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Not wanting to talk...
how do you tell some one who wants to know when you are in pain and need some kind of outlet, but you don't want to tell them what is bugging you, making you feel like suicide is the only outlet? and this person is some one that you love so much you would die for them, literally. what can i say to make him understand that i love him, but i don't want him to know what i am going through?
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This kind of feeling is fairly common for those who are really going through a lot of crap, so you aren't alone in this, it's kind of natural to think this way.
However, "natural" does not mean "correct", and in fact this sort of thinking is often twisted and wrong. You have internal reasons that have you think this way, and since I don't know which they are I'm just going to cover the ones I know.
For some people, it hurts a lot just to talk about what they've been through or what they're going through. They might hear that it's better if you talk about it, holding it in is bad, etc...but they don't believe it. The thing here is that it really *does* help; I've talked about my crisis often myself, and therapists exist as a profession partly because they're there to talk to.
You might think that you don't want to burden him with your problems, that they aren't that important. This is flawed because you forget to look at the other side of the equation: if he knows you're in pain and having trouble, but he doesn't know why and you won't tell him, he's going to worry about it a *lot*. It will strain your relationship also, because relationships function best with complete trust, nothing hidden.
You might feel he'll judge you or not understand; this can be true for some people, but you know him better than I do. There's not much harm in trying, however, because at least there's a chance of your getting the outlet you need.
Sometimes people feel it'll change the relationship. They're right, but they think it'll ruin things...and often it's quite the opposite; your relationship will become stronger and deeper if he understands and accepts you. Part of the feeling of love is to want to prevent or relieve the other person's pain, and if you deny him that, he will suffer too.
If you have a reason not covered, then give that one to me; there are some really odd cases where there actually is a valid reason, but they're rather rare. If you still decide not to tell him, let him know this, and he'll certainly try to persuade you otherwise...but at least you aren't completely ignoring a potential source of tension.
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First off, If you love him, then you won't want to put him through the anguish and the "did I cause her to kill herself" questions of your suicide.
Now that I said that, I think the real question here isn't how to tell him that you love him and not know what you're going through. THe real question is this; why do you not want to tell him what you're going through? Don't just blurt out an answer. Think about this question deep. Real deep. Why do you not want him to know? What's the fear?
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Well really you cant. You're boned on that one. You should just open yourself up you little emo, if not theres nothing you can really do.
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