The guy wants to be alone what to do. Why do you need to “let a man go” alone? What will happen to a man if he is not “released” into the cave?

06.07.202327.05.2017

Should we give each other personal space, which men need even more than women?

If you have read John Gray's book "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus", then you probably remember the term "man cave". A place where a man sometimes goes to recover, put his thoughts and feelings in order, and at the same time remember how much he loves his wife.

What is a "Man Cave" and why does a man need it?

It doesn't always look like a cave. Most often, this is some kind of hobby outside the home or just a place where he likes to be alone. We are, of course, not talking about brothels and casinos. Rather, this includes fishing with friends, his office and workplace, trips to conferences and events, and even a separate office in the house where no one has the right to enter.

When a man has a crisis - and crises of various sizes constantly come to us without knocking - it is important for a man to retire. And think alone.

What do we do most often? Let's be honest? We're trying to get him out of there. From the embrace of this cave of his. The motives may be different:

He feels bad! I have to help him!
What if he stops loving me there?
His friends are a bad influence on him.
I need to know what he thinks.

And so on. In practice, we are pursuing the man. Sometimes we just try to lure him out - very quietly and innocently. Sometimes we break in and cause a scandal. Sometimes we gather the public at the entrance to the cave so that everyone can tell him that he can’t do that.

There are three types of persecution:

Physical. For example: “You’re not going anywhere!” Or you can just follow him around, go fishing for him, make a “surprise” by flying to his conference or setting up a field kitchen at his work. Without his consent
Emotional. Since we ourselves cure negative emotions by talking, we try to feed our husband the same pill. “Talk to me! I see that you feel bad! What's happened? Don't be silent! This not only does not calm the man down, but irritates him.
Moral. To become such an ideal wife that he would never even think about going somewhere without me. “Well, how can you, I do everything for you, and you! This is unfair! This is wrong! I sacrificed everything for you and didn’t go to the concert. And you!!!"

Why don't we want to "let go" of a man alone?

Why is it so unbearable for us to see a loved one resting somewhere without us in some strange way? There are several reasons, some of them lie in our nature, and some in our childhood.

For a woman, intimacy is very important. This is one of our basic needs. And when there is no intimacy, it becomes very difficult for us. The problem is that we decided that a close relationship is only possible with our husband. We don't build them with other people. More precisely, we do not pay enough attention to female friendship. But it is our friends who can give us so much intimacy that our mind will calm down for a long time.
We are different. You and I solve problems by talking. And we believe that men are built the same way. Therefore, we try to help them, without considering that they are different.
Often we simply don’t know what to do when he’s not around on the weekend. What about the ritual of watching a movie and going for a walk before bed? Who should I go for a walk with?
Loneliness becomes terrible even when our father has already left us in childhood. The child does not understand that dad left mom, and not him. And all his life he repeats after his mother: “Dad abandoned us both.” And then it’s really scary - now he’s leaving, what if she’s the same one who stole my mom’s dad?
If you have already been abandoned by other men, there have been infidelities and painful breakups, the topic of male distance will also become a problem.
If you were ignored by your parents, then being temporarily ignored by your loved one will also bring you pain. Just like in childhood. When no one cares about you, what kind of love can there be?
If you don’t have a hobby and an outlet to occupy yourself with, you will also suffer, but from not knowing what to do with yourself. Here it is important to remember that things are only interesting to those who are already interested in themselves.

H what will happen to the man if he is not “released” into the cave?

He becomes passive. He lies there for a long time, and his enthusiasm for work decreases. Not only is he not ready to perform feats, he can’t even go for water. There's just no motivation. Why? Because the only motivation for men's actions is love for a woman (or God).
He feels no love for his wife. Because male love has a cyclical nature. To understand how much he loves his wife, a man needs to miss her. And this is the best way to renew feelings. A woman has a different mechanism - we are always in contact with our feelings, so everything is quite stable with us. And a man needs to remember this. Again and again. At least once a month. To fly on wings, bored, and move mountains. Remember in what regime the knights of the past lived. A crusade - on the wings to the beloved with prey - then again a crusade to return to her again, exhausted from love.
A man who is not released in time becomes irritable and angry. To regain control of himself, he needs to collect his thoughts and feelings, to collect himself into a heap. And he can only do this alone, in his cave. Sometimes his friends may be in this cave. But this is external. In fact, it is collective loneliness. Have you ever seen real fishermen? They will sit far from each other and remain silent all day. For a woman this seems like madness, but for men it seems like real relaxation.
He may find uncivilized forms of care. Alcohol, drugs, computer games - this is the same retreat into a cave, only such withdrawal destroys a man’s personality and family relationships. But if he has no other option, the only option left is so as not to completely go crazy.

