He’s left me on delivered..

[Iamhot]

My ex…after two weeks texting me and asking me about my personal life…has left me on delivered?! Why not open the message and ignore me? Why have my name highlighted?
Why are men so strange?! 😑

You can probably delete for both you & him then. Do that. Take back the power.

So it’s a power thing? I don’t want to look like it’s bothered me.

Has he maybe turned read receipts off so that you can't tell if he's read your message?

Why would your ex be asking about your personal life and, even more oddly, why would you reply providing it?

How long was your relationship? And how long has he been your ex?

Of course its a power thing- he's seeing if you're still responding to him/interested. He may not even want to re-start the relationship but knowing that you are still there is an ego boost to him.

Take back your power and block him.

He hasn't read it because he doesn't care enough to, sadly that's the most obvious reason. Why do you care whether he thinks you care? It's over, so block him, go NC, let him think what he wants, and you can spend no more time worrying about read receipts.

He either doesn't care enough to read your message, or is deliberately playing mind games.

Either way, he's bad news. Move on, and in future don't engage.

He could have turned off read receipts. Guy I was seeing recently did that. I thought he wasn’t reading my messages but then realised he had turned off the receipt thing. Either way if he’s your ex maybe time to move on

Hi @Iamhot he might be trying to think of how to reply, i do that sometimes xx

There's a couple of ways for him to have read the message without letting on he's done so, so it might not be a case of leaving you on unread. He might just want you to think he hasn't read it / he might not actually have read it / he definitely hasn't replied so if I were you I'd block and try to move on.

Its on a social media platform. So you can't delete the conversation unless you go into it. He still looking at my stories too.

He was fishing to see if you were still interested, and what his chance of getting a shag at the moment from you might be, because he's in a dry spell. He's got what he wanted to know.

Restrict what he can see of your life on social media, the best way of looking like you're not being bothered is working on getting to a place where you're genuinely not bothered.

People attach too much significance to story viewing. Lots of people mindlessly tap through everyone's stories without even taking anything in.

Why are you in communication with your ex anyway? Do you have children together?

You're not even together and he's messing with your head and got you over analysing things. Don't let him have that power. He isn't worth it.

@yellowsmileyface has nailed it. He’s an ex. To use an MN expression: stop letting him live rent-free in your mind. Practise not caring what he does because you shouldn’t care.

I agree, he's looking for an ego stroke/hook up. Then couldn't be bothered with the pursuing the hook-up bit.

I agree, however he's asked me questions related to what I have put on my stories so obviously has taken in what I post.