I feel guilty for being with my partner

Venting

I look at my partner and they are so healthy and so amazing, and then I look at myself and I can’t understand why they like me, I feel guilty for the problems I have mentally, I’m so ashamed to talk about my past and everything I’ve been through because there’s just so much that it makes me feel like a freak or something terribly broken, I don’t want to put the weight of my problems onto them so I just deal with them myself in private and don’t talks about it with them, also they want certain things that I don’t think I can give them because of my trauma, but they deserve it and I want to give them as much as I can, i want to give them the world but I feel incapable, I feel like so much less than what they deserve, I feel so guilty for being so broken that I can’t give them something a normal person would be ok with giving, and I’m so scared all the time of messing things up or hurting them or showing them how crazy I really am, I’m even scared to cry in front of them because I feel like I do that too much and I don’t want to overwhelm them, so I cry alone about things they do that trigger me without even realizing it, I feel like it’s so unfair to expect them to put up with my triggers when they can get someone who is better and doesn’t require so much patience and accommodation

Posted Sep 23, 2026, 8:29 AM UTC

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