In a word, a man who is not released into the cave in time becomes not only “inconvenient”, but also destructive. He can break out of the blue on his wife or children. After this, a feeling of guilt will begin to gnaw at him, which will only increase the discomfort.

Why does a man want to be alone and what should a woman do?

Absence gives love a special taste. The joyful taste of a meeting when both miss you. And again we are ready to see the good in each other. Even if you separate for just one day, when your husband goes to work, in the evening you wait for his return. Because we missed you.

It is necessary and important for a man to have personal space and personal time. But with the birth of children, we often forget about this. Because we need help. We become more dependent - and it is very scary to be left alone.

With the birth of children, all our childhood traumas become aggravated. All that we have not fully lived, we accepted and let go. When we are terrified of losing our partner, most likely we are afraid of losing our father (or our mother) in him.

When we begin to demand complete care and guardianship, it is as if we are trying to replace our parents with a spouse. And this can go on for a long time. It is the birth of a little person that triggers a chain reaction of our ancestral and childhood memories. When he reaches the age at which something difficult happened to us, it becomes difficult for us too. Therefore, usually our desire to be always together intensifies precisely after the birth of children. We are too vulnerable in this moment to be alone in this moment. But how much we lose!

Let's talk about what to do with ourselves? How can you not go crazy and pester him with calls? There are a lot of options:

Read your favorite book
Watch a movie - you can do it alone
Do some general cleaning
Chat with friends
You can invite a friend to visit for a couple of days
Go to a seminar or training
Go visit your parents
Go for a massage or to a beauty salon
Participate in a volunteer project
Pursue your hobby
Go to dancing or art classes
Arrange shopping and so on.

Indian girls were once prepared for family life by telling the following parable:

“In the life of every man, once a month there are special days when he must go to a cave. It is his sacred duty to fight the dragon in this cave. It is very dangerous and risky, but it is the duty of every man.
So when you get married, be prepared for this. Once a month, your husband will go into his cave stressed out and come back victorious.
Do not pursue him under any circumstances. Because even if you track him down and find this cave, and then try to go inside, this dragon will attack you and burn you with its flame.”

The story is metaphorical, because that same dragon is simply a manifestation of the worst qualities of a husband, which can splash out on the head of an unlucky wife.

Therefore, let's take care of each other and be understanding of our characteristics and needs. After letting your husband go into the cave, don’t forget to take care of yourself!

Many thanks to John Gray and Ruslan Narushevich for their knowledge about the nature of male distances!

One of my friends from the life before last - let's call her Ira - was convinced: a man and a woman who make up a couple should sleep under a common blanket. Always. Well, except maybe for those rare cases when one of them has temporarily become an idiot, a scumbag and/or a drunk, and therefore spends the next night on the couch. Ira believed: the second blanket is the first step towards breaking off the relationship. And I was very surprised if such truisms had to be explained to anyone. And I had to explain. Because romance is romance, but after the third night in a row, when it’s hot in your arms, otherwise you only fit half under the blanket and are trying to fall asleep in an asana inaccessible to Indian yogis, you want to take it and... get a second blanket from the closet! A person, even the most sensitive and in love, from time to time just needs
rest.

Now you’re asking me why men don’t want to go on vacation with you. It’s so romantic - eating croissants at dawn and having a cappuccino mustache, and then kissing under the Eiffel Tower! You ask, and I immediately remember Ira. And the men who found themselves under her suffocating blanket, in general, of their own free will (for the purpose of joint entertainment). But after spending some time on this matter, and then about another hour on all sorts of fun, they were faced with a natural desire, excuse me, to sleep.

