{"id":255767,"date":"2010-01-31T15:29:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T20:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/?p=140927"},"modified":"2010-01-31T15:29:56","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T20:29:56","slug":"help-i%e2%80%99m-obsessed-with-his-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/255767","title":{"rendered":"Help!  I\u2019m Obsessed With His Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The past can make a strong and ugly appearance in the present&#8230;if you let it.\u00a0 His <strong>past experiences<\/strong> related to<strong> sex, love, drugs, or bad decisions<\/strong> could get into your head and haunt you forever.\u00a0 Why did he do those things?\u00a0 What does it say about who he is?\u00a0 What does it say about you?\u00a0 The <strong>questions<\/strong> could keep coming and you can be certain that you will <strong>never get any answers<\/strong> that help you to get over it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve <strong>experienced<\/strong> and witnessed many many relationships where one becomes absolutely <strong>obsessed with the past of the other<\/strong>.\u00a0 These usually occur when one person is <strong>more &#8220;experienced&#8221;<\/strong> in certain areas or when situations in your past make you put these situations on your significant other.\u00a0 It happens to both boyfriends and girlfriends and can be a <strong>painful fight<\/strong> that comes up again and again.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-140934\" src=\"http:\/\/images1.blisstree.com\/files\/2010\/01\/1077691_dark_secrets___.jpg\" alt=\"1077691_dark_secrets___\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Getting over someone&#8217;s past can be one of the <strong>most difficult experiences<\/strong> that you encounter in your relationship, but I guarantee that when you finally let it go you will <strong>feel free<\/strong> and open to deciding what the future may hold for you and your loved one.\u00a0 The longer you obsess over the past, the longer you are <strong>giving power to situations that you can not control<\/strong>.\u00a0 Strength in any relationship comes from realizing that you can find happiness in what you have the ability to control.\u00a0 The past is the past&#8230;it is there and <strong>it will not go away<\/strong>.\u00a0 It will not change, and there is nothing you can do to erase it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s okay to have feelings about someone&#8217;s past, but you need to <strong>stop yourself from obsessing<\/strong> over it.\u00a0 Obviously obsessions of any type are unhealthy, but behaviors like <strong>Facebook stalking<\/strong>, Googling obsessively, eavesdropping on private conversations, snooping through his things, and <strong>reading his emails<\/strong> signal <strong>dangerous behavior<\/strong> that will only result in hurting yourself.\u00a0 There is no need to find details about the past&#8230;it will only feed your obsession and cause you to ask more accusatory questions.<\/p>\n<p>If you are obsessed with your partner&#8217;s past you need to analyze it closely to figure out what to do.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How do his decisions in the past affect who he is today?<\/strong> Truly and honestly think about this.\u00a0 If bad decisions like lying and cheating occurred in his past, it is up to you to decide if you want to start from a clean slate or hold onto those indicators.\u00a0 If you decide that those problems still exist, then you need to consider ending the relationship.\u00a0 If you decide that he has learned from his past and moved forward, then let him move forward.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Does your obsession relate to something in your own past? <\/strong> Sometimes obsessions with the past can be projections that indicate insecurities about your own past.\u00a0 Have you cheated, lied, or engaged in bad relationship behaviors that you are putting on your significant other?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Is he not letting go of the past?<\/strong> If he is the one who is holding onto the past through behaviors like flirting with ex-girlfriends and talking about past experiences constantly, then it is not <em>you<\/em> who is obsessed&#8230;it is him!\u00a0 You need to have an open and honest discussion about this issue and decide if there is a reason why he is holding onto his past&#8230;unfortunately it could mean that he is not ready to move forward.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Don&#8217;t beat yourself up for obsessing over the past&#8230;just realize that it can be immature and hurtful to yourself if it is not based on any logical reasons.\u00a0 You could possibly be in an amazing relationship that does not need to involve the past at all.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t allow situations that you have no control over to determine the happiness in your relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\">Blisstree<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/help-im-obsessed-with-his-past\/\">Help!  I&#8217;m Obsessed With His Past<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past can make a strong and ugly appearance in the present&#8230;if you let it.\u00a0 His past experiences related to sex, love, drugs, or bad decisions could get into your head and haunt you forever.\u00a0 Why did he do those things?\u00a0 What does it say about who he is?\u00a0 What does it say about you?\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}