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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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Kittensat36 · 20/04/2021 18:56

Sorry I didn't come back to answer your question, OP. I was okay seeing my ex again, but then again, it was 15 years later. It helped that I was looking absolutely fab when I did, so my self esteem was high.

I'm good friends with him and his DW now, but I did need all the Mumsnet ninja training to see through his bullshit. Even now, he comes out with an unfamiliar version of the split.

Take care of yourself, OP, when you feel shit, do something you enjoy. That's what I did - treated myself on his birthday, etc till one day I was "why am I having this cake?...... Oh yeah, it's 23rd June." Not his birthday, but you get the picture.

Wheelerdeeler · 20/04/2021 19:58

He sounds like a here and now.

He genuinely wanted to be with you while he was but then quite easily decided he didn't. Capable of switching himself on and off.

He passed lockdown for you relatively positively if nothing else and you got out early. You will never wonder in 10 years what might have been. You are young and your whole life ahead.

lifeissweet · 20/04/2021 22:36

Ouch! I'm so sorry. That must sting like nothing else.

In one way, though, it further validates your reaction to him that first night. It cements the idea many people had that he engineered it and was up to something (or wanted to be). Imagine if you had tried to build bridges and ended up doing a pick me dance-off that you didn't even know you'd been entered for?

You are strong. You handled this so perfectly. Yours is the thread others will link to for inspiration.

Which is why you need to keep posting. You need to be fabulous. You are fabulous. In a few weeks or months we will check up on you and you will be happier and having fun again - and you will read this back, remember the pain of it all and know that you survived it.

Why is she an ex by the way? Not that you should care, but if it helps at all, it didn't work out before, he is a complete head fucker and I have no doubt this will implode too.

When he comes looking for you for a soft landing, you will be far too busy being amazing to notice him. Won't you? Yes. Yes you will.

Sending you all the good vibes I have. You're a good one. The way you thank and acknowledge everyone who posts on here tells me that you appreciate people and care about people. That is a super power. X

Newbie96 · 21/04/2021 10:38

Thank you, BlueDahlia69, so much. I feel like he won by my responses and showing him how much it had hurt me and in hindsight, I perhaps could have handled things better, but I do agree it's done now. Onwards and upwards! x

StillLearningDad Thank you, honestly, that's a good analogy, I guess the way I would be gentle with my bones if I had broken them, I have to also be gentle with my heart and mind. I don't think any parting is easy, so well done you for handling it so well and coming out the other end. I agree, going over in my mind how badly he treated me does help as I do drown a little sometimes in the memories of the good times, annoyingly x

Kittensat36 No need to apologise, I love the thought of your ex seeing you years later looking amazing and it is really nice that you were able to remain friends. I will never understand how they can twist a version of events to better suit them though. Thank you for your help x

Wheelerdeeler I really agree with this so thank you, I think that's a much nicer way than I would have put it right now. I do see now how dysfunctional and one-sided the relationship was, it still sucks to know I've been used and I'm definitely going to have more days like yesterday but hey ho! x

lifeissweet You are truly amazing, I can't thank you enough for that message, honestly. It really did sting, I wasn't the person to come across it, it was sent to me by a friend and my stomach immediately sunk!
I would love to think that this thread, my mess, could inspire and encourage others because sometimes when you feel so beaten down you forget that others have been through similar or even worse situations and survived, so it's grounding to realise!
Thank you! haha i don't feel too fabulous right now, but I plan to be, again. I can't wait until I can tell you all I feel my best again! I'm waiting on it and I will keep trying my best because I know I have amazing people like you that have supported me.
I don't know too much, I think you would call me crazy for (at the time) believing his version of events as to why. Apparently, she would become verbally/ physically abusive after a few drinks and his last straw was when she hit him with the heel of her shoe. I don't know if this is true or not and I'm not calling anyone a liar, those actions are inexcusable. However, I have recently become very wary of men who say the reason the relationship ended was solely the other person if you know what I mean.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, I hope I will be amazing and that this experience would have helped me grow in a much better direction. I'm sending you all of my love and good vibes back, you are incredible if you didn't already know that. Flowers

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