It’s the same story with separate vacations. Sometimes it is simply necessary. Of course, it is difficult to imagine a happy couple in which both have completely different ideas about leisure and do not spend their free time together. How difficult it is to imagine a couple who meet in bed, only to sleep, each under his own blanket. I propose not to consider this situation, because it is abnormal. It’s a completely different matter when the relationship is harmonious: there is romance (remember that burnt scrambled egg that he tried to poison you with on Saturday?), and going to the movies together, and topics for discussion. But for some reason he sends you on vacation with his girlfriend. And you’re like, “Hmm... I wonder what he’s going to do without me, huh?” Nothing. Perhaps literally. Lie on the sofa in your underpants, watch Star Wars, iron your laces... In short, exhale. Recover mentally. Finally missing you. And the main thing is to gain strength for joint fun under a common blanket.

Ruslan, 30

“My girlfriend Masha and I have been together for three years. And all this time she asks the same question: “Aren’t you bored with me?” It’s more fun with friends, right?” I tell her that I feel very good, comfortable, and have fun with her, but sometimes I really want to be alone or in the company of guys with whom I can discuss men’s issues. It is terribly difficult to explain to my beloved that this does not affect our relationship in any way and my meetings with friends do not mean that I am tired of her. We are not Siamese twins, but two adults!”

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Roman, 24

“For a long time we were inseparable: we went on visits together, we went to football games together (and she hates football!), we went on vacation together. I was pleased that she shared all my hobbies, but one day she said: “You don’t do anything for me!” Honey, I’m ready to do anything for you if you would give me a chance. I don't want my woman to live only my life. I want us to learn new things together - she was interested in my desires, and I learned a lot from her. You just need to discuss, and not silently follow on my heels.”

Mikhail, 27

“All my life I have fought for personal space: as a child, my brothers and I shared a room for three, in my youth - a dorm room, and then - one bed with my wife. The last point, of course, is the most pleasant - I love to hug her at night and feel an acute lack of the desired woman when she is not around. But sometimes I really need to be alone in order to calmly think about my problems, desires and aspirations. For some reason, Vasilisa (my wife) does not recognize my right to be completely alone for a while. Darling, I think about our future! Give me time!

Albina, good day!

This can mean many things, for example, that when meeting new people we are attracted to something new in them, an opportunity to expand our horizons, our social circle, to replenish our world with new impressions, emotions, and knowledge. Some time passes and the person who was previously the bearer of everything new is no longer so (he becomes like a read book and here everything depends on the internal content of this book or is put on a shelf and successfully forgotten, or a desire arises to re-read it again and again).

Of course, you can promise to improve, but doing this on your own is often problematic, since a person by nature is inclined to repeat his mistakes again and again because he uses familiar, well-known patterns and patterns of behavior. This can be corrected if you consider your behavior model, your preferences and expectations together with a specialist and together with him find ways out of the current situation.

Unfortunately, the framework of this communication format does not make it possible to find out in more detail the essence of what is happening and ask a few clarifying questions, but if you, Albina, have a desire, you can call me on Skype, by phone or sign up for an in-person consultation. I will be glad to help you. All the best!

Glinyannikov Yuri Gennadievich, online consultant Irkutsk, Bratsk.

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When does a man need solitude?

The article appeared in response to a letter with a question from one of the site’s readers. I will quote the letter:

“I read your book with great joy: “How to make a man fall in love with you for life, or Never run after a man, let him run after you.” Of course, as I master the material, I put the acquired knowledge into practice. All the tips work just wonderfully.

The question just arises. When does a man need rest? How to determine that he needs rest? For how long and in what form? How can you avoid mistakes with your upbringing (meaning the upbringing of a man) and do everything right? I will be grateful to you if the answer appears on the page, even if only in a few phrases.”

I would like to briefly remind you of what I wrote about in Chapter 7, “How to keep a man? Let him take a walk and get bored." I quote part of the chapter: “If a man and a woman are constantly, without rest, together and constantly communicating, then no matter what personal qualities the woman has, sooner or later the man will become bored with her.

Therefore, it is much simpler and more practical to make not 365 varieties of one wife for every day in order to maintain a man’s interest and keep him, but to make the man hungry and spend a lot of energy, and he would have an appetite.

