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To cancel going for a drink with my ex?

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Thedrowners30 · 04/02/2020 17:00

Ran into an ex of mine a few months ago on a night out. We were together for nearly six years, but it had been a decade since I last saw him.

We’ve keep in touch via Facebook messenger and had arranged to meet this weekend for drinks. A few nights ago we were messaging each other. All very lighthearted, talking about people from the past etc. and I was enjoying the conversation. Then a notification came up on my Facebook and I saw that he’d posted an article about a mutual interest of ours on my timeline. He then messaged me apologising and saying he’d meant to send it to me in messenger. I was a bit Confused about how you could mix up sending a message with posting on someone’s timeline, but just said no bother, I’ll delete it (which I did)

He then messaged me asking why I never like anything he posts on Facebook and is it because I don’t want my DH to see it? (DH and I have recently separated) Again I was a bit taken aback and said that I do sometimes like his posts (which I do) and I wasn’t really sure what he was getting at. He then messaged again saying I never like any of the photos he posts of himself and he was wondering why? I was getting a bit pissed off by now but jokingly responded that I wasn’t aware I had a Facebook like quota to fulfil and that I did actually like a photo he posted on NYE. He read the message but didn’t respond.

Now he’s just messaged me asking if I’m still on for drinks at the weekend because he can see my Facebook events page says I’m going somewhere else that night. Surely going through other people facebook like that is something you don’t actually mention to them? Like the dark secret we all keep to ourselvesGrin

WIBU to cancel? This is a man in his forties by the way, not the 16 year old his behaviour might imply he is! How do I let him down gently if so? His behaviour is making me uneasy but I’m not sure if I’m overreacting or not?

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FaithInfinity · 04/02/2020 22:39

It’s actually quite easy to share something in the wrong place, it can be as a drop down menu - timeline, group, messenger. But the weird messages and questioning your behaviour? Very creepy! I’d cancel then block him on all social media.

flipperdoda · 05/02/2020 07:07

If you've already planned to have that evening out anyway, could you do something else? I do understand the loneliness.
Is another friend free? Could you go to the event you originally showed interest in?

stayingontherail · 05/02/2020 07:38

Well one of the main reasons we split was because he always wanted things a certain way and it had to be his way!

I don’t think he’s changed - he’s already criticising how often you click on his posts etc as it’s not up to his quota, as you say, and who can be arsed with that level of management of your facebook behaviour?

FizzyGreenWater · 05/02/2020 12:13

Look, he's a creep.

Get rid now or you are just going to have a headache to sort here - either him trying it on (v likely) or ending up with a weirdo new hard to shift 'friend'.

Text him this.

'Ok, sorry X but I'm just not up for any of this nonsense. We've literally been back in touch for five minutes and I'm already hacked off with your attitude. I'm always happy to meet old friends for a drink as is my DH and most other people I know. What I've got absolutely no time for is feeling pressured or questioned as to what I do or how I do it. I'm cancelling our drinks because I'm totally not up for becoming closer friends with someone who thinks it's ok to question why I haven't liked a post on FB and seems to be trying to second guess me already. I've long grown out of making time for people who play games. All the best but let's just leave it there. Thanks, ThD.'

BrowncoatWaffles · 06/02/2020 12:04

'Ok, sorry X but I'm just not up for any of this nonsense. We've literally been back in touch for five minutes and I'm already hacked off with your attitude. I'm always happy to meet old friends for a drink as is my DH and most other people I know. What I've got absolutely no time for is feeling pressured or questioned as to what I do or how I do it. I'm cancelling our drinks because I'm totally not up for becoming closer friends with someone who thinks it's ok to question why I haven't liked a post on FB and seems to be trying to second guess me already. I've long grown out of making time for people who play games. All the best but let's just leave it there. Thanks, ThD.'

This is actually brilliant. @FizzyGreenWater I might need to ask you to draft my texts sometime ;)

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