because every time i got out of a relationship i was looking for another one to feel the emotional void. i did that and wound up with a psychopath. there are so many things i want to do with my life now, and i´m feeling an enthousiasm i hadn´t known since i was a little girl and all this relationship-stress began. i have things to accomplish and i’m not worried about who the next one will be, if there is a next one. i was like that too off course, but it’s so sad when you break the pattern and see others still blind for this stuff. i know i have overlapped when getting out of my marriage and getting involved with the psychopath. he said his ideal was to keep seeing me and see her on the odd occasion, but he knew i wouldn’t go for that arrangement so he said he would be her friend but no sex. last thing i needed was to run into her, sort of defeated the purpose of my health goals. and i refuse to put myself in any situation i know, damn well, i don’t want to be in. working through all the memories, hurt and pain is making me a stronger person and i am blossoming into the woman i was meant to be because of it. after that it still dragged on for one and a half years, with me not being able to grasp what he had done and what he was doing. the breakup would have been fine had i not discovered that he was on eharmony during our on-again period and also discovered he was getting a little close with one of his camping buddies. i have been single since, and try not to think about him, knowing he was never right for me, but the overlap has killed my spirit. so i do hope that people will see this and not tar all overlappers with the same brush. breaking up with somebody – and i do mean a relationship wich left you feeling like the rug was pulled from under your feet – is an emotional drain. i came to my relationship with a clean slate. what i do see value in is being honest and taking responsibility for one’s actions – and i think that includes making the effort to become aware of bad behaviors and then changing them. i know plenty of people who’ve been horrible in a relationship context but are lovely to non-partners – they just don’t handle the intimacy very well. for me, gaining some understanding of where he was coming from is part of the process of getting over him and i don’t believe it has been pointless. it is hard for me at the moment to view him as a human being with good points and vulnerabilities, but i suppose he has them. i think that the key points are that: he was awful to you (horrible, in fact, and fwiw he’s top of my deserves an anonymous kick in the groin list) and that you can’t change him. lawrence the one guy i dated who is the biggest ac ever, did have remorse and he was sometimes sick of himself and wanted to change his behavior. there’s only one word that i can think of to describe this attitude – and i mean it in the traditional sense and not as an insult – but i’m afraid it’s ‘pathetic’. really, if you are thinking of upgrading or trading in for a new model it would be so much kinder,less painful, and the right thing to do to let that person you’ve been with for umpteen years know. you’ll find, like i experienced, that with my ex, who didn’t technicaly overlapped, if we hàve to count minutes that is, that it indeed was always ‘the ladies dropping out of the sky’. i mean, the only reason a romantic partner wants to give them credit is because they love them and don’t want to lose them. i do understand where he is coming from from his point of view, but it’s a selfish point of view, and this is a place where many of us ladies feel like we can clearly state that. i do not feel the urge to be a florence nightingale to this man. for me personally, i was awful in relationships but i always told myself that i was doing the ‘nicest, kindest’ thing – and i had to seriously debunk that myth before i could change. i had no clue until i started to feel the disconnection from him and thought i should investigate what was going on. the ex-ac and i had a very sudden, unexpected breakup (ie. even the one trying to change her behaviour, a journey i offered her a great deal of support with, because she again got involved with a mm despite her efforts. the way it was told to me was a classic. you want what you had to mean something but the fact that they’ve moved on doesn’t mean that your relationship is and was meaningless; they just don’t want to face anything and they want a fresh start as soon as possible. i also want the relationship to have meant something and it did to me. it was obvious the guy was an a-hole and i didn’t want to believe it. i agree with lawrence, it’s disrespectful to your partner and to the relationship – most of the time. i think what was “wrong” with the girls he dated is that all of them, including me, didn’t rush into marriage, we wanted to take it slow (i was 25, just after my masters degree and wanted some time just for living a fun life, not jump into all that serious stuff like marriage, kids, a house and etc. can’t blame him– she just started ignoring his emails when he was out of town and never officially told him she had met someone and was all of a sudden not that in love with him ad going to go to therapy with him to make it work. i think once you have come to terms with the fact that it’s them who needs the comfort blanket of an overlapping relationship as they are not strong enough to cope with the break up emotions and it’s not got anything to to do with you or your relationship, then you can let go easier… i was the over lapping relationship victim to then be a victem of him overlapping our relationship with someone else! i was so in love- and so he seemed to be, too. but i decided to give us a chance… and that´s when i learned that 1. during this 3 weeks of my doubting he found someone new nearby (he must have been looking!) i think that i have discovered one of the ‘clues’ to an overlapper. i then saw him out with a couple of different girls and found out that he married the third one 9 weeks after he met her. i did this myself, only for a couple of weeks, but it did not end well and i really regret it. the pain they cause is impossible to measure and i only hope as we evolve further and women become smarter we will see the extinction of these jerks. my self esteem dropped to below zero and the pain of the rejection was unbearable. one of the sites i visisted a lot in the beginning was runawayhusbands.com.