How can you make a man hungry?

The answer is quite obvious; firstly, you need to limit communication and let the man be alone.

Secondly, give or encourage the man to have a good run in the air so that he works up an appetite.

And now a little more detail on each point.

It is necessary to limit communication. Let the man be alone and, of course, let the woman herself be alone.

It seems to me that I have already said that one of the basic needs of a man is the need to be alone. This need is more or less common to every man. And not only for men. This need is clearly visible in children. And many women prefer loneliness to constant communication with people around them.

Let's get back to the men. A man wants to walk the streets alone, explore the space, so to speak, mark his territory. Or he wants to go to the bathhouse with friends, sit and chat. Or he wants to sit stupidly in front of the computer and do nothing. Or go fishing and so on.

Quite often I notice that women begin to get offended by men when they try to be alone. And even if they are not offended, they try to find “useful things to do” when the man, in the woman’s opinion, does nothing.

Arguments are given like this: “We haven’t gone to our relatives or to the theater together for a long time. It's the weekend, and you can't even be with your wife. You need to wash it, put it away, shake it out, etc.”

(Looking ahead, I’ll say that in our family we solved everyday issues like this: on Friday we do the cleaning, clean everything, wash it, shake it out, do the basic shopping, and the weekend is the weekend for us.)

Women, do not take a man’s need to be alone personally. If a man wants to be alone, this does not mean that he no longer likes you. And this does not mean at all that he is offended by you, or that he is tired of you. (Although this may be the case, but we are talking about something else now)

If women understood the importance of loneliness for good relationships, then they themselves would kick their men outside at least a couple of times a week to be alone for 4 hours.

I will list some positive aspects of loneliness for the life of a man and a woman together:

Loneliness is not a state in which a man becomes weaned from a woman. Loneliness is a state where a man, on the contrary, begins to miss a woman more. Of course, you need to understand everything in moderation. If you communicate once every 2 weeks, then such communication may not be enough to develop the relationship. Now we are talking about the period when you have already started living together.”

If a man is not allowed to be alone periodically, he becomes irritable.

If a man is not allowed to be alone, then they begin to get sick more often.

They say that if a man is not allowed to be alone periodically, he becomes irritable.

They say that if a man is not allowed to be alone, then they begin to get sick more often.

They say that if a man is not left alone periodically, he begins to avoid his beloved woman (lose interest in her) so much so that he may end up with divorce.

They say that if a man is not left alone, then he cannot process 90% of the problems within himself and begins to voice them to his woman (whining, essentially), after which she ceases to respect such a “hero” (the consequences are simple).

Unlike talk about Moscow chickens that give milk (I hope everyone knows this statement), all these statements are true. If you give the male psyche rest, then your value in the eyes of a man soars a couple of meters up.

I’ll just briefly repeat what rest is for a man, or more precisely, how it differs from rest for a woman.

First. According to my wife, her friends and my relatives, relaxation for a woman can consist of chatting with a friend, or with her husband (when her friend is not around). Three or four hours of such chatter is nothing, and the woman feels completely rested.

Sometimes girls think that they can relax in much the same way with their loved ones. That is, chat for 3-4 hours about this and that. But if a man “rested” like this for several hours, then he often thinks that it would be better for him to load the heavy bags somewhere at this time. And if these were conversations not just about nothing, but “women’s conversations,” then that’s all. It’s better to go on a business trip for a couple of weeks, where you need to work 12 hours a day, seven days a week.

That is, relaxation in chatting together is often not relaxation at all for a man. As family relationships develop, a man will be able to “chat” with his other half much more and get tired much less. But even then, he sometimes needs a good rest.

Second. Rest for a woman often consists of doing simple housework (not for everyone). This could be some simple cleaning of the apartment, sorting through clothes (for example, for my wife). Sometimes it may be a hike shops to select clothes or some household utensils, etc. As you probably already understood, such activity is not at all a rest for a man. I'm not saying that men shouldn't be involved in housework, but it's not a vacation, even if the activity is extremely simple. Read about how to get a man to help around the house in Anastasia Gai’s book “How to get a man off the couch 2. Secrets of a happy relationship.”

