It's so painful that I die from regrets about my divorce
It's been a few years since I got divorced with my children, and I'm about to be crushed by intense regrets. Until now, I was desperate to balance work and child-rearing, and I couldn't think of anything else, but when I learned that my ex-husband had a partner to live with, I suddenly looked back on my life up until now, and realized a lot of things at once.
I was raised by parents who were overprotective and interfering, and I was strongly instilled in my subconscious mind that I must be a “good child” for my parents from an early age. It was deeply internalized unconsciously, so I didn't notice it myself, and I thought that following my parents' intentions was filial piety, and that not complying with them was filial piety and useless as a human being. So I didn't even understand my own feelings, and I had the illusion that what my parents said was my own idea, and every time my parents said bad about my ex-husband, I thought it was my own feeling.
My true feeling wasn't that I didn't like my ex-husband, and even though I didn't need to get divorced, I realized that my ex-husband had put up with bad feelings for a long time, and now that I'm aware, I can honestly take care of my husband, but there's nothing but hopelessness when I think that will never come true again.
I also searched for a way to die for the first time, but I'm desperate to stop thinking about children. I'm doing my best just trying to behave normally in front of my kids, and it's hard to breathe every day. You probably know in your head that you can't change the past and that you have to live in the present, but when you think about children leaving the nest in the near future, you are confronted with a sense of loss and loneliness that you are really alone, and you feel hopeless.
I know I have to keep living, but I'm still suffering from regret, loneliness, and anxiety, and I don't know how to live. It is probably my self-worth that I have despised the things I should cherish without ever being able to truly separate myself from my parents after a good age.
Day by day is so painful that I don't have the confidence to live. How can we live?
