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What on earth happened?

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Newbie96 · 01/03/2021 10:55

Hi everyone, long time reader but first-time poster. I'll just jump straight into it. Please be kind.

My boyfriend and I have been together officially for a year, we've known each other since we were around 13 - 14 and attempted to make a go of it as teenagers (around 18) but it never worked. We've been in contact ever since because we both have mutually been drawn to one another. He often tells me he has compared every woman he's been with to me and to be honest I've done the same.

I am now 25 and he is 27. We got together just before lockdown last year and have spent nearly every waking second with each other since. We had been spending a lot of time together prior to lockdown happening and we both jumped at the opportunity to become each other's support bubbles when the time came and to be honest, it has been total bliss, we genuinely never argue, he is like my bestfriend.

Luckily for us, the lockdown has been kind to us mostly because we've had each other to get through it and it has made us grow extremely closer. I can honestly say the past year we both have agreed that we have been the happiest we've ever been, our relationship being one of the main reasons.

We both live alone and so we stay back and forth between his place and mine, only having to travel now and then for work etc. Due to our history and of course how much time we've spent together, emotions have definitely intensified and I am very much in love with this man, he knows this and tells me he feels the same way.

So fast forward to the weekend just gone, we had planned that I would spend the weekend at his house. I arrive at around 6:30 on Friday evening and things are good but I can sense that something is off/ or that he isn't exactly in the mood. I decide to ignore it but it seems to only get worse. Usually, we would sit down, have a conversation about our day and watch a series episode together which we commentate back and forth with each other but this time it's pure silence. Neither of us was physical with each other, he actually even sat on the furthest part of the sofa away from me. I can honestly say this was the first time I felt a little unwelcome in his home, which is odd considering how much time I have spent there and I've never felt this way before.

I mean maybe I overlooked everything far too much so please tell me if that appears to be the case. An hour of silence goes by, most of the time it was him on his phone whilst I watched the episode by myself, he stands up and asks if I am hungry, I say yeah and he says okay I will cook something for us. As it was the first proper real words we had spoken to each other all night, I decided to ask if everything was okay? he says yeah so in a jokey, laughing tone I ask if he wants me over tonight as it feels a little as if I'm intruding.

Well what happens next I didn't expect it at all, he is stood in the doorway of the living room and begins to get more and more wound up, he starts off by saying "of course I want you over but you have been sat there all night with this miserable look on your face, giving off bad energy" his voice is slightly raised but I don't retaliate and I calmy say "okay well I must have read it wrong, I wasn't trying to give off bad energy, I've been looking forward to seeing you all day" but he is so annoyed and goes off again accusing me of being the reason why the energy is so wrong between us tonight and how dare I blame him for it. I apologise again and say that I must have had a long day. He then goes on to say "well this is weird for me now so I think its best you leave" I am in shock as he walks out of the living room into the kitchen, in an attempt to let things settle, I leave it 5 minutes and walk into the kitchen with him and ask if he would really like me to leave? He responds "I'm just saying maybe its best", the thing is I can see on his face he is visually angry and in my head, I can't figure out why he is so annoyed, over something that in my mind was so trivial and silly. Like a fricken helpless puppy dog, I look at him again and ask if HE wants me to leave? and he responds "you know what yeah I do".

I take myself to the other room and begin packing up my stuff and I can hear him stomping and slamming about. I obviously felt a little confused because the whole situation felt extremely blown out of proportion. Once my things are packed I give it one last attempt and go and sit next to him on the sofa, I ask him if we can talk about this and I gently reach my hand out to touch his arm, but he blows up and is practically foaming from the mouth shouting at me not to touch him and that he just wants me to leave, at one point he swings the front door open and walks out of the front door in nothing his dressing gown, I don't chase him because I was honestly just shocked. He begins texting me telling me to leave his house or he won't come back? - I replied and told him I'm leaving but I would have appreciated it if he came back and just spoke to me. After 5/6 minutes pass, he comes storming back into the flat, pushing past me in the hall and is still foaming at the mouth shouting at how it's my fault and I'm making it worse by not leaving. Like a fool, I started to cry because I could see this has all escalated into a situation I didn't want for us at all. He tells me crying doesn't help the situation so tearfully I leave. As I wait outside for a cab, I check my phone and notice that he has blocked my number, my WhatsApp and my Instagram. I am totally confused and hurt by all of this and in my honest moment of craziness, I create another account on Instagram and message "I'm sorry for everything that just happened, I didn't expect any of that. I accept I was in the wrong and that I read the situation wrong, please can we talk when things are calmer?" he replies "please just let me know when you are home as I won't be able to sleep until I know your home" I leave it and let him know I am home, he bluntly replies "good, night" I again press on and I ask if we can talk? he responds and says "no I just want to go to sleep, we have been so good lately and now I'm laying here crying," I tell him I love him and that I don't want him to be sad, he replies and says he knows I do and that I should go to sleep.

Saturday morning comes and I message saying I hope he is okay and that again when things are calmer can we talk about this? he reads and doesn't respond. Sunday I message again along the same lines but telling him I miss him, again he reads and doesn't respond.

