Pillar wrote:
I had a romantic relationship which went terribly, to a point I have been severely hurt
I wish I could talk this out but I am unsure how much that SO even cares
Anyway, I also tended to explode in academy. It was an unpleasant experience, but those people I exploded on kind of deserved it
Similar to this in that the last time I can remember having a wish that I'd been able to engage in a confrontation with someone properly was at the breakdown of my last relationship. She was very upset about something not related to me and I failed to pick up on her hints and signals that she was upset and that she needed a bit of space to get her head right. In the end she started ignoring me (which was fairly harsh on me but what she had found out and what she was upset about, which I didn't know at the time because she hadn't told me, was pretty severe so I don't hold it against her) and as I didn't know what was going on I just left where we were. We talked about why she was upset and we tried to go back to normal but it was awkward and she just chucked loads of feelings at me and how she didn't understand how I didn't know what she was feeling and didn't understand why I'd felt the need to leave. I couldn't tell her how I felt, I just froze because I didn't want an argument but she couldn't get over it and ended it a few days later. I wish I could have explained how I felt and maybe we'd have had an argument but understood each other better and survived it. Possibly could have saved several months of being heartbroken.