posted January 26, 2016 04:45 AM
I'd just like to ask any of you Venus retrograde natives if any of this is "typical" of someone with this placement - my guy has Venus retrograde in Capricorn and he confuses me horribly sometimes.We have a great intellectual and physical connection but we have a big emotional blockage because he never shows his emotions. I'm very good at "reading" him, and if I say to him how I think he's feeling he'll freak out and retreat back into his shell. He hates feeling vulnerable, and it isn't really helping our relationship because I'm extremely emotionally open myself.
Next up, he's been depressed lately and he's been backing out of the relationship. He said to me yesterday he wanted to put the relationship on hold because he didn't want it to fail. He said "Can we break up so I can fail relationships with other people and then I can get back with you so I know it'll last?" Basically, he's going off to college this September and he's dead set on the idea it's doomed to fail.
Probably the strangest, most pessimistic thing I've ever heard, relationship-wise...
Tl;dr:
Is being extremely emotionally unavailable and constant backing out of the relationship a common theme with those with natal Venus retrograde? We've been together for 6 months yet he still does this sometimes.