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ex friends with benefits

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summerhaven06 · 04/08/2021 06:10

I had a friends with benefits with a guy for about three years. I was in love with him and he knew this. I also knew he didn’t love me back but honestly believed he cared a lot about me. We would sleep together a few times a week.

We stopped hooking up almost a year ago now as he started dating someone. Since then he had continued to message me, tell me he missed me, wanted to hook up with me, would try to have phone sex, say he makes himself jerk off to me and not her, etc. I never said any of this to him in return but I did participate in general texts here and there to be nice and I did honestly want to stay friends. When the conversation would turn into something flirty from his end I’d stop messaging and tell him he can’t say those things to me anymore.

A few months ago I said to him enough is enough as I have feelings for you. The messages saying he missed me weren’t fair as he knew I still loved him. I said either end things with your girlfriend and we can be friends or you stay with her and never talk to me again as it’s messing with my mental health.

He’d cry to me on the phone saying he can’t loose me and that he loves me too and he’d end things with her. I waited a week and he just didn’t end his relationship with her. We cried and yelled to each other on the phone after the week went by. I was a mess, so hurt. I asked him one final time what decision he was going to make and he said he was sorry but can’t end things with her because she’s pregnant. I was beside myself at this point and said I hate him. He then replied “don’t make me kill myself.”

I rushed over to his house banged on the door hoping he was alive. He was. We both looked like we’d been crying for days. He stood at the window next to his front door and voiced for me to leave as his girlfriend had just got there. So I left. And haven’t seen or spoken to him since.

It’s been a few months now and I have mutual friends with the girlfriend, one being her sister. To my knowledge she isn’t pregnant. I know she could’ve aborted it but I believe she never was as the timeline didn’t add up (he told me he loved me and was ending things with her after he apparently already knew she was pregnant).

Apart of me feels like I need to explain this all to the girlfriend. Apart of me thinks I should let it be. I think about it a lot but have deleted all of our messages so have no proof any of this happened.

It just doesn’t sit right with me. I know he didn’t physically cheat on her but he did via messages and telling me he loves me and that he’d leave her. I think I would want to know if my boyfriend was saying these things to someone I knew he used to regularly hook up with. Please help!

OP posts:
Whinginadeville · 04/08/2021 07:33

You 100% are colluding with him and until you acknowledge that you're addicted to the drama and the power over his poor girlfriend you won't move on. You're boasting about a man wanking over you ffs get a real boyfriend or spend some alone time working on your self esteem.

onelittlefrog · 04/08/2021 07:36

Consider how badly he’s treating this girlfriend. This is someone he is choosing to he be over being with you. Do you really think he’d treat you any better?

Yes exactly.

It's hard, OP, really hard. But please acknowledge that he didn't choose you - he had every opportunity to, but he chose someone else.

And the person he did choose is not exactly having their dream relationship are they?

Do you think he will be any different even if he did choose you? What happens when the next attractive woman comes along?

sammylady37 · 04/08/2021 07:42

I really despise people who use a suicide threat to manipulate others. It’s such an awful thing to do. For that alone, I’d cut all ties with him. (Obviously there are also many other reasons you should cut ties)

Jonjojobs123 · 04/08/2021 07:57

I was told by the OW (a fake name and email but it was definitely her) under the pretence of 'I had a right to know' ... it was a straightforward your husband used to cheat on you and named to OW. I contacted her (even though i knew it was her sending the original email - woman's intuition), she gushed and said she had always said if i ever asked then she would tell me the truth etc etc, I was calm and thanked her...she wanted to meet to discuss it all, i declined. All i needed was to know he had, not the gory details. 3 months later, because i assume I hadn't left my husband i received a detailed emailed listing everything that was ever said about me, everything they had ever done etc etc because again she felt 'I had a right to know and she couldn't live with herself any longer knowing what they had done. She had no proof, no emails texts etc ...she wanted to cause ultimate pain for my husband through me 100% and she succeeded. Im assuming that was her 'closure'

So i agree with PP what really are your motives and be clear of those. If you decide to tell her be clear that he will hate you and blame you for the destruction it causes. You will become the bad person out of it. Everyone will judge you as much as him, those mutual friends won't be mutual anymore. If you still decide to go ahead and tell her do it with as much kindness as you can because she is the actual innocent party in all this.

AgentJohnson · 04/08/2021 09:47

Gosh you’ve built this up into some love story of the ages. For goodness sake, give your head a wobble!

You were never friends, this is a label you chose to distract yourself from the sad reality of your entanglement. Sure he’s willing (to a point), to play into your future relationship fantasy but his actions have always been pretty clear. His gf isn’t in the way of your happy ever after because happy ever after with this creep, was never on the table.

You not continuing a relationship with somebody who didn’t reciprocate your feelings was your responsibility. Why delegate it to someone who repeatedly demonstrated that he didn’t want a relationship with you?
He gets off on your love sick puppy to his benevolent master routine.

You need to start making better choices.

PerpetuallyBaffled · 04/08/2021 10:22

The man sounds like a fantasist. Are you still in love with him, OP?

DuchessOfDisaster · 04/08/2021 10:54

@Jonjojobs123

I was told by the OW (a fake name and email but it was definitely her) under the pretence of 'I had a right to know' ... it was a straightforward your husband used to cheat on you and named to OW. I contacted her (even though i knew it was her sending the original email - woman's intuition), she gushed and said she had always said if i ever asked then she would tell me the truth etc etc, I was calm and thanked her...she wanted to meet to discuss it all, i declined. All i needed was to know he had, not the gory details. 3 months later, because i assume I hadn't left my husband i received a detailed emailed listing everything that was ever said about me, everything they had ever done etc etc because again she felt 'I had a right to know and she couldn't live with herself any longer knowing what they had done. She had no proof, no emails texts etc ...she wanted to cause ultimate pain for my husband through me 100% and she succeeded. Im assuming that was her 'closure'

So i agree with PP what really are your motives and be clear of those. If you decide to tell her be clear that he will hate you and blame you for the destruction it causes. You will become the bad person out of it. Everyone will judge you as much as him, those mutual friends won't be mutual anymore. If you still decide to go ahead and tell her do it with as much kindness as you can because she is the actual innocent party in all this.

Why did you stay with a cheat?
Jonjojobs123 · 04/08/2021 12:03

@DuchessOfDisaster you've read the whole of my comment and thats all you have to say 😂

You'll forgive me for not bothering to take to the time to offer you an explanation 😂😂

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