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cant help it...infatuated by an ex?

34 replies

fluffbunny1 · 16/08/2013 15:33

have previously posted this on chat and have been advised to post on here as it might help a bit more......
bit of a long story but here goes.
aprox 12 years ago i was seeing a guy A( who became my husband eventually). before we were married i wasnt happy in the relationship, and where i was working at the time began to be attracted to another guy, who had mutual interest in me, B. i split breifly from A and started to see B. it was a very intense relationship and there was a lot of sexual tension between us but we messed around a bit but things went no further than that although we both wanted it to. i really liked the guy and from what his freinds were telling me he seemed to feel the same about me , and to be honest i was falling for him. anyway to cut a long story short just when i was the happiest i had been in ages , my then ex A popped back into my life and said he knew i had been seeing B , and he told me that hed been having a rough time. we chatted for a bit and then he kissed me. i pushed him away but the next day he went to where i worked with B and asked one of the other staff to go get B as he wanted a chat with him. i couldnt do anything about it as i was serving customers at the time. anyway A spoke to B and told him i had kissed him and wanted to take it further. I dont know why but B beleived him and when i tried to talk top him as soon as i could after their conversation said he was in love with me but couldnt look at me or be around me, i tried to convince him but he was having none of it. i was devaststed and hadnt felt like that ever before. after lunch that day i asked another staff member where B was as i hadnt seen him about. they said in the staff room emptying locker as he had jacked his job in. i went to where he was and again he wouldnt look at me but confirmed this was the case , and his last words to me were youre a smart girl , do something with your life and dont waste it here. i asked what it was that he wanted from me and again he said , like i said youre a smart girl, figure it out. then left.
i tried calling him loads of times but he wouldnt pick up, and i heard things from other staff saying they had seen him out at weekend going a bit crazy getting off with loads of girls etc.
anyway a few months later , A popped back up again , and as i was feeling so low managed to wheedle his way back into my life. a year later i got married to A, but on the day i was getting married i had a missed call on my phone from B while i was getting ready, i tried to call back more than once but was no answer. it has always been in my head wondering if he called to ask me not to go thru with it?
anyway after we had been married a while i fell pregnant with my daughter now 10. the relationship turned really bad and abusive and we left him in 2010.
im now in another relationship with someone , refer to as C , who is brilliant, loving, kind , considerate and taken on my daughter as his own , i do love him however , i just cant get B out of my head. wondering all the time on the what ifs and what would happen if i could contact him again. i have even looked on his facebook page but not rquested a freindship in case he rejects me, think he has a child now as well but from what i can see no partner mentioned on the scene.
also i accidently ran into him a couple of months ago. im now working as a social worker and had taken someone to an outpatients appt at hospital for the first time. i sat in the waiting room with them and had been checking my diary for dates , and the person i was with asked if i knew that guy as he kept looking over at me. i said who??????? behind the desk they said , when i looked up it was B!!!!!!!!!!! as soon as he saw i had noticed him he got up and hid out at the back, and eventually came back to the desk. for the rest of the time we were there everytime i looked up he was looking at me then quickly looked away, but we didnt speak, we were then called into the appt , havnt seen him since but cant get him outta my head, wishing C was really B.
NOT GOOD I KNOW......

OP posts:
Sugary · 19/08/2013 09:54

You post like you want someone to tell you that it's a fairy tale reunion just waiting to happen. It's not. The past is the past, and you're in a new relationship that's good. I would stop looking at other patches of grass and thinking they're greener. They're not. Your daughter needs stability and throwing what you have away on a 'what-if' wont help either of you.

garlicagain · 19/08/2013 13:50

I beg your pardon, I shouldn't have said you shagged B. The intense connection you felt, however, was all about sex. I agree, it's a pity you didn't go through with it then, as you would have had an unsatisfactory relationship with him instead of with A. So you wouldn't be mooning over him now!

Some folks are very, very good at hooking people emotionally by playing hot/cold, here/gone, push/pull. Everything you've said about B shows that he does this. It's not a nice thing to do, stop feeding him.

Feelingworried67 · 19/08/2013 14:20

I think your living in dream land and I think your imagination has got the better of you.

I think that if you did meet him you would be emotionally cheating on C even if B didn't know, I think that of you left C for B that you would soon realise that reality is far from your imagination. I think that you should leave it where it is a move on. If C doesn't tick all your boxes you need to let the poor bloke go, what a shame. ShockHmm

Your head is stuck ten plus years ago and your letting the what ifs destroy you, I think your infatuated by B due to your abusive relationship with A. I think your not completely over that abusive relationship with A that is why you keep thinking "if I had gone with B this would never have happened"

Just my two pence worth, I do hope you figure it out and make the right decision.

Good luck OP.

fluffbunny1 · 21/08/2013 08:26

hey guys.thanks for ur replies.i have been just deliberating over ur comments the past couple of days.rin all honesty no im not expecting some miracle fantasy reunion im not thst crazy.lol.
i have tried and tried to stop thinking bout him i really have but the awful realisation is that i was the one who messed things up and made a wrong choice that really hurt him.ive had so much crap going on the last 10 yrs one wsy or another ive not had the time or space in my head to realise it and now i have its far too late.as i said previously hes probably quite settled by now and it wudnt be fair to anyone to try to rekindle anything.i guess its just the case i really wud like to put things right and have my chance to explain stuff from yrs ago and hopefully just be freinds.but im scared if i approach him of FB He will reject ignore or block me cuz of the past and leave me feeling even more uncomfortable than i already do. its time this thing died a death i think and the only way to move forward is to bite the bullet and FB him.as i say though i keep talking myself out of it.as for not getting over my last abusive relationship there may be some truth behind that although ive been having in depth counselling for past 2 years.if i hadnt of chosen twat bag and stayed with B cant help but wonder how different my life wud of been.in all honesty B did treat me right and respected me.how stupid i was.

OP posts:
saintlyjimjams · 21/08/2013 08:30

Why would you want to rekindle something with someone who jacked in a job moments after hearing you'd kissed someone else? This is someone with baggage, with a tendency to drama.

You have a lovely partner in the form of C, and you are willing to risk it for someone who ten years ago was, at best, immature but quite possibly prone to over dramatising every tiny incident in life.

patienceisvirtuous · 21/08/2013 08:59

Don't FB him. Let it go and move forward. Appreciate what you have.

Play with fire and you're likely to get burned

Go see a counsellor to get some clarity on this issue because you're not being realistic or sensible.

fluffbunny1 · 29/08/2013 14:47

well im really struggling with things. im driving myself round the loop wondering how he might respond if i approach him via fb. ive tried and tried to put him outta my head and every day its getting harder.
as i say i dont want a spectacular relationship with im, just to put the past where it belongs , move on and be freinds. i do feel an enormous amount of guilt over what happend with us and in my counselling im confronting a lot from my past and maybe this is emerging within me as a part of that. i think if i could even just find a way to say im sorry for what happend , could we still be freinds would be fine by me. but im just wary of approaching him.sounds silly i know.

OP posts:
MexicanHat · 29/08/2013 15:40

OP you really need to move on, every minute you spend thinking about this man is another minute of your life you just wasted. If he was interested in you or even interested in being friends with you wouldn't he have just messaged you on FB?

WhiteandGreen · 29/08/2013 16:39

Why do you want to be friends with him?

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