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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

OP posts:
stampsurprise · 03/03/2021 17:10

@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.

I wouldn’t reply to this rubbish.

But I’d be tempted to reply “I’m picking the it’s fine option” and then block Grin

MeowPurrGrr · 03/03/2021 17:13

@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.

As we all predicted, here he is! But where’s the apology?! Hmm of course there won’t be one but he’ll no doubt be expecting one from you (you’ve got nothing to apology for btw)!

How dare that he dictates when the communication restarts because he’s now calmed down! He’ll know you’ve gone through hell these past few days!! My god he makes me angry!!

Stay strong, if you reply take time before to plan what you’ll say and get in a good headspace as he’ll be manipulating things!

He’s being a very predictable knob right now!

GaryUnicorn · 03/03/2021 17:13

Pleeeeease do not reply!

GaryUnicorn · 03/03/2021 17:14

And block his number. Write everything you want to say in a letter Then rip it in pieces to get it out of your system.

Bluntness100 · 03/03/2021 17:17

Don’t reply op. You don’t need the pity vote. I think it was clear he’d engineeered this and now you know why, he’s with someone else.

It’s behind shitty cruel behaviour that he could not be honest, but there it is.

But you don’t need his pity, him telling you it’s over, and he’s sorry. Just ignore you.

GreenlandTheMovie · 03/03/2021 17:19

He's probably worried that you will tell other people how he behaved and that it will get back to other women that he might want to shag. So he wants to keep you softened up and with a small amount of hope.

PetalPath · 03/03/2021 17:25

That’s a pretty insulting text... “it's fine” indeed.
This message is not kind, it’s not respectful. It’s full of power and control. Take your power back and do not dignify it with a response.

Windmillwhirl · 03/03/2021 17:31

What are you taking from his treatment of you, op?

SunshineCake · 03/03/2021 17:32

Definitely don't reply. Don't chase him. He's an irrelevance. He is someone you never really knew. Let what you thought you had, what you thought he was, go.

Be strong.

MeowPurrGrr · 03/03/2021 17:33

There’s also a very high chance he’s put himself onto dating apps, my ex did that every time we split up (and on the day we split too)! Even my most recent ex who told me he was going to stay single to concentrate on his girls was back on Tinder within 2 weeks!
There’s nothing better than seeing their pathetic, smug, twatty little faces smiling in them and realising how lucky you are to be rid of the bastards as you clearly meant so little to them!

TatianaBis · 03/03/2021 17:37

Just text 'Nope' and block him on everything.

He may come chasing after you in a bit or when he next gets dumped etc. But you will be forearmed.

Blacktothepink · 03/03/2021 17:39

What a knob...😡

stuckinatrap · 03/03/2021 17:39

I am so sorry. You must feel crushed, but I am not at all surprised that this has happened.

A PP was right you have control now, so use it. Trust me, if you don't and cave and respond you will absolutely KICK yourself. He won't respect you for being available to him. This is where you show your self-worth and your value.

I know from bitter experience that this is when your brain starts to sabotage you. You will start to wonder if he's ok. You might start to minimise what happened to make it ok. You might think he deserves to be heard (hint: he absolutely doesn't) and now you have the anger of knowing he's at the absolute, very least been contacting exes to chance his weasly arm.

So use the anger. Block him.

Shufflebudge · 03/03/2021 17:43

It sounds like the start of an abusive relationship. Love bombing then testing your limits. You’re lucky to get out

Newbie96 · 03/03/2021 17:44

Hey All, I’m on the train home. I haven’t replied. It feels good to have the power, I mean if I do that is.
There is not an ounce of remorse in that text, he didn’t even want to fake it. I haven’t even opened the text so he doesn’t even know I’ve seen it, should I open and not reply or just simply block?

For those who asked; no there was no way of him being able to know I snooped, it was just a very very weird coincidence.

OP posts:
stampsurprise · 03/03/2021 17:46

@Newbie96

Hey All, I’m on the train home. I haven’t replied. It feels good to have the power, I mean if I do that is. There is not an ounce of remorse in that text, he didn’t even want to fake it. I haven’t even opened the text so he doesn’t even know I’ve seen it, should I open and not reply or just simply block?

For those who asked; no there was no way of him being able to know I snooped, it was just a very very weird coincidence.

I would block are not open

Why give him the satisfaction of knowing that you left your phone on in case you heard from him?

marble1718 · 03/03/2021 17:47

Oh OP bless you!! He sounds like an absolute headfuck. I don’t have loads of advice to offer but know you haven’t done anything wrong and this is all on him. I wouldn’t reply - I know how easy that is to say though and it’ll take an awful lot of strength, you got this OP! Flowers

Notanotherfreak · 03/03/2021 17:52

OP, hold the power! Don’t cave and reply. Keep your anger. As you say, no apology from him! He’s conditioning you to accept this shit.

When I was getting over a terrible breakup I had different mantras I would say in my head when I started to think about him like ’You are worth more’ , ‘you’ve done nothing wrong’, ‘you are a good person’. Really helped me.

Start thinking about the weekend, set a plan - nice walk, get some good good in or takeout, line up some good films/TV, organise a group friends FaceTime etc.

You can do this!

Notanotherfreak · 03/03/2021 17:52

*good food

Monr0e · 03/03/2021 17:55

Well done OP. Unfortunately this is who he is, the man who would generate an argument on purpose, watch you crying and upset, leave you dangling for 4 days with no contact then finally get in touch to blame you for it all.

In a way it's good he left it so long, if he'd got back in touch the next day you might have been drawn back in. This way you have had chance to chat on here and reflect and see him for what he is.

If you were to go back you would be forever walking on eggshells waiting for the next time he blew up. And you deserve so much more than that.

NoSuchThingAsTooMuch · 03/03/2021 17:56

Best way to deal with this is not replying at all. Absolutely.

I only just found this thread now, and I'm impressed with how quickly you've started to see how badly he's treated you. You deserve better.

PetalPath · 03/03/2021 18:01

I wouldn’t give him the satisfaction of knowing you read it, do not add to his self importance and self justification.

Regularsizedrudy · 03/03/2021 18:06

Do not reply!!!!! There was an amazing threat on here a while ago - a woman’s boyfriend dumped her by text with no explanation and totally ghosted her, after a few days he came crawling back (much like the text you got wanting to talk) and she just ignored him. It drove him insane and she got all the power back and was proven totally right about what a shit head he was!

Regularsizedrudy · 03/03/2021 18:07

Thread!*

BlueThistles · 03/03/2021 18:12

Do not reply.... if it helps you then don't block either.. it it does help then block him... either way OP his text is an utter disgrace... He is still gaslighting you.. still saying it is all your fault and telling you he's taken 4 days to calm down from YOUR behaviour....

he thinks you are really stupid to not see exactly what he did.. he believes he got away with it too judging by this text ...

my advice....

IGNORE IGNORE IGNORE...

and block when you are ready too 🌺