Yeah I know no one wants to see me get involved in another shit show, and I'm doing my fucking best here to be aware of warning signs. I am not blind to anything here. I won't even say shit about love, because I probably will never let myself fall in love again because I'm so fucking afraid to get hurt again. J knows every hangup I have on every dating situation. There are days I call him and say "Listen I can't talk to you for a few days because I've got shit to deal with in my head" and he's cool with it. He doesn't push, doesn't pressure, and doesn't pry. If I want to talk about it, he listens, but I normally don't talk about it with him because that is my private shit.
/end vent. k thanks.
That's the point. You have so many hang ups and issues that you haven't worked through right now that it is literally impossible for you to be in a healthy relationship. Not for lack of trying, it just can't be done.
Sure, lots of people here have had sex after three weeks. Lots of people here also took a year or two after their divorces and devoted themselves to therapy and didn't date so they could get into a healthy place.
5 months is not long enough to get over an abusive relationship. Add in all of the other relationship issues you've had over the past few years, stemming from mental illness, codependency and self confidence issues, and it just isn't possible to work through that so quickly. I had nowhere near the negative experiences in relationships that you did and it still took me about 2+ years in therapy to figure out what I should be looking for in a relationship and how to have a healthy relationship.