from your description, your ex stuck with you while it was easy and felt good, but when things got difficult it turned out that he wasn’t committed to the relationship, just the feeling. not the first time he was about to disappear and go dark, only to come back with a slew of lies and future faking, after he’s had his fun elsewhere. when you see the situation for what it is, and see these kind of people for who they are (lacking integrity, morals, good character traits) you wont give a damn what happens to them. it took me a long while to move on, and i hardly think about him anymore. i’m too embarrassed to even admit how short a time we were together – and i didn’t know he was doing any of this until when breaking up with me he admitting he was trying to “juggle two budding relationships at the same time.” who the hell did he think he was, don juan? this particular article got to me and touched a deep well of anger that i thought i’d pretty much drained. i bought into the “we met at the precipice” and in a way that appeared true as they had been separated for 2 years (living apart) and he assured me that they were just coming to terms with the custody arrangement. i let the finalisation of my divorce drag on for a while, because i wasn’t emotionally ready to cut the final ties. they don’t think about wanting to be ‘good’ for humanity and decide one day to be a volunteer for the red cross or something, lol. this idea that all are good, in my opinion, is the hardest to overcome and in which to act on in getting out of the relationship. my issue is that i don’t like the justification of cheating with the “i had no other option but to cheat to get out” excuse. nor is it an excuse for the nonsense i put up with and the pain caused to others in my denial. i has to do with the reality that you must see before your eyes and calling it for what it is. i think the reason i was so vulnerable and willing to put up with his crumbs was my loneliness. i tried to end it with the eum. we went on a few dates and they were so counter to everything i had experienced with the eum/ac that i think it did wonders for my self-esteem. i was close to done w/ the eum and i think the universe gave me a little nudge. i made a list of the qualities i want, deal breakers, and made a conscious decision to go it alone for a while. i told him what happened and he immediately made phone calls, took control of the situation and offered to help me out. if you took the time to read this, i thank you for that too. and i think that i run the risk of distorting my perception. why are we obsessed with the notion that time is not on our side and that we have to have a relationship right now? if nothing else, i feel desirable, that i do have options and if this is just a brief merry-go-ride, i need to hold on to the knowledge that a man can want me and want to do right by me. he has a right to see his child, but on your terms and only if he honours the arrangements. at the moment he’ll be making out to himself and everyone else that you were a ‘mistake’ and she’s the love of his life. the thing that i most regret now is that i was too busy being sad to really enjoy my son’s babyhood. i wanted to make sure she was out of that relationship. her “ex” had cheated on her for years, like a fool i let her use me to get back at her ex. i stuck my head in the sand and let it all happen. because i was still hurt and feeling betrayed, i inflated my ego to the size of godzilla and thought that i, “rosie” was the reason the wife was feeling so insecure. he has left a trail of damaged women and children behind him and now lives on the other side of the world. i hope and believe that people can change otherwise the outlook for all of us is bleak. but when you are in a relationship, you are (supposed to be) accountable and concerning of someone else. it was enough for me to let my guard down and i let things slip back into the personal again. the next day, he cooked me breakfast, we went on a stroll and i went home. then i got the “come over and give me some love”, i called him out on it immediately and he was like “why are you being emotional, this is what dating is”. i asked him straight up and he was like “i want you to be my girlfriend, chill out!! he was clearly after the physical aspect and he is trying to maintain a physical realtionship with, one that is clearly casual but he masks it up with what he thinks women want to hear. i have seem how he talks to his mom (on the phone) and he has two dogs who he adores….i love his dogs too! i think that at this stage it’s polite and sensible to send some sort of official cut-off but i agree that you don’t owe him anything. i have the policy that i won’t date separated men as you never know you could be listed in a divorce! i escaped that bullet as he was trying to overlap with me with the following events. i know i have to come to the realization that he was what he was, he did what he did & i accepted all of it. it took a while but, i eventually gave in to him believing he had changed & really was sorry for what he did. i was devestated to say the least. anyways, although i know he was a waste of my time i still have moments of regret, feelings of love for the person i thought he was & feelings of why her & not me but, i am working hard on that & thanks to you natalie, i’m starting to realize that i really wasn’t crazy. i think even though it’s really important to understand the disorders in order to define and clarify the characteristics, it’s even better to be a healthier person, to have boundaries and values. crumbs, i’m watching my 23 yro daughter go through a bad break up with the bf and she is turning to another guy. it’s great that she’s felt able to tell you about the abortion and i wouldn’t underestimate how much your support is helping her, though, or how grateful she’ll be for it when she looks back on this time in her life. i hurt for him and want to shake him at the same time. however, i also think our awakening is often of the rude variety for a reason. however, i found out quite by chance he had overlapped me for 14 months with a work colleague who i eventually saw, and which has helped me considerably to get over and out of the relationship for good. you say it was unintentional and that u don’t handle breakups very well so how is that justify saying that you leave the relationship only to overlap with someone else. it also means that i can start working on why i allowed myself to be a ‘target’ in the first place. that is why at the start you go through the idealization stage where they seem to put you on a pedestal and worship you. he may even try to be “that guy from the beginning” for a few days/weeks, cos he know that works. it is ‘beneath’ a true narrcissist to see themselves with a low achiever), however, i agree strongly that the only sane option with a narrcissist is to opt out; the sooner the better. but your comments have endorsed my observations after we split that no i was not going mad, i was in the presence of a full blown narcissist and i never, ever want to meet anyone like him again. in typical fashion, i made a wisecrack right at the end of the night, which led to our mutual friend introducing us. and i share a bit more on surprising myself by going to therapy in episode 247 of the baggage reclaim sessions which is available on all podcast players. so let them be scared because boundaries filter in the people, opportunities and things that allow you to be more of who you are, not less of it. i didn’t know what lay ahead, and i had to work through a lot of stuff along the way and really own and back myself. the more you try to make sense of out of nonsense is the more you mess with your head. #baggagereclaim #trustyourintuition #trustyourgut #listentoyourself #listentoyourbody #yourbodyisntwrong #emotionalintelligence #innercritic #healthyboundaries #selfcare #recoveringpeoplepleaser #recoveringperfectionist #peoplepleaser #peoplepleasing #notetoself???? … so much of what we believe we ‘should’ be and do to be good leaves us feeling anything but this.
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