SHOULD I GO BACK TO MY OLD PARTNER?
December 2, 2011 in FrontPage Posts
…mmm. It was about 11:30am on a Wednesday morning when a journalist phoned and asked me some questions about an article she was writing. The subject was, “should I go back to my old marriag/relationship?” Such a pertinent question and an issue that recently left me with sleepless nights. Here are the facts. We were married for 18 years and met when I was in Grade 11. We had two children, one of whom is dead and the other married. We divorced over 10 years ago – I initiated the split.
Recently the ex and I were thrown together for our daughter’s wedding and all their friends wondered if we were still married. The thing is I live outside of the city, have a partner and do work I love. The ex on the other hand, is still dogmatic, opinionated and judgmental all be it he has now learned to cook, shop and care for the house – something he hated while we were married. Don’t get me wrong he’s a really good man – generous, intelligent, loyal, supportive and loving.
Then he met someone and I realised just how much I still loved him. He dumped me on the spot and I am still stinging from the loss. Should I have gone back while I still had the chance? Thing is I have dealt with my ‘issues’ and have been in therapy for a long time. I have gone through coaching and engaged in numerous self development courses. My ex, on the other hand, hates therapists and refuses to take respoinsibility for some of his destructive patterns. If I had gone back, that is exactly where I would have gone back to – an untenable situation that would probably have brought back all the old patterns that caused us such pain.
There is no solution to this other than if you are thinking about going back look at how far you have grown since the separation and how much personal power you have achieved? Has your partner truly changed and all those things that bugged you - are they now in the past? If he’s not willing to really LOOK at the relationship and engage with you on a deep caring level, my advice is DON’T GO BACK until he does.







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