Third. What else? Surprisingly, even lying on the couch may not be a rest for a man. If a man lies on the sofa and every 5 minutes a woman interrupts him with some question, then even 2 hours of lying is not rest.

How picky men turn out to be, you might think. And that’s not true for him, and that’s not true. In fact, everything is simpler. Men aren't picky, they're just a little different. The simplest thing is to get used to and understand the peculiarities of male psychology and that’s it. After all, you’ve somehow gotten used to the fact that, for example, house flowers don’t like your wonderful cake. Give them soil, water and sunlight. You see how picky they are, they don’t want cake! And the car is also finicky. It turns out he doesn’t want cake either. You need gasoline, oil and all sorts of other nonsense that you can’t say right away.

In the example with the car and house flowers, it doesn’t even occur to you that they are picky and, accordingly, you are not indignant about this. So why do men seem picky to some women? Only because it seems to you that they are the same as you. But this is the deepest misconception.

In fact, men are different. They are not picky, they just want what they need. Give them what they need and you will be the happiest woman, or at least you will do half of it. Giving a man what he needs is usually very simple. You just need to know what it is and get used to it.

Let's say that every man has a need to be a highly loaded donkey, only to be given a carrot later. So let him be a donkey and don’t forget about the carrots. It's not as difficult as it seems. That is, load the man with some task, and then praise him, maybe more than once. Don’t forget to praise later when you give similar tasks.

Is it difficult to come up with a task? Is it difficult to praise? Do you praise the first time, but then find it difficult to praise again? (or you think that’s enough) Well, who said that it would be completely easy? Studying the psychology of men also means inventing requests for help, and then giving carrots for help. If you don’t learn, then don’t be surprised that the donkey went to another place, where they will put a saddle with a load on it, and then, after completing the task, they will give it a carrot.

Well, I went a little sideways. How do men relax? Usually it's just loneliness and silence. Maybe it’s talking a little about business (his) and a little doing some routine male work, like going to a store where the choice of something is extremely simple (for example, buying groceries in a well-known store according to a well-known list). However, the main relaxation is solitude.

Loneliness, of course, is also necessary for women. However, not many are ready to admit such a need and set aside several hours a week to do nothing. That is, nothing at all. Don't watch TV, don't read something, don't do cleaning, etc. Make time for solitude and life together will become much easier.

So, how to determine the moment when it is better to leave a man alone to rest?

Firstly, start from a certain minimum that absolutely any person needs.

We will proceed from the assumption that every man needs several hours of solitude and relaxation at least once a week. Ask yourself, does your man have this minimum?

If there is, then good. If not, then it is very advisable to set aside some time in your joint life schedule when your partner (and at the same time you, if possible) will be alone and relax.

This sign is very simple. It's also very easy to do. It's a little harder to make it a habit.

However, if you manage to leave a man alone with himself at least once a week, then you will quarrel less often and make peace faster. After all, a man alone regains his strength and energy, and grievances dissolve. Not completely of course, but at least partially.

Don’t you dream of a strong and energetic man? And if this man is not offended or irritated, isn’t that great?

It would be too much of an exaggeration for me to say that if you give a man a lot of time to be alone, then such a man will become strong, energetic and not touchy. However, such a simple action can increase male strength (of the psyche, of course, not the body) by 10-20 percent, or even more. In my opinion, a very good result with a minimum of effort.

The general rule is this. Every person, and especially a man, needs to be alone from time to time. Even if a man really doesn’t want to be alone, but comes to you with his communication, then this is just a bad habit, instilled by someone since childhood. This habit sometimes drowns out the real needs of the psyche.

But because they are suppressed, they do not cease to exist, and if they are not satisfied (needs), then they always somehow still come out, only in some kind of wrong state.

That is, if your loved one does not even seem to want loneliness and rest, then send him to this loneliness forcibly. The minimum is a few hours a week. Well - this is about 30 minutes every day and once a week for several hours. It’s very good – it’s an hour every day and once a week for several hours.

You can follow these standards. If you can’t stand it, then think about how to implement it.

