To think you dont accidentally text your ex this....

[MaxwellCat]

My ex text me the other night "I love you" we haven't spoken in around 2 months or more and we've been split up for 6 years (though we have children so still in contact sometimes) everyone has told me it was obviously an "accident" aibu to think you dont "accidentally" text your ex of 6 years that you love them? How is that an accident? We haven't spoken in 2 months so I would imagine im pretty far down on his messages, also this was text message (he is blocked on whatsapp) and i imagine 99% of people communicate over WhatsApp especially if it was meant for someone he was dating! I know I don't even text anyone anymore but he was still far down from all the other texts I receive from random places. Why do people try to say this stuff is an accident when it clearly wasn't 🤔 aibu to think you dont accidentally text your ex you love them? (Fair enough if we was just speaking a few days ago but we haven't spoken in months)

And that was wrong 🙂

Don't live your life by mumsnet

Ok but it doesn't really affect any one else but you

Opinions often are. That’s why you shouldn’t rely on anonymous online forums for validation.

Has he recently split with an ex?.. feeling needy and harking back to the good old days with you..

No, she's about to properly chase for child support.

Hence the very deliberate text.

It's quite grim the levels some stoop to, to protect their paycheck.

Ah so yes there is a recent development with his ex (about to chase for money) so likely to be a connection there then... if he loved you all along he wold have said sooner, something has prompted this.

Why do people no longer text?? I know my teens use discord but I don’t do anything but text/iMessage so I’m clearly over the hill haha.

No, it wasn’t an accident it my opinion. But it’s lead to too much space in your head to be healthy for you.

then he would be talking to them on WhatsApp as no one texts anymore 🤷🏻‍♀️

Who doesn't use text. I know loads of people who do!

I rarely use WhatsApp and nearly always text.

I thought WhatsApp was mainly used for messaging when not everyone has the same make of phone and you want to do a group message or include photographs/videos.

I rarely use it as almost everyone I text has Apple phones - so we do all messaging through iMessage.
I have a couple of friends, and my dad, who don't have Apple but we use Facebook Messenger.

As for texts sent my accident. I have done this a few times - normally if I'm flicking between messages and I'll type in the wrong one and send by accident. Luckily it's normally nothing of an issue. Only had a negative consequence of sending the wrong message to the wrong once luckily.

The last few messages of everyone backtracking 🤣 Leave the op alone. She's happy. She was right. After everyone telling her she was wrong and it was an accident it sounds like it wasn't.

On another note please don't reply. Put him down as spam of you can.

well I did text him last night saying he has texted the wrong number and his response was “what makes you think that?” So there you go, not an accident like I knew it wasn’t. Haven’t responded and don’t plan to.

So he apparently loves you and this was his response? 🧐 All this confirms is that he’s messing with your head and is a game playing, manipulative twat. He clearly knows exactly how to play you.

When someone loves you, they don’t send a few words in a text like they want you to solve a riddle and want to keep you on your toes. You say you’re not going to reply but he’s already got you right back where he wants, obsessing over literally his every word and waiting on him for his next ‘move’.

Tut tut, he had absolutely no idea, I was going to report him to hmrc, I already have a child maintenance claim, I was going to anonymously report him to hmrc so now he is a mind reader 😂

So what if he does? What difference does it make? If you're not in love with him, ignore it. If you are, tell him. 🤷‍♀️

I didn’t tell her she was wrong. It was mainly people on a different thread entirely who told her it was an accident. I said it was more likely to be him messing with her head, and to be honest I think I was right. Sad thing is, it worked.

Not necessarily. He didn’t say “no I didn’t”, he said “no hat makes you think that?”. That’s exactly what someone who accidentally texted you would say to try and cover a mistake. Call me Poirot.

I WANT MORE DRAMA.

That’s excellent news @MaxwellCat

He loves you, you are going to get back together, live happily ever after together and bring your kids up as a family. You must be thrilled.

The rest of us are also thrilled to learn you are taking one for the team by removing this pretty poor example of a husband and father from the market! So well done there too.

What was your question yesterday and what is it today? It's the same issue.

So there you go, not an accident like I knew it wasn’t.

To quote Mark from Peep Show "you win...in the most minor way possible".

Yeah, we all believe him.

But you do.

My psycho ex sends the same crap via newly created FB profiles all the time. But since I genuinely don't give a shit about the machinations of his sad little mind, I just block him and don't give it a second thought.

Whilst you are apparently not hung up on this guy, yet are two threads and at least one thread-hijack down.

He chooses his booty textees well.

He knows how to get in your head with the press of a few buttons!

He text you three words and you've already started multiple threads about it...getting yourself further and further into the rabbit hole of delusion.

ACTIONS ALWAYS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS!!

He loves that he can play mind games, and he knows, without even speaking to you, that your head will be spinning at 78 RPM..and so the mind control begins..

Please seek therapy.

Weirdest thread ever!
You ask opinions but don’t want to hear them! No one can tell you the exact answer as they aren’t him so what’s the point in asking?! It seems you want him to love you and are pleased now he has said the message was meant for you. Do you still love him?

Ah, OP then he loves you. Obviously.

It's absolutely his true intentions.

Wishing you both all the best

2 words. Love you.

Not "I love you"

Love you. Which people have noted is not the same thing. It's much more casual. It's what I say to my Nan at the end of a phone call. OP doesn't want to hear there's a difference.

What's the difference? If I messaged this to an ex it would mean love you. I'm sending it so I love you. Mumsnet is so f.ing pernickety these days 🤣

If you read the thread you'll see this answered many times