Your relationships changing your experience of Evangelion?

[chaosakita]

This summer I went through a rough break up. It made me really understand the anger felt towards Shinji during the instrumentality scene in EoE a lot more. I think the interesting thing about Evangelion is that while I do think it's fundamentally a kid's show, your perception of it ages with you as you grow older.

Has anyone else had a similar experience?

[Nuclear Lunchbox]

My past relationship made me realize some things about running away, but not much anger. Simply put, to answer your question, yeah, my relationship made me think about Eva differently.

[ThanatosII]

More like, Evangelion made me think/approach relationships/interaction in a different manner. Everything feels more meta to me.
Not only that, but before, if I was asked, "What's wrong?" I would reply with, "I dunno" or "I guess." Now I understand myself better and am able to articulate whatever issue I face.

Essentially, Eva gave me a visual and audible way to see my lost and confused self on-screen.

[Ultrahuntr]

After my last relationship ended (over a year of being together) I watched 1.11 and felt oddly akin to Gendo. Like, at the end of the relationship, it was down to us being together because we had to be. It was just something you did. I didn't like that feeling. I had no remorse or sadness about the lost relationship, but it made me realize how much we just started to use each other the last few months we were together. Kinda startling.

[Merkaba]

Like ThanatosII, I definitely find myself on a more meta level when viewing myself and my relationships. For instance, I see how I run away from anything unpleasent MUCH more clearly, including how, after just one month at a new job, my boss yelled at me and instead of trying to get better (which was what he was trying to coerce me into doing), I just quit.
As I was doing it, Misato's EoE speech was playing in my head, about choices and and such, but I still ultimately ran away.
It hasn't really changed my relationships - it just has made more more aware of what is actually happening in them and why they are the way they are.

[Dataprime]

More like, Evangelion made me think/approach relationships/interaction in a different manner. Everything feels more meta to me.

Pretty mush sums how I feel as well.

[Monk Ed]

Like ThanatosII, I definitely find myself on a more meta level when viewing myself and my relationships. For instance, I see how I run away from anything unpleasent MUCH more clearly, including how, after just one month at a new job, my boss yelled at me and instead of trying to get better (which was what he was trying to coerce me into doing), I just quit.
As I was doing it, Misato's EoE speech was playing in my head, about choices and and such, but I still ultimately ran away.

Yelling? Actual yelling? There's something to be said for knowing when not to take someone's abuse.