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Separation Anxiety
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I’ve suffered from separation anxiety for well of 13 years.
We’ve just gone on our work break up for the year, and this means I’ll be going three weeks without seeing the person I love most. I haven’t even made it through a night and I already don’t have the strength to continue. I want to throw the towel in and call it quits. I can’t sleep. I can’t go without seeing him for so long.
is there any other adults here that suffer separation anxiety? And what have you done to help your symptoms?
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Hi Lehcar,
I and my girlfriend had similar experiences before, and now we are still together, so I hope my advice can be helpful for you. Before, my girlfriend was also feeling unseparable to me but somehow things just work out, I think because we have something we call priorities, at that time, I still used my parent's money to go to university so when I came back to my hometown because of financial burden, my girlfriend also either stay there or go back to her country as well, we can not do anything, the semester ended already, and we can not just put pressure on ourselves and also our parents, so we promised each other to call as often as we can, facetime texting,...etc and understand if one of us has been busy of something but we would not neglect each other, we spent talking every day like that for about 3 months and of course we had a little bit of arguments but it was settled after all, we all talked about that if when we are away and we do not have feelings for each other anymore, we can just let each other go, because love can not be forced, it should come from both sides, so I and her are happy with that and just let things happen naturally without overthinking the consequences. Furthermore, because I spent most of the time with her before so it is hard for me to go back without her, therefore I kept myself busy with doing a lot of things and being more social with people, and luckily my hometown is a small town, people are easy to talk with, I have things to do, I have friends and neighbours, at night I have her to talk,...etc my mind would not go around freely too much. I hope it is helpful
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