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To feel traumatised that ex wanted to give me 'one last nice week'

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LorettaYoung · 18/07/2025 11:59

By this I mean we spent an amazing week together ahead of the break up and a month later during the break up I queried how we'd just had an amazing time together and he said 'I wanted to give you one last nice week together'.

I think back on that week. How he stocked up his fridge with all my favourite things. Also sexually he'd always been very vanilla and not wanting to try new things, but suddenly he said he wanted to do those things that week. Which we did. I keep thinking about those moments and how vulnerable I was and angry that he was plotting the break up the whole time.

I remember we watched a movie where the lead guy is making the break up long and drawn out, and he said 'well maybe it's ok to not say goodbye immediately sometimes.' I remember thinking WTF.

I feel like he treated me like a dog that was about to get down and feel it is almost a sadistic way to behave? Am I wrong?

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Unexpectedlysinglemum · 18/07/2025 18:01

He's unhinged.

I was about to say maybe he was nice to you as he let go of resentments as he was relieved that the bad bits would end soon so he just enjoyed the good side of things. But you make it clear he very consciously knew what he was doing.

I think he wanted one last week for himself to enjoy - yuk. Please block him .

LorettaYoung · 18/07/2025 16:55

@Aria2015 Shocking - that's a few OPs now told stories similar to mine.

It's so nice these men giving themselves one last hurrah whereas the women are left in the dark and for me I thought our amazing week together just prove how strong we were together!

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Topjoe19 · 18/07/2025 16:54

What a prick. I'm so sorry. That is truly despicable.

Aria2015 · 18/07/2025 16:48

I know a guy who took his girlfriend on an amazing holiday as one last trip together when he had already decided to break up upon their return. He had booked it AFTER he'd made the decision! He had a similar logic to your ex. He seemed genuinely baffled that she hadn't seen it coming! Always thought he was a one off, but obviously not!

It's truly rubbish op, sorry he did that.

LorettaYoung · 18/07/2025 16:42

@SoThisIsHowMiddleAgeFeels This is partly what I'm struggling with now - he told me he wanted to be with me into our old age just months before breaking up. He behaved like he loved me when he must have been falling out of love with me.

What was real/what wasn't? Thinking some of the best and most meaningful times of your life were in fact a lie.

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LorettaYoung · 18/07/2025 16:40

@DisabledDemon yeah he actually said he struggles with 'giving too much to people' as if he's so unbelievably generous. In fact, I was more generous with my love and time than he was always. I was the giver and he the taker, but he thinks its the other way around.

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Iceplanet · 18/07/2025 16:28

He sounds like a creep with a low IQ. You will move past this and be so glad you didn't waste move time on the weirdo

ConcernedOfClapham · 18/07/2025 16:14

Ugh. What a nasty piece of work. I hope his dick withers and drops off.

Hang in there, OP; it WILL get better, and before long you WILL realise you’re better off without this prick in your life x

Conniebygaslight · 18/07/2025 16:13

I think he’s trying to leave the door open OP. Please don’t go back to this arsehole.

Daygloboo · 18/07/2025 16:04

Phoebesparrow · 18/07/2025 13:44

My ex did this but only for a weekend

We'd had a lovely 48 hours together,lots of sex,lovely food and a good time and I'd gone home,looking forward to the next time

He then plastered his new lady all over fb (knowing I'd see it,hours later) and it turned out he'd been shagging her for 3 months

I went mental and his excuse was 'I couldn't choose between you,so gave you a nice weekend but Ive chosen her as shes better than you'

I walked away feeling like I'd been assaulted-no way would I have shagged him if I'd known about her

A round if std checks later (and yep,he'd given me one) and lots of tears,I went back out there and met my now dp (who I trust 100%)

Him on the other hand,has done the same to a string of ladies and its all their fault when they blow up in his face over his own actions

He's innocent of everything in his head and us women are 'unreasonable' (backed up by his mummy)

Well he's got serious problems.then hasn't he. If a person gets blindsided by a shit like that then there's nothing to be done. If a person knows that a man is like this and still.goes out with them then they really need to start doing some serious thinking. Men like that are either very psychologically disturbed or they have an incredibly diminished understanding of people.

ChocolateGanache · 18/07/2025 15:56

He sounds nuts. Good riddance!

OohhhhhBigStretch · 18/07/2025 15:53

What an awful thing to do, especially the sex part, I’d be so angry in your shoes

OohhhhhBigStretch · 18/07/2025 15:53

What an awful thing to do, especially the sex part, I’d be so angry in your shoes

OohhhhhBigStretch · 18/07/2025 15:53

What an awful thing to do, especially the sex part, I’d be so angry in your shoes

OohhhhhBigStretch · 18/07/2025 15:53

What an awful thing to do, especially the sex part, I’d be so angry in your shoes

OohhhhhBigStretch · 18/07/2025 15:53

What an awful thing to do, especially the sex part, I’d be so angry in your shoes

OohhhhhBigStretch · 18/07/2025 15:53

What an awful thing to do, especially the sex part, I’d be so angry in your shoes

OohhhhhBigStretch · 18/07/2025 15:53

What an awful thing to do, especially the sex part, I’d be so angry in your shoes

OohhhhhBigStretch · 18/07/2025 15:53

What an awful thing to do, especially the sex part, I’d be so angry in your shoes

OohhhhhBigStretch · 18/07/2025 15:53

What an awful thing to do, especially the sex part, I’d be so angry in your shoes

OohhhhhBigStretch · 18/07/2025 15:53

What an awful thing to do, especially the sex part, I’d be so angry in your shoes

DisabledDemon · 18/07/2025 15:49

This wasn't about giving you a lovely week. This was about making himself feel better - 'Ooh, look at how thoughtful and considerate I am. I'm just so decent and generous. I'm so manly and such a catch. You'll look back on losing me, with regret, forever.'

What a cunt. Should have been drowned at birth.

Daygloboo · 18/07/2025 15:49

ZamaZama · 18/07/2025 12:40

Nah. I agree that if I had to choose this or the sudden cold callousness that some men employ with partners they’re leaving, I’d prefer this. But it’s not much of a choice, is it? It’s manipulative, dishonest and humiliating.

It’s not too much to expect empathy and honesty when a relationship ends.

No better cold and callous. Much easier to dismiss them. This is so much more creepy.

PurpleChrayn · 18/07/2025 15:35

Wow what a dick.

Purplecatshopaholic · 18/07/2025 15:29

Jeezo, that is creepy as fuck! You are well rid of that specimen.

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