My ex and I had a “mutual” breakup a couple of months ago. I put that in quotes because it was.. complicated. He wanted to move back to his hometown. Neither of us wanted to do the long-distance thing. He wanted me to come with him, but I didn’t want to leave my job or family. I said no, he left, and that was that.
We (stupidly) kept in contact for a full month afterwards. Eventually, he met a woman and would not stop talking about her. How perfect she was, how awesomely she treated him, how awesomely he treated her, how intense their connection was, how she cheated on her boyfriend for him (weird flex), how much his family loved her. Because we were broken up, I could only say I was happy for him. Every time I said that, he would go even harder and start comparing us. How healthy their relationship is compared to ours, how much sweeter he is to her than he ever was with me. He even sent me pictures. It started feeling… mean?
After a few week of this unprompted, I told him it was best that we didn’t speak anymore and blocked him. Since then he’s been contacting me in other ways to tell me he’s sorry “if he did anything wrong” and that he wants to visit each other. I haven’t responded. He genuinely doesn’t seem to think he did anything weird so now I wonder if I took it the wrong way. Could there be any chance he wasn’t trying to hurt me? I’d see it as him updating me as a friend would but the comparing felt very mean-spirited. I’d have liked to remain friends so I’m sad about this.
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