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December 13, 2018 at 4:24 pm #269191cranberryParticipant
So, I’ve begun dating someone recently. He is very cute and affectionate and ambitious. But at times I feel like I don’t necessarily trust him. When we started talking and getting to know eachother he has shown red flags by going mia often, such as not responding to messages till the next day and he has flaked on me about two times. But i forgave him and we still were seeing eachother. One day I told him I didn’t wanna do anything physical with him anymore if there was no commitment involved. So he said, “were together”. When I tell people that they give me the side eye and ask me if that was the only reason he agreed to officially date.
I like him but i guess it does raise a lot of questions that I have. I have already expressed that I sometimes feel unsure about whether or not he actually likes me and he told me that he does and that if anything I can talk to him about stuff but sometimes I get afraid to. He’s said that he doesn’t wanna feel like he has to constantly battle against my doubt when he doesn’t do anything for me to doubt him in the first place. (i’ve told em that i felt unsure about his feelings for me multiple times unfortunately) He still takes long to answer my texts sometimes and I’ll see him on social media instead of responding to me. And I dont have a car but I came back home from college which is like a 40 min drive and when I told him I was back all he said was “lit!” And for some reason that made me feel kinda sad. I feel like if a guy has just asked a girl to be with him and shes finally in town that he would want to see her as much as he could. He did just get out of work when I told him but I have a friend who told me once he was done with finals the first thing he wanted to do was to see his girl :/ Then today he tweeted something along the lines of, “alot of these girls dont even have cars :/” and it kinda hurt my feelings and I think part of it was due to the fact he tweeted that when I had sent him a message hours previous and he hadn’t responded to it AND I am one of those girls who dont own one so why would he tweet that? Another thing was I saw him comment on a girls picture, “hi ily” and I didn’t know if he was publicly flirting or that was a friend but yea.. I dont wanna seem like a crazy gf and ask him who she was especially since we recently just got out of an argument.
I am just wondering what everyone would advise if they were in my shoes? Like how should I navigate this?
December 13, 2018 at 6:21 pm #269205SelkieParticipantHi Cranberry (I love your name by the way :-))
I’ve been in similar situations before, and one thing I’ve learned from some hard experiences is that if you have doubts or or thinking too much about a guy, something is way off. I think it’s VERY important that you wrote that sometimes you don’t trust him and that you’re seeing red flags at the beginning of your paragraph. I think you know that this is not a good situation to be in and that he’s not giving you the respectful and kind treatment that you deserve. It is always best to listen to your own intuition. The question is, why are you choosing to downplay bad behavior? I know it’s difficult, but from what you’ve written I do think it’s smart to step back from him. The best way, I think to do that, is to focus on you. Aside from this guy, are you happy with the other areas of your life? You’re in college- are you happy with what you’re studying, and your friend circle? What are you planning to do after college? Is it something you’re excited about? If not, maybe try to think of things (besides this guy) that you look forward to doing. And I promise, you will no longer about him this much once you do that. I feel (and also have experienced personally) that when we’re not fulfilled in other areas of life, that dissatisfaction shows up in our romantic relationships as well.
In any case, this guy doesn’t sound like good news. You should probably move on. And being in college, your pool is large, so take heart that the right guy is there for you.
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