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  • cjwms30
    Junior Member
    • Aug 2011
    • 1

    Not sure how to handle this one...

    In March 2009, I met a guy on a dating website. We talked a lot on online and after months of asking for my phone number to talk over the phone, I finally gave in and we started talking via phone in November. We have SO much in common and although we haven’t met face-to-face, I have strong feelings for him. In March 2010, he said he wanted to break things off because he had met another woman, who lived in his state, and sensed a connection with her that he wanted to pursue. Heartbroken and devastated we did not talk during this period of time, but remained inactively connected through Gmail and Facebook. In June 2010, I was checking out his Facebook profile and noticed that he had broken up with the woman and completely erased her from his life. Wanting to give him time after his breakup, I waited until August-ish and sent him a message asking what he was up to.

    He didn’t mention anything about his breakup, but my assumption something bad took place between them because he didn’t keep her or her family members as a contact as he had done with me. We started talking on and off beginning August/September. There was another brief period of time I hadn’t heard from him because I found out he had been deployed to Afghanistan for a few months. Shortly before he was due back to the U.S. and ending his service with the Marines, he started sending me messages more frequently. He also said that one of the civilian woman working with their unit in Afghanistan reminded him of me…and that her name was even very similar to mine.
    I am confused whether or not he still has feelings for me or would be interested in picking up where we left off. I feel that he is sending mixed signals, but perhaps it’s me reading too much into this. However, I still wonder why he didn’t “erase” me from his life like he did the other woman. He has also recently asked me to join a social networking site and texted me until I joined.

    I am at the stage in my life where all of my friends around me are getting engaged, married and having children – so it’s difficult to be around my friends as the only single person. I’ve re-signed up for a dating site again, but I’m hesitant to pursue any of my matches because I’m still hanging on to this relationship with this guy because I feel like he is the one for me and am afraid to let him go.

    Ahhh!! I’m just so confused on what to do! Am I reading too much into this? Do I let him know how I feel – if so what is the most appropriate method – email, messaging, call (even though we haven’t talked on the phone since he broke things off)? Do I just cut my losses, cut him out of my life and move on without any explanation?
  • pompolo
    Member
    • Aug 2011
    • 13

    my instinct is that u may be reading a lot more into this situation than what there is.. sometimes pple just go with what they have available especially if its just put on aplate for them, the prob with meeting pple online is that u have no real grasp of whats goin on in their life and the tendency is to assume, read btwn lines and reach conclusions that may be more suitable to how ud like things to be rather than how they are, u cant really accuse anyone u meet online of deception unless the two of u actively also decide to have a relationship where u meet and eal with things on that level. the internet is great for a lot of things but it also makes it easy for not so genuine pple to get what they need off pple then drift and then come back again coz there's no real accountability? hope this makes sense to u

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    • CHANDLERS WISH
      • Mar 2008
      • 22440

      Connecting to someone via the internet allows you to be more free in your speech, and therefore, a bond develops.

      His moving on with this girl in his State suggests a non trust of long distance relationships not something he wants to persue especially being deployed from time to time.

      His comments suggest that he as everyone does, still needs that love from somewhere, a connection and it's there for him by pressing a few keys.. He would know that you like him.

      Move on with the dating, in real time, one on one.. If this is meant to be? Nothing will stop it from happening it will just be "time", nothing including you having a new boyfriend...
      PUT A LITTLE 'LIKE' IN MY SOUL!

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      • Explorer44
        Veteran Member
        • Oct 2009
        • 800

        The internet is very tricky...reading rather than hearing can be confusing...it sounds like he enjoys your online friendship but perhaps doesn't think it could be more-perhaps because it would be long-distance?

        Go ahead with the dating site-just going on a date doesn't lock you into anything, and you might have a really great time!

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