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  • Ko0519
    Junior Member
    • Mar 2018
    • 9

    Could you help me understand?

    We met on a dating app and things started fast. He already had our second date planned before our first date. We had a great time, I felt like we had a connection and I thought I had finally met someone that wanted a relationship. After two weeks he wanted to meet my family, and after a month we became the well-known facebook official. He told me he loved me during this time and took me to Disneyland. Then by month two he is telling me he wants to marry me, which later turned to him talking about kids and that future. He even mentioned a few times about throwing out my birth control. He gave me nice gifts, even got my mom flowers and a cake for her birthday. He seemed so charming and nice, he would bring me lunch to work sometimes kinda thing. He hung up pictures of us on his walls, always asked me to stay the night and leave clothes there. I honestly felt happy despite the speed of the relationship; he treated me well it seemed.
    Two weeks before our relationship ended he became distant, hot and cold. He stopped the kids/marriage talk but would still call me and tell me he loved me. During this time I was feeling insecure I asked him if he still wanted me to move in with him soon because it was his idea and he said yes. Three days later he dumped me. He started crying telling me he doesn’t want to live here after graduating in May and that his job is going to place him elsewhere. He would feel guilty if I moved for him like he moved for his ex and it didn’t work out and it was the worst time in his life. Followed up by saying im the second person hes ever loved and care about, hardest thing he’s done in his life, etc. After he was done I was crying, he asked me if I wanted to eat, WHO does that?
    We had dinner a week later for him to tell me the same things and act like he wanted to see me happy and hated hurting me, would always be there for me. During this week he changed his status to single and deleted our pictures. Forward a few weeks he untagged himself in everything, he is hiking with this random woman. Few weeks later they are in a relationship, he blocked me and my friends on facebook and Instagram. Somehow he is still watching my Snapchats even after I unfriended him.
    First meeting him he mentioned his ex cheated on him, that ex come to find out is ex wife. He only ever mentioned ex. She still has their engagement photos up. They were married 4yrs, I think I met him 4 months after divorce. They began following each other again a week before we broke up. Also found out he started that job here and isn’t even moving. He already met new womans family and they have pictures up to. I feel crushed and confused.We were together for 5-6mos.

    I thought he was the sweetest guy. He seemed so caring and loving. Then this. I’m truly confused and hurt. I trusted this person. Too soon I did perhaps. I guess my friends or most of them never cared for him citing that they believed he was too nice and charming and it came across as very fake to them as well as an ego. Not sure what did to warrant this. He didn’t even want to try to work things out or communicate anything that was bothering him. How does someone go from treating me so nicely to this? I still have these nice gifts from him and not sure what to do with them.
  • atskitty2
    Assistant Admin
    • Aug 2013
    • 4467

    He's a flake.

    This new relationship of his will likely follow the same pattern yours did.

    I'm always a little concerned when men wanna move so fast. It's not healthy.

    Sorry you're hurting. It's a hard lesson learned.

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    • Ko0519
      Junior Member
      • Mar 2018
      • 9

      Why do you think he or men want to move that fast?

      definitely a hard lesson learned!

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      • jns
        Assistant Admin
        • Mar 2010
        • 8398

        It sounds like he has to be in control. Ouch. Let it be a life lesson. As far as the gifts, if they cause too much pain, give them to charity or sell them.
        I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
        ...
        Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?

        From a speech by Patrick Henry on March 23, 1775 at St. John's Church, Richmond, Virginia

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        • atskitty2
          Assistant Admin
          • Aug 2013
          • 4467

          I think it's different reasons.
          Sometimes they seem to just want the satisfaction of knowing they can win the woman and that she is that dedicated, even though they know they aren't

          Control, as mentioned.

          Sometimes it really seems to be a hurtful, intentional conquest to run over people, as they don't seem to maintain male friendships either.

          Some people have no idea how to cultivate a relationship, or what they want or need....

          There are many reasons...I think.
          You'll probably never know the reason.

          The important thing is to learn the lessons from this. Set your own boundaries and have some control. Know what YOU want.
          Evaluate the warning signs you missed before, and figure out what else you could have done differently.

          Not that it's your fault, but you're responsible for your participation on his roller coaster.
          Hugs
          Last edited by atskitty2; 03-15-2018, 04:04 PM.

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          • amy40
            Veteran Member
            • Nov 2016
            • 2732

            [QUOTE=Ko0519;n801492]Then by month two he is telling me he wants to marry me
            They were married 4yrs, I think I met him 4 months after divorce.

            unfortunately, he hadn't been divorced that long, so you met him on the rebound.....he's wasn't ready yet
            it's possible he did fall for you quickly but in a moment of clarity realized "what am I doing?" people need time to heal after divorce

            but don't give up on love!

            and relationships can go that fast
            husband asked me to marry him two mos after our first date and we married four mos after engagement
            but we also worked together and saw each other/dated a lot in that short time

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            • Ko0519
              Junior Member
              • Mar 2018
              • 9

              Hi Amy! Thank you for your response! It hurts cause I fell for him sadly and then I was just discarded like I never meant anything to him. I don’t know why if he did actually care about me why he couldn’t communicate it with me. Then the lies on top of it was another blow. I actually just found out two days ago that him and the new gf already broke up. Thoughts?

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              • Texasred
                Veteran Member
                • Oct 2009
                • 1216

                Ko, I feel for you. It's not always about something you've done or said. I'd say, he didn't deserve you, he wasn't ready for you.
                I hope you will try again: he's out there, looking for you.

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                • amy40
                  Veteran Member
                  • Nov 2016
                  • 2732

                  Originally posted by Ko0519
                  . I actually just found out two days ago that him and the new gf already broke up. Thoughts?
                  does it make you feel better that they broke up?

                  all the following of people on FB, instagram, snapchat seems to make life complicated.... what do you think?


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                  • Ko0519
                    Junior Member
                    • Mar 2018
                    • 9

                    Hi Amy,

                    In all honestly what makes me feel somewhat better is that I thought the problem was me. I was blaming myself that something I did caused him to change on me. It crossed my mind that he was rebounding and I was worried/hurt that I was his rebound and I helped heal him and I was terrified he was going to commit to her. I know that probably sounds ridiculous but it was on my mind often. I was surprised to hear they lasted only two months or so.

                    The blocking me and my friends on Facebook and Instagram seems a bit much to me but then again he probably doesn’t even care about me. I guess he unfriended me on Facebook at that time but only recently like a month ago blocked me on Facebook. And to keep watching my
                    snapchats is strange. I truly don’t understand the behavior by him.

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