I talk about the needs of men all the time, because... This article is in the “Psychology of Men” section on the “Sunny Hands” website. But this does not mean that a woman does not need loneliness. Here it is important to understand that if a man is not at home for some time, then a woman can often be alone (if there are children, then put the children to bed, send them to grandma, to kindergarten for a while, etc.).

Secondly, it is clear that the man is trying to avoid conversations and communication.

If we assume that rest for a man is largely silent, then an increased amount of silence and avoidance of conversations is a clear sign that a man needs to be alone.

You just need to learn to be a little more attentive. If a partner leaves communication, then you need to stop it. As a rule, repeating and asking for something when the partner has closed himself off from communication is pointless and only leads to mutual irritation. You will be annoyed that you are not being listened to, and your loved one will be annoyed that you do not want to understand that it is time to stop.

Of course, it’s not a fact that your partner is literally tired and wants to be alone. It is possible that he is running away from your female conversations (essentially a showdown in which he always remains wrong), but this is not the subject of this article.

In other words, if your partner does not come to you on his own, if he weakly responds to your request for communication, then it is better to leave him alone.

Thirdly, the amount of time for loneliness and rest usually increases with a busy work schedule, troubles at work and in your personal life, or some rapid changes in life.

It is clear that when a person works hard, when your partner has troubles at work or in his personal life, something changes dramatically in life, then it takes time to realize all this, to get used to the new state of affairs.

If this is the case in your loved one’s life, then give him more time for relaxation and solitude.

I'll try in other words to make it clearer. If your loved one has troubles at work, rapid changes in life, etc., this does not mean at all that he wants to discuss them with you. This only means that he needs to be alone and much more time than usual.

If you give him such an opportunity, sooner or later he will come running to you and bother you with his stories. But that comes later. And first he needs to be silent and be alone.

The general rule with men is that if he does not want to talk himself, then there is no need to drag him into conversation. Mind your own business, relax on your own, go to the gym with your friends, etc. And about how to learn to talk to a man, read the article “How to talk to a man so that he understands you.”

This is, in principle, a fairly universal rule. If a child, for example, plays alone and doesn’t call anyone, the best way is not to interfere with him, but to let him play alone or just be alone. Nobody is going anywhere. Everyone will still come to the woman or mother.

I would like you not to get the impression that partners need to communicate little with each other. I'm not a party at all This is a sign of partners scattering to different rooms after work, or in general, someone staying so late at work that they came after midnight and immediately went to bed, or when they came home from work, they watched TV and did not communicate.

If this happens all the time, then some kind of alienation in the relationship almost inevitably arises. After a while there is nothing to talk about. After some time, indifference may arise and the question may periodically arise about what this person is doing here. Well, okay, the article, in general, is not about that. There is no need to jump from one extreme to another, this is actually a warning about this.

So, give your man (and yourself, of course) time to be alone. Don't try to talk to him when he needs to be silent. Following these simple rules will definitely lead to an improvement in your relationship.

On the other hand, there is no need to bring it to the point of absurdity. Of course, a man’s vacation is not gatherings with friends and girls without special principles regarding the use of alcohol. And of course, when you need to do something urgently, there is no time for silence and rest.

And if you still don’t understand what we’re talking about, read in detail in the book “How to make a man fall in love with you for life, or Never run after a man, let him run after you.”

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The guy said he wants to be alone, what should I do? - advice from psychologists

