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Does this text mean it’s over?

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JR3977 · 22/06/2019 12:16

Hi
Just looking for some advice on a text from a boyfriend. We’ve been seeing each other for a few months and I really like him but he recently told me he sometimes got depressed and needed space. I didn’t hear from him for a couple of days and I asked if he was ok. He sent this text:
Hey, yeah sorry I'm ok, just having a hard time getting used to seeing someone again, not sure I'm really ready for it which isn't going to make you feel great’
Does this mean he’s definitely breaking up with me? What should I say/do?...

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Dowser · 25/06/2019 13:21

In a good relationship there’s room for people to feel , sad miserable, depressed whatever.
They don’t normally push the other person away.
This isn’t a good relationship
Save your love and compassion for someone who deserves you.
Who knows..he might be feeling this way on account of his ambiguous feelings over you.

With you out of the way , his gloom will probably lift.
When you meet someone who brings you joy , you want to be with them. They give you a lift.
This guy will only bring you down.

The world is full of happy men.
Bag yourself one

S0CKS · 25/06/2019 18:19

It sounds like he wants his cake and eat it - single but can pick you up and drop as he wishes you should dump him

BoudiccaKate · 25/06/2019 18:27

You've completely devalued yourself. He love bombed you hoping (subconsciously) you'd slow him down. You didn't, so he finished it and you debased yourself by not doing what he really wanted and telling him to fuck off if he couldn't give you what you wanted.

Now tell him to fuck off and go and find a way to stop making a man important.

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LettuceBeFree · 25/06/2019 20:56

He sounds like he might have been on the rebound! Like jumped straight into the love bombing from a recent break-up to try and make him forget/heal (only time will do that - not another relationship) and statistically, rebounds are far less likely to work out over 2-3 months and I say that from experience. Rebounds often do this hot-cold thing.

JR3977 · 25/06/2019 21:14

I thought he meant his failed marriage which ended 3 years ago but maybe he had more recent relationship he was rebounding from. It would make sense- with over keen-nees to start with!

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Delatron · 27/06/2019 17:31

Just don’t give it any more headspace, trying to look for ‘glimmers of hope’ or letting him string you along.

If men like you they tend to let you know. For future reference always be very wary of the ones that come on too strong in the beginning. They are addicted to the chase and will go cold just as quickly. Look at this as a lesson and just move on.

Bluntness100 · 27/06/2019 17:36

Op, he's ended it. He's trying to be nice about it with the whole it's not you it's me thing, but he's ended it. I'm sorry.

Patroclus · 27/06/2019 18:27

Either hes one of those many people who seem to find entertainment in on/off game playing (you now the sort)which he should have grown out of past 18 years old or so, or hes too weak to make a basic decision so has to rely on cliches.

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