Strategies to pretend you have a relationship

There are some strategies desperate people use in order to pretend to themselves that they have a relationship with someone, or that the relationship that used to exist isn’t over. It’s best you know of these strategies.

Gaining attention by being a problem.

Gaining attention by pushing oneself in between two people who love each other.

Making sure one is irreplaceable by becoming the “call center” between true friends. If the friends want to meet each other, they’ll have to go through the “secretary”.

Refusing to leave a person’s company.

Keep talking over other people when they try to inform them that the relationship is over.

Blackmailing someone into staying with you.

Guilting someone into staying with you.

Making promises to yourself on behalf of the other person to keep believing they’re “coming back” or similar.

Convincing oneself that all negative words about them are “a joke” or “a test of self-confidence” and refusing to take any insult personally.

Calling inability to face facts “faith”, “trust”, or “loyalty”.

Telling yourself “they wouldn’t do that” in the face of irrefutable evidence that they have.

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