Hello. (For me) I have a difficult situation in my life. We've been dating a guy for 4 years. We had all sorts of things, we quarreled and we were happy. Sometimes we separated for a few days, but it was all funny, now that I think about it, once while I was waiting from the army, we separated for 1.5 months, until the end of his service. When he came home they got together again, this was 2 years ago. Lately everything has been relatively good with us; we haven’t quarreled often. But one fine day we quarreled, this was a week ago. He asked me to cook something to eat and I said what’s the point, you’re going home now anyway, he got angry at me for this and immediately left. WE haven't talked for two days. I wrote to him myself and called him, to which I received an answer that he was tired, did not want any relationship now, wanted to be alone. He has a hard job. Yesterday he came to talk to me about all this, because communicating on the Internet is not very convenient. He said that he wanted to change his life, he was tired of living the way he lived before, he said that he had been wanting to improve our relationship for 1.5 years and this quarrel was the last straw for him. He said that he doesn’t know how long a week, a month or even a year he will be ready to start everything over again with me, he tells me to take care of myself, study, so as not to think about him for now, he said that I will suddenly fall in love with the new me again. but if something serious happens, I can rely on him. Here are his quotes - I understand that you miss me. I miss you too But I can’t do this yet, - I’m tired of relationships, - I’m tired of your behavior like this, - Me: Do you still have feelings for me? him: I still have it, -I don’t want anything at all now, -I haven’t left yet, -I’m sorry, but right now I don’t want any relationship at all. I just want to be alone, -I’m ready to help you in everything. But I don’t want a relationship, Maybe in a week. Or maybe in a year. Something will turn over in me, - And I will be ready to plunge headlong into everyday life again. But now I need time. When he left, he gave me a last hug, twice. He said that he now has a girlfriend. in social The network does not remove the photo from my avatar, I only removed my marital status. During this time, I have already realized all my mistakes, and I really want to be with him and am ready to prove it to him. It even seems to have changed. He doesn’t have another one, but on social networks. constantly communicates with one girl. I know that he doesn’t see her. because lives very far away. The question is, I don’t know what to do, what to do and how to act. why did he suddenly forget all the good things that happened between us. We are 21 years old. Is it worth waiting for him until he leaves? What if it doesn’t go away, but I was just waiting... I’m already tired of crying, please help me.

Ekaterina, hello.

Please accept words of encouragement. However, in addition to human sympathy, I want to draw attention to what is happening in your relationship.

Essentially, in the dialogue you cited, your boyfriend is saying that you are so lost in him that he just got bored with you. That you are so close and accessible that male interest in him has simply faded away.

I don’t know if it makes sense to win him over again or not, but it seems that your female scenario of waiting and trying to win a guy, wait for him, is only to your detriment.

Your friend talks about which scenario of yours would attract his attention - your independence, interest not only in his life, but also in your own. This is a rather primitive male instinct - the image of an inaccessible female who needs to be conquered, but it is taking this instinct into account that will help you retain the attention of a man for a long time - not this one, but another.

Good luck in your relationship.

Sincerely, your psychologist Irina Rozanova, St. Petersburg

www.all-psy.com

If he said he needed to be alone

a man sometimes wants to be alone

Perhaps you once had the good fortune to be in an ideal relationship, which was all grace and a bed of roses, but unfortunately, a repetition of this is hardly possible, because we grow, change, and our needs and desires change with us. Given the complexity of relationships, it is much easier to fix the problems of an existing relationship than to try to build new ones.

Here are some helpful tips for when your friend needs some space and needs a break from you.

Keep a reasonable distance

Don't forget about your pride, and don't throw everything at his feet as soon as he wants to come back to you.

However, don't fool yourself - you still want to get back to it, and the best way to do this is through gaming. Either get closer or move away - this way you will be close at a reasonable distance, and he will spend time and effort to get you back, realizing during this that it is his loss, not yours.

Keep communication to a minimum

If you feel that your ex is still thinking about you, then keep a short connection with him - SMS messages, short calls to his cell phone and online communication will casually remind him of your place in his life and at the same time will not overload him your presence if he needs some space to think. Keep communication with a minimum

Spend time together

spend time together

Accept your partner's position

If you take conceivable and unimaginable steps to return your relationship, and he does not show any reaction, then simply accept his position. Either he's just really not interested in you right now, or he just needs freedom and you should give it to him. However, seize the moment - if you notice an improvement in his attitude, then you should begin to slowly move towards awakening the relationship.

When your friend reappears after a break in the relationship, you can try to open your heart to him. Let him know how you feel, but don't get carried away - if your ex shows you that he wouldn't mind getting back together, then it's great to be open. But if his signals, on the contrary, indicate disinterest in continuing the relationship, then it would be wiser to step back and let life flow according to its natural course.

Every person needs personal space from time to time to sort out their own life. When your boyfriend or spouse needs space, it doesn't mean he doesn't love you. Rather, it indicates that he needs time to sort out his thoughts.

Every person sometimes needs personal space

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