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Full of Regret for Screwing Up Your Relationship? Watch This.

Ever sat ruminating obsessively over something you could have or should have done differently in your relationship?

Something you said, something you did, or something you wish you’d have done more?

If for any of these reasons you are currently torturing yourself, this video will be life-saving for you today. Trust me when I say it is essential watching…

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One of the most fearful thoughts that people have in their lives is, “Will I ever meet the love of my life?”

Perhaps one of the most painful thoughts that people experience is, “Did I just lose the love of my life?”

We meet someone. We fall in love. We want it to work. We’d give anything for it to work. And then we lose that person or that person threatens to leave, and our entire body and mind is screaming that we’re losing the thing that was meant for us.

I have a phrase in my mind that I believe is extremely important in creating the lens that you look at your relationships through: “The right relationship isn’t brittle.”

I look at the situation right now in the last few months, and the pandemic has precipitated, what we hear in the news, an extraordinary number of divorces in different countries. And I think to myself, “Yes, this situation may have brought people to the edge. It has certainly created an extreme scenario, and there’s no doubt in my mind that even in the best relationships, there are times where it will have raised the temperature of an argument, of a conflict. But I don’t believe that Coronavirus created divorces. I believe it revealed difficulties in relationships. I believe that even if those things were unconscious until two people were forced to be together for that amount of time, three months in a room together does not end the right relationship.”

So when someone tells us they want to leave, that they’re considering leaving, or that they’ve made their mind up, there are two things to consider.

Number one, they’re leaving because they’re not good at dealing with tough times in a relationship. Maybe you are having an argument, maybe you are having a difference of opinion, but that doesn’t have to be relationship ending. If someone is leaving over something that could be saved, it may be a reflection of the fact that they’re not the type to go through difficult times with you. And that’s important to know now. I think it’s a good thing for someone to leave now if they don’t have staying power, because that’s many years it could have saved you. You don’t want someone five years from now leaving because that’s the first time you had a difficult situation or conversation. In that sense, this year has been a blessing for many relationships, because it’s created a pressure that has revealed relationships that shouldn’t be far earlier than it would have been revealed otherwise. There are couples that should have broken up and did break up this year that could have taken another five years to break up.

The second reason someone may be leaving is because they feel that fundamentally you are not meeting what they perceive to be their needs. Now, this may not be communicated to you. In fact, the argument you just had may have been blown up into something so big and so severe that “that’s” the reason they’re leaving, but many, many people break up where the argument that preceded that moment becomes the ammunition that someone needed to end something that they were thinking about ending for some time.

You may feel that when I say that, that is just a tragic, horrible, heartbreaking thought. The question you have to ask yourself is, “Was I doing my best? Have I been doing my best?” If the answer is yes, why would you want to be with someone whose needs you can’t meet even, on your best day? Or someone who you have to struggle so hard to meet the needs of? See, a relationship isn’t the gymnastics at the Olympics, where someone does a flawless three-minute routine on the mat, and then beats themselves up because they didn’t stick the landing perfectly at the end of the routine, giving them an eight out of 10 instead of a nine. A relationship is real, human stuff.

Yes, it shouldn’t be easy. I don’t think that the right relationship is easy, any more than being fit and healthy is easy. It requires conscious effort to make something great and to keep it great over time. But that doesn’t mean that you should be fighting every day to win a gold medal, just so that the relationship survives. Being with someone whose needs you don’t feel you can meet, or you don’t feel you can meet consistently, is a slow form of torture that will erode your confidence over time until you forget who you were.

And by the way, even as I’m saying this, there may be this creeping part of you that says, “But I didn’t do my best. I messed up. There were a bunch of times where I acted badly, where I was too jealous, where I was too needy, where I was too desperate, where I asked too much, where I was high maintenance, where I didn’t make that person’s life easy.” This may be a complex philosophical point to convey in what I’m trying to make a short video but failing, but I think that we’re even too hard on ourselves when we recall how much better we could have done. I think there’s an imagined idea of how much better we could have done that. That we think, “Oh, I could have been doing this and I could have been doing that. And I could have said this like that.” We have all these imagined ideas, a fantasy version of ourselves that would have kept that person. But maybe what you were doing, even if it wasn’t objectively the best you could do, maybe it was the best you could do at the time. With your resources, with your current wounds, with the things that you’re dealing with internally, with the knowledge that you had in the moment. Maybe that was your best at the time. Maybe it’s not your best a year from now or five years from now, 10 years from now, but maybe it really was you doing your best, even though you feel your best fell short. That’s normal.