This morning I received a message from him saying "I told you that you were just making everything worse on Friday and you just didn't listen, you just thought you knew better and now I'm going to show you what I meant. I don't care, sorry" I sent some messages, honestly being very weak and pitiful, telling him that I would just like us to talk and sort this out as I miss him and this isn't like us at all, I then check for a response and he has blocked me from that account as well, so there are no ways of contacting him.

I just can't make sense of it all, we have never argued like this ever. I didn't expect him to blow up the way he did after asking him if everything was okay. I just feel like its all my fault for ruining something that we had so good. I feel really sad, low and alone and just wish he would calm down and speak to me.

Please give me your take on this entire, childish and shit situation. Did I do something wrong? and is he really never going to speak to me again over that?

Thank you

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Newbie96 · 03/03/2021 13:56

stuckinatrap god, your message really hit home, thank you Flowers

I just hope the desire of wanting to know why he couldn't love me, a little longer, will go away soon.

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TatianaBis · 03/03/2021 14:16

I just hope the desire of wanting to know why he couldn't love me, a little longer, will go away soon.

Some wise person once said: - Life is not about finding love it's about finding the blocks to love within oneself.

He may not be ready/able/willing to love you.

stuckinatrap · 03/03/2021 14:23

@TatianaBis

I just hope the desire of wanting to know why he couldn't love me, a little longer, will go away soon.

Some wise person once said: - Life is not about finding love it's about finding the blocks to love within oneself.

He may not be ready/able/willing to love you.

This is so true and wise. I haven't heard that before.

Love isn't an ethereal thing that we are lucky enough to chance upon. It's a verb. You have to put in emotional work to feel it.
I think loving is actually a talent some people have and others lack in. It takes vulnerability and self-knowledge and making endless choices.

People who find love an easy thing to do and give find it very difficult when faced by someone avoidant and unable to delve so deeply into themselves.

I get the feeling that loving is second nature to you, OP, so finding someone seemingly incapable of returning it in the same way can be baffling. Not least when they do a good job of presenting something that looks and feels so much like the real deal.

Newbie96 · 03/03/2021 15:00

That is really true and wise, im greatful for this thread.

Thank you all x

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AGirlCalledJohnny · 03/03/2021 15:06

As stuckinatrap so eloquently put it;
Love isn't an ethereal thing that we are lucky enough to chance upon. It's a verb. You have to put in emotional work to feel it. I think loving is actually a talent some people have and others lack in. It takes vulnerability and self-knowledge and making endless choices

So many wise posters on here. Love is endless, selfless choices. To truly love someone is making decisions all day, every day that benefit you both. Not subsuming yourself, but being with someone who does the same.

Seems to me he’s not capable of that, but you are and there is everything to be proud of in that. Why would you want to be with someone who could be so callous and cavalier with your feelings? He won’t have a Damascene conversion. If anything, he’ll treat you worse for forgiving him.

It is him that has created this situation. He will call you, I’d bet my last fiver on it, and he will minimise and deflect and try to get you to see how it was all your fault really. You know better.

Honestly, the biggest kindness you can do for yourself right now is to block him back. Better than being on high alert for the foreseeable.

Hold your head up. I promise one day you’ll be so glad you didn’t end up spending years and years with him.

Newbie96 · 03/03/2021 15:31

Thank you AGirlCalledJohnny Smile

One day at a time. Today I feel like I'm drowning.

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AGirlCalledJohnny · 03/03/2021 15:40

I know, I truly do know. You’re grieving, it’s a process. Have some faith in yourself. Cry the tears, drink the wine, wallow away. It’ll be better soon, I promise.

Newbie96 · 03/03/2021 16:18

So I did some snooping this afternoon, as much as I told myself I would keep well away and it appears that an ex-girlfriend has followed him on his social media.

I would be lying to you all if I said I wasn't crying. I just feel fucking sick. I want to hate him.

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Goodytoshoes · 03/03/2021 16:30

@Newbie96

So I did some snooping this afternoon, as much as I told myself I would keep well away and it appears that an ex-girlfriend has followed him on his social media.

I would be lying to you all if I said I wasn't crying. I just feel fucking sick. I want to hate him.

Is he following her back?
GreenlandTheMovie · 03/03/2021 16:44

The thing is, it wouldn't matter if you did x different or y differently, once this type of personality has made up their mind to move on, you could be crowned Miss Universe and Miss Personality of the Year and they would still move on.

Its really difficult when you knew someone like this when they younger. When you first met him, at 14 or 15 and dated him at 18, he probably was a fairly decent guy. But now he is someone who seems to go from woman to woman in the blink of an eye. I think you have to change your idea of who he really is and see the real him, which is not a man that most of us would want.

Once I did that, and realised that my ex, rather than being the young, hot but shy guy that we all fancied when we were younger, had turned into the guy we all avoid on Tinder looking for casual sex and hook ups, I soon went off him.

I still feel sad that that young guy no longer exists and that he's turned into what he is now. To be fair, I think he realised that meeting women off Tinder wasn't for him, and now he invites them round for dinner and a shag 3 times (yes, 3!) before ending it, but its the oldest trick in the book. And yes I am friends with the woman he dumped me for!

