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Hey all. There's something I've been struggling with and I would really appreciate some feedback.
There's a guy I've been with for a few months. To make a long story short: we met, fell in love and made plans to spend the rest of our lives together. Only, the past few days he's been acting really weird. He doesn't return calls and he avoids me.
I don't want to believe it, but have I been horribly played? Do I call him? Or should I give him space and wait for him to contact me?
HELP!
Kitten B:
If you have discussed a life together, you have every right to know what exactly is going on. I would call him immediately and tell him you find his change in manner confusing and hurtful, and that you expect an honest response.
I suggest you do that, and then let us know what happened. Best of luck.
I'll keep you updated.
If he ever picks up his damn phone that is.
How do I confront him if he doesn't call or email back?
Are you sure you two had the same conversation when you discussed spending your lives together? Did you bring the topic up or did he? Did he actively contribute to the future-talk or did you say a bunch of shit while he went "um okay" and "sure I don't see why not" etc?
Guys generally don't plan very far ahead. We weren't planning out wedding day when we were 5, but a lot of girls force us into those conversations where all we can really do us go "uhh ya I guess I can come with you to a wedding 8 months from now, girl I've been dating for a month" and then when you leave we go "fuck that was awkward, she's practically picking out our baby names, I thought we were just dating."
Or he might just be busy this week and your paranoia is interpreting everything negatively to feed into itself (your Reticular Activation System in action).
Give it another week before you panic and quit calling him for a couple days so you don't look like a psycho clingy stalker to him. When you DO talk to him, for god's sake don't cry lol
If he doesn't respond to your messages, write him off. That's rude, but it's also effectively ending the relationship. Move on.
yareallypua said
Are you sure you two had the same conversation when you discussed spending your lives together? Did you bring the topic up or did he? Did he actively contribute to the future-talk or did you say a bunch of shit while he went "um okay" and "sure I don't see why not" etc?Guys generally don't plan very far ahead. We weren't planning out wedding day when we were 5, but a lot of girls force us into those conversations where all we can really do us go "uhh ya I guess I can come with you to a wedding 8 months from now, girl I've been dating for a month" and then when you leave we go "fuck that was awkward, she's practically picking out our baby names, I thought we were just dating."
Or he might just be busy this week and your paranoia is interpreting everything negatively to feed into itself (your Reticular Activation System in action).
Give it another week before you panic and quit calling him for a couple days so you don't look like a psycho clingy stalker to him. When you DO talk to him, for god's sake don't cry lol
I'm sure we had the same convo. He was actually the first one to say "I love you". I was kind of surprised because usually that doesn't happen. I told him I wasn't ready at that point to say it and he said he understood as long as he could keep saying it to me. I finally told him I loved him, a few weeks later.
And then I mentioned once, how he made me smile. And he said if I gave him the chance he'd make me smile as long as I let him. We kind of started talking about spending our lives together. One day he made a comment about something and started with "When we're married…". I asked him what he was talking about and if I'd heard him right. He asked me how I felt about that and we started talking. We even mentioned kids.
Seriously?
I don't think I imagined all that. So either he's a serious psycho or I'm crazy paranoid.
Susan Walsh said
If he doesn't respond to your messages, write him off. That's rude, but it's also effectively ending the relationship. Move on.
It's kind of hard to move on after that. :/ I still want to know why.
Of course you do! I hope you'll get the whole story. It's so bizarre for him to cut off contact completely – he could email easily enough. I don't know what to make of this – it's a really strange story. Maybe give it a few days and then try again?
Sounds like a plan. I'm really confused and hurt.
I'll wait a few days and see what happens. Thanks.
I promised I would get back to you guys, soon as I figured out what happened. So here goes.
I gave him space. I stopped calling and texting and just went on with my daily routine.
And then he called last night. Turns out, he was having second thoughts. About marriage and settling. And kids. We had the whole "it's me, not you" conversation. He met someone in the time he didn't contact me, but he swears they didn't start anything. He feels that he isn't ready to settle down yet. Basically he needs uncomplicated sex before being tied down to an old crone and 10 kids.
He said he still loved me and asked if we could be friends.
Yeah.
Someone shoot me.
Girl, I would run and I would run fast.
One thing I've learned is that a woman should be wary of a man who offers such serious commitment quickly. If a man speaks of planning his life with you within the first few months of a relationship, you should be wary.
Men who come on super hot and heavy are often telling you what you want to hear in order to get what they want from you. A man who is really serious about you wouldn't bring up such discussions early on. Those kind of talks would typically freak a woman out.
I've also noticed that men sometimes offer commitment up to see how eager a woman is to grab it. It seems counter-intuitive, but I've known some men who test women by seeing how eager they are to jump into a relationship, any relationship. What they would like to happen is to have the woman not agree to the commitment or try to apply the brakes. In a way, it let's him know that she doesn't want to be in a relationship for the sake of the relationship. She wants to be in the relationship because the man has proven himself. He wants the woman to be choosy. Your guy had no way of proving himself in only 4 months. You probably shouldn't have been so eager to take his offers of commitment, at that point in the relationship.
What probably happened is that your guy promised you the moon and stars, you agreed to those terms, and it freaked him out. He really had no intention of offering you those things, at that point in your relationship. You should have been spooked by those professions of commitment, but you weren't. When he realized that you expected him to do what he said he would, he knew he wouldn't and bolted.
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