So remember that when you’re torturing yourself over something you should have done differently or said differently, that that idea you have in your head of what you could have been in that moment is theoretical. It’s true that we can evolve in each relationship. It’s true that the previous relationship you had will allow you to bring a wiser you to the table in the next one. But just remember this, when you find your brain laser-focused on something you think you did wrong: The right relationship is not brittle.

Before you leave today, please understand that the deep work that we do in a video like this is so, so important. I love the videos where I get to give a fun, practical thing that you can say to someone or text someone, a technique that works. But this kind of deep work is absolutely crucial to making our love lives work. It’s crucial to making any of our relationships in life work.If you want to invest more in the deeper side of the conflicts you face internally, the ways you beat yourself up, the ways you don’t allow yourself to feel good about yourself, or move on, or feel confident, my Retreat program is where I do the deepest work with people on what’s going on inside. If you want to come and check that out for yourself, we have the At-Home version now that you can do, so you don’t have to make it to a live Retreat. You can do it from home where you are right now. I’ll leave a link here, check it out, and thank you for watching.

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14 Replies to “Full of Regret for Screwing Up Your Relationship? Watch This.”

  • These two areas you talked about today are exactly what I’ve been experiencing of late.. i feel I am ready for something real but never end up having it…its like your emails and posts are reading my mind..
    Thank you Matthew

  • You are reading my mind, Matthew!
    Your emails are great, awesome and very essential.
    Thank you so much indeed!

  • Well maybe I let him to get better of me or maybe he’s not understanding..,or maybe he was the wrong person to be with .I truly enjoyed today’s message. you’re amazing. Thank you for encouragement and inspiration. All best in whatever you do ✌️

  • I can see he loves me but he don’t
    like talking to me on phone.
    He is in USA I’m in uk.
    What should i do.

  • Thank you Mathew I really needed to watch this episode of full of regret For screwing up the relationship I truly understand now why this happened to me in my past relationship that ended this year in January, watching this clip gave me a lot of closure. I still find it difficult to move on but I am just focused on working on myself so one day I’ll be ready to meet someone So thank you For your video it helped a lot

  • Thank you Matthew, it took me a couple of years to understand that it wasn’t just my behaviour that split up my decades long marriage. It wasn’t even his cheating on me for one of those decades, without my knowledge. It was the fact that we weren’t each other’s person. I had finally made peace with everything and let go of the regret, the blame, the pain and forgiven him and then I met the right person. Game changer. I fought to keep my relationship going because of the vows we spoke instead of recognizing that it was already gone by the time I found out.
    Once I was able to look at everything from the viewpoint of what you said in the video, peace washed over me and it was THE BEST FEELING IN THE WORLD.
    We have both moved on and are now able to have a great friendship. To me, this friendship is the best way to honour a 32 year relationship and we are both lucky to have gotten here.
    The person I am with now, feeds me and I feed them and without that struggle, the rest is easy. No more self doubt or trying to measure up. The damage that happens with the self doubt and flagellation is extremely harmful in the long run. Thank you for really making sense of this for so many who have or are struggling with this right now. Cheers!

  • What if there is no physical connection? You care about your partner but they physically detached 15 years ago. Having a hard time just walking away but not in love. Should I continue to try because he is a good person?

  • This is so very true. If someone runs at the first sign of trouble, misunderstanding, or disagreement, they likely aren’t long-term material. This video has helped me understand how my last relationship ended, and I don’t beat myself up anymore about it.

  • This really got me today. Thank you. Sometimes just need a Matthew soul hug to pick back up and keep moving forward.

  • What if you’ve done pretty much everything right. You’ve become angry, very angry, which was normal Because you were trying to get your partner to understand that he was in criminal activity and needed to remove himself from that. He could not understand the damage that he was doing to the relationship because of this. What if he begged you and begged you to stay with him even with this activity? What if he had promised to marry you and he wanted you with him the rest your life. What kind of a person is this?

  • This man is a fraud. He steals money from women and pretends he loves them while he’s doing it. Beware of him

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