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Ignoring me

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siyana · 28/11/2024 17:25

How do you deal with the absolute heart ache when someone you've been with on and off for 6 years, talk daily to, do romantic things i.e. spa, hotels, spend day's together (although we were ex's, we only was together for around a year) to suddenly ignoring me for a week straight. Telling me twice on different days that he will call me later on in the day, sending a sad emoji and saying sorry i make u feel incomplete and hurt. I have been sending multiple messages everyday asking what i have done wrong and why they are suddenly ignoring me and i will even try to call them. He even replied on one of the days saying he is around people and will call me when he gets in and why is the world panicking if he's just doing his thing. I said how can you put me in that category and that he hasn't been around people for days he can't even ring me to tell me whats happening. He hasn't rang me at all of course, I even sent a voice note of me on one occasion crying. I feel so embarrassed for myself because I feel like how can someone that i was always there for suddenly treat me like this. Numerous times I will know he is speaking to another female he slept with in the past but he would always apologise and spoil me after, said im special because he took me to his mums house. It all sounds very messy I know, deep down I said to myself time and time that I know one day this will all have to end but I just feel like he’s the only male that has come into my life and stuck by as a single mum with no contact with her baby-dad. I just want to stop thinking about him, get on with my normal day to day, not breaking down everywhere I go if someone asks me I am okay like in a DR appointment toady. How have I let someone make me feel so sad like this when I know deep down how it is. To mention as well the relationship ended when he suddenly put his hands on me but said it was because I don't know how to shut up. I literally have no friends. This is just so scary :( I feel embarrassed to even be posting this here

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cestlavielife · 28/11/2024 18:08

Forget him.
He does not care
Neither should you
Go to gp and ask for therapy
Go out for a walk or run tomorrow
Do something for you

siyana · 28/11/2024 18:10

thatsawhopperthatlemon · 28/11/2024 18:06

It is not a good idea to be so reliant on someone else to make you feel safe and secure. You need to build up your own feelings of self-worth, and I really don't think he is going to help you do that.

You are not in a good place right now, and that is no time to be desperately trying to make this (or any other relationship) work. You need to work on yourself first.
Flowers

Thank you. I guess your right. I need to work on my self-worth. I have stopped going to the gym which I started to go at the beginning of the month. Since a week of the sudden ignoring I have lost myself, falling to the ground when I get in after morning school run and just feeling so alone and break down. Avoiding all the parents don't want anyone to see me, in and our the car. He's made be accept that people are just users and I should focus on my kids he would always say until we lash out in an argument and he would say go make friends, all your old friends were h..'s. My heart feels a bit lighter after these posts, thanks so much guys honestly thank you

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siyana · 28/11/2024 18:12

cestlavielife · 28/11/2024 18:08

Forget him.
He does not care
Neither should you
Go to gp and ask for therapy
Go out for a walk or run tomorrow
Do something for you

yes he's made it clear he does not care. On top of that he knows that I had a medical procedure last week and well got me a cab that day to my home and started to ignore me 2 days after that so sudden... I have counselling for my existing anxiety and depression which i cancelled on Monday because i was just crying and was embarrassed to tell her about this. its rescheduled for tomorrow morning at 9.30. I never thought in a million years i will be online speaking to people i dont know about this heart break and suffocation I'm feeling

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Semiramide · 28/11/2024 18:20

In addition to the good advice you’ve had…

  • get counseling - you really, really need it
  • read Women Who Love Too Much, The Six Pillars of Self Esteem, and Attached
ThianWinter · 28/11/2024 18:21

Block this loser and start looking after yourself. He's not a nice person and he's been using you on and off for the last 5 years. Go to your therapy sessions, wear nice clothes and make up, rekindle old friendships and move on from this toxicity.
He has damaged your self-esteem badly. No more phone calls, texts or voice notes, okay? He's part of your past from today. Good luck Flowers

siyana · 28/11/2024 18:25

ThianWinter · 28/11/2024 18:21

Block this loser and start looking after yourself. He's not a nice person and he's been using you on and off for the last 5 years. Go to your therapy sessions, wear nice clothes and make up, rekindle old friendships and move on from this toxicity.
He has damaged your self-esteem badly. No more phone calls, texts or voice notes, okay? He's part of your past from today. Good luck Flowers

Wow. thank you so much for your kind words. I was looking at my clothes in the drawer and found that i don't wear any of my clothes anymore apart from the same old leggings and baggy top. I haven't even done my upper lip or eyebrows in weeks, since hes moved out of London its become different as we see each other less, before that was every days or few days at least, and now he would book me a ticket to come see him every 2 weeks. I used to have nightmares about him leaving my life. Thank you honestly for making me feel a bit better. I will tell my counsellor tomorrow that i reached out to people online and this situation thats happened has really effected me. I have deactivated my snap and insta for the time being as i have lost a lot of weight and i need to get my mind a little bit better before i can maybe start socialising but i just feel like a lot of guys online just want ... i just want to have genuine connections like i used to before this guy came into my life 6 years ago.

