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Really confused by someone’s behaviour?

107 replies

SolBrillo · 07/11/2023 16:19

Hi all,

Will keep this as short as I can.

I met a guy on a dating site a number of months ago. I was instantly super attracted to him as he is extremely good looking. On paper, pretty much everything I want in a man.

We had a first date, went out for dimmer. Then I’ll be honest, we kind of jumped into just having fun after that. He still lives at home so we’d meet up in quiet places to have fun, forests at night etc. It was exciting and fun, but I was falling for him. He knew it too. After meeting a few times he told me that he didn’t think we would work out in a relationship and said he thought I was great, beautiful, personality etc but he just didn’t have any feelings for me. He said we were friends and always would be and I accepted this and although upset for a time, I moved on and dated other people.

Fast forward over 3 months and I get a message on Facebook from him asking how things are. I said fine, asked him the same. He asked if I had settled down yet to which I said no. He said he had been thinking about the forest, and us being together. I said I’d be lying if I didn’t think about it too, because I do, a lot.

He said maybe we should do it again for ‘old times sake’. I took this as him just booty calling me and if I’m honest, being single, lonely and horny makes you do stupid things, so I agreed to meet him. We went back to the same place, had sex in his car, more fun etc. It was freezing cold so I jokingly said ‘maybe next time we should just go to my house!’. As soon as I said it I told him that didn’t mean I was expecting there would be a next time as I knew where he stood about not wanting a relationship with me/not having feelings for me. He then shocked me by saying ‘I didn’t say that’. To which I told him he did, and I promise he did.

he said ‘I do like you, I just don’t want to break your heart’. ‘Don’t push things, just play it cool’. To which I responded saying I hadn’t spoken to him for months since he told me he didn’t want me. I don’t know how much cooler I could have played it to be honest.

Anyway, when I left him I asked him if I would see him again. To which he just said ‘just play it cool’. Throughout the night he had made a few references to ‘oh we should do this one day’ or ‘I want to do this with you’ etc etc. I know it could’ve just been conversation fillers but I’m now really confused.

I thought he was done with me months ago. I didn’t expect him to reappear and want to sleep with me again to be honest. But what confuses me more is why he denied saying he didn’t want anything more with me. He could’ve just said something like ‘yea I said that, and I still mean it but I thought we could still have some fun’. Because he knows I am really into him, he says quite Often ‘I know you really like me’ so he knows I would’ve still said yes regardless. He messaged the next day saying have a good day at work etc and ‘ttys’. It feels like im back to where I was a few months ago with him.

he told me he had dated someone since me and had slept with her but commented that it wasn’t like it was with me. I don’t really take this as a compliment to be honest, I think it was just blowing smoke up my backside. But given how good looking he is, and knowing he was in dating apps, I know he could easily hook up with anyone other than me whenever he wanted. He said he had deleted the apps, after I said I was off them too. He said ‘yes so am I’.

my confusion is that he knows I have feelings for him, so why would he come back purely for sex when he could pretty much get that anywhere? He’d already shut me down months ago and I had left him to it so he will know fine well that reaching out again and sleeping with me will have reopened the expectation in my mind that he is interested in me. I’m just really confused?

OP posts:
Catsafterme · 08/11/2023 15:23

Honestly OP, you need to see this for what it is, same as your other thread. I get it's hard and you may be confused as to why he's doing it, getting back in touch but you need to understand a lot of guys do not think the same way and they just want one thing only and he's clearly one of those.

Everyone here and on your other thread are trying to help, including me who's also a guy, telling you to be done with him and block. I wouldn't do this kind of thing but I have known plenty others that do and get off on the power trip and there will likely be others.

The reality is he is not looking at this as a relationship, it's an easy hookup, he's got you dancing to his tune. Whether he's at parents, saying he's not on dating apps, whatever is irrelevant. What is relevant is he's buttering you up with all the right words for more of the same, sex. If it wasn't that, he would actually be in a meaningful relationship with you and you wouldn't be here asking.

It's bait, you are hooked and he knows it. Get off the hook.

Namechange666 · 08/11/2023 15:32

The op doesn't want to listen.

I think somehow she wants someone to say secretly he's in love with her....

You can't help someone in denial unfortunately.

porridgeisbae · 08/11/2023 16:10

But what I don’t understand is why he would reopen that door knowing I was falling for him big time? Because he knows I will now be back to expecting to hear from him/expecting more.

He doesn't care about your feelings @SolBrillo . Except that your feelings give him even more ease of access for him to use you when feels like it, then not when he fancies shagging someone else in his little black phone.

porridgeisbae · 08/11/2023 16:13

I feel like now he’s reopened that door of being physical he either needs to follow through with it again or shut me down like he did previously. I’m just back to feeling like it’s open ended. When he finished it previously I felt like I had closure

Block him yourself OP. x

MidnightMeltdown · 08/11/2023 16:37

Plus, you're 27. He's almost 40.

Why would you want to date someone so much older anyway? He clearly doesn't respect you. Find a guy your own age x

xanadu123 · 08/11/2023 22:24

SolBrillo · 08/11/2023 07:59

Am I likely to hear from him again? He did say ‘ttys’ at the end of the message I got after so I’m not sure. I feel like he either needs to return asking for more or shut it down again like he did previously. But deep down I’m unsure if I will even hear from him again.

Why does he need to shut it down for you to move on??? Do you not have your own mind and ability to recognise when something is bad for you and walk away even if they don't? If someone is beating you, would you stay and take it because they haven't stopped the beating or told you you can leave? Or would you escape.

He doesn't owe you anything, he doesn't care about you or what's best for you. You're not a gf or a friend or a family member. Youre the only woman with low enough self esteem to tolerate him.Do you suffer from neurodivergence or an obsessive personality in general as you don't seem to understand nuance or have the ability to change your thinking?

Wavescrashingonthebeach · 08/11/2023 22:28

Grim. Please work on your self esteem.
You are literally just a shag to him. Sorry.
Stop over thinking it.

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