
I know that one of my biggest problems that I have, not only in my journey of finding love, but in life in general is trust. I have a problem trusting other people. I want to be able to trust others, or even begin to start trusting others, but I just can’t bring myself to do so. Most people who’ve had trust issues is due to the fact that they have had some traumatic experience, usually a bad relationship, that has caused them not to want to trust anyone else……well I haven’t. I haven’t had a traumatic experience, but more so, many smaller, bad experiences. They range from bad relationships with family members, some “friends,” and one bad relationship. I’ve already talked about my bad relationship some so I guess I can talk about the others for a moment. I’ll start with those “friendships” that went wrong, I’m not sure I’m ready to discuss my family issues just yet. When I was younger, I never really had any close friends, well at least not until I was in middle school (or jr. high, as some people like to call it). I met this girl in middle school and we became immediate friends, I guess because we were so much alike. Like most friendships, we had an occasional disagreement, but it would be over in like 5 minutes. Everything was okay until we both became friends with two more girls. Somehow some drama started our sophomore year of high school and we went from being best friends to enemies. At first I was so confused as to how she could go from being my best friend to instantly not liking me because I wanted to stay neutral in the drama that she and the other girls had going on. That was the first time my TRUST had beenBROKEN. I had trusted her more than most people who I knew at the time and I couldn’t believe th
at she could do something like that. Even though I didn’t realize it at the time, that day I started building a wall around myself, a fortress. Every time that something would happen where someone had tried to hurt me emotionally or mentally, or had tried to take advantage of me……every time that someone had broken my trust, I added another brick or layer to my fortress. Now I’m clinging to that fortress for dear life because it has become almost like a security blanket for me. It’s as if it protects me from ever being hurt, misused, or mistreated again. But now…..now I’m coming to realize that it’s not that much of a security blanket….it’s not protecting me. It’s no longer keeping all the bad things out. Now the only thing it’s doing is keeping me locked in. I’m being held prisoner by something I built to help me protect myself. I find it frustrating because logically I know that I have to overcome this, that I have to breakout, but emotionally I don’t want to. I want so bad to be able to trust him (at this point I don’t think I even need to mention his name) but I’m finding that I can’t break out of this fortress that I’ve built around myself, I’ve crashed into that wall. You guys may think that I sound right crazy when I post, and honestly I don’t care if you guys do…in fact I think I’m crazy half the times too. This whole situation has taken me to a place that I’ve never been to and I find that it scares the crape out of me. I don’t know what to do anymore, I don’t know what to think. Some days I’m so depressed that I don’t want to anything except curl up into a ball and cry…..and it’s all because I can’t break free from this prison I’ve made for myself.
Until next time…
D.A.