It's been about half a year since I stumbled across the red pill. I, of course, managed to initially swallow it incorrectly: "ALWAT?? You mean it's not my fault my wife has the emotional control of a toddler and is a stark raving bitch? Hell yes!"
It took me a while to start internalizing things. But slowly it changed from glee at realizing I wasn't alone and there was a possible break in the dark to a wave of despair when I look inwards and realized I had no one to blame but me.
All the times she kept me until two hours before work because she needed to talk? My fault for not setting boundaries.
All the times she scream and cry and throw shit? I could have turned my phone off and left.
For about six months up to my finding of the red pill I was in a blue pill anger phase. Advice from friends and older men I looked up to was all aimed at caving to her, giving her what she said she wanted. It made me angry that she didn't have to work for the relationship.
Then I found the red pill and the anger slowly started to turn on myself as I internalized more of the concepts.
Then I deployed. And around the same time I realized that I can't change shit in my wife, but I can change myself. I bought all the books on the side bar and started reading through them. Then I found something out. My wife, who is from the same unit, is going to be my replacement when I cycle out of here. It's essentially a straight year of forced monk mode. 6 months out here, and then 6 months back home to really get my ship in order.
I know it's working because she has already said things like "I see you're growing and I'm scared you're growing away from me."
I'm just new at this. Determining between shit tests and comfort tests is a like learning a new language, and after a life of being a nice guy, learning to say no and set boundaries makes me feel like an asshole. An example of this is the rule I have set that if my wife starts shit with me over one of our calls, I give her two chances to calm down and then I begin at least 24 hours of radio silence. It's extreme and heavy handed, but it's what I have to work with. That being said, I feel like an ass when I do it. I have my tablet out here, and I've turned off all notifications from her so I don't get her harassment when I go dark.
I just want to turn this ship around. I hope that after this year my marriage will at least be tolerable, because divorce is never something I wanted to consider, but my blue pill ways caused me to want it.
I think I've started to find the right path though. It's not about her. It's about fixing myself and all of the weakness I have harbored up to this point. It's simply about being.the best version of myself I can be. Whether or not she comes along for the ride is irrelevant.
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