I did not heed the early warning signs, I was distracted by love. I excepted what I thought to be slight flaws and figured if your truley in love you must look past them. 2 years in I really started to realize she really is a energy vampire. Now, I'm 4 years into the relationship and I love her to death, but have serious doubt these days. She often times convolutes my world view, and my optimistic outlook. I don't know what to do.
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    Yes, a large portion of me feels the same way, but I see capabilities in her (not necessarily empathy) and I know it is not my responsibilty to bring them forth, however I feel I've known her too long to not give my most earnest effort possible before I perhaps never see her again.
    • I understand how you feel...you want to do all you can to make the relationship work before you end it.
      For me personally I have always felt the same way; and I have also realized that defining moment when I knew it was time to move on.
      Give it your best shot, but don't give up yourself.
      • You two are perfect for eachother. Remember we must always try and create our actions to be non-violent provoking.
        If you are one way... and she is another.... oposites attract. You two are a like in one or more aspects because like minds attract. This means you two are simular in character... but oposite in body-learning-life. Every human being is born as reflection thats a part of a picture. Each of us hold one piece. All pieces are unique, our soul signatures are unique, our vibrations are unique.
        The bodys-brain... is very complex. We need to be near people who are oposites, in order to grow. you cant give plants just one thing and they grow.. they need many things, or sometimes very few things... just like humans. Some people are more simple in many things than others. As above, so below.. and so we have different physical features, different stances, therfore... different ways of Learning.
        If you see her as an energy vampire.. then there is a likely chance she sees you as somekind of vampire in something else...
        maybe you are a vampire to yourself.. seeing your self One way.. or rather a positive way, is saying Close Doors.. you are done.. you are positive person... you marked yourself, dubed yourself.. Good. Therfore.. you are not. You have not learned.... enough...
        never say You know everything.. or else you close yourself off to learn new things, you close yourself off to being open and ready for anything.
        Thats how we enter our heaven, our dna.. is through learning that there are no such things as threats. Its all learning.. we learn, we grow.. we Bloom.
        If you truly love her.. then you are soul connected in the way that your soul knows you two are great to Learn from eachother.. she is as strong as you want her to be.. and vise versa, if you two can stay all the way.. oposites pull. Then you two begin to see your True selfs, in a perfect reflection.
        Its kinda like how I was raised to believe children were seen and not heard... I never knew why.. I learned that its because children are impressionable and they always learn and speak of what they learn, so therefore if a child hears.... something someone in the family needs to keep away from outsiders... thats why children were punished harshly in mafia homes.. old ways of covet secrets. to secure the families materials.
        Speak .... Talk to one another... you will never know or learn if you always assume... you must sit with her and show her your heart... be collective.. show your self control and do what you know will set your mind and soul free from your wondering thoughts, your questioning learning mechanism to grow will only preceed to pressure you until you learn.

        Hope this helps. Be strong
  • My mother is an energy vampire. She's my mother, she does it inadvertently - her own self so drained from a history of several kinds of abuse that she could no longer hold her own. So I hold strong shields when I am in contact with her, and over time I have taught her visualizations that she can use to ground and shield and replenish her energy from the heavens and from earth. She is easier for me to deal with. And at various times I have sent her some of my energy freely as a gift.

