After all these years, the tie between me and the woman I've stalked has been broken. I'm relieved to know I'm no longer bounded by some sentimental obsession. My process of realization is a bit intresting, figured I'd share.
Within a 4 and a half year span, I had only seen my target 5 times physically. Due to the distance between us all of our interactions were digital. Thousands of texts and a few skype sessions were all I had of her. Online interactions still left out most of her personality, eventually I subconsciously substituted these vacancies with more desirable traits. When she finally succumbed to a relationship(which I referenced in a previous topic) it lead to disastrous results.
I didn't love her, I cared for the utopian I had fabricated in my mind. I broke off the relationship immediately, disgusted by this contradiction. I felt it easy to leave her then, but I had spent so much time putting this lie on a pedestal that I still cared for this figment of my imagination. How are you obsessed with someone who only exists in your head? It's taken me months to figure myself out now. But after countless hours of meditation and physical conditioning I've come to terms with it.
I thought I was going insane, but now I just feel numb to it. I've straightened up, picking up the slack I left behind in those months. I've met someone new as well, she's truly amazing. I have no regrets about this entire experience. Oddly.
Well, that closes that chapter of my life.