This might turn out to be a rant but any advice and comments would be very welcome.
Lots of you know my situation from the 'scaring boyfriend away with marriage talk' thread a while ago. Thanks to your advice I was able to leave the topic alone, thinking that he knows how I feel, and if he ever feels the same he'll let me know. Since then things have been really good, happy and harmonious. We've even begun to plan spending a month in India next year to celebrate his 40th birthday and are due to go on holiday next week.
He's now done something that I'm finding very hard to understand, and I don't know what to do about it.
A couple of months ago he received an invitation to his cousin's wedding - we were both invited. We talked about whether or not to go, as it was happening at the same time as a local 3-day music festival we had talked about attending. We talked through logistics and agreed what we'd do, and let the cousin know we'd both be coming.
Neither the wedding or the festival have since been mentioned, and I didn't know the dates, just some time 'in the summer' so wasn't worrying, dp likes organising things and I assumed things were fine.
Then last night he was supposed to come over, and he didn't turn up, no explanation. Feeling confused I eventually went to bed. This morning I emailed him just to say that it was a pity our arrangement had fallen through, and that it would have been considerate to have phoned.
He called later while I was out of the office and left an apologetic message, saying he'd try again later. He also replied to my email apologising, and saying 'maybe he'd been feeling guilty about doing things without me and found it hard to talk about them'. So I was left thinking 'what things'??
I sent an email back to say that I didn't have any problem with him doing things without me (we both go out and do our own things regularly), and that I also don't expect him to give me blow-by-blow accounts of what he does.
This evening I've been out pruning bits of escaping garden and he turned up to see me. His sister was in his car, as was obviously camping gear. He said he'd just come to say that 'they were off, and that he'd see me on Monday'. I stood there like a lemon obviously surprised and asked whether he was going to tell me where he was going or was it some kind of secret. He looked very troubled and said he was going to the festival, and then to his cousin's wedding. I felt really odd, as if I've been living on some parallel universe, and said 'oh, so I'm not coming then'. He looked like he was going to cry and walked back up the road and drove off without saying anything else.
What do I make of this? I'm really confused, hurt, angry, you name it. Part of me just feels this is totally unacceptable, but I don't want to end the relationship. I could really do with some advice about what to say to him.
thank you, Mopsyx