    Is your girlfriend receptive to meditating and doing visualizations with you? If so, you can teach her what I taught my mother. I also taught my boyfriend, not because he is a vampire but because he was an unshielded empath, working as a computer help desk tech - so on the receiving end of many frustrated, angry, scared telephone calls. Now our empathic bond is strengthened by sharing this - and we can lend energy and shielding to each other when the other is weakened.
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    Thanks, for such intuitive responses. Meeko is right, we are opposites in a lot of ways and it benefits us in ways. It is however a double edge sword. Like Wind's mother my girlfriend too has had abuses in her past. She often states how lucky she is to have found me because I am not violent, but sometimes she gets stuck in that past. Ive tried developing ways of dealing with these occurences with her to some avail, but limited. As Meeko pointed out we are opposites in a lot of ways and where I am optimistic and hopeful she is cynical (and according to her the realist) so meditation, not really being her kinda thing, does't help too much. Some things we try work somewhat.
    • Sounds like my Mom. Very insightful... how the past has been an influence of violence and therfore thats enough for people to dub it Real? This is the understanding Im still trying to understand fully... why would people dub something terrible calling it real... and they call Heaven... an illusion. Hmm... abondonment issues, emotionally and definantly mentally. Its a mentality, that people tranform to when they had such abuse. I believed in angels for short time, then I only believed there were demons and no angels and just a fear-based god.
      Then I believed in nothing but messed up, screwed up, dumb ass people makeing obviously stupid mistakes and should know better...
      The last one left me angry, so that transformation was a tough one for me to overcome. Very tough. My dad yelled at me when I asked him what he believed happens when we die.. he wasnt happy about it, he just said there is nothing, lights out, blank, black, nothing.. your gone.
      Those words broke me to full out shakes. I was petrified. Infact I always seem to peterify myself with situations, I wonder if its me or the earth giving me these lessons lol... wow... sometimes I over look how strong i am on the inside.. and yet... Im so hard on myself.. but see thats because I hated being yelled at, so I always hated myself for messing up, according to old fashion mom.
      Boy if i knew what I knew now.. Id go back in time and slap myself and say wake-up.... Your Free! Express!
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        Perception is a reality. The problem arises when so much of one's perception is dominated by scornful things in life. Beauty is copious in life but much more focus is put upon the conflicts i.e. the media, the powers in place at the moment, simply for purpose of control. A mass of people in disarray is much easier to infuence than a unified one. We live in an age of cynicism. We have witnessed such deception that it is hard to believe anything, and it benifits the people in power to keep us from dicovering ourselves and each other. There are people like my girlfriend and your parents perhaps because they have trouble believing in beauty beyond the torment they witness on a daily basis. Their perception lens is set to pick up on a certain pattern (which happens to be more negative). Some others maintain a balance between this world and the outside world (outside time and space) because they believe more in it. I don't just believe in it I have coalesced with it. We are in space time and outside of it simaltaneously. What some people see in the physical world, blinds them to the reality outside the world.
        • can we clarify what the term energy vampire actually means? There are people who make me tired and drain my energy, but I feel like I can't always say that they are the ones with the problem.

          Im going to take a different approach here... I just began a new relationship, we have been friends for like 5 years and I realized that no one has ever been able to love me the way that she has. Our personalities are not exactly the same (im alllll watery and shes allll firey) but our hearts are exactly the same. I find that I often times get frustrated and tired by some of the things that she says and does, and I often times need a break (which is fine I go take a break). Often times I let myself get frustrated and upset but I realize that is not her fault. She is only being herself, and by letting her effect me the way she does I am being my own energy vampire. I either learn to let it go or try to understand why it is that I let it bother me. Sometimes she does things that actually hurt me and sometimes its my own insecurities and me hurting myself. Since I know she really does love me I tell her how she made me feel and she usually understands and learns.

          I'm not positive but i feel like energy sucking is just an emotional drain, and love is a lot of work, and the best and most difficult wonderful opportunity to learn about yourself and to let your Ego expand beyond its closed borders.

          This is of course my own experience. But the fact is that for me having someone so similar to me in so many ways as well as so different is like putting up a big mirror in front of me all the time.

          So I guess my advice is just to try your best and discern whether or not it is actually the other person who is sucking your energy, or if you are sucking your own energy so to speak.

          Good luck Ed!
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            Very good point Michael, I think in a lot of situations we can take a bias view and runaway with it. I feel in a relationship of true love, one must be relentless at self checking and being as objective as possible. It can be very difficult determining what is the other person and what is one (him or herself). In my girlfriend's case I believe it is something that has haunted her throughout her life. We have had productive conversations in which she has mentioned a feeling of imploding upon herself. I believe she is stuck in a chain reaction at times that creates a type of energy "Black Hole" if you will. there is a pattern and it is like this; conflict, then distraught mode, then outward anger, then growing guilt, then the implosion begins and it's like neither one of us can hardly move and go about our day sometimes. In her defense I'm sure I contribute in ways to the phenomenon, in my lack of knowing how to deal with such extreme circumstances. However I feel we both have identified the suction effect as steming from her collapse unfortunately.
            • thats good that you have been able to identify the process as well as the fact that it stems from some problems that she may have. My partner Amy and I have done the same thing. I have done quite a bit of work learning to understand myself better, seeing a counselor and such, an amount which she has not done and realizes that she would like to do. After my experience seeing a counselor (a wonderful holistic counselor who was there to listen to my experience) i always recommend to people going to find someone you are comfortable with to work things out. It was incredibly helpful for me, perhaps that is something that your girlfriend might consider.

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