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siyana · 28/11/2024 18:27

Semiramide · 28/11/2024 18:20

In addition to the good advice you’ve had…

  • get counseling - you really, really need it
  • read Women Who Love Too Much, The Six Pillars of Self Esteem, and Attached

thank you so much im going to order the first book off amazon now. Im hoping this will help because just these few responses have already calmed down my anxiety and i don't feel like im choking as i did before. im going to force myself to eat something small as i feel a bit lighter... i should probably deactivate the Instagram account i use to check his posts as well and the girl i suspect he’s with.... thanks for being kind everyone and just judging me for being stupid. i really did think he loved me when he did those small nice gestures and the intimacy.

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Viviennemary · 28/11/2024 18:33

siyana · 28/11/2024 17:27

Because I don't know whats suddenly happened I feel like I have no closure and when I am alone or at night in my bed its when it hits me the most.

Sadly I don't think anything has happened but for one reason or another he doesn't want to be so involved with you. But you doh't seem to be able to let him go. I think you absolutely need to concentrate on yourself even if you don't feel,like it, see other friends, look,after your appearance.

It's absolutely no good thinking you need this man to be always there for you to make sure you're happy.

PeggyMitchellsCameo · 28/11/2024 18:34

This man moved on with you and cheated on you.
He has hit you and then blamed you for it.
He has alienated you from your friends.
He has known you are vulnerable and has come back to you whilst sleeping with other women, not offering you the security of a relationship.
Your confidence and belief in yourself is in the floor.
He is now ignoring you whilst he knows you are distressed.
He doesn’t like you. He doesn’t love you.
You, on the other hand, have so much more going for you than this. You have a mum who clearly loves you. Your children. Friends who I am sure would let you back in if you tell them you are clearly without him.
Looking for all of this validation from a man leaves you in bits.
Being completely without him will hurt for a while and you have to accept that. It’s like withdrawing from a drug. You want the drug to take the pain away, but the drug is killing you. Also it keeps good people away.
Go back to counselling.
Spend some time with people you love getting ready for Christmas. Enjoy some female company. Take pride in your appearance.
If he returns know that any short lived time with him will drag you under. Block him on everything.
Time is the real thing that heals. I can remember feeling like you. I shudder that I let someone hurt me for so long. I am so glad I got over it.
And lastly, take some time and don’t even think about dating.
You deserve so much better.

siyana · 28/11/2024 18:36

Viviennemary · 28/11/2024 18:33

Sadly I don't think anything has happened but for one reason or another he doesn't want to be so involved with you. But you doh't seem to be able to let him go. I think you absolutely need to concentrate on yourself even if you don't feel,like it, see other friends, look,after your appearance.

It's absolutely no good thinking you need this man to be always there for you to make sure you're happy.

yup its true its like my mood has completely become dependent on him. Even when we would talk daily if he would be grumpy at me sometimes it would bother me throughout the day. I am going to take tomorrow as an opportunity to look after my appearance. I also have a physical health condition which i had a procedure for beginning of last week which he knows about from when i first met him as i have had it for 10 years now. I am 28. I just think to myself after you know i had that procedure how can you not care. honestly thank you so much for taking time to read my message. i really didn't feel good at all. thanks for the little lift

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siyana · 28/11/2024 18:41

WOW. THANK YOU. I just took a picture of your response and made it my wallpaper on my phone, this really means so much to me. Feels like my heart is lighter. I am not sure whether the people that no longer speak to me because of him will be willing as they were quite upset with the fact i wouldn't let him go and its been a long time. I guess I will start by taking care of my appearance and trying to be in social places slowly, slowly. My health has really deteriorated and my dr said i should take time off work. this all is contributing towards it. I find myself at night thinking to myself how can he comment goddess on a females picture a few weeks ago when i was oblivious to it and was actually with him around that time, and i find myself at night thinking of him sleeping with that girl. I need to delete that girls pictures off my phone. Stupid thought that i felt like i needed to confront him with the pictures of the girl. I guess whats understood is understood... In terms of dating i don't think ill be ready anytime soon, if any male talks to me in public for example a male asked me for directions today and i just felt my heart sank so much because i thought of him..

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