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December 31, 2018 at 7:15 am #271625chelseaParticipant
Hi a guy I was talking to on and off for a year really messed me up.
It was a long distance thing and we had been talking on and off for about a year. When we were “on”, we would speak for hours on the phone each night, and facetime whenever. I knew his entire life story and he was the first person I was ever able to have intimate conversations/share my feelings and opinions with. For me, it was the closest thing I had ever had to a real relationship, whereas he had constantly jumped from relationship to relationship since he was a teenager. He had throughout the year hinted that he was in love with me, and I definitely had similar feelings but we were never in a relationship per say.
Over the course of a month, I noticed every weekend I wouldn’t really hear from him and eventually he told me it was because he started talking to someone else. I was heartbroken, because I had trusted him and believed he was a better person than that. He promptly blocked me on social media and was happily moving on with this new girl. He even went on a vacation with her a week after he stopped talking to me.
I was moving on and coming to terms with everything, when 2 weeks later he calls me a few days before Christmas. He apologized for what happened and how he hurt me and said he wanted me back. I started talking to him but told him that I could not move past what happened. Things ended really badly before with me saying some hurtful things and I wanted to end things on a better note and not have that negative energy out there. So I started talking to him again, maybe for my own feelings of loneliness too.
First few days of him talking to me again, were all about what can I do to get you back, and him texting me etc. Then on Christmas day I said we shouldn’t be talking anymore but that we can pause the convo for now, and discuss this later, since it was Christmas. I never got to discuss it later. The next 3 days we spoke sporadically and he was so difficult to get in touch with. Then one day i was fed up and called him- I never ever called him, he was always the one to call me. I called him again, after no response. Finally I began to get worried, because this was so unlike him. I sent a txt asking if he was okay. No response. hours went by and finally i messaged him on social media saying I am worried, tell me if you are ignoring me or something is wrong. Nothing. An hour later I see he posted on social media, although he blocked me from seeing, a picture of him out with a girl. I was livid. I then facteimed him and he must’ve been surprised because he rejected the call. Then I knew he had actually ignored me all day and I had genuinely worried over him for no reason. I sent him a few texts saying F-off, to which I believed he blocked my number after.
I have not heard from him since, and he has happily moved on with this new girl, and is spending all his time with her. I’ve been creeping on social media and they are all over each other, in the most disgusting ways.
I have never had someone treat me like this, and I don’t know how to cope. I truly trusted him, and although he lied before, I never though he could hurt me like this. He had never ever ignored me before and I just don’t know how to feel better about this all.
December 31, 2018 at 7:36 am #271633AnonymousGuestDear Jenni:
I hope you do feel better, although not necessarily “about this all” but about life, overall.
I would like to understand, when he called you a few days before Christmas and said that he wanted you back, what did he mean- the relationship with you was never defined (“we were never in a relationship per say”, you wrote) and you never met in person, I understand, so he wanted you back as a long distance girlfriend, a friend…?
anita
December 31, 2018 at 7:49 am #271643chelseaParticipantHi Anita,
Just to add some background info. We met in person before, and then the 2nd time (about 6 months later) is when we got together. Over the course of talking to him for that year, we saw each other about 3-4 times during weekend trips etc.
I personally feel like he talked to me so long because he needed a female companion. He explained to me that he always had a girlfriend, and I was there for him this year through some of the most difficult things he’s ever had to deal with. I think when “he wanted me back”, he really just needed someone around for Chirstmas…really to be talking to a girl, and have that “girlfriend” mentality around the holiday.
When he first called me and I asked why, he said it was because he missed me. A few days later when I asked again, he said it was because he felt bad about the ways things ended. I think he just used me as someone to talk to.
December 31, 2018 at 8:12 am #271651MarkParticipantJenni,
You’ve had a bad experience with this guy, twice.
You asked how to feel better about this.
I use bad experiences as learning opprtunities.
All yourself what have you learned about yourself from this and what do you want to change.
Mark
December 31, 2018 at 8:41 am #271657AnonymousGuestDear Jenni:
I understand then that the relationship consisted of “talking on and off for about a year”, including seeing each other “about 3-4 times during weekend trips etc”. There was a lot of talking, that he hinted to you that he felt in love with you, that you felt a lot for him, but there was never a discussion between the two of you about the two of you being a girlfriend and boyfriend, and about there being an exclusive gf/bf between the two of you.
