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Can't forget my ex

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Trinity20 · 07/01/2020 22:27

I know it's a whiny thread, but I miss him so much and I haven't seen him for 4 months. He treated me really badly at the end and proved that he was a massive liar and snake.
Everyone tells me that he's a dickhead and that i'm much better off without him.
Deep down I know I am, and I feel stupid for still wanting him. I think about him daily and look at his social media. Blocking/deleting doesn't help because you can unblock, but I have at least deleted his number.
He's with someone else (part of what happened at the end) and they seem really in love. Every single photo she puts up on Facebook he 'loves' it, and I think he moved to be with her.
Every other guy is 'meh', i haven't dated since him. I've had a couple of dates but no spark, and have no desire to date.
Feel really pathetic, but we were so great together, he was lovely until he cheated. Why I would want someone like that I don't know, but I can't help it.
I just feel miserable and miss him so much. I don't want to 'move on' to someone else that I have zero feelings for just because moving on is what we're supposed to do.

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MikeUniformMike · 07/01/2020 22:37

Stop looking at his and her social media. However much the temptation it won't do you any good. Block him and her on facebook and the like.

You do not miss him, you miss who you thought he was. He wasn't that person. He was a liar and a snake.

RLEOM · 07/01/2020 23:34

I'm in the same boat but much further along. I know you can see he's a snake but you'll feel it more strongly in a few more months and will see the entire situation for what it is. You'll realise you deserve better.

Graciebutterfly · 07/01/2020 23:57

One thing I learnt from having two major failed relationships is that you do move on and you do forget about them over time.
I don't have a single feeling towards exh. And he could repeat all the things we did with someone else and I don't care.
And your new ex will feel like that in time.
The good part your ex's have with someone new is what you had and it's was only that.
In time they get bad again and you may not see it on SM or your notice they put up a few meme of being betrayed and then take them back down again.
But the will never go back to how they were at the beginning with you as that part is gone.
They can only repeat that with the next and the next and the next.
It's the pattern of selfish pricks

Ruderidinghood · 08/01/2020 01:12

It's only been 4 months. Don't be so hard on yourself. Stop torturing yourself by looking at social media- you are just prolonging the agony.

Trinity20 · 08/01/2020 21:00

Thank you for the kind words. I keep thinking that I wish they would break up and me and him could get back together, but that's never going to happen I guess.
That rings true though, I miss the person I thought he was.

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littlebirdieblue · 08/01/2020 21:07

Even if they did, and you got back together, could you really trust him not to do this to you again? I have been in your situation and wanted what you do. It did actually happen and he came back to me, but not for long. He only wanted me when things didn't work out with the new women, and although he swore it was me he wanted and loved, it wasn't long before he was up to his old tricks. I ended it because although I loved him I couldn't trust him anymore, and I knew deep down he would keep doing the same thing to me.

Trinity20 · 08/01/2020 21:13

You are right. I probably couldn't, i'm really sorry your ex treated you like that. I suppose the question is, do people really change ? To be honest, I don't see them breaking up anyway, things never work out like that for me.

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