Newbie96 · 03/03/2021 16:44

Sorry, the audacity. Like magic, I've just received a text message from him "I hope your okay and better than the other day, I've calmed down now so if you want to talk we can, if not it's fine"

What a fucking c* , I'm shaking. I haven't replied and I'm not going to. How fucking dare you.

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GreenlandTheMovie · 03/03/2021 16:47

Don't let him draw you back in. As soon as they sniff a whiff that you might be moving on or feeling better, they try to reel back into the "I'm a decent guy after all" act.

See him for what he really is and don't be at his beck and call when it suits him to talk. Theres honestly nothing to talk about. You've escaped.

I actually feel embarrassed that I was ever in a relationship with my ex. I don't know for sure, but I suspect he is getting a bit of a reputation for shagging around (too many of my friends have told me stories about him) and its a kind of strange juxtaposition as not long ago I still fancied him, but now I feel embarrassed (he's also not ageing well, which probably doesn't help!).

mildlymiffed · 03/03/2021 16:50

What a piece of work...! Stay strong @Newbie96 if you engage you run the risk of this palaver happening again (and again, and again).

Ignore him.

growinggreyer · 03/03/2021 16:51

Lol, he is glad you have calmed down. Remind us again, which of you was foaming at the mouth and yelling? Why not block him now. He is only going to say something awful that will hurt you more. Keep strong, lovely.

Loopyloututu2 · 03/03/2021 16:51

So I did some snooping this afternoon, as much as I told myself I would keep well away and it appears that an ex-girlfriend has followed him on his social media.

Oh, quelle surprise! Honestly OP, just don’t even contact him. Block him, ignore him. The ex girlfriend thing notwithstanding - he sounds like an absolute arsehole. As many wise posters on mumsnet have said before: “he’s shown you who he is - believe him!”

Newbie96 · 03/03/2021 16:54

Your right, there is nothing to talk about. I needed clarity of the situation 4 days ago. I'm literally shaking but yeah I'm glad it took you 5 days to calm down from your uncontrollable anger... amazing.

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HmmmmmmInteresting · 03/03/2021 17:00

@Newbie96

Sorry, the audacity. Like magic, I've just received a text message from him "I hope your okay and better than the other day, I've calmed down now so if you want to talk we can, if not it's fine"

What a fucking c* , I'm shaking. I haven't replied and I'm not going to. How fucking dare you.

Told you he would!I'm soooo proud of you for not replying! He will be sweating every second you don't reply.

The audacity of him to think you'll be waiting by the phone for him to 'calm down'. And his bit about if you don't want to talk, it's fine...ie. 'Im not bothered either way'🤬

Panglossian · 03/03/2021 17:01

Hey Op, I've been following this thread and rooting for you.
I feel like you've got the upper hand now because he's reached out. It'll be really difficult but stay strong and don't respond to him- it's the only way you'll get to him and the only way to repair yourself.
Good luck

Icloud54 · 03/03/2021 17:06

Now he's contacted you OP, Block him so he knows how it feels and move on, good riddance!

HmmmmmmInteresting · 03/03/2021 17:06

@Panglossian

Hey Op, I've been following this thread and rooting for you. I feel like you've got the upper hand now because he's reached out. It'll be really difficult but stay strong and don't respond to him- it's the only way you'll get to him and the only way to repair yourself. Good luck
This is absolutely the case. If you ignore him you've got the upper hand and he will start swearing. If you reply he might not reply again or say something upsetting and you'll kick yourself. See if you can make him double-text Grin

I bet he will, because he thinks he knows you so well and will be shocked if you don't reply.

HmmmmmmInteresting · 03/03/2021 17:06

*sweating

HmmmmmmInteresting · 03/03/2021 17:07

So he must have unblocked you to send that message. What a tool.

stampsurprise · 03/03/2021 17:07

@Newbie96

Sorry, the audacity. Like magic, I've just received a text message from him "I hope your okay and better than the other day, I've calmed down now so if you want to talk we can, if not it's fine"

What a fucking c* , I'm shaking. I haven't replied and I'm not going to. How fucking dare you.

Could he see that you were looking at him on social media? Is that what triggered his text or was it coincidence?

Either way you need to block him and ignore. Please put all your future effort into mending your heart and becoming stronger he has taken up enough of your precious time.

I just saw an app on my iPhone called MEND which is specifically for broken hearts it came up on my Home page on the App Store on iPhone when I was trying to download the eBay app. I have no affiliation with this app But it sounds like it could be helpful for you.

HmmmmmmInteresting · 03/03/2021 17:07

@Newbie96

Your right, there is nothing to talk about. I needed clarity of the situation 4 days ago. I'm literally shaking but yeah I'm glad it took you 5 days to calm down from your uncontrollable anger... amazing.
Do you want him back?
ThisTooShallBeFantastic · 03/03/2021 17:08

Oooo I'm so glad he's blinked first and you now have the immense satisfaction of ignoring him. What a self-satisfied little prig he is!