When you found out that “he started talking to someone else”, you were “heartbroken, because I had trusted him”-
You mean that he told you before that he will not be talking to someone else, you trusted that he will not and then he betrayed your trust by talking to someone else?
* I wonder if the communication between the two of you had gaps where assumptions, guessing and wishful thinking on your part filled in those gaps, and if he helped you fill in those gaps by hinting but not stating anything. If this is the case, and you would like, can you give me an example of him hinting?
anita
December 31, 2018 at 8:42 am #271659AnonymousGuest* didn’t reflect under Topics
December 31, 2018 at 10:46 am #271679InkyParticipantHi Jenni,
It sounds like you were his long distance FaceTime girlfriend when he couldn’t have one in real life. As soon as he’s with a local physical girl, you naturally become the Official Back Up.
I have a feeling he will try to contact you again (before your birthday or a holiday). Be especially vigilant around Valentine’s Day.
No more long distance boyfriends. There are plenty of local guys who wouldn’t give you this much trouble.
Sounds Good to Me,
Inky
December 31, 2018 at 11:21 am #271685chelseaParticipantI think I felt betrayed because although we never had the official title of bf/gf, I felt there was a mutual understanding of us not hurting each other. He explicitly told me many times he would never hurt me since I was always so guarded. He also told me that if he ever wanted to stop talking he would straight up tell me. He had lied to his ex girlfriend multiple times and was always going on about how he was a changed person and would never make the same mistakes again.
i feel stupid for believing in him.
December 31, 2018 at 12:07 pm #271687MarkParticipantLook at what people do more than what they say. If he lies to someone else then he would lie to anyone else.
Look at how the person treats others.
Mark
December 31, 2018 at 2:53 pm #271699chelseaParticipantthanks everyone.
I am just feeling all sorts of emotions, and don’t really know how to move forward. The thought of what he did is just engrained and the idea of him with this new girl is making me sick. I know he was bad for me, and I know he didn’t deserve me, but I just feel so empty and sad.
I have so much hatred towards him that I fear I will never get rid of.
January 1, 2019 at 12:59 am #271759MarkParticipantThe best way of dealing with any emotions, especially strong, negative emotions is to sit with them. I find that extremely hard but to stay with them and not try to push them away is the best way of handling them.
They will go away but not by distracting yourself from them but to really make friends with them, to feel them deep and sit with them. Allow them to be with you and eventually they will dissipate.
Mark
January 1, 2019 at 4:12 am #271765AnonymousGuestDear Chelsea:
You were “always so guarded”, from the beginning of the communication with him, afraid to be hurt. “he was the first person I was ever able to have intimate conversations/ share my feelings and opinions with. For me, it was the closest thing I ever had to a real relationship”.
You felt strongly about him, but it was not a gf/bf relationship. You felt it was close to such, but it wasn’t.
At one time he talked to another girl. In doing so he did not betray you because he wasn’t your bf, and he didn’t tell you that he will not be talking to other girls.
You felt hurt but it doesn’t mean that he hurt you.
When you found out that he talked to another girl, you said some very hurtful things to him (“Things ended really badly.. with me saying some hurtful things”), and as a result, “He promptly blocked me on social media”.
It is very important that in the future, you define a relationship as soon as possible and therefore you and the guy know what the rules are. What happened with this guy is that there was no definition, no rules and lots of unchecked assumptions and expectations on your part, and it is those unchecked assumptions and expectations that led to your heartbreak.
I wish he was sensitive and realized how attached you are to him. He should have ended the communication with you gently if he knew you wanted so much more from the interactions with him than he wanted. But it is your job to protect your heart by having a clear conversation with a man early on. And then have that conversation again as the communication continues and things may develop and change. Check your assumptions with him, listen to his expectations, to what he wants, then see if there is a fit, if the two of you are on the same page or not.
The hatred you have for him, is not all about him, it is about the people that hurt you before, the reason you were so guarded with him to start. And again, this is not a black and white situation where he was bad and you were his victim.
I suggest these things because I believe that learning from our life experiences is very important for the purpose of making our lives better, and so I do wish you a